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 Labs, Barndoor, Haystack, and 9eo are hosted from my self-managed Barndoor environment.
Self-hosted Online Barndoor Local AI CaddyBarndoor’s NOC now brings together service health, deployments, backups, repository state, UTC and lunar telemetry, and a compact market pulse in one responsive public-safe dashboard.
Sheppard now combines shared active-event state, recovery confidence, repository posture, source/live parity, and host thermals into one public-safe advisory brief.
NOC Operations Monitoring ReleaseBarndoor 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.
Read the Barndoor project page →
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 below. Open the full archive to browse the complete build log.
Latest build log
Launched barndoorlabs.dev as the public home for the
Barndoor Labs platform, Shepherd, Haystack, Barndoor NOC, and future
product releases.
All six launch routes, production HTTPS, canonical path-preserving redirects, the read-only Caddy mount, and the existing public sites were verified after deployment.
Websites Deployment DNS HTTPSThe current stack connects hosting, local AI, Discord apps, monitoring, automation, backups, remote access, and recovery documentation.
Ubuntu Server Docker Caddy Ollama Uptime Kuma Discord.js TailscaleStart 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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