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.
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This site, TM44.link, 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.
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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.
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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
Unified active-versus-resolved event decisions across Sheppard, the NOC, and the platform APIs while keeping historical signals available for audit.
The Operations Brief now reports verified CPU and GPU temperatures alongside service health, backup confidence, repository state, and source/live parity.
Operations Discord Bot Monitoring ReliabilityThe 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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