Thomas Staub / vStaub

vStaub is a working surface for thinking through technology, work, and the systems underneath both.

I am Thomas. I work around infrastructure, architecture, networking, and the messy parts of how technical decisions actually get made. This site is where those threads have room to become clearer over time.

Starting small

The first goal is to get the skeleton live.

The site is intentionally simple right now. A homepage, an about page, a writing index, and one post are enough to start. The structure can get better after there is something real to react to.

Latest writing

A first marker in the ground.

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Relaunching vStaub

Why this site is starting small: a working surface for infrastructure, AI, architecture, career notes, and useful experiments.

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What belongs here

A few threads that keep showing up.

Infrastructure and systems

Networking, cloud, operations, observability, and the parts of technical work that become interesting once they have to survive real environments.

Architecture and decisions

How vague intent becomes a choice, a trade-off, a standard, a diagram, a review, or a change someone can actually operate.

AI-assisted work

AI as a tool inside the workflow: useful for context, drafting, comparison, validation, and review, but not the whole identity of the site.

Career and operating models

What changes as technical work moves from learning commands to making decisions, shaping systems, and helping other people move through ambiguity.

Useful friction and experiments

Music, coffee, soccer, golf, travel, and other rabbit holes can belong here when they reveal something useful about learning, taste, participation, or practice.

For now

The site will evolve by being used.

I do not expect the first version to explain everything. That is probably a good sign. The next few posts will teach me what the site needs to become.