Linux
Linux is an open-source operating system for servers and systems.
AWS DeepLens — Computer Vision for the House
Used AWS DeepLens in 2018 to estimate the real cost of adding ML-powered visual awareness to a home automation system — and arrived at an honest 'not yet, not cheaply' answer worth having.
Homelab and Infrastructure
My homelab is both a workshop and a proving ground.
Photo Sharing Site — Self-Hosted
Built and ran a self-hosted photo sharing platform before cloud storage made it trivial — covering web dev, storage, auth, and the enduring question of how to make a growing photo library actually useful.
Praxis — The Magnolia Homelab
A 4-node Proxmox cluster running Kubernetes, Ceph, site-to-site VPNs to AWS, GitOps pipelines, and a full observability stack — built to test every architecture I recommend to clients.
Self Beacon Tracking (iBeacon)
Experimented with iBeacon transmitters placed around the house to track room-by-room location before indoor positioning was a product category.
Virtualization (Conceptual Understanding)
Virtualization (Conceptual Understanding) is an abstracting computing resources to improve flexibility and efficiency.
VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi is an enterprise hypervisor for virtualization.
WiFi Security Research — ESP8266 & Rotating MAC Addresses
A proof of concept using ESP8266 microcontrollers to demonstrate that rotating MAC addresses can still be fingerprinted via broadcast SSIDs.