About

This site is where I document the systems I build, the projects I’m working on, and the thinking behind how I put things together.

A lot of what I build starts from the same place: I want things to work properly, make sense, and still be usable in real life. That applies to my homelab, the way I think about backups and networking, and the smaller projects I work on outside of that.

I’m not interested in building complicated systems just for the sake of it. I’d rather have something clear, reliable and maintainable than something impressive that becomes a pain to live with.

This site gives me a place to document what I’m building, explain the decisions behind it, and keep a record of things that would otherwise stay in my head.

What I write about

Homelab

Proxmox, storage, networking, backups, media services, and the tradeoffs involved in running everything at home.

Projects

Things I’m building alongside the homelab, from ideas and experiments to projects that may eventually become something bigger.

Systems thinking

Reliability, recovery, separation, simplicity, and the difference between what looks good and what actually works over time.