Hardware on the bench. AI on the edge. Servers from my room.
Builder, not a coder. Repairs and builds people thought were dead. AI terminals, home labs, and the quiet work that keeps systems running.
XAVIER SCOTT
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// 02FIELD NOTE · TIP OF THE DAYrotates each load
SOMETHING I LEARNED THE HARD WAY
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// 03THE STORY7 min · 2026.05.18
How a slow Windows 7 box turned into a career.
Started with a tablet. Loved playing Android games, then started poking around in settings, watching tech videos. Got genuinely curious about how the thing under my fingers actually worked.
My family had this one old computer running Windows 7. That thing was slow, it was old, but it still ran and still got everything done. Something about that was just amazing to me.
The curiosity never stopped. Taught myself across the board. Unlocking Android phones, getting into locked Windows machines people thought were gone for good, building PCs, bringing slow machines back to life. Software is where it all connects. If it's tech, I can figure it out.
The Nexus AI Terminal started as a side project just to see what I could do with AI. It grew into something real. Everything on this site, the home lab rundown, the accessibility system, all of it is AI assisted but designed, directed, and maintained by me. Pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No frameworks.
At home I run my own servers on Proxmox. DNS filtering for the whole network, home automation, storage, monitoring, all self hosted and kept off the open internet. Bare metal felt like overkill, so most of it lives in lightweight containers.
I have dyslexia. That's not a limitation. It's a filter. I cut through noise fast because I have to. If something doesn't make sense in plain language, it doesn't make sense.
// 04THE WORK3 active projects · solo
FEATURE · ACTIVE
Nexus AI Terminal.
// SINCE APRIL 2026 · CLOUDFLARE WORKERS · VANILLA JS · KV
Custom AI terminal with 8 games, image generation, and 4 chat modes. Cloudflare Worker backend, vanilla JS frontend, edge of network latency. Built solo since April 2026. The biggest piece of software I've ever shipped.
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// RECENT
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// PROJECTS · MAINTAINED
Proxmox Home Lab
A two node Proxmox cluster doing the work of a small rack. Self hosted, nothing exposed to the internet.
// 05HOME LAB · INFRASTRUCTUREwhat runs on the metal
The lab that taught me everything
A two node Proxmox cluster tucked away in my room, quietly running the house and a slice of this site. Each service in its own lightweight container or VM, every one of them on hardware I own.
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// WHAT IT RUNS
Hypervisor
Bare metal, sipping power in the corner of the lab. Most services run as lightweight LXC containers, a few as full VMs where they need deeper hardware access. Right click snapshots that actually roll back when an update goes sideways.
DNS filtering
Network wide ad and tracker blocking for every device in the house. Runs one hop away, so lookups stay around 2ms instead of leaving home and crossing the internet for a verdict.
Home automation
Lights, sensors, and routines, all running local on a full VM. Kept home on purpose, so the heating schedule still fires even when a remote service has an outage in a snowstorm.
Network storage
Shared files and backups on disks I can actually hold. A full VM with direct access to the drives, no one else's cloud holding my data.
Reverse proxy
One clean door to each internal service, routing hostnames to the right container behind the tunnel so nothing has to open a port.
VPN
An encrypted way back into the network from anywhere, without exposing a single port to the open internet.
Container management
A web console over the whole Docker stack. Every container with its own logs, resource graph, and one click restart when something needs it.
Network boot
PXE boot and OS install images served over the network, so a fresh machine can image itself straight from the lab, no USB stick required.
Game server
The public Minecraft world friends actually play on, running on a separate always on box so it never fights the rest of the lab for resources.
Nexus AI
My own AI, self hosted on a dedicated GPU and still being built. More coming soon.
I did not build this to look impressive. I built it to learn, and it taught me more than any course did. Most of what I know about Linux, networking, and IT I picked up right here, usually because something broke at 1am and I had to sit there and figure out why.
Now I lean on it for almost everything: the DNS for every device, the storage, the smart home, the network itself. All of it on hardware I own, on 24/7. The few pieces that need to be public run out on Cloudflare's edge, not straight from my home network.
// 06NEXUS AI TERMINALopen to anyone
// FEATURE · THE TERMINAL
A terminal you can actually talk to.
Built solo on a custom Cloudflare Worker, no frameworks. The left panel is Nexus at a glance, live subsystems and recent work. The right one you can ping yourself.
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