Hi, I'm Lara! ✨

I'm happy to see you here, friend.

Welcome to my little corner of the internet. I am a software engineer by day, a musician by night, and this is my space to ramble into the void every now and then.

What you'll find here

I enjoy writing about things inside and outside of my usual music and technology spaces, and sharing things I've performed, built, cooked, taken photos of, or otherwise had a hand in. Sometimes I need to vent a little too.

My resume is also available here. I currently work at Higharc as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, and have been there since 2020. I am not looking for work, but feel free to reach out.

Terminal lovers and the generally keyboard-inclined will have some fun digging up what this site has to offer as well. There are a lot of secrets buried here!

...And what you won't

• Any tracking code or third-party analytics. I use a client_id cookie to help prevent reaction or comment spam on posts, and a few key-value pairs in localStorage to store your theme preference and any front-end settings.
• AI-generated or assisted blog posts, music, recipes, etc. My voice is my own!

About this site

This website is built with Rust, Axum, htmx, and Maud. It is hosted on Fly.io and is deployed via GitHub Actions. Front-end features, like the ability to set your own theme, are built with simple JavaScript and CSS. Well, maybe not "simple", but plain and fast. I also included a Service Worker to allow for use of 99% of the site while offline.

The blog and cookbook sections are powered by Markdown files with some metadata like a description and tags provided in YAML frontmatter, rendered at request time.

You can check out the source code for everything on GitHub. Re-use whatever you like!