root@labs:~$ make something

What we build, and what we think about it.

Projects are the technical record: what we built, how, what we'd do differently. The blog is everything else, posted when there's something worth saying.

cd /projects cat blog/latest
root@labs:~$ ./status.sh
✓ site rebuilt and online
✓ latest post: LOG-008: Two colors that only unlock if you turn on 2FA
… in progress: The Synology (RS815+)
✓ forum: Home networking: what’s actually running your network?

recent-entries

LOG-007 synology The Synology (RS815+) Years of runtime, relearned every time DSM changes. ● active LOG-006 media-server Home Media Server A NAS, a media server, and an automation stack that never really finishes. ● active LOG-005 homelab Rebuilding rootlabs.us New AWS home, Caddy, PHP, WordPress, and the redesign you're looking at. ● active LOG-004 3d-printing The print lab FDM and resin printing: functional parts, jigs, and beautiful failures. ○ ongoing LOG-003 electronics Smart home, the hard way Automating the house one stubborn device at a time. ○ ongoing

readme

Root Labs is where the fun stuff goes. A lab for after-hours engineering: homelab, 3D printing, electronics, software, and whatever we get our hands on next. No clients, no tickets, no invoices. Projects, experiments, and honest write-ups of both.

blog --latest

2026-08-25 meta LOG-008: Two colors that only unlock if you turn on 2FA Silver and gold accent colors, unlocked only by turning on two-factor authentication -- why gating a color behind account security… read → 2026-08-25 meta LOG-007: A comment that said the bug was already fixed A CSS comment claimed the forum row's floats were cleared. Nothing actually cleared them, and the only way that surfaced… read → 2026-08-25 meta LOG-006: An XP system for the forums, and the page it took over A karma system for the forums -- five ranks, silver and gold locked behind two-factor instead of rank -- and… read → 2026-08-25 meta LOG-005: The login loop that was three undefined cookie paths deep Logging in worked. Everything after it didn't -- a WordPress cookie-scoping fallback nobody had configured, and why it looked like… read → 2026-08-25 homelab LOG-004: A .env file was reachable in public, because of one anchored path A Caddy rule meant to block every dotfile on the site only ever blocked the one at the root. What… read →