I love building things — whether that's writing software, setting up infrastructure, or wiring my whole home together in Home Assistant.
I run my own server at home on a Raspberry Pi 5, hosting everything from a family social network to smart home automation. It's been the best way to learn networking, Linux, and Docker by doing.
"When something isn't built yet, I build it myself."
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$ ps aux | grep jonathan | sort -k3 -r
A private social network for my family — posts, emoji reactions, nested comments, push notifications, invite links, and scheduled posts. Built from scratch with Node.js and MySQL.
A personal notes app with markdown support, categories, and server-side storage — accessible from any device.
Full home automation — smart lights, routines, presence detection, Alexa voice control for Tesla preconditioning, and a dashboard accessible from anywhere.
Self-hosted infrastructure running 14+ services — reverse proxy, auto SSL, container management, UFW firewall, nightly DB backups, and Cloudflare DDNS.