hey, i’m
Tech nerd, gamer, musician and motorhead.
I fix IT for a living and break my homelab for fun. This is where I write up what I build, break and fix.
A week ago I wrote about giving Claude its own container and making it my bookkeeper. It worked. It cleared a two-year backlog of expenses in Invoice Ninja, it files the boring…
I've been into tech since high school. My first job was internal IT at a small company in my hometown, where I learned to build PCs, run network cabling and set up servers. The town didn't have many IT companies, so we looked after outside clients too.
A few years later I started my own company, National Technology Solutions (NTS). My work covers Microsoft 365, networking, VoIP, endpoints and websites.
Gaming came before computers. I put 200+ hours into Final Fantasy VIII and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. I picked up guitar at about 20, but I've been into metal since my teens. And as if guitars and computers weren't expensive enough, I've been hooked on Subarus since 2021. The current project is a black 2007 Impreza WRX STI.
Routers, firewalls and the links between sites.
Where most of my evenings go.
Tenants for small businesses, end to end.
Closing front doors before someone else finds them.
The tools I work in every day.
Sites, plugins and agents.
One Proxmox node, TrueNAS for storage, and a container per job. The hosts are named after EVE Online ships. Most posts on this blog started here.