Like most of the internet, this website is built on open source software. None of this would exist without the work of thousands of developers who build, maintain, and share their tools with the world. This page is our way of giving credit to the projects that keep everything running.
This isn’t a complete list — not even close. There are countless packages, libraries, and utilities behind the scenes. But these are the major components that power our day‑to‑day operations.
Core Technologies
Ubuntu Linux
My distribution of choice. It runs the majority of my servers and my main Linux workstation. Stable, predictable, and easy to maintain — exactly what you want when uptime matters.
WordPress.org
The backbone of the site. WordPress remains the most flexible and widely supported CMS out there, used by everyone from hobby bloggers to major newsrooms.
PHP
The language behind WordPress and most of my projects. It’s not glamorous, but it’s reliable, well‑supported, and gets the job done.
Nginx
Our current web server. Lightweight, fast, and efficient. It handles traffic gracefully and keeps resource usage low — a perfect fit for our setup.
MariaDB
A fully open source, drop‑in replacement for MySQL. Fast, stable, and community‑driven. It’s been rock‑solid for our database needs.
Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
My daily development environment. Fast, customizable, and packed with extensions that make coding, debugging, and managing projects far easier.
Ollama
A powerful open source tool for running local LLMs. It’s become part of my workflow for experimenting with AI features while keeping everything local and under my control.
Honorable Mentions
These projects played a major role in the past or still influence parts of our workflow, even if they’re not in the core stack anymore.
OpenLiteSpeed
Our previous web server. Lightweight, fast, and resource‑friendly. While we’ve moved to Nginx, OpenLiteSpeed served us well for years and deserves recognition.
Apache
The classic. Apache powered this site for a long time and continues to run a huge portion of the web. We eventually moved on to try something different, but it remains a foundational piece of internet history.
MySQL
The database engine that supported this project for many years. Some sub‑projects still run on it. Solid, dependable, and historically important to everything we’ve built.
