Uses

What's on my desk and my disk. Curated by daily friction.

Hardware

Router: Intel N100, 32 GB RAM, 1× 10 GbE + 2× 1 GbE, running pfSense.
Server: Intel i7-8700K (6c/12t), 64 GB RAM, NVIDIA RTX 3090, 50 TB ZFS pool.

Software

Claude Code: Agentic coding assistant in the terminal.
Docker: Container runtime for every self-hosted service.
Git: Version control.
Proxmox VE: Type-1 hypervisor for VMs and LXC containers.
TrueNAS Scale: Server OS — manages ZFS pools and the container runtime.
VS Code: Editor over Remote SSH.
Zsh: Shell.

Self-hosted services

Networking

AdGuard Home: Network-wide DNS-level ad blocker.
Cloudflared: Cloudflare Tunnel client for ingress without opened ports.
Gluetun: VPN client sidecar that routes other containers' traffic.
Tailscale: Mesh VPN for remote access.
Traefik: Reverse proxy in front of every internal service.
WireGuard: VPN tunnel for routed container traffic.

Operations

Authentik: SSO and forward-auth across the homelab.
Dozzle: Live Docker log viewer.
Portainer: Docker management UI.
Prometheus + Grafana: Metrics collection and dashboards.
Scrutiny: SMART disk health monitoring.

Knowledge

Anytype: Local-first knowledge base.
Gitea: Self-hosted Git for personal repos.
Outline: Wiki and collaborative docs.
Paperless-ngx: Document OCR and archive.
Renovate: Automated dependency-update pull requests.
SearXNG: Privacy-first metasearch.

Personal

Home Assistant: Home automation hub.
Proton Bridge: Local IMAP and SMTP gateway for Proton Mail.
SFTPGo: SFTP and WebDAV file server.
The Lounge: Always-on web IRC client.
Zigbee2MQTT: Zigbee-to-MQTT bridge for Home Assistant.

Media

Immich: Self-hosted photos and videos.
Kometa: Plex metadata, posters, and collection management.
Plex: Media server for movies and TV.
Servarr: Media library management for TV, movies, and metadata.
Tautulli: Plex usage analytics.

AI / ML stack

Chatterbox: Local text-to-speech inference server.
LiteLLM: Unified API proxy across LLM providers.
MCP servers: Model Context Protocol bridges for AI assistants.
Ollama: Local LLM inference server.
Open WebUI: Chat interface for Ollama and other backends.
OpenTerminal: Sandboxed terminal tool for Open WebUI.
Whisper: Local speech-to-text inference server.

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