What did I get up to in 2025? Well, lots of things. Some of the highlights include...
Currently: Prepping for Security+ Exam.
Focus: Managing and maintaining my homelab.
Experience: 10+ years
Current Projects
Personal Portfolio Redesign
Astro, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Status: Live
Flyaway - Static Flyer Generator
A static site built with small web principles used to quickly generate flyers with Markdown + a couple unique additions.
Status: Live
Flavor Chronicles
Launching community-based recipe review — reviving my late mother's food blog by sharing her cookbook collection with friends and family and documenting their cooking experiences.
Status: 200 of 400 cookbooks distributed
Fables of the Twin Moons – Playtest 3
Tabletop RPG in development. Writing, layout, art, and system design handled in-house.
Status: On Ice
Homelab & Infrastructure
Proxmox-powered virtual environment with Debian and Ubuntu Server VMs. Dockerized services, automated music ripping image, self-hosted music library, game hosting for friends and family. Developed on a Framework Laptop running Arch Linux, and now a desktop running Arch Linux with KDE Plasma DE.
Status: Ongoing - Actively Maintained
What I'm Learning
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA Linux+
Currently Reading
Current Playlist
A Different Kind Of Human (Step II)
Aurora’s third studio album (pop/art‑pop/electropop), released June 7 2019
The Mountain
The newest, and ninth, studio album by virtual band Gorillaz. It feels like a return to form from some of their earlier works telling a full story of life and loss and love.
The Plot In You (MAPHRA Vocal Cover)
A deeply emotional cover of The Plot In You by Silence, done by MAPHRA.
Recent Thoughts & Updates
December 30, 2025
2025 Retrospective - Things Worth Doing
July 22, 2025
Progress is progress
Sidequests are kind of how I got here, not what I'd call getting distracted.
July 10, 2025
Thinking over overthinking
I'm bad at doing things the easy when when the easy way was invented by technical people.