Tools of the trade (and a few toys).

What I use to keep systems running, automate the boring stuff, and occasionally over-engineer my own home network.

Infrastructure & Homelab

  • Dell OptiPlex 3060 Micro

    The whole homelab lives on this tiny, power-efficient box. It runs 24/7, uses its Intel iGPU for media transcoding, and drives a Logitech Z213 as a networked room speaker.

  • Docker Compose

    Every service gets its own Compose stack, and they share one Docker network behind the reverse proxy. It's boring, easy to read, and easy to rebuild.

  • Cloudflare Tunnel & Nginx Proxy Manager

    The tunnel brings public traffic in without me exposing the server directly, and Nginx Proxy Manager routes it to the right app.

  • AdGuard Home

    Network-wide DNS filtering, with encrypted DNS for the devices that support it.

  • Prometheus & Grafana

    Metrics for the host, the disks, and the routers, with dashboards I actually look at.

  • Backblaze B2

    Offsite backups for configs and databases, so a dead SSD is a bad afternoon and not a disaster.

  • Proxmox, Terraform & Ansible

    My go-to tools for virtualization, infrastructure as code, and configuring many machines at once.

Workstation

  • 14” ThinkPad X1 Carbon (2019)

    Robust, reliable, and has a keyboard that actually feels good to type on. It's been my daily driver for years.

  • ASUS VP249QGR 144Hz Monitor

    A solid 1080p monitor that gets the job done. I might upgrade to 4K eventually, but for now, it works.