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What I'm actively building, studying, and training for. Updated Aug 5, 2026.
Building#
- fiventhree.com has been live since 30 July 2026. Five subdomains over HTTPS from one VPS I run myself: home page, this hub, the portfolio, the tracker and now a self-hosted password vault - This hub is the knowledge base you're reading - Tracker is live and in daily use. Recently: smart-scale reports read by OCR instead of typed in, a Telegram bot for uploads and reminders, habits that tick themselves from Garmin steps and the day's nutrition, and AI nutrition estimates from a meal name and photo - Vault runs Vaultwarden on the same Postgres as the tracker, so one nightly dump and one restore test cover both - Mail on the domain now routes to the domain rather than a free provider - Media server and homelab, live on Proxmox with ZFS and multicast IPTV. Currently adding off-site backups and pool monitoring
Studying#
- CCNA: studying now, exam targeted for October. Six years of hands-on networking, finally on paper - TryHackMe: ongoing labs and CTFs. The SAL1 (Security Analyst Level 1) pathway is already complete
There is an order to this. CCNA to prove the networking foundation, then MD-102 and AZ-104 to formalise the endpoint and cloud work I already do daily, then Security+ as the pivot into offensive security and the red team track.
At work#
- Hospitality IT: network infrastructure, guest and staff systems. The work I can talk about publicly is the general shape of it, so switching, segmentation and zero-downtime constraints, rather than what is happening this week. Announcing a live change window on a named property helps nobody but somebody looking for one.
Training#
- Ironman base training: building the aerobic engine, and adding the bike and open water swim on top of the running base - Target race: Ironman Malaysia in Langkawi, with an Olympic-distance triathlon in December and a 70.3 in spring as the checkpoints along the way - Gym strength work, logged in the tracker
Diving#
- PADI Open Water, certified 7 May 2026 - Working toward Rescue Diver: Advanced Open Water next, then Emergency First Response, then the rescue course itself
Current stack#
Docker, Caddy, FastAPI, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Ubuntu and Cloudflare, plus whatever the media server build adds.
Recently finished#
- First half marathon, 22 May 2026
- PADI Open Water, 7 May 2026
- Tracker v1, built and shipped to production
- fiventhree.com live on a VPS, 30 July 2026
- Self-hosted password vault, 3 August 2026
- Nightly backups pulled off-site and restore-tested
- SAL1 coursework complete
- Six years of military IT service (MNDF, 2019-2025)
Upcoming#
- CCNA exam (October)
- PADI Advanced Open Water (November)
- First Olympic-distance triathlon (December)
- Longer write-ups on the homelab: ZFS, multicast, and Proxmox networking