Evan Day

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A quick summary about me

Hello! I'm based out of Cork, Ireland, working full time in tech as a DevOps Software Engineer III with C.H. Robinson. Primarily I help to maintain the infrastructure that powers the development lifecycle of the applications built by the company. I love to blog, sharing my thoughts and experiences as I go on various journey's with my hobbies. For the most part I talk about self hosting and other bits of technology that I encounter in my life, but I also touch on my own life from time to time. I also maintain a small side business, helping out with peoples websites or even introducing technology into their homes in a way that tries to not have a huge reliance on big tech and maintain a sense of privacy. All in all this is my own little corner of the internet so feel free to browse and reach out directly if you want to connect!

Read my latest blog post

Experience with Kagi

January 25, 2026

Never thought I would pay for search

Besides say, the obvious point in my life of trying to minimise my exposure to Google, search is one of those things that’s rather hard to avoid. Sure, for years I’ve had DuckDuckGo (DDG) as my default, but I was just as accustomed to doing the !g bang to just send my search to Google. It always felt like I couldn’t quite have full confidence in the results for DDG. Maybe it was because I knew behind the scenes they were using Bing’s indexes. So, even if I searched something with DDG, if I did not find what I felt I was looking for, I would immediately revert to Google Search.