Chris Veleris

Coder. Maker. Father.
I write about what breaks when you build alone.

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[Chris Veleris @chrisveleris]

hey, I’m Chris - dad, coder, and restless generalist.

I’ve been writing code and scanning networks for more than two decades. These days that’s tududi and Breach Harbor on the self-hosted side, reconYa on the network side, and oblivYon when I need something that moves.

I started posting here because I keep landing in the same conversations as the people I already follow: building in public, CS, AI, cybersecurity, and robotics.

Sometimes I write existential prose when I need somewhere to put leftover intensity.

If any of that overlaps with you, let’s connect();

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@antonships Solo from Greece here, a bit older, two kids. I build open source: a self-hosted task app (willing to sell as SaaS) and a network scanner that's becoming a macOS app.

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@billgnofficial Moving tududi's sidebar settings into the profile page. Glamorous stuff. It's an open source, self-hosted task manager if you want to poke at it.

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@joncphillips every single day

the 4pm realization is the worst part. I built tududi around one short Today list for exactly this

the inbox still wins some days

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@alexwestco The first dollars are the only ones that prove a stranger cared. Everything after is repeating whatever got you those. What was it?

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@matthias_mrc Ship, ship (not 🚢 ) and talk to users. I am getting used to it.

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@NanouuSymeon Reading the logs nobody else wants to read. Twenty years in, it's still the fastest way to find out what actually happened.

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@ben_sage marketing

you can't refactor your way out of nobody knowing you exist. I've tried

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@itsalicesoul Not wrong, just incomplete. Unreviewed code is the risk, whoever or whatever wrote it. I run honeypots and the bots hitting them don't care who wrote the bug. They only care that it's there.

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@buildwtim Same. Now every role is my role, including the one that answers support emails at midnight.

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@rushabhstwt week one: benchy
week two: printing upgrades for the printer
week three: printing organizers for the upgrades

welcome!

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@FrostbytHitsuG Two rejections and still applying says more than an acceptance would

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@Jhaddix The AI team hard at work. The human team hard at reading what the AI team did at work.

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@itskamrankhan Depends on the network.

I've spent years scanning them with reconYa, and the most valuable nodes are always the quiet ones nobody pings.

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@uday_devops ping, traceroute, then check DNS

it's always DNS

when it isn't, it's the firewall rule someone added on a Friday

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@samromehq $0 until eight different companies change their free tier terms in the same year. I run everything on one small Hetzner box and sleep better knowing nobody can reprice me overnight.

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@Itsfoss Yes. AI answers the question I asked. A book answers the ones I didn't know to ask.

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@robj3d3 And every restart you keep a little more of what worked the first time. The moat is the pile of things you stopped doing.

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@undefinedKi Second brains always end the same for me: beautifully organized, never opened again. I built tududi for the opposite, less structure and more doing. How many people keep theirs alive after month two?

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@brian_millot Kubernetes

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@ogi_joo 04:30 is brave. I start at 6 because it's the only hour nobody asks me for anything. What's the reason for yours?