$ cat about.txt
I'm Devyn — a Cybersecurity student working at an IT MSP in Oklahoma. I'm passionate about homelabbing, pentesting, SIEM/EDR monitoring and response, and network security. Along the way I've picked up a solid foundation in Linux, macOS, and Windows.
The lab is one HP ProDesk 800 Mini running Proxmox — three VMs and a container for basically everything: 29 Docker services on the main host, a full Wazuh SIEM on its own VM, Home Assistant on another, and a Synology NAS holding the media and the Proxmox backups. Nothing on it has a port forwarded on my router; if something's reachable from outside, it's through a Cloudflare Tunnel or Tailscale.
Lately it's stopped being only servers. Delos is an ESP32-S3 e-paper handheld that turns what I say into notes in my Obsidian vault, transcribed by a Whisper container on the lab. The idea, the hardware, and every call about what it should and shouldn't do are mine; Claude wrote the firmware and the server code with me directing it. I've cut features that already worked because they made it too much like a phone — that filter is why the thing is worth carrying.
That's how most of this lab gets built, and I'd rather say so than let anyone assume otherwise. I decide what gets made, direct it, and I'm the one holding it when the screen is blank and nothing works. Debugging is where the learning actually happens, and knowing enough to tell when an answer is wrong is the skill I care about most.
It started as curiosity and got out of hand — long nights, 3am rabbit holes over DNS that wouldn't resolve, plenty of "why is everything broken." It's also taught me more about networking, security, and real-world IT than any classroom has, and I use it every day at work. If something's broken, I'll figure it out. That's kind of the whole point.
It didn't start as a server rack. It started as a Pi on my desk.