Tyler Rodgers / Infrastructure, Operations, and Software
Building self-hosted infrastructure, local AI, and operations software.
I’m Tyler Rodgers, a datacenter technician building Barndoor: a personal
self-hosted infrastructure and AI operations platform. The project combines
bare-metal Linux, Discord applications, public websites, monitoring,
Minecraft, power telemetry, backups, recovery practice, and dedicated
Raspberry Pi appliances.
Now Building ·
Build Log ·
Barndoor ·
NOC ·
Barndoor Labs ·
Haystack
Built and hosted from Barndoor
This site, TM44.link, Barndoor Labs, the full Barndoor NOC, the compact
Pi wallboard, Haystack, and supporting project services are operated from
my self-managed environment. Source changes move through Git review,
automated release checks, guarded deployment previews, and rollback-backed
live updates.
Self-Hosted
Source-Controlled
Public-Safe Telemetry
Rollback-Backed
Online
Current Focus
Turning a verified multi-node platform into clearer operator guidance
Barndoor now has authenticated edge telemetry, a touch-first Pi NOC with
service intelligence, UPS awareness, shared health APIs, strict maintenance
checks, and documented recovery paths. The current phase is about extracting
better decisions from that evidence rather than adding another control plane.
The next improvements center on Shepherd’s bounded operator guidance,
historical metrics and event quality, continuously fresh restore evidence,
and documentation that can prove source, live deployment, and public copy
still describe the same system.
See what I’m working on now →
Shepherd
Historical Metrics
Restore Evidence
Source / Live Parity
AI-Assisted Operations
Featured Projects
Barndoor
My self-hosted infrastructure and AI operations platform. Barndoor
coordinates local AI, Discord apps, websites, monitoring, Minecraft,
backups, power telemetry, recovery workflows, and authenticated edge
appliances from one source-controlled operating model.
Read the Barndoor project page →
Ubuntu Server
Docker
Ollama
Operations Platform
Barndoor NOC
Two public-safe operations surfaces built from shared platform data:
a full diagnostic dashboard for deep review and an 800×480 touch-first
Raspberry Pi wallboard with detailed service context, edge-node health,
quick tools, and recent event evidence.
Open the full NOC →
Open the Pi wallboard →
Monitoring
Touchscreen
Edge Telemetry
Recovery Evidence
Barndoor Labs
The public platform and product home for Barndoor-hosted work. It
documents the four-layer platform, Shepherd, Haystack, and both Barndoor
NOC surfaces through a dedicated product-oriented site.
Visit Barndoor Labs →
Product Site
Self-Hosted
Caddy
HTTPS
Haystack
A Discord-based financial intelligence project for paper trading,
portfolio review, market quotes, community comparisons, and educational
property analysis without real-money execution.
Read the Haystack project page →
Discord App
Paper Trading
Property Analysis
Educational Tools
Build Log
The latest verified milestone is highlighted below. Open the archive for the
complete history of infrastructure, software, operations, and recovery work.
Latest build log
Barndoor Edge telemetry gained an operations and recovery layer
Barndoor Edge telemetry now has a focused bdops health check, bounded
outage classification, and a complete operations and recovery runbook.
Synthetic contracts cover healthy, stale, critical, and recovered states
while keeping runtime output public-safe and all recovery actions
explicit.
Read the full build log →
Barndoor
Monitoring
Operations
Recovery
Current Stack
The platform connects bare-metal hosting, containerized services, local AI,
Discord applications, public-safe telemetry, authenticated edge reporting,
source-controlled automation, and recovery documentation.
Ubuntu Server
systemd
Docker
Caddy
Node.js
Ollama
Discord.js
Uptime Kuma
Tailscale
Network UPS Tools
Raspberry Pi
Operating Principles
Barndoor is developed with small changes, exact source/live boundaries,
read-only checks before mutation, automated contracts, explicit dry runs,
selective deployment, and rollback evidence. Private credentials and raw
operational details stay outside the public site and outside source control.
Small Changes
Fail Closed
Test Before Deploy
Document Recovery