Bryan Bailey

Network Administrator with experience in gaming live services and education. Musician. Father of Batman.

They say good code is self-documenting. My piano runs, on the other hand, require extensive debugging and several desperate Stack Overflow visits. Welcome to my corner of the interwebs, where I split my time between automation projects, Go programming and trying to convince people that Modal Interchange is fucking awesome.

Me trying to explain modal interchange to people — Me explaining modal interchange to someone who doesn’t care

Recent

Self-Hosting Your Bluesky PDS with Podman

16 March 2026·1407 words·7 mins

How to run your own Bluesky Personal Data Server using Podman Compose and Caddy, so your social data actually lives on your hardware.

Docker Desktop Blues: Solving the wsl-bootstrap Error

31 December 2024·630 words·3 mins

Docker Desktop can sometimes freak out and crash, throwing a generic running wsl-bootstrap: exit code 1 error, without any hint of the actual root cause of the problem.