NocFA
INFRASTRUCTURE / AUTOMATIOON / DEBUGGING
Tending the machines so they may tend to us, tech preist in training.
I keep systems alive, automate everything, and spend the saved hours listening to music and playing games with friends and being inspired to create new things. Vim over nano, FOSS is my father figure, uptime is my lifestyle.
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The original federated system, if you must contact me outside of Matrix, try my email.
My Discord as a last resort, unless I recognise your name, I will likely not accept:
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Handle: NocFA
Location: Ireland
Interests: systems, music, gaming, hardware, automation
Sysadmin by trade, tinkerer by compulsion. I run infrastructure, write scripts that replace me, and maintain a homelab that has no business being this complicated. When the terminals are quiet I'm either gaming or discovering new tunes..
OS: MacOS (primary), Linux (everything remote), Windows (gaming exile)
Editor: JetBrains WebStorm/Fleet
Infra: Proxmox, Docker, Ansible, Terraform
Languages: Bash, Python, JS, Svelte
Self-host all the things, trust no cloud you don't control.
If it can be automated, it should be. If it can be open source, it must be. If it runs on your hardware, it answers to you.
Uptime is earned, not given. Backups are tested, not assumed. Documentation is written for the version of you that will have forgotten everything in six months or if you're me, about 12 hours.
Machines
Projects
Crew-for-hire platform for Star Citizen. Recruiters post operations and assemble crews. Crew members list availability and build reputation through review-based rankings. Organisations manage squads, ranks, and fleets -- all tied to RSI-verified identities.
features
A foobar2000 component that renders animated GIF files as album art. Drop it in, point the artwork panel at a .gif, and your covers come alive — static art is so last decade.
C++ library that indexes a local music collection and resolves cover art by track metadata. Scans directories on startup, watches for changes, and returns matching cover art fast enough for real-time use in discord-music-presence.
Single-binary task and project manager built as a faster replacement for Beads. It combines an LMDB-backed CLI, live web UI, and MCP tools for agent-friendly planning across projects.
Four-machine homelab spanning macOS and Linux, connected over Tailscale. Runs media streaming, Matrix comms, game streaming, and monitoring through a central dashboard and agent API.
