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Hello world: why this blog exists

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What this is about

There is less distance between Kubernetes clusters and raised garden beds than you might think: both need observation, patience, and a willingness to treat failure as telemetry.

How the site is built

Static with Hugo, a custom theme (“Werkbank”), no trackers. Contrast per WCAG AA, colours chosen off the red/green confusion axis, all sizes in rem.

About

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Servus — I’m Flo.

I live with my family, a few chickens and a chronically oversized garden in southern Lower Austria. By day I build IT infrastructure — Linux, Kubernetes, cloud, and everything involving certificates. By night, depending on the season: raised beds, radio sensors, vinyl records, or this blog.

I came to IT via a detour, and it still shapes who I am. I trained as a retail clerk at a discount grocer — old school: hundreds of PLU codes memorised because the till had no search function. Change counted up by hand because the display didn’t show it — in hindsight my first algorithm: add instead of subtract, because it’s faster and less error-prone. And I learned FIFO at the yoghurt shelf, years before I knew computer science had an acronym for it. Plus the quintessential discounter training: work efficiently with a lean crew and ruthlessly drop what doesn’t matter.

CI

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Legal notice

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Information pursuant to § 5 ECG and § 25 MedienG (Austrian law).

Media owner and responsible for the content:

Florian Probst
Hauptstraße 59, Neusiedl
2763 Waidmannsfeld
Austria

Contact: kontakt@flooo.pro

Editorial orientation: Private, non-commercial blog about tech, garden and related topics — notes from the workbench and homelab.

Privacy

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Last updated: July 2026

The short version first: this website is a static blog. It sets no cookies, uses no trackers and no analytics services, embeds nothing from third-party servers, and never asks you to enter personal data. The only optional exception is push notifications — and those exist only if you explicitly enable them. What is processed technically when you visit is listed below, in full and without fine print.

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Two ways, no mailing list:

RSS is the classic and most robust option — feed URL: /en/index.xml. Works with any feed reader, no account, nothing stored on my end.

Push notifications right in your browser when new posts appear. The only thing stored is your browser’s technical push address, on my own server — no account, no tracking, and you can switch it off here at any time. Delivery is encrypted and routed through your browser’s push service; details are in the privacy notice.

Werkbank Syntax

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The color scheme behind the code blocks on this site — documented here for the taking. It follows three rules:

No red-green axis. The palette works with blue (keywords), amber (strings), teal (numbers and types) and violet (functions) — colors that stay distinguishable with red-green color vision deficiency.
Every token color reaches WCAG AA (at least 4.5:1) on both backgrounds. Surprisingly few popular schemes manage that — comments are usually the first casualty.
Meaning never rides on color alone. Keywords additionally carry font weight, comments are italic, diffs keep their +/− prefixes; inserted is blue, removed is amber — not green and red.

Palette

Role	Light	Dark	Contrast (light / dark)
Text & operators	`#1C2127`	`#E8E6E1`	14.2 / 12.7
Keywords & builtins	`#17549C`	`#7FB2EC`	6.6 / 7.1
Strings	`#8F4E00`	`#F0A64A`	5.7 / 7.7
Numbers, types & constants	`#0E5D66`	`#63CFC9`	6.6 / 8.5
Functions, tags & attributes	`#5B3E9E`	`#C7A6F2`	7.0 / 7.7
Comments (italic)	`#586069`	`#9AA4AE`	5.6 / 6.3
Diff inserted (background)	`#DCE8F6`	`#1E3A5C`	13.1 / 9.3
Diff removed (background)	`#F3E4D3`	`#4A3517`	13.0 / 9.3

Measured against the code backgrounds #F1F0EB (light) and #1D232B (dark).

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