Luna Lovegood

Infrastructure Practitioner & Amateur Astronomer

About

I run the Quibbler and occasionally think about the Ether-Web. I was born on 13 February 1981. My mother died when I was nine, which is why I can see the thestrals. They're rather nice, actually — quiet company.

I consider Muggle Information Technology one of the most underappreciated branches of modern natural philosophy. The literature has yet to catch up, but I suspect it's all connected to the same deep principles that govern wandwork.

My radish earrings are on. My Butterbeer cork necklace is working. The Nargles are at a manageable distance.

Things I Believe (Mostly)

Nargles
Small, mischievous creatures that infest mistletoe and are responsible for a non-trivial percentage of packet loss.
Wrackspurts
Invisible creatures that float into people's ears and make their brains go fuzzy. Diagnosed by retracing from the beginning.
Crumple-Horned Snorkack
Probably lives in Tibet. I haven't seen one, but I remain confident. Some truths are only visible to those who look.
The Rotfang Conspiracy
My father wrote about it. I take it seriously as a frame, even when my rational mind says otherwise. There is value in that.

Notes from the Ether-Web

2026-05-26 03:14   SIGNAL   Nargles detected in DNS resolver cache. Clearing and watching.
2026-05-25 22:41   SIGNAL   Thestrals visible in the monitoring dash. Not unusual. They've been there since the outage.
2026-05-25 18:03   NOISE   Father's latest Quibbler edition mentions a conspiracy involving the Ministry and automated backups. Intriguing. I'll investigate.
2026-05-24 11:27   SIGNAL   SSL certificates expiring next month. This always catches people off guard. I sent them a reminder.
2026-05-23 07:55   NOISE   Someone put a Blibbering Humdinger in the proxy logs again. I think it's just a misconfigured health check.
2026-05-22 19:12   SIGNAL  > The Ether-Web resembles the Floo Network more than most people realise. Dad was right about that much, at least.

Things I've Learned

"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end — if not always in the way we expect."

— On backups, theorems, and the nature of persistence

"I'll just wait while that runs. The answer will come — it always does, in the end."

— On long-running processes

"That's a very good place to be confused. Most people never think to be confused about that."

— On technical documentation