➜ ~ whoami
jordan
Not that Jordan. Welcome to my digital workshop. Here, I build modern websites, manage a cloud-powered lab, and write deep-dive tutorials on how it all actually works.
$ ls ~/sites
Things I've built
Client work, personal experiments, and a couple of businesses running on infrastructure I manage myself.
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Business
TYKCO
Company site with a companion control panel for clients and internal ops.
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Local Business
Wasatch Carpet Co.
Booking-friendly site for a Utah carpet cleaning & flooring company.
$ ssh dash.notjordan.com
Home Lab
Everything self-hosted, in one place
A running dashboard of the services powering this site and the rest of the network — media, monitoring, automation, and the usual home-lab suspects. Public-friendly services are linked out; the rest stay behind the fence.
$ tail -f blog.log
Latest from the blog
Notes on home labs, self-hosting, and the networking rabbit holes that come with them.
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Building a Home Lab: From Raspberry Pi to Rack
How a single Pi turned into a proper rack — and what I'd do differently starting over.
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Reverse Proxies 101: Traefik vs. Nginx Proxy Manager
Two popular ways to route traffic to self-hosted services, compared for real-world use.
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Self-Hosting a Media Server That Doesn't Fall Over
Storage, transcoding, and the setup that's kept mine reliable for years.
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Securing Your Home Lab: VLANs, VPNs & Zero Trust
A practical starting point for segmenting and locking down a home network.
$ cat about.md
About me
Hey, I'm Jordan (no, not that one). I'm a developer, writer, and tech enthusiast who loves taking things apart and figuring out how they work. My digital workspace is anchored by a remote lab where I experiment with infrastructure, deployment, and systems. When I'm not tinkering behind the scenes, you can find me building high-performance websites and writing practical tech tutorials to help others navigate the stack. Whether it's bare-metal configuration or frontend code, I write about the process and share what I learn along the way.