From Computer Geek to IT Professional
What I've figured out over 18 years in IT, written down to help the next person up.
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2026 Home Lab Tour
A full walkthrough of my 2026 home lab setup — Plex, AdGuard, NginX Proxy Manager, PAI, LiteLLM, OpenWebUI, TwinGate, and more.
My Website Has Been on WordPress for 15 Years. Not Anymore.
I’ve had this personal website, derekcreason.com since the late 2000s. Maybe 2008? It’s been through a few iterations over the years: different platforms, different themes, different levels of how often I actually remember to post on it. For most of the last decade, it ran on WordPress, sitting on a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) on a virtual machine at home, and for the last 5 years or so on a VPS with a web hosting provider. It worked fine. But “works fine” and “maintaining it” are two very different things.
Tech Updates #10
Tech Updates #10 by Derek Creason
Tools, tech, and the art of building in the AI era.
