About this blog

I'm a computer science student who spends most of his free time building things that probably didn't need to be built.

This blog is where I write it down. Mostly so I can find it again in six months, when I've forgotten how I fixed something and the terminal history is long gone.

The homelab

A Proxmox cluster running across a few machines, held together by containers, a reverse proxy, and more DNS records than I'd like to admit. Media stack, monitoring, home automation, self-hosted password manager, and whatever else I've decided I no longer want to rent from someone else.

Self-hosting teaches you things that tutorials don't. Usually at 2am, usually because something broke.

The code

Ideas that start as "this should take an afternoon" and turn into a project. Some ship, some don't, and the ones that don't are often more interesting to write about.

I lean heavily on AI tools while I build. Not as a shortcut around understanding, but as a way to move faster through the parts I already know and get to the parts I don't.

What you'll find here?

Setup notes, things that went wrong, occasional opinions about infrastructure I have no business having.

Project ideas, too. If you're looking for something to build and don't know where to start, I write those up: what the thing does, why it's worth doing, where to get the hardware or the parts without overpaying, and rough step-by-step notes to get you moving.

Not polished tutorials. More like the notes I wish I'd had when I started, written while it was still fresh.

No schedule, no newsletter cadence, no growth strategy. If something here saves you an evening of debugging or gives you your next weekend project, that's the whole point.