LoPTA — Log Parser & Triage Assistant
A practical log parsing/triage tool integrating AI assistance. LoPTA aids in making sense of your messy logs and prioritizing action.
HomeSweetLab
HomeSweetLab is my YouTube channel where I build, break, fix, and document my homelab — sharing networking, security, Linux admin, and Proxmox fun with cozy panache.
Projects
Tooling for log ingestion, analysis and homelab automation.
HomeLabKit — homelab tools
Small, opinionated CLIs for day-to-day homelab operations.
- vmctl-ng — control Proxmox VMs/LXCs over SSH from a jump host
- RollCall — lightweight host discovery / inventory grouped by network, designed for a homelab
- Scriven — minimal markdown lab log + AI summaries from date ranges
Homelab philosophy
A homelab is a place to experiment, learn, break things, and fix them (and repeat), experience the lows of what-went-wrong and the highs of having-fixed-it. My homelab is where I practice real-world skills in an enterprise-like environment: secure network design, monitoring, log analysis and automation. While at it I make sure to have fun, be creative and get a little poetry out of it. More practically speaking, I meddle with:
- Server administration and hardening
- Applied security principles - architecture and implementation
- Network segmentation + controlled remote access
- Virtualization and services (Proxmox, containers, monitoring)
- Log-centric workflows: parsing, triage, detection thinking
- Automation with Python/Bash (and selective AI assistance)
- Self expression and imagination
Writing & communication
I have published 4 books of poetry, and am awaiting the publication of my first novel. In addition, I've worked for around 20 years in legal translation. I love writing, documenting and communicating. Check out my documentation projects (under my HomeLabKit repo, or in my HomeSweetLab YouTube channel) to see my approach to documentation and communication. I love a good story - or at least that's what I tell myself.
Links
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