I’m a big guy. I work from home, I have spent my whole career in network administration and network security, and I have outlived more office chairs than I can count. Creaking, popping, and one hydraulic cylinder that gave up mid-meeting and dropped me a few inches without warning. Not one review I read before buying those chairs mentioned what happens when a bigger guy sits in them every single day.
So I started writing the reviews I couldn’t find.
Why “Big Guy on Stuff”?
Because “fits most” is doing a lot of work in most product descriptions, and I am not most. Weight ratings get buried in spec sheet footnotes. Seat width almost never comes up. Watch bands stop two notches short of comfortable. I review chairs, desks, mattresses, gear, and wearables from a plus-size perspective, and I put the numbers other reviews skip right up front.
One rule I don’t break: if I’ve owned something, I say so, and if I haven’t, I say that too. My Herman Miller Embody has taken 4 years of daily use from me and still works like the day it arrived. That sentence carries more weight than any spec sheet, pun fully intended. When a post is based on research instead of my own backside, you’ll know, because I’ll tell you.
What’s with all the Linux and AI posts?
That’s the other half of the blog. I run my own stuff, self-hosted services, AI tools, Claude Code automations, and I write up what worked and what ate a weekend. After a career of keeping networks alive, poking at infrastructure is both the job and the hobby, so the nerdy posts are less “I read about this somewhere” and more “I set this up myself and have the scars to prove it.” This blog is a side project, and so is Trigli, an AI customer support tool I founded. Apparently I don’t relax well.
You’ll also see the occasional post from my buddy Damien.
The fine print
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Big Guys. Big Reviews. Big Life.