projects: null-and-void
Current Work
The recurring projects here tend to blur together: infrastructure, workshop hardware, Linux desktops, and the odd experiment that starts as a curiosity and turns into a multi-week rabbit hole.
Homelab
The core stack lives on Proxmox and carries the stuff the house actually leans on: internal DNS, reverse proxying, Home Assistant, and a pile of utility containers that mostly exist to save me from repeating dumb little tasks I should have automated six months earlier.
Networking
Most of the networking work is just cleaning up after old shortcuts: better names, saner remote access, fewer mystery ports, and a cleaner split between what the router does and what everything else should stay responsible for instead of turning the edge into a tiny authoritarian state.
Linux
The desktop is its own long-running project: leaving Windows, settling into Arch, and getting a Linux setup that feels fast and personal even when Nvidia decides it would rather be a war crime.
Workshop
The printer bench is mostly for useful parts: brackets, holders, rack pieces, enclosures, and the occasional adapter needed to make cheap second-hand hardware fit into a plan it was never designed for.
Experiments
Some projects are useful in the normal sense and some are useful mostly because they teach me something strange. OpenClaw, cloned voices, and implant-adjacent experiments all land in that second category, which is another way of saying "fun, informative, and occasionally a bad idea."
Built Things
Not every project belongs in a rack. Some of the best ones are wood, wiring, controls, printed fixtures, and the kind of physical builds that only really make sense once you put them together yourself.