node: gw-node01.lan [RACK-01 / ALABAMA]
[SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL • 10GbE]

River Rooks

SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE • CYBERSECURITY • SELF-HOSTED CLUSTER

Welcome to my personal computing node and technical gateway. I am an engineering student at the University of Alabama specializing in network forensics, bare-metal hypervisors, and security systems.

This server is not a commercial landing page or marketing platform. It is a sovereign, self-hosted operational command hub operating from a dedicated 10GbE home rack. All services below run on hardened local hypervisors (Proxmox VE, OPNsense, TrueNAS) routed through an automated Traefik reverse proxy with WireGuard zero-trust mesh peering.

Use this landing portal to navigate the ecosystem. The Technical Blog contains deep-dive research notes and CTF post-mortems. The Public Services are live, free-to-use developer and cryptographic utilities available to the public, while the Internal Infrastructure links route directly to cluster monitoring and orchestration consoles.

ROUTING NOTICE: External ingress is authenticated and monitored via OPNsense Suricata IDS/IPS. Public utilities are open for interactive use without registration.

Directory of Hosted Services & Tools

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> Technical Notes & Engineering Blog [BLOG / DISPATCHES]
~/blog/notes/ • rooks.dev/notes

The core writing repository. Reverse-chronological feed of technical articles covering IoT SPI flash extraction, glibc 2.35 heap exploitation, high-availability Traefik routing, and POSIX shell engineering.

[#ctf-writeups] [#firmware-reversing] [#traefik-docker] [#posix-sh] [OPEN BLOG FEED →]
Forgejo Git Server [PUBLIC FORGE]
https://git.rooks.dev • :2222/ssh

Lightweight, independent Git forge hosting infrastructure-as-code playbooks, dotfiles, POSIX shell parser modules, and bare-metal kernel bootstrap code.

[#iac] [#ansible] [#cortex-m] [#git]
CyberChef Security Workbench [PUBLIC TOOL]
https://chef.rooks.dev • :443

Client-side cryptographic Swiss Army knife for hex decoding, Base64 operations, XOR decryption, hashing algorithms, and CTF payload deconstruction.

[#cryptography] [#forensics] [#ctf-toolkit]
Stirling PDF Studio [PUBLIC TOOL]
https://pdf.rooks.dev • :443

Locally hosted private document toolkit for OCR text extraction, PDF merging, splitting, sanitization, and password encryption without external cloud telemetry.

[#pdf-tools] [#ocr] [#privacy-first]
Homelab Cluster & Storage [INTERNAL / HYPERVISOR]
https://pve.rooks.dev • 48TB ZFS

Hypervisor cluster with AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (12C/24T), 128GB ECC RAM, and TrueNAS SCALE RaidZ2 storage pool. View node topology and live resource utilization telemetry.

[#proxmox-ve] [#truenas] [#10gbe-mesh]
Uptime Kuma Health Monitor [STATUS / TELEMETRY]
https://status.rooks.dev • :3001

Continuous synthetic HTTP, TCP, and ICMP health checks broadcasting real-time cluster uptime, DNS resolution latencies, and service availability.

[#uptime-100%] [#telemetry] [#prometheus]

Latest Technical Dispatches From the Blog

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