Projects

A self-hosted server build running on Docker — replacing an old Windows/WAMP setup with a proper Linux + Docker Compose stack.

• Jellyfin media server (dedicated GPU, hardware transcoding)
• Prometheus + Grafana monitoring
• This site (Astro, static output) plus its companion services — see below

Self-hosted email is live too, running alongside everything else here.

A self-hosted app for tracking and rating every zoo and aquarium we've visited (and the ones still on the list). Public map and ratings, with a login layer for adding new spots and reviews.

• Leaflet + OpenStreetMap
• Self-hosted API with a login layer for edits
• Own Docker container, proxied in at /zoos

Check it out →

A Raspberry Pi tracking aircraft overhead via ADS-B — live stats and a weekly "Plane of the Week" pick with a real route map, pushed from a home receiver with no location data ever leaving the Pi.

• Raspberry Pi + PiAware/dump1090-fa
• Periodic snapshot pushed to the site
• Static JSON, no backend — Leaflet + OpenStreetMap for the route map

Enriches the weekly pick with real flight data — registration, route, max altitude and speed — via adsbdb.com and hexdb.io.

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A SIEM/XDR stack for the whole home network, not just the Docker host — file-integrity monitoring, log analysis, and vulnerability detection.

• Wazuh manager + indexer + dashboard
• Agent-based monitoring, expanding over time

Live as of August 2026 — indexer, manager, and dashboard all running, with coverage expanding over time.

A self-hosted OSINT scanner for auditing what's publicly findable about yourself — 200+ modules across breach databases, social media, DNS/WHOIS, and threat-intel feeds, run in passive mode and routed through a VPN so the audit itself doesn't leak a real IP to the sources it queries.

• SpiderFoot, built from source (no trustworthy prebuilt image existed)
• Outbound queries run through a VPN
• LAN-only, no port forwarded

Live as of August 2026. Built straight from the upstream source rather than a prebuilt image, since none of the ones publicly available were trustworthy enough for a tool that aggregates your own personal-exposure data.

A Raspberry Pi listening for bird calls via USB microphone, identifying species with on-device ML — live species counts and a daily "Bird of the Day" pick with its actual recorded call, straight from a home mic.

• Raspberry Pi 4 + BirdNET-Go (BirdNET, plus Google Perch v2 for non-bird sounds)
• Periodic snapshot pushed to the site
• Static JSON, no backend — the real recorded clip plays alongside each pick

Also contributes detections to BirdWeather, a citizen-science listening-station network — the same idea as the ADS-B receiver’s public flight-tracking feed, applied to birdsong.

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A daily social bot — "It's a bird! It's a plane!" — posting one real pick, a bird heard or a plane spotted overhead, chosen at random from the site's own bird and aircraft receivers.

• Python, reading the same data behind /birds and /planes
• Bluesky, posted natively via the AT Protocol
• X, cross-posted through Buffer's API rather than paying per post

Live on Bluesky and X.

A NAS built from a repurposed old desktop rather than a purpose-built appliance — ZFS storage pools holding the photo library and every service's backups across the lab.

• TrueNAS SCALE, ZFS (RAIDZ1)
• Repurposed desktop hardware — no dedicated NAS chassis
• Per-service write-only backup targets, daily snapshots

This is a growing list — new projects get added here as they're worth showing off. Next up: a receive-only SatNOGS ground station, contributing satellite observations to the global network.