Developer · Climber · Mountain Biker · Homelab tinkerer
- 💼 Day job — full-stack web developer at Cox Automotive for 6+ years, working across the Node and .NET ecosystems.
- 🍳 Mini Mealie — the most-downloaded Mealie companion on the Chrome Web Store. One-click recipe imports from any site into your self-hosted Mealie instance.
- 🖥️ My Home Lab — an Unraid server running 40+ Docker containers behind UniFi networking. The whole stack lives in
shaplabs.orgterritory. - 🚲 Off-keyboard — pulling on plastic and riding bikes.
A lightweight Chrome extension built with WXT + React 19 + TypeScript that adds a right-click "Send to Mealie" anywhere on the web. Smart URL/HTML dual-import, automatic recipe detection, and structured logging.
| 🏠 Server | Unraid 7.2.3 · Ryzen 7 1800X (8c/16t) · 64 GB RAM |
| 📦 Storage | ~36 TB array, parity-protected |
| 🐳 Containers | 40+ Docker services humming along 24/7 |
| 🌐 Network | UniFi end-to-end (Dream Machine, switches, APs) |
| ⚙️ Highlights | Mealie · Home Assistant · *arr stack · Jellyfin · Nextcloud · Vaultwarden · Pi-hole · plus a self-hosted MCP for poking it all from VS Code |
📰 Older writing & videos
Blog (Medium)
- Add Some Magic to Your README
- TGIF: Let's Talk Lazy Loading
- Quick Intro to Using Meta Data
- Website Data Tracking with Google Analytics
- My Path To Coding
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