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<title>River Rooks | Homelab Gateway (Tiling Workspace)</title>
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:root {
--bg-canvas: #0d0f12; /* Deep slate/charcoal canvas */
--bg-surface: #121417; /* Tile surface */
--bg-elevated: #1c1f26; /* Hovered tile */
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margin: 0;
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body {
background-color: var(--bg-canvas);
color: var(--text-primary);
font-family: 'Inter', sans-serif;
line-height: 1.6;
min-height: 100vh;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
align-items: center;
padding: 24px 16px 48px 16px;
}
.tiling-layout {
width: 100%;
max-width: 1120px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 16px;
}
/* Top Global Status Header Bar */
.global-bar {
background-color: var(--bg-surface);
border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
border-radius: 4px;
padding: 10px 18px;
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 0.8rem;
flex-wrap: wrap;
gap: 10px;
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align-items: center;
gap: 10px;
color: var(--text-primary);
font-weight: 700;
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width: 8px;
height: 8px;
background-color: var(--accent-green);
display: inline-block;
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.bar-nav {
display: flex;
gap: 14px;
align-items: center;
}
.bar-link {
color: var(--text-muted);
text-decoration: none;
transition: none; /* Instant snap */
}
.bar-link:hover {
color: var(--accent-cyan);
}
/* Primary Hero Landing Tile (Main Focus of Homepage) */
.hero-tile {
background-color: var(--bg-surface);
border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
border-left: 3px solid var(--accent-cyan);
border-radius: 4px;
padding: 28px 32px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 16px;
}
.hero-pretitle {
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 0.8rem;
color: var(--accent-cyan);
letter-spacing: 0.06em;
text-transform: uppercase;
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font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 2.2rem;
font-weight: 700;
color: var(--text-primary);
letter-spacing: -0.02em;
line-height: 1.2;
}
.hero-landing-text {
font-size: 1.02rem;
color: var(--text-primary);
line-height: 1.7;
max-width: 80ch;
}
.hero-landing-text p {
margin-bottom: 14px;
}
.hero-landing-text p:last-child {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
.hero-directive-box {
background-color: var(--bg-canvas);
border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
border-radius: 3px;
padding: 14px 18px;
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 0.84rem;
color: var(--text-muted);
line-height: 1.6;
}
.hero-directive-box strong {
color: var(--text-primary);
}
/* Tiling Grid Section: Split Columns */
.split-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1.15fr 0.85fr;
gap: 16px;
}
@media (max-width: 880px) {
.split-grid {
grid-template-columns: 1fr;
}
}
/* Tile Container Style */
.tile {
background-color: var(--bg-surface);
border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
border-radius: 4px;
padding: 20px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 14px;
}
.tile-header {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: baseline;
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--border-color);
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
.tile-title {
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 0.95rem;
font-weight: 700;
color: var(--text-primary);
display: flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 8px;
}
.tile-meta {
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 0.74rem;
color: var(--text-muted);
}
/* Featured Service Tile: The Blog */
.blog-service-feature {
background-color: var(--bg-canvas);
border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
border-radius: 3px;
padding: 16px;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 10px;
}
.blog-feature-top {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 0.78rem;
}
.badge-core {
background-color: var(--accent-cyan);
color: var(--bg-canvas);
padding: 2px 6px;
font-weight: 700;
border-radius: 2px;
}
.blog-feature-title {
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 1.15rem;
font-weight: 700;
color: var(--text-primary);
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
transition: none;
}
.blog-feature-title:hover {
color: var(--accent-cyan);
}
.blog-feature-desc {
font-size: 0.9rem;
color: var(--text-primary);
line-height: 1.5;
}
.blog-sublinks {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
gap: 6px;
margin-top: 4px;
border-top: 1px solid var(--border-color);
padding-top: 10px;
}
.blog-sublink-item {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 0.8rem;
color: var(--text-primary);
text-decoration: none;
padding: 4px 6px;
border-radius: 2px;
transition: none;
}
.blog-sublink-item:hover {
background-color: var(--bg-elevated);
color: var(--accent-cyan);
}
/* Homelab Services Grid */
.services-mini-grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr);
gap: 10px;
}
@media (max-width: 540px) {
