Inspired by uses.tech. Last updated February 2026.

Hardware

Homelab

  • TrueNAS Scale NAS — 30 drives, handles all storage and media serving
  • Docker hosts — Multiple servers running containerized services, managed via Ansible
  • UniFi networking — Dream Machine, managed switches, wireless access points
  • VLANs — Network segmentation for IoT, lab, trusted devices, and guest traffic

Daily Carry

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Software & Services

Self-Hosted

  • Gitea — Self-hosted Git. All my repos live here, mirrored to GitHub when needed.
  • Traefik — Reverse proxy with automatic TLS for all internal services
  • Portainer — Container management UI
  • Vaultwarden — Bitwarden-compatible password manager
  • Jellyfin — Media server for movies and TV
  • Navidrome — Music streaming (Subsonic-compatible)
  • Grafana — Monitoring, dashboards, and alerting
  • Docker — Everything runs in containers
  • Ansible — Infrastructure as code for all service deployment

Cloud Services

  • Cloudflare Pages — Hosting for this website
  • GitHub — Mirror of repos for CI/CD and public projects

Productivity

  • Obsidian — Knowledge management, journaling, Life OS. This is the center of how I organize my thinking.
    • Dataview plugin for dynamic queries
    • Custom templates for daily notes, meeting notes, project pages
  • Claude / ChatGPT — LLM workflows for writing, analysis, and coding
  • OmniFocus — Task management (transitioning away from this as I move more into Obsidian)

Development

  • VS Code — Primary editor
  • Python — Go-to language for scripting, automation, and data work
  • PostgreSQL — Structured data backend for Life OS and personal projects
  • Hugo — Static site generator for this website
  • Git — Version control (Gitea self-hosted, mirrored to GitHub)

This Site

  • Hugo — Static site generator
  • PaperMod — Theme (minimal, content-first)
  • Cloudflare Pages — Hosting and CDN
  • Obsidian — Content authoring
  • Gitea → GitHub — Source code hosted on self-hosted Gitea, mirrored to GitHub for CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions — Build and deploy pipeline