Hi, I’m Nate Thompson.
I spend my time designing and operating systems that don’t fall over when things get weird: Linux everywhere, security by default, and cloud architectures that are boring in all the right ways.
https://blog.sedawk.ninja is my little corner of the internet for experiments, notes, and the occasional deep dive into how modern infrastructure actually works.
What I’m into
On any given day you’ll probably find me:
- Hardening Linux systems and tuning them for real workloads.
- Designing cloud architectures that balance security, reliability, and developer sanity.
- Automating everything with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
- Exploring security controls, threat models, and how they apply to real orgs—not just slide decks.
Over time, this site will collect write-ups, diagrams, and small tools that I’ve found useful.
Where to find more
This site is still early days. Eventually you’ll find posts, notes, and maybe a small portfolio of projects here. For now, you can think of it as a landing page that says: “Yes, haplo is absolutely still hacking on things.”
If you’re into Linux, cloud, security, or IT architecture, you’ll probably feel at home.
Latest posts
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Tuning Hugo ease of use
Introduction One of the best things I like about Hugo is how easy it is to setup and automate. For example, this blog is deployed on merge to main branch on GitHub via Github Actions. It ends up running in Azure serverless. No servers to manage, no databases to patch, just write markdown and push to git. Now that I am trying use it more seriously, I am working with AI to figure out ways to make my workflow even easier.
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Thoughts on Notion
I have heard a lot of people talking about notion and how they like it, so I thought that I might give it a go. I wanted to toss out a few of my initial impressions. Ease of use First off, the ease of using the platform sticks out to me. Everything is very intuitive, and I find it easy to start creating immediately. This is extremely helpful when you just need to get some content out there!
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Welcome
As I attempt to figure out how I want to create a workflow with hugo, you will likely see some pretty boring content getting posted here. Fear not, the real content will likely be just as boring! Static Site Generators I am actually pretty excited to be getting hugo setup with CI/CD deployment so that I can ease my workflow. I use vimwiki and taskwiki in neovim for almost all of my note-taking, and using hugo with markdown makes it so that I can likely post pretty much any documentation and howtos that I do for myself without any additional effort.
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First_post - Let's do this!
This has a bit of content for us to look at! How did we get here? I used Ned in the Cloud’s post on how to deploy Hugo to Azure with Github Actions to deploy this site. What do I need to do next? I would like to start with keeping a simple blog, and this might be a good way to do it. Start thinking of content that I would like to post.