Tyler Rodgers / Now Building

Now Building

A current snapshot of what I’m actively building, testing, and documenting from my home lab.

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Current Focus

Turning Barndoor into a self-hosted project platform

Barndoor is now hosting my websites, short links, Discord bot services, monitoring tools, and local AI experiments from my own hardware.

The current focus is making the system easier to maintain, easier to explain, and useful as an educational build log.

Active Barndoor Self-hosted Caddy

Recently Built

Barndoor knowledge base expanded

Expanded Barndoor’s local knowledge files with deeper notes for services, networking, backups, commands, recovery, and websites.

Added a new websites topic so Barndoor can return website hosting, Caddy, build log, TM44.link, and hidden recovery guide notes directly from Discord.

Knowledge Base Discord Bot Documentation Websites

Barndoor knowledge editing

Added /addnote so Barndoor can append new information to its local knowledge files directly from Discord.

Combined with /notes and /searchnotes, this creates a simple read, search, and write workflow for infrastructure notes, recovery steps, backup reminders, and command references.

Knowledge Base Discord Bot Documentation Automation

Barndoor knowledge notes

Added a local knowledge folder for Barndoor and new Discord commands for returning and searching project-specific infrastructure notes.

The bot can now show fixed notes with /notes and search across local knowledge files with /searchnotes. Current notes cover services, networking, recovery steps, backups, and local commands.

Knowledge Base Discord Bot Search Documentation

Barndoor admin toolkit

Added an owner-only Discord admin toolkit for Barndoor that can check system health, service status, disk usage, network connectivity, logs, approved service restarts, and backup status.

This turns the Barndoor bot into a basic operations panel for the server, making it easier to monitor and recover self-hosted services without immediately using SSH.

Discord Bot Admin Tools Monitoring Self-hosted

Local website hosting

Migrated tylerrodgers.space and TM44.link away from hosted web services and onto Barndoor using Docker, Caddy, HTTPS, DNS updates, and router port forwarding.

Websites HTTPS DNS

TM44.link short links

Built TM44.link into a link hub and short-link redirect domain for active projects, build logs, and public pages.

Short Links Link Hub Redirects

Barndoor Discord visibility

Added Discord commands that report website health, project links, build log links, uptime, GPU status, active model, and overall system health.

Discord Bot Monitoring Node.js

Next Up

What I want to improve next