Self-hosted · Cybersecurity · Local AI

MANALABS

Building at the edge of home infrastructure

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About

I build things that run quietly in the background.

Experience with Proxmox, local LLMs, and automation pipelines. ManaLabs is my corner of the internet — part portfolio, part lab notebook.

Interested in self-hosted infrastructure, cybersecurity, and anything that doesn't depend on Big Cloud.

hi@manalabs.me

lab · online

mana@current-stack:~$

❯ cat stack.yaml

hypervisor: proxmox-ve ai: ollama + open-webui reverse-proxy: caddy dns: pi-hole + cloudflare

❯ uptime --pretty

up 247 days, 14 hrs, 32 min

❯

The Stack

What runs the lab

Hypervisor

Proxmox VE for running isolated LXC containers and VMs on bare metal. Type-1 hypervisor, full control.

ProxmoxKVMLXC

Local AI

Self-hosted LLMs via Ollama. Open WebUI as the interface. No data leaves the machine.

OllamaOpen WebUILLMs

Networking

Caddy handles TLS automatically. Cloudflare DNS-01 for wildcard certs. Pi-hole blocks ads at the DNS layer.

CaddyPi-holeTailscale

Security

Dedicated VM for offensive security research. Zero-trust tunnels for public exposure. No open ports.

KaliCloudflareZero-trust

Automation

n8n orchestrates workflows between services. Webhooks, API calls, and scheduled jobs — all local.

n8nWebhooksREST API

Dev Tooling

Neovim as the editor of choice. Git for everything. Hyprland on the desktop. Shell scripts glue it together.

NeovimGitBashHyprland

Projects

What I've built

Proxmox Monitor Dashboard

Live RAM, CPU, and LXC status via Proxmox API. Custom frontend in the lab's palette.

Proxmox APIHTML/CSSn8n

ClipVault

End-to-end encrypted password and text sharing webapp. Self-hosted. Share secrets securely — no middleman, no logs.

E2E EncryptedSelf-hostedWebapp

manalabs.me

This site. Glassmorphism over a painted sky. Wildcard HTTPS via Caddy + Cloudflare.

HTML/CSSCaddyCloudflare

More incoming…

ESP32 sensor dashboard · Hyprland QML bar · AI Smart Router

ESP32QMLOllama

Contact

Say hello.

Into self-hosting, local AI, or just homelab nerd talk?
My inbox is open.

hi@manalabs.me