Jacob (Ozz)

I'm Jacob, though most people online just call me Ozz. I'm a fullstack developer from the UK and I've been writing code since 2022, mostly in TypeScript. Almost everything I build lives around Minecraft Bedrock servers: addon frameworks, databases, server-side plugins, and all the glue that ties them together.

Most of my spare time goes into CrabSMP, a custom Bedrock server I run from top to bottom: the in-game systems and economy, the database layer underneath, and the Discord integration that sits alongside it. Building it is how I picked up Python through plugin work, and honestly a lot of what I know about Linux and keeping servers happy.

Linux is home for me. I daily-drive Arch, run my servers on Ubuntu and Debian, and keep a Linux Mint machine around as a desktop. Day to day that's managing services and users, sorting out file permissions, living in SSH, digging through logs, and fixing things when they inevitably break.

There's a hardware side to all this too. Back in 2022 and 2023 I ran BeRP bots for CrabSMP locally on Raspberry Pis, back when BeRP was still up on GitHub. I've also built my own machines from the parts up, so I'm happy working right down to the physical layer, not just the software sitting on top of it.