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Project Writeups

Deep dives into personal and technical projects — documenting the build process, the problems hit along the way, and what was learned.

CLOUD / INFRASTRUCTURE
chuckcyber.dev — Building This Site
May 2026

Full walkthrough of registering a domain, spinning up an Oracle Cloud ARM VM, configuring Nginx, fighting firewalls, setting up SSL, and deploying a portfolio site from scratch.

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HARDWARE / IOT
Smart Mirror Build
Coming Soon

Full build log for a Raspberry Pi powered smart mirror project including hardware setup, software configuration, and lessons learned.

COMING SOON
INFRASTRUCTURE
Home Lab — Dual Server Setup
Coming Soon

Writeup covering the dual ThinkCentre homelab build with Jellyfin, Tailscale, UFW, Fail2Ban, and Synology NAS.

COMING SOON