Tyler Rodgers / Now Building

Now Building

A current snapshot of what I’m building, maintaining, and improving across my home lab.

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Current Focus

Building a personal operations platform around Barndoor

Barndoor now hosts my websites, runs local AI, powers Discord bot operations, checks system health, stores searchable project notes, manages backup workflows, and documents recovery procedures.

The current focus is improving reliability and usability: making the system easier to monitor, easier to explain, easier to recover, and more useful as a foundation for AI-assisted home-lab administration.

Active Barndoor Operations Local AI Recovery

Active Workstreams

Operations dashboard

Improving Barndoor’s SSH and Discord-based status tools so the system is easier to monitor, diagnose, and recover.

bdstatus /doctor Monitoring

Public project pages

Keeping Barndoor, Haystack, TM44.link, and the build log clear, current, and easy to navigate.

Website Polish Build Log TM44.link

Haystack

Refining the Discord app experience for simulated trading, portfolio tracking, and market-data workflows.

Discord App Market Data Portfolio Tracking

Recovery practice

Keeping backups, notes, and restore workflows documented enough to recover the system cleanly.

Backups Recovery Documentation

Recently Shipped

Homepage and project pages refreshed

Cleaned up the homepage, Barndoor page, Haystack page, TM44.link, and build log so the public site better reflects the current direction of the project.

Website Polish Project Hub

Haystack page upgraded

Reworked Haystack into a clearer Discord app page with a gold theme, market data status, invite button, safer copy, and cleaner roadmap language.

Haystack Discord App

Internal status dashboard improved

Upgraded the SSH status command into a cleaner operations dashboard with service checks, website checks, backup retention, overview stats, and a recommendation section.

Operations bdstatus

Build log watcher fixed

Updated the build log watcher so it detects the first real log entry instead of the summary card.

Build Log Automation

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Next Up

What I want to improve next