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 and analysis, automated vulnerability scanning and threat detection workflows, and homelab automation.

Sroq — Vulnerability Reporting Tool

A CLI-based vulnerability reporting tool built around Nmap and Vulners scripts. Sroq aggregates unique CVEs per host, applies deterministic sorting, and computes weighted risk metrics to produce clean, automation-ready reports (JSON, CSV, Excel, PNG), with optional email reports.


LoPTA — Log Parser & Triage Assistant

A practical log parsing/triage tool integrating AI assistance. LoPTA aids in making sense of messy logs and prioritizing action.

HomeLabKit — homelab tools

Small, opinionated CLIs for day-to-day homelab operations.

  • vmctl-ng — control Proxmox VMs/LXCs over SSH from a jump server.
  • RollCall — lightweight host discovery tool with grouping by network, designed for a homelab.
  • Scriven — minimal markdown lab logger with periodic/event-based AI-generated summaries.
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Homelab philosophy

A homelab is a place to experiment, learn, break things, and fix them (and repeat), a playground to 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, system hardening, monitoring, traffic and log analysis, pentesting, detection, and automation. In building and using my lab, I make sure to have fun, be creative and get a little poetry out of it. More practically speaking, I meddle with:

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.