I build real things.
I’m Tyler — stik online. Everything here runs on my own hardware, in my own containers, behind my own tunnel. Look around.
Projects
Metis
buildingMy main software project — Metis, a self-hosted AI workspace to build entire projects in.
Minecraft Server
liveVanilla+ survival at play.stik.wtf — Java and Bedrock share one world. Whitelisted, but ask.
The Homelab
liveThe Proxmox node that runs everything on this site — including this site.
Neoaquatics
liveThe fishkeeping hobby, escalated into a self-hosted storefront — livestock and equipment both.
Latest
- 2026-08-27ai-workspace The node is holding auditions
The workspace — it’s called Metis now — needs a teacher: the big always-on model that plans and reviews for the smaller ones. I’m not picking it by vibes. Five big open models, one identical test battery, all run locally on the node. The screen wrapped this morning: a 397B model put up the only zero-failure row and did it in under two hours; another took thirteen. The top two go on to a ~55-hour final. With ~305GB of model resident in RAM, the DDR3 that was “just remembering things” finally has a job.
- 2026-08-20homelab The tune, in numbers
The homelab page now carries the workstation’s full BIOS profile — the V/F curve offsets, the boost table, the power limits, and the memory timings that take a DDR5-6400 kit to 7000 MT/s. If I’m going to claim “undervolted with unlocked limits,” you should get to read the receipts.
- 2026-08-17minecraft-server Approvals do the whole job now
Approving a whitelist application used to end with me typing a command into a console. Now the game server checks the site every minute and whitelists approved players over its own local RCON, and a Discord agent hands out roles and a DM when they join. The direction matters: the firewalled game container pulls from the site — nothing can push in — so even a fully compromised web box could at worst let someone in the door, never reach the console.
- 2026-08-16homelab A shared canvas, one pixel at a time
Stole the best idea I’ve seen on someone else’s site: a 64x64 board anyone can paint, one pixel every thirty seconds. It’s four kilobytes of text on my server, and it’ll be there as long as the box is.
- 2026-08-16minecraft-server Applications and a status page
The server’s whitelist has a real front door now: a form that asks the questions worth asking and emails me a link to approve or turn down. There’s also a status page showing which of my services are actually up, since when everything runs in one house, “down” usually means I’m elbow-deep in it.