NTBBloodbath

Full‑stack developer • Systems & DevOps tinkerer • Open-source collaborator
Shipping tools that make workflows calmer, faster, and more hackable.

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About

I build and maintain tooling around developer ergonomics, text-first workflows, and deterministic & reproducible environments.

• Currently: Bringing Neorg to non-Neovim environments; improving the Lua ecosystem experience.
• Exploring / learning: Zig, Nix flakes best practices, Jujutsu (jj)–based workflows (replacing Git day‑to‑day).
• Interests: Self-hosting, system hardening, service monitoring, container (Podman/Docker) workflows.

Open Source Highlights

norgolith (Rust) — Monolithic static site generator for Norg

Repository: https://github.com/NTBBloodbath/norgolith
Role: Maintainer
Focus: Content pipeline performance, reproducible builds, structured document processing.

rest.nvim (Lua) — Asynchronous Neovim HTTP client

Repository: https://github.com/rest-nvim/rest.nvim
Role: Original creator (no longer maintainer)
Impact: Helped shape modern HTTP/integration workflows inside Neovim.

neorg (Lua) — Next‑gen organization system inside Neovim

Repository: https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorg
Role: Contributor
Contribution areas: Modules, ecosystem integration, improving extensibility patterns, bug fixes, CI/CD maintenance.

rocks.nvim (Lua) — Cargo‑inspired Neovim plugin management via LuaRocks

Repository: https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/rocks.nvim
Role: Maintainer / Contributor
Goal: Deterministic, dependency‑aware plugin management with LuaRocks as a first‑class backend.

Tech Stack

Languages

Frameworks & Runtimes

Data & Messaging

Tooling & Ecosystem

Editors

Infra / Ops

Self-hosted services • Observability & monitoring basics • System hardening • Systemd • Shell scripting

Niche / Distinctive

Neovim ecosystem • LuaRocks packaging workflows • Deterministic and reproducible environments

Stats

Recent Writing

Longer-form thoughts live on the blog. Latest posts auto-update below (via RSS).

• Tue, 15 Jul 2025 — Norg on the Web - How to escape markdown and adopt norg for your blog
• Thu, 25 Jan 2024 — Hello Http Parser - Let’s welcome a renewed, improved and optimized parser ready to join the party
• Sat, 23 Dec 2023 — Hello Luarocks - Have you ever thought about having proper and painless management of your plugins in Neovim?

Why Neovim (and Text‑First Workflows)

I prefer Neovim for its:

• Composability: Lua API + small primitives > monolith.
• Determinism: Reproducible, declarative environment via Nix + rocks.nvim.
• Frictionless iteration: Rapid key-driven navigation beats modal UI overhead.
• Extensibility: Purpose-built tooling (e.g. rest.nvim, rocks.nvim) to reduce context switching.

Extending Neorg beyond Neovim continues that philosophy: organizational workflows shouldn’t be editor-locked.

Infra / Ops Interests

Self-hosting, podman/docker usage with a lean surface area, system hardening, service monitoring & observability, reproducible deployments, and evolving a Jujutsu-centric version control workflow.

Away from keyboard

Hiking mountain trails • Cooperative gaming (RTS / RPG / Hack‑n‑Slash) • Contributing back to open source communities.

Contact & Support

Prefer DM via:

• LinkedIn
• Bluesky

Or use any contact channel exposed on my blog (email intentionally not listed here to reduce scraping and bots spam).

DMs open on social platforms.