Garver the System

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Alexander Garver: A systems engineer by trade and by passion. This website serves as a place to collect my pontifications, portfolio, and professional experience.

And yes, I like alliteration. I blame my pastors.

I’m doing a lot of work on the site right now, so I hope you’ll forgive me for the state of things – the lack of navigation links and the placeholders from this theme in particular.

Celebrated by their use of concrete and geometric forms, Some architects associated to Brutalism include:

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  • The Year of Diff

    For 2024, I want to focus my time more intentionally on developing big changes by incremental and daily disciplines. Toward that end, I’ve picked a theme: “diff”, a comparison between two states that may be nearly identical or substantially different.

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  • Devlog: Cross-Compiling Rust for Docker

    An adventure in deploying a GitLab CI configuration that cross-compiles a Rust project and deploys it to Docker.

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Where’s those pontifications?

And how about those projects?

  • The Year of Diff

    For 2024, I want to focus my time more intentionally on developing big changes by incremental and daily disciplines. Toward that end, I’ve picked a theme: “diff”, a comparison between two states that may be nearly identical or substantially different. Keep Reading

  • Devlog: Cross-Compiling Rust for Docker

    An adventure in deploying a GitLab CI configuration that cross-compiles a Rust project and deploys it to Docker. Keep Reading

  • Implied Engineers

    In literature (and generally, other forms of storytelling media), there exists a set of tools called the “implied author” and the “implied reader”. These concepts exist in the narrow space between the fourth wall and the pages of the book – that is, though they are not in the story, they are still contained within… Keep Reading

  • Oxidizing from Scratch

    As a personal project and a way to keep my skills sharp between jobs, I’ve developed Kitchen Server – just something to store recipes on a homelab server and serve them as a webpage. As I write this, I just finished the longest single-goal effort I’ve made to it: converting it from Python to Rust.… Keep Reading

  • The Year of Diff

    For 2024, I want to focus my time more intentionally on developing big changes by incremental and daily disciplines. Toward that end, I’ve picked a theme: “diff”, a comparison between two states that may be nearly identical or substantially different. Keep Reading

Brutalism in Architecture express the essential qualities of a building’s materials and structure in an honest and direct way. Architectural style emerged in mid-20s, based in raw and unadorned use of concrete.

Named by the French term béton raw, or raw concrete, Brutalism became popular in the post-WWII era, when the need for affordable housing and public buildings led to widespread use of concrete.