With 15+ years of experience, I specialize in self-hosting, AI automation, and Vibe Coding – building applications using AI-powered tools like Google Antigravity, Dyad, and Cline. From homelabs to enterprise solutions.
Running your own servers and services
Why I Built This I needed offline maps that would actually work when cell service drops. Not a cached view that expires, not a "download for offline" feature...
Why I Started Tracking Homelab Costs in Plain Text I run a homelab on Synology NAS and Proxmox. After a year of adding drives, upgrading RAM, and spinning up...
Why I Worked on This I run several services on Proxmox VE 8.3 using Docker containers. For months, everything ran on the default Docker bridge network without...
Why I Built This (And Why I Stopped) I wanted to solve a real problem: my single Jellyfin instance would choke when multiple users tried to transcode 4K HDR...
Why I Set This Up I've been running TrueNAS as my primary storage system for a while, and it works well for local backups. But I needed a proper offsite backup...
Why I Built This I needed a way to run GitHub Actions jobs on my own infrastructure instead of GitHub's hosted runners. The main drivers were: Control over the...
Why I Built This I run a Proxmox homelab with around 15 services—monitoring, automation, DNS, reverse proxy, media tools, and various self-hosted apps. For a...
Why I Built This Setup I run Jellyfin on multiple Proxmox VMs, each with Intel QuickSync for hardware transcoding. The problem was simple: transcoding load...
Why I Set This Up I run multiple Docker containers on my Proxmox host, and each one generates data I can't afford to lose. Configuration files, databases, user...
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