Tyler Rodgers / Barndoor Lab
I’m Tyler Rodgers, a datacenter technician building a home-lab platform for self-hosted infrastructure, local AI, Discord apps, automation, backups, and recovery practice.
Now Building · Build Log · Barndoor · Haystack · TM44.link
This site, TM44.link, Barndoor, and Haystack are hosted from my self-managed Barndoor environment.
Self-hosted Online Barndoor Local AI CaddyBarndoor now hosts my websites, runs local AI, powers Discord bot operations, monitors services, stores searchable notes, manages backups, and documents recovery workflows.
Recent work focused on polishing the public project pages, improving the internal SSH status dashboard, improving build log tracking, and refining Haystack as a Discord app.
Operations Local AI Recovery Website PolishBarndoor is my self-hosted operations platform: a bare-metal Linux server running local AI, websites, monitoring, Discord tools, backups, recovery notes, and project automation from my own hardware.
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Ubuntu Server Docker Ollama Discord BotHaystack is a free Discord app for simulated market trading. Users can practice trades, track a portfolio, and follow performance over time without using real money.
Read the Haystack project page →
Discord App Node.js Market Simulation Portfolio TrackingThe latest update is highlighted above. Expand the archive to browse the full build log.
Expanded Barndoor’s local knowledge files with deeper notes for services, networking, backups, commands, recovery, and websites.
Added a new websites topic so Barndoor can return website hosting,
Caddy, build log, TM44.link, and hidden recovery guide notes directly from Discord.
Added /addnote so Barndoor can append new information to its local
knowledge files directly from Discord.
Together with /notes and /searchnotes, this creates a
simple read, search, and write workflow for infrastructure documentation,
recovery steps, backup reminders, and command references.
Added a local knowledge folder for Barndoor and new Discord commands for returning and searching project-specific infrastructure notes.
The bot can now show fixed notes with /notes and search across local
knowledge files with /searchnotes. Current notes cover services,
networking, recovery steps, backups, and local commands.
Expanded the Barndoor Discord bot with owner-only admin commands for checking system health, services, disk usage, network connectivity, logs, restarts, and backup status.
This creates a simple operations loop from Discord: check the server, inspect the problem, and restart an approved service when needed.
Admin Tools Monitoring Recovery Self-hostedMoved tylerrodgers.space and TM44.link from Hostinger web hosting to Barndoor, a locally hosted Ubuntu server running Caddy, Docker, and HTTPS.
Caddy DNS HTTPS Self-hostedTurned TM44.link into a short-link hub with redirects for my main site, Barndoor, Haystack, and project links.
Redirects Link Hub CaddyAdded Discord commands for website status, links, uptime, and health reporting so Barndoor can monitor the services it hosts.
Discord Bot Node.js MonitoringThe current stack connects hosting, local AI, Discord apps, monitoring, automation, backups, and recovery documentation.
Ubuntu Server Docker Caddy Ollama Uptime Kuma Discord.jsStart here
This site is an educational build log where I document the systems I’m building, the tools I’m testing, and the infrastructure I’m running from my home lab.
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