Technology, creativity, and controlled chaos with a few side quests.

Over the last month, gregstock.com has turned into exactly what I wanted it to be: a personal archive of tech, games, and ideas.

The site got a full visual overhaul with a new dark-first theme, a customizable glow effect, and a cleaner layout across the main pages. I rewrote the section copy so each part of the site now explains what actually lives there instead of leaning on generic filler text. The projects section also got reworked so it can grow beyond three entries without needing a redesign every time I add something new. Contact icons now use proper brand marks, and the whole site runs on a new type system that feels much more intentional.

Argent Ledger has taken a lot of my attention over the last few weeks. I’ve been making steady progress on the character builder and working through the long list of features, structure, and design choices it still needs. It is not close to being ready for a proper public showing yet, but it is moving in the right direction. For now, it remains one of those slow-burn projects that keeps getting a little more real each time I sit down with it.

The homelab has been the other big focus. I picked up a second 42U rack, upgraded from a UniFi UDM Pro to a UDM Pro Max, and got a Dell R640 server standing up and running. That also led to plenty of side quests: iDRAC work, Proxmox planning, Windows VM setup, VirtIO drivers, storage upgrades, and the early stages of a larger home data center build-out. The next step is getting the new rack layout cleaned up and bringing the rest of the hardware into the plan.

I also spent time working through a self-hosted game server project for Dune: Awakening, which turned into a much deeper networking and virtualization rabbit hole than expected. Between Hyper-V, nested virtualization, k3s, shifting IP addresses, and Proxmox options, it became one of those projects where the “simple install” quietly wanders off into the woods and comes back wearing a Kubernetes helmet. I’ll continue working on that over the next couple of weeks.

On the Cyph3rfall side, the macOS screensaver app is now at v2 and feels effectively done. I have also started poking at a Windows version, which will probably be the next piece to take shape. That project has been a fun mix of nostalgia and modernization, especially since it started from an old Windows XP-era utility I used years ago.

The Copper Piece Gang website has also started taking shape. That project is meant to become a home for our long-running D&D campaign, with room for session summaries, character information, campaign notes, and lore. The basic framework is in place, and the next stretch will be about turning it from a shell into something useful for my Friday night D&D group. After many years of play, this campaign deserves a proper corner of the web.

So, the short version: the site looks better, the project list is growing, Argent Ledger is moving forward, the homelab is becoming a real home data center, Cyph3rfall is starting to branch out, and Copper Piece Gang finally has the beginning of a proper campaign archive.

Not bad for a month or so of tinkering.