.services-mini-grid {
grid-template-columns: 1fr;
}
}
.service-tile-item {
background-color: var(--bg-canvas);
border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
border-radius: 3px;
padding: 12px;
text-decoration: none;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: space-between;
gap: 6px;
transition: none;
}
.service-tile-item:hover {
border-color: var(--accent-cyan);
background-color: var(--bg-elevated);
}
.service-item-title {
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 0.88rem;
font-weight: 700;
color: var(--text-primary);
}
.service-tile-item:hover .service-item-title {
color: var(--accent-cyan);
}
.service-item-tag {
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 0.7rem;
color: var(--text-muted);
}
.service-item-desc {
font-size: 0.8rem;
color: var(--text-muted);
line-height: 1.4;
}
/* Infrastructure Nodes Telemetry Tile */
.node-stat-row {
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
padding: 8px 10px;
background-color: var(--bg-canvas);
border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
border-radius: 3px;
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 0.78rem;
}
.node-name {
color: var(--text-primary);
font-weight: 700;
}
.node-load {
color: var(--accent-green);
}
/* Bottom Global Footer Tile */
.footer-tile {
background-color: var(--bg-surface);
border: 1px solid var(--border-color);
border-radius: 4px;
padding: 12px 20px;
display: flex;
justify-content: space-between;
align-items: center;
font-family: 'IBM Plex Mono', monospace;
font-size: 0.78rem;
color: var(--text-muted);
flex-wrap: wrap;
gap: 10px;
}
.footer-links-cluster {
display: flex;
gap: 12px;
align-items: center;
}
.footer-btn {
color: var(--text-primary);
text-decoration: none;
padding: 2px 4px;
transition: none;
}
.footer-btn:hover {
background-color: var(--accent-cyan);
color: var(--bg-canvas);
}
.pipe {
color: var(--border-color);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<main class="tiling-layout">
<!-- Top Status Bar -->
<header class="global-bar">
<div class="brand-group">
<span class="status-indicator"></span>
<span>RIVER ROOKS // NODE GATEWAY</span>
</div>
<nav class="bar-nav" aria-label="Quick Nav">
<a href="blog-lander-cards.html" class="bar-link">&gt; Blog &amp; Notes</a>
<a href="homelab.html" class="bar-link">Infrastructure</a>
<a href="https://git.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="bar-link">Git Forge</a>
<a href="index.html" class="bar-link">Catalog ↗</a>
</nav>
</header>
<!-- Main Hero Landing Tile (Central Focus of Homepage) -->
<section class="hero-tile" aria-label="Homepage Mission & Landing Declaration">
<div class="hero-pretitle">SYSTEM DECLARATION &bull; RACK-01 NODE GATEWAY</div>
<h1 class="hero-main-title">Cybersecurity &amp; Dev Ops notes</h1>
<div class="hero-landing-text">
<p>
I am River Rooks, a cybersecurity student at the University of Alabama. My work centers on self-hosted system architecture, network security, and capture the flag style skills. I maintain a personal homelab cluster for research, experimentation, and development of open-source tools.
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<p>
This website functions as the unified frontend for my physical homelab cluster. Rather than hosting projects on opaque third-party clouds, everything here runs on bare metal in my personal server rack—orchestrated through Proxmox VE, partitioned across isolated VLANs via OPNsense, and protected by point-to-point WireGuard cryptographic meshes.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Navigation Guide:</strong> If you are here to read technical research, the <strong>Engineering Blog</strong> is linked below with deep write-ups on firmware dumping, heap exploitation, and container routing. If you are here to use tools, the <strong>Public Services</strong> provide locally hosted instances of CyberChef, Stirling PDF, and Git.
</p>
</div>
<div class="hero-directive-box">
<strong>PRIMARY DESTINATIONS:</strong>
<span style="color: var(--accent-cyan); margin-left: 8px;">[1] Technical Blog (5 Articles)</span> &bull;
<span>[2] Forgejo Git Repos</span> &bull;
<!-- <span>[3] Public Cryptographic &amp; PDF Tools</span> &bull; -->
<!-- <span>[4] Cluster Telemetry</span> -->
</div>
</section>
<!-- Split Tiling Columns -->
<div class="split-grid">
<!-- Left Column: Featured Service (Blog) + Recent Articles -->
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 16px;">
<!-- Featured Service Tile: The Blog -->
<section class="tile" aria-label="Featured Service: Technical Blog">
<div class="tile-header">
<div class="tile-title">
<span>// PRIMARY SERVICE: THE TECHNICAL BLOG</span>
</div>
<span class="tile-meta">~/notes/ &bull; 5 ARTICLES</span>
</div>
<div class="blog-service-feature">
<div class="blog-feature-top">
<span class="badge-core">[CORE PUBLICATION SERVICE]</span>
<span style="color: var(--text-muted);">2026-07-20 LAST SYNC</span>
</div>
<a href="blog-lander-cards.html" class="blog-feature-title">&gt; River Rooks Technical Notes &amp; Research</a>
<p class="blog-feature-desc">
In-depth security post-mortems, CTF write-ups, shell portability benchmarks, and bare-metal homelab architecture guides.
</p>
<div class="blog-sublinks">
<a href="blog-lander-cards.html" class="blog-sublink-item">
<span>1. Reverse Engineering IoT Firmware (SPI Flash)</span>
<span style="color: var(--accent-cyan);">[8 min] &rarr;</span>
</a>
<a href="blog-lander-cards.html" class="blog-sublink-item">
<span>2. High-Availability Traefik with Docker Compose</span>
<span style="color: var(--accent-cyan);">[12 min] &rarr;</span>
</a>
<a href="blog-lander-cards.html" class="blog-sublink-item">
<span>3. POSIX sh vs. Bash: Portability in Modern Scripts</span>
<span style="color: var(--accent-cyan);">[6 min] &rarr;</span>
</a>
<a href="blog-lander-cards.html" class="blog-sublink-item">
<span>4. CTF Write-up: Heap Exploitation in glibc 2.35</span>
<span style="color: var(--accent-cyan);">[15 min] &rarr;</span>
</a>
</div>
</div>
</section>
</div>
<!-- Right Column: Homelab Hosted Services & Node Telemetry -->
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 16px;">
<!-- Hosted Services Tile -->
<section class="tile" aria-label="Homelab Services Directory">
<div class="tile-header">
<div class="tile-title">
<span>// HOMELAB SERVICES ROUTER</span>
</div>
<span class="tile-meta">4 PUBLIC TOOLS</span>
</div>
<div class="services-mini-grid">
<a href="https://git.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="service-tile-item">
<div>
<div class="service-item-title">Forgejo Git</div>
<div class="service-item-tag">git.rooks.dev:2222</div>
</div>
<p class="service-item-desc">Self-hosted code repositories &amp; dotfiles.</p>
</a>
<a href="https://chef.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="service-tile-item">
<div>
<div class="service-item-title">CyberChef</div>
<div class="service-item-tag">chef.rooks.dev:443</div>
</div>
<p class="service-item-desc">Hex decoding, cryptography &amp; forensics.</p>
</a>
<a href="https://pdf.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="service-tile-item">
<div>
<div class="service-item-title">Stirling PDF</div>
<div class="service-item-tag">pdf.rooks.dev:443</div>
</div>
<p class="service-item-desc">Private document OCR and manipulation.</p>
</a>
<a href="https://status.rooks.dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="service-tile-item">
<div>
<div class="service-item-title">Uptime Kuma</div>
<div class="service-item-tag">status.rooks.dev:3001</div>
</div>
<p class="service-item-desc">Live synthetic latency &amp; uptime telemetry.</p>
</a>
</div>
</section>
<!-- Bare-Metal Node Telemetry Tile -->
<section class="tile" aria-label="Physical Hardware Nodes">
<div class="tile-header">
<div class="tile-title">
<span>// HARDWARE NODES (RACK-01)</span>
</div>
<span class="tile-meta">10GbE SFP+</span>
</div>
<div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 8px;">
<div class="node-stat-row">
<div>
<span class="node-name">gw-node01.lan</span>
<span style="color: var(--text-muted); font-size: 0.72rem; margin-left: 6px;">OPNsense 24.7</span>
</div>
<span class="node-load">CPU: 18% | RAM: 32%</span>
</div>
<div class="node-stat-row">
<div>
<span class="node-name">pve-node02.lan</span>
<span style="color: var(--text-muted); font-size: 0.72rem; margin-left: 6px;">Proxmox VE (AMD 5900X)</span>
</div>
<span class="node-load">CPU: 42% | RAM: 68%</span>
</div>
<div class="node-stat-row">
<div>
<span class="node-name">nas-node03.lan</span>
<span style="color: var(--text-muted); font-size: 0.72rem; margin-left: 6px;">TrueNAS (48TB RaidZ2)</span>
</div>
<span class="node-load">CPU: 14% | RAM: 82%</span>
</div>
</div>
</section>
</div>
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