My current obsession is homelabbing -- it's my favorite hands-on way of learning about technology. I'm particularly interested in DevOps tech as it bridges my two worlds of software development and IT/operations.
Hello, I'm Dom.
This is my website. I'm a programmer and singer in the Chicago area. Sometimes I write about things I'm interested in. Those writings can be found below.
On Media Server CPUs
Migrating my Blog and Deployment Pipeline
Simplifying My Homelab
How I Set Up A Media Server with Proxmox, Mergerfs, and SnapRAID
Building a Deployment Pipeline for my Blog
Deploying Jellyfin on k3s (Part 1)
Building a NAS with Mergerfs and SnapRAID
Installing Arch Linux on an Old ThinkPad
Starting a Homelab: Software
Automating Business Processes with Python
Starting a Homelab: Hardware
Go Portfolio
In 2024, I got really interested in backend web development -- REST APIs, databases, microservices, etc. During that period, I rebuilt my website using Go. It was a completely over-engineered web app with a SQL db, user auth, session management, form submissions... all implemented from scratch using only Go's standard library. Even the UI was written with Go's templating package. I'm still in love with Go and its whole philosophy around software.
Why I Sometimes Like Using VSCode
Why I’m Not Worried About AI Taking My Job
Building a Blog with Go
Playing Old Video Games on a Raspberry Pi
Mount Prospect Web Design
In 2023, my wife and I started a small web design/development business. This was before we had kids -- we're a little busier these days. During that period, I went down the frontend web dev rabbit hole and we built several sites for clients that I still maintain today. I built our marketing site with Svelte and Tailwind and it was a very pleasant experience.
Daphnes Bar
During the pandemic, I got really into two hobbies -- writing code, and making cocktails. This project was one of the first web apps I built from scratch. We would host cocktail parties and I would send everyone this link and then they would order drinks from me at my "bar". It was a lot of fun.