The island
One palm, one shack
Technically an island. Technically in a river. The Dniester does not care about your ocean fantasy — the island is real, the "ocean" is a state of mind.
The show
A tiny island,
a very big nowhere
The tech
Gear from nowhere
Self-hosted everything, a homelab in a shed, and a 42 ms ping to anywhere in the world. If it runs here, it runs anywhere. Probably not on the ferry.
The wine
Wine country, zero beach
Moldova is wine country. The podcast runs on it. Every episode ends the way every good island day ends: with a glass and a sunset over the… river.
Live from the shack
The beach cam
$ REC telemetry --stream LAT 47.4116°N LON 28.3699°E ELEV 30 m above sea level (0 m above ocean, sadly) OCEAN 0 km — nearest: Black Sea, 400 km [landlocked] PALMS 1 (imported, thriving) PING 42 ms to anywhere, 999 ms to the beach WIFI surprisingly fine STATUS LIVE
The island, as seen from the shack
field cam · 47.4116°N 28.3699°E
Stay in range
Catch the signal
New episodes and island dispatches land in your inbox before they hit YouTube. Probably. The island postal service is one pigeon with a bad sense of direction.
Zero spam. Zero ocean. No oceans were spammed in the making of this podcast.