HOME OPERATIONS
One view of the house
Smart-home state, maintenance, network health, and self-hosted services in one focused operating layer.
BROCK FISCHER
Useful systems, built deliberately.
A personal platform for technology, home automation, infrastructure, and practical projects.
PROJECTS
What I’m building
HOMELAB
Self-hosted, but maintainable
Unraid, containers, monitoring, backups, and remote access built around explicit security and recovery boundaries.
AUTOMATION
Useful over flashy
Automations that reduce friction, expose useful state, and keep working without unnecessary cloud dependencies.
PLATFORM
BrockFischer.com
A small public surface with private tools, operational dashboards, and authenticated applications behind clear boundaries.
PLATFORM MAP
Different jobs, different trust zones
Convenience should not collapse the boundary between a public page, a private household app, and an administrative control plane.
01PUBLIC
Public surface
Static pages meant to be readable by anyone. No household telemetry, admin controls, or private application state belongs here.
02AUTHENTICATED
Private applications
Dashboards and utilities can be reachable in a browser without exposing their upstream credentials or turning them into infrastructure admin consoles.
03LOCAL / PRIVATE NETWORK
Administration
Infrastructure control stays on the narrowest practical access path. A useful dashboard is not a reason to publish an administrative interface.
Design rule: move summarized state outward only when it has a clear purpose; keep credentials and privileged control at the source.
PRINCIPLES
How I want it to work
Local-firstKeep core home functions useful even when outside services fail.
Secure by separationPublic content, private apps, and administration are different trust zones.
ObservableKnow when something breaks, why it broke, and whether backups are actually recoverable.
MaintainableDocumentation and rollback matter as much as getting something running once.