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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