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About_Me.rtf

👋 Welcome

You've landed in What-A-LAN OS — a desktop you can actually click around in.


Try this:

🪐   Open Projects in the dock to see what's running on the rack.

%_   Open Terminal and type help — there are easter eggs.

🔍   Hit ⌘+Space (or Ctrl+Space) for Spotlight.

🖱️   Right-click the desktop to swap wallpapers.


About Me

I'm a network infrastructure and tech enthusiast based in Western Australia.


This site is my homelab — a fully self-hosted ecosystem running on TrueNAS SCALE, with Ubiquiti hardware driving a 10GbE LAN and a 96TB ZFS storage array.


From automating media pipelines (Plex, *arr stack) to orchestrating Docker containers and ensuring data redundancy, I'm driven by pushing hardware to its limits and finding elegant solutions to complex architecture problems.


Feel free to explore, test the terminal, or drop me a line through Mail. Edits you make here are saved locally to your browser.

Activity Monitor
CPU History (Intel i5-12400F)18% Load
Memory Pressure41.0 GB / 64.0 GB
App Memory: 12.4 GBWired Memory: 8.2 GBCompressed: 0 Bytes
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admin@whatalan — zsh
Last login: on ttys001 TrueNAS SCALE 25.10.1 (Goldeye) Type 'help' for available commands.
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System Information
The Iron
Network & compute hardware powering What-A-LAN
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Cloud Key Gen2 Plus
Ubiquiti · Network Controller
● Online
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UXG Fiber Gateway
Ubiquiti · 10GbE WAN
● Online
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USW Pro Max 16
Ubiquiti · 10GbE PoE
● Online
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Mac Mini (M1)
Apple · 16GB RAM
● Standby
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4U TrueNAS Server
i5-12400F · 64GB DDR5 · 96TB ZFS
● Online
Projects
A snapshot of what's running on the rack right now — every box and container earning its keep.
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TrueNAS Storage
● Production
96TB ZFS array across mirrored vdevs. Snapshots, replication, and a ZFS scrub schedule that's never missed an error.
TrueNAS SCALEZFSRAID-Z2
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Media Pipeline
● Automated
End-to-end *arr stack: Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr feeding qBittorrent + SABnzbd, served by Plex with hardware transcoding.
Plex*arrQuickSync
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Docker Stack
● 24 containers
Compose-orchestrated services with Watchtower for updates, Portainer for ops, and Uptime Kuma keeping me honest.
ComposePortainerWatchtower
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10GbE Network
● Ubiquiti
UXG Fiber gateway, USW Pro Max 16 PoE switch, U7 Pro APs. Cloud Key Gen2 Plus running the whole show with VLAN segmentation.
UniFi10GbEVLANs
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Immich Photos
● Self-hosted
Google Photos replacement with ML face recognition and CLIP search. Runs on my own metal — my photos, my server.
ImmichPostgreSQLCUDA
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This Webtop
● You're here
Single-file vanilla HTML/CSS/JS — no frameworks, no build step. macOS-style WM with draggable, snappable, themable windows.
HTMLCSSJS
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Drop me a line — I'm always happy to chat homelab.
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