Guides, tools and the living lab.
Free diagnostic tools, practical guides, and a view into the infrastructure I run at home — all built from real work rather than marketing.
Diagnose before you spend.
PC Build Tool
A quick questionnaire — use, resolution, budget — that turns into a custom build request instead of a generic parts guess.
Infrastructure Health Check
Eight honest questions about backups, networking, security and monitoring, scored into a Preliminary IT Health Snapshot.
By topic, by need.
PC Building
Buying, building and upgrading PCs in Kenya without overpaying.
Browse →IT Infrastructure
Audits, backups, Docker and the infrastructure decisions that matter.
Browse →Software Engineering
When custom software pays, and how business systems get built.
Browse →AI & Automation
Where automation and AI deliver, and how to start without hype.
Browse →The longer version.
7 build logs, post-mortems and architecture notes — the reasoning behind the guides.
Read the blog →The living lab.
The self-hosted infrastructure I run in practice — services, storage and networking with live status.
Inspect the rack →Local network gaming.
The LAN archive — low-latency multiplayer built on the same networking knowledge shipping to clients.
Enter the LAN →A tool told you something. What's it worth?
The free tools exist to screen and guide — the real answers come from looking at the actual environment. That's what the first conversation is for.
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