A working homelab on real rack hardware in BreadLab — free tