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 below. Open the full archive to browse the complete build log.
Latest build log
Improved Barndoor’s bot maintenance workflow with live health checks, process-manager validation, cleaner project checks, and safer Discord interaction handling.
The standard workflow now verifies that the bot is running once, responding on its health endpoint, logging in cleanly, and handling commands with fewer avoidable interaction errors.
Reliability Bot Operations Discord Bot 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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