The Workshop

What I build with — and why. Roots to canopy.

ROOTS

the homelab I actually run — real ops you can't fake

caddy

edge · TLS + forward-auth

24/7

authentik

single sign-on for every service

24/7

estate-api

Hono · VSA · RCON + SSE control plane

24/7

postgres

app + analytics data

24/7

restic

nightly DR to a Storage Box

nightly

immich · jellyfin

photos + media for the family

24/7

Three Hetzner boxes, ~19 services, one Caddy edge, DNS-as-code, restic with weekly integrity checks. The same ops muscles — reverse-proxy, SSO, Postgres, monitoring, backups — that sit behind any real operational dashboard.

Read the full build → Irminsul case study

TRUNK

production .NET / C# — what I'm expert in

ASP.NET CoreEverything backend rests here.daily-driver

BlazorMy comfort zone for UI.daily-driver

EF CoreORM of choice.daily-driver

MediatR / CQRSClean seams between request and handler.daily-driver

xUnitTests before I trust it.daily-driver

RiderI'd pay double.daily-driver

CANOPY

React + geospatial — the new growth, learned in public

React8 months in, still losing fights with useEffect — the outer ring.learning

Next.jsFor static, bilingual sites.weekly

CesiumJSGeospatial — where I'm heading.weekly

TailwindFast, native-feeling UI.weekly

MapLibre / deck.glExploring for ops dashboards.learning

R3F / GLSLLearning — the cinematic layer.learning