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Booting Up: Why I Finally Built a Proper Space for My Homelab Madness
A quick look at what this site is all about, from self hosted infrastructure and networking experiments to the random projects I build when off the clock.
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What began as a private plate is now my username, my colour palette, and the address bar for everything I put on the web.
I'm Jamie - homelab tinkerer, daily WRX STi driver, and builder of open source tools. Infrastructure by trade; cars, code, and 3D printing when I'm off the clock.
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The Car
2011 Subaru WRX STi - daily driven, slowly being improved. Specs, history, and whatever I'm planning next.
Open the garageProjects
Open source software born from homelab problems - backup tools, media servers, IPAM, and more. All on GitHub.
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Who I am, what I do, and the tech I work with day to day.
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July 2026
Lots of bodywork!
Front lip removed, rusty arches sorted, all alloys refurbished and a full machine polish.
Building lately
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Nucleus
Nucleus is a single, self-contained Go binary that acts as an orchestration manager for scheduled Nuclei vulnerability scans.
- Go
- SQLite
- Nuclei
GoEncode
A lightweight, high-performance media transcoding server written in Go. It features a modern web UI, a robust job queue, automatic watch folder monitoring, real-time log streaming, and MariaDB-backed persistence.
- Go
- MariaDB
- Docker
GoDump
A lightweight MariaDB backup application used for managing multiple MariaDB instances concurrently, automatically discovers databases, runs scheduled backups, enforces retention policies, and presents a sleek, embedded web UI to manage operations.
- Go
- MariaDB
- Backups
Usually found messing with
- Linux
- Proxmox
- Kubernetes
- Self-hosting
- Cars
- Gaming