Welcome to Viles.info¶
Hey, welcome to my corner of the internet.
Viles.info is my personal technical portfolio and living notebook. This is where I keep my projects, homelab adventures, automation experiments, and whatever else I’ve learned along the way. It’s part showcase, part diary, and part “future me will thank me” documentation hub.
The goal is simple: show the actual work, explain why I did things a certain way, and write things down clearly enough that someone (including me in six months) can follow along.
What this site is¶
It’s a collection of things I’ve built, broken, fixed, and documented. You’ll find:
- Software projects and small tools
- Homelab and self-hosting notes
- Infrastructure experiments
- Automation workflows
- Honest writeups about decisions, mistakes, and what actually worked
It’s not a polished blog or marketing site. It’s more like an open workshop — structured, searchable, and always evolving.
Featured work¶
Projects¶
Some of the things I’m most excited about right now:
- MediaReel — A portable media launcher and local playback tool
- VolCore Ops — Volunteer operations and event management system concept
- ReceiptDesigner — Receipt layout and template design tool
Homelab & Systems¶
Notes from the trenches of running my own infrastructure: containers, reverse proxies, monitoring, backups, service organization, and the endless quest for a sane setup.
I try to focus on architecture decisions, lessons learned, and useful patterns while keeping private details private.
About me¶
Want to know a bit more about who’s behind all this? Check out the About page.
What I enjoy working on¶
I’m happiest when I’m:
- Making complicated services easier to run
- Building small tools that remove friction
- Improving documentation (yes, I’m one of those people)
- Connecting systems together cleanly
- Finding reliable, maintainable patterns
You’ll see a lot of Docker, self-hosting, observability, automation, and “documentation-first” thinking throughout the site.
Current status¶
The site is very much a work in progress. Some pages are solid, others are rough drafts, and a few are still just placeholders. I’ll keep adding to it as projects mature and I carve out time to write.
Built with¶
This site is built with MkDocs Material, served with Caddy, and hosted on git-pages + DigitalOcean Spaces.
Because of course the portfolio site itself needed a tiny infrastructure stack. 😄