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They are still updating the Konqueror.

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:32:57 +0200

Let’s go back in time, ladies and gentlemen. The year is 2000. KDE is on their way to release KDE 2, the one famously known to be the one needed to be patched for FreeBSD. Based on Qt 2, which has finally been released under a reasonable license, KDE was there to fly.

KDE wanted to be a bit like Windows. Not only in terms of UI, which it… well, did, and the UI still resembles Windows in default configuration today. Microsoft had something nobody else wanted to do for good reasons. You see, since Internet Explorer 4 Desktop Update, and since Windows 98 by default, Internet Explorer wasn’t just the browser – it was also the default file manager in Windows. It was also mostly responsible for the desktop, as Active Desktop allowed people to set an HTML file as a desktop wallpaper, or render HTML widgets on the desktop. Cool – but in the long term, nobody asked.

Hugo theming is not so bad

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:15:17 +0200

Okay, it uses gotemplates, right.

But I have flashbacks from Jekyll. Once you get through the initial gravel, the site does not look too terrible.

Trust me, it’s not that bad. I’ll try to release the source of this terrible theme and this terrible website once it’s less terrible. But that’s entirely due to my lack of skill.

Hello there.

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:56:26 +0200

General Kenobi!

Okay, jokes aside. Finally I have made a blog. Took a while, but here we are.

This is, I think, my 320th attempt at making a blog. But this time I think I have some stuff to write about, after all this time. I guess you are only allowed to write stuff when you are 4 years deep in the sewer called IT. But oh well.

Resume

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Profile

Mateusz Korzeniewski - born 2000. Currently residing in Poznań, Poland.

Linux/DevOps Engineer with experience in maintaining production environments, monitoring systems and CI/CD pipelines. Student of Automatic Control and Robotics at Poznań University of Technology.

Contact: hello@mattroot.ovh

Experience

LH.pl (2026-)

Linux administration, public hosting and VPS administration, migrations

Tenesys (2022-2026)

Deploying PHP/Python/Node apps, architecting environments (cloud, on-prem). Clients from industrial, e-commerce, ticket sales, telco branches. Client contact and developer support.

Skills

OS: Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL), OpenBSD, Windows, macOS
Web servers and load balancers: nginx, Apache, Caddy, OpenBSD httpd, haproxy
Containerization: Docker (+ Compose), Kubernetes (w/ Helm), LXC
Virtualization: Proxmox, libvirt + qemu-kvm
Automation and CI/CD: Ansible, Gitlab CI, ArgoCD
VCS: git (Gitlab, GitHub, Forgejo, Sourcehut), Fossil
Monitoring: Zabbix, Influx, Alerta
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch
Programming: Python, C, C++, Go, bash

Languages

Polish - native
English - C1/C2
German - reading documentation only

Certifications

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (2025)
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (2025)

Education

Automatic Control and Robotics, Poznań University of Technology (2025-)

Master of Engineering, part-time, Polish