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“Welcome to the blog of an IT geek who literally eats and breathes tech!”

 

Hi, I’m Hayden. Hayden’s Server Room is nothing fancy — just a small space where I jot down what I run into and figure out, partly through my IT work and partly through whatever else happens to catch my interest. If something here is useful to someone, that’s a nice bonus. If not, at least it helps me keep my own thinking organized, which is reason enough.

 

A Bit About Me

I work in IT and security compliance within multinational corporate environments. I deal with both Korean and global security standards, and I write a fair amount of code along the way — I’m a bit obsessed with squeezing efficiency out of automation wherever I can. Picking up a few certifications happened naturally over the years.

  • CISSP — Certified Information Systems Security Professional
  • CISA — Certified Information Systems Auditor
  • PMP — Project Management Professional

My day-to-day work moves between Korean, English, and Chinese. Switching between three languages every day made me genuinely curious about the languages themselves, and that curiosity ended up showing on the blog too.

 

What You’ll Find Here

The blog roughly breaks down into a couple of streams.

Tech, Trends, and Security

This is the big one. It’s the field I’ve worked in for a long time, and it moves fast enough that there’s always something worth writing down.

  • Tech trends and analysis — How to think about emerging technologies, what they actually mean in practice, and a closer look at the companies behind them
  • AI and LLMs — Tools and experiences from putting them to work in everyday tasks
  • IT security and compliance — Security governance, regulatory landscapes, audits and certifications
  • Fintech and financial-sector IT — The peculiarities of financial systems, viewed from the operations side
  • Infrastructure — Servers, networking, cloud, virtualization, databases
  • Coding and development — The languages, frameworks, and dev environments I actually use
  • WordPress — Lessons learned from running this blog itself

If any of that sounds interesting, the IT/Reg-Tech category is where everything is sorted out by topic.

Chinese (for the curious)

A side stream for anyone learning Chinese — grammar (语法), conversation (口语), and notes from my own study. It’s in the Studying Chinese category.

 

How I Try to Write

Nothing dramatic, just a few principles I keep in mind.

  • Write what I’ve actually done. I’d rather share lived experience than re-package a manual.
  • Make sources clear. When I’m quoting or referencing something, I say where it came from.
  • Update when things change. Tech information goes stale fast, so I revise as I notice.
  • Stay balanced. No product or service is a silver bullet, so I try to show both sides.

 

Two Languages, Two Versions

English and Korean readers tend to search differently and want different things, even on the same topic. So instead of running things through machine translation, I write each version separately. That’s why the English and Korean versions of a post often differ a little — they’re written for different readers, not just translated.

 

Get in Touch

Typo reports, factual corrections, topic suggestions, or just a quick hello — all welcome.

📧 [email protected]

 

“Technology is for people,
and good writing is for the next person.”