Notes &
write-ups.
Automation wins, homelab experiments, IoT tinkering and the odd gaming rabbit-hole. New posts land here as I publish them.
Behind the Projects ·
From Gaming PCs to Enterprise IT
Command & Conquer and World of Warcraft on my brother's PC turned into a career in IT. This is how that happened.
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My Proxmox Setup: Virtual Machines and Game Hosting
How I use Proxmox for game server hosting with Pelican Wings and a Windows VM for trialling software, and why the panel sits on a separate VPS.
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My Homelab Setup: Why I Run Two Separate Servers
One server for storage and containers, another for virtual machines and game hosting. Here is how I ended up with two, and what each one does.
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My Favourite Self-Hosted Applications
The self-hosted apps I use most, from n8n and FileFlows to PriceBuddy and changedetection.io, and what I use each one for.
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My Unraid Server: Storage, Docker and Self-Hosted Applications
How my Unraid NAS is set up: 64TB of unprotected hard drives, four NVMe pools, a GPU for transcoding, and why I picked Unraid over TrueNAS.
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Using Cloudflare Tunnels with Self-Hosted Services
A beginner-friendly guide to publishing a Docker app through a Cloudflare Tunnel without opening router ports, based on how I run mine.
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Why I Started Building Software with AI Coding Agents
I started a few months ago to build my own platforms. Here is what has worked, what has not, and how I keep the results under control.
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How I Keep AI-Built Projects Under Control
I use OpenGSD for almost all my projects. It costs more tokens, but it makes the specification explicit before the code is written.
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Building Gaming Communities: My Experience with Goated Geese
Goated Geese started at the end of 2025 and now has around 350 people. Here is why it began, what it is like to run and what I am building for it.
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Learning Shopify Theme Development by Building StreetAkuma
I am building my first Shopify theme for a streetwear brand in development. Here is why I chose to build it myself and what I want to learn.
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