🔧 My Projects & Homelab Adventures

Where I battle server gremlins and turn coffee into code ☕⚡

🏠 My Homelab - "The Digital Dojo"

🖥️ Ubuntu Server LTS (The Reliable Sensei)

• Hosting this website on a battle-tested Nginx setup
• Learned firewall rules the hard way 🔥 (RIP port 22)
• Current uptime: 42 days, 6:12:31 (until next kernel update)

☁️ Google Cloud e2-micro (The Cloud Ninja)

• Linuxupskill Challenge: 30 days of CLI warfare
• Discovered 137 ways to accidentally lock myself out
• Budget: $4.27/month (cheaper than my coffee habit)

🔒 Cybersecurity Arsenal

Pi-hole Ad Blocker

Raspberry Pi Docker Bash

• DNS-level ad blocking for 10+ devices
• Blocked 10M+ ads (Take that, YouTube commercials!)
• Bandwidth savings: 40% (Now I can download more Linux ISOs)

Disk Sanitization Tool

PowerShell DoD 5220.22-M

• Wiped 500+ drives (RIP old company laptops)
• Automated 70% of process (Because clicking 500x is for masochists)
• Favorite feature: Invoke-AtomicWipe command

🐍 Python Projects - "Because Why Sleep?"

Adventure RPG (GUI Edition)

Tkinter 1K+ lines ☕ Coffee-Powered

• Features: Inventory system, enemy AI, dad jokes
• Boss battle theme: Breaking Benjamin on loop
• Playable demo: (Coming after I fix the health potion bug)

Bagels Deductive Logic Game

CLI Python 3.11

• Because guessing numbers is more fun than spreadsheets
• Secret cheat code: import victory

🌐 Building This Website

Tech Stack

• HTML5: Semantic tags only (divs are training wheels!)
• CSS: Flexbox, Grid, and magic calc()
• JS: Vanilla flavor (No framework allergies here)

Development Stats

• Commits: 147 (46 were "fixed typo" 🤦♂️)
• CSS Rewrites: 9 (Mobile-first they said...)
• Hours Spent: ≈40 (25 of which were fighting Safari)

Lessons Learned

• !important is not actually important
• CSS Grid > Float (RIP 2005 web design)
• All browsers hate developers equally