Skyler Watson

I build things that run
on my own hardware.

Cybersecurity student. I run a Proxmox homelab that hosts everything below, and I'd rather understand a system end to end than rent one.

Projects

Kaboost

Live

Scores every parcel in Los Angeles for development potential. Zoning, overlays, and lot geometry pulled from ZIMAS and the Census, then ranked.

529,000 parcelsPostGISPython

Detour

Live

Share a note with a link that works once and then doesn't. No account, no inbox, no trail left behind.

Next.jsMagic links

dshOS

Building

A desktop that lives in a browser tab. Files, chat, themes, and a real terminal, served off a container so any machine becomes the same workspace.

Self-hostedTailscale

swatyy-media

Live

Private media server for family. Automated library, VPN-isolated downloads with a verified kill switch, reachable only over a private mesh network.

JellyfinDockerWireGuard

The lab

One Proxmox host, a handful of VMs and containers, and a mesh network holding it together. Game servers, media, GIS databases, and whatever I'm currently taking apart.

Proxmox Docker Tailscale Cloudflare Tunnel PostgreSQL + PostGIS nginx Linux Python