What I've been building
Projects & Things
A mix of technical builds and personal interests, the stuff I actually spend time on, both in and out of the computer screen.
Home Lab — Ongoing
Proxmox Homelab
Dell PowerEdge R730
A bare-metal Proxmox VE 8 hypervisor hosting 25+ LXC containers. Self-hosted services spanning media, productivity, finance, and network security. Remote backups sync nightly to a Synology NAS.
This Site — 2026
Astro · Cloudflare · Forgejo
CI/CD pipeline for this portfolio: commits to a self-hosted Forgejo repo trigger a Cloudflare Pages build automatically. Astro compiles the static output.
Security Research
OWASP ZAP Web App Report
Covers ZAP's role as a DAST tool, its core features (intercepting proxy, spider, fuzzer, API import), and a practical demo scan against OWASP Juice Shop with annotated findings.
Blog Series — #EverydayCyber
Everyday Cyber
A running blog series translating security concepts for regular people. Bite-sized explainers on things like MFA, password managers, phishing red flags, and why your home router settings matter.
Self-Hosted — VPS
Matrix Home Server
Self-hosted Synapse Matrix server on a VPS, deployed via the matrix-docker-ansible-deploy playbook. Federates seamlessly with the wider Matrix network, handles several daily users, and sits at 99.99% uptime.
Newsletter — Ongoing
SteepMeet: Gongfu 101
A newsletter about making tea the gong fu way: short steeps, careful attention, and sharing it with people around you. Less about snobbery, more about slowing down.
Fermentation — Ongoing
House Kombucha Bar
Iterating on 10-12 day first ferments and flavored F2 batches. Pineapple-ginger, lavender, and an experimental green tea batch. Ongoing war with fruit flies.
Baking — Ongoing
Sourdough Baking
Maintaining a starter, dialing in bulk fermentation times, and chasing an open crumb. Turns out bread and homelab troubleshooting have a lot in common — both reward patience and punish skipped steps.