I'm systems consultant by day, and this is where I tinker on my own time. Proxmox, Docker, and a rack full of shits that probably don't need to exist, but do.
Personal IT support site, deployed on Cloudflare Pages under mijares.me — animated SVG logo, SEO basics, and Cloudflare Web Analytics.
Remote support server running in Docker on the Synology — same tooling I use for client work, just pointed at my own machines.
Open-source PSA and documentation platform, self-hosted via Docker — runbooks and asset notes in one place.
Self-hosted Bitwarden-compatible vault behind a Cloudflare tunnel, no exposed ports, no third-party cloud.
Lightweight monitoring agents across the Synology and Windows boxes — one dashboard for the whole lab's health.
Centralized management for the VMware side of the lab — provisioning and monitoring VMs from one pane of glass.
The hypervisor everything else lives on — VMs and LXCs for whatever's being tested this week.
Self-hosted asset management tracking every piece of gear in the lab, tags and all.
Every self-hosted service gets a subdomain off mijares.me — no exposed ports, no exceptions.
Keeps the home connection's changing IP pointed at the right place without anyone touching DNS by hand.
The control panel for the container fleet — deploy, inspect, and clean up without living in the CLI.
Self-hosted uptime monitoring and status page for every service running in the lab.
Wiki and documentation platform, planned for next term — centralizing the lab's notes in one place.
Self-hosted media server for the household — no subscriptions, no algorithm, just the library.
Self-hosted remote monitoring & management — scripted checks and remote access across every machine in the lab.
Built around an illustrated snapshot of the actual desk — because a stock hero image felt like lying.
Nothing in this category yet.
By day I'm a systems consultant, keeping other people's infrastructure running. This lab is where I test the things I'm not ready to trust in production yet.
Kicking off migration of core services off the local rack and into OCI — first up is untangling what actually needs to stay on-prem.
Self-hosted remote monitoring and management across the lab — scripted checks instead of manually checking in on things.
One for service uptime, one for host health. Finally have a real picture of what's actually running well.
Killed the last exposed port on the NAS. Everything now routes through a tunnel, nothing forwarded.
Planned for next term — centralizing runbooks and notes instead of scattering them across chat history.
If you're into self-hosting, homelabs, or just want to compare notes on what's breaking this week — reach out.