Technical field journal
d4rk notes
Infrastructure notes, AI setups, and project logs — things worth writing down.
D4rk Notes Project
Next.js publishing site for technical notes and project writeups, with runtime MDX reads, a small admin path, and content mounted from disk.
Ashley's Corner
Self-hosted Ghost-backed blogging stack for Ashley's Corner, with a custom Next.js frontend, upload flow, search, newsletter UI, and Compose deployment.
Blaq Samurai
Commerce storefront and admin stack combining a Next.js public shop, Medusa backend, PostgreSQL, Redis, Stripe, and custom collection pages.
Traefik v3 with Cloudflare DNS Challenge
How I run Traefik v3 as a reverse proxy with automatic wildcard SSL using Cloudflare DNS challenge — the backbone of my public-facing homelab setup.
Cloudflare Domain Management
How I manage domains through Cloudflare — DNS records, proxy vs DNS-only, API token setup for tools like Traefik, and how this fits the homelab stack.
Cloudflare Tunnels
Using cloudflared to expose homelab services to the internet without opening any firewall ports. Free, reliable, and integrates cleanly with Cloudflare Access for an auth layer.
Hermes
My always-on AI agent living on the homelab, connected to Discord so I can talk to it from any device and hand off tasks without touching a dashboard.
n8n Oracle Security Monitor
How I use n8n and Uptime Kuma to watch my Oracle Cloud free tier instances and keep the security list in check, with Discord alerts when anything goes wrong.
Ollama Local LLM Server
Running Ollama as the local LLM backbone on my homelab — serving models to OpenWebUI for browser chat, sonnet-tts, and Open Heavens for text-to-speech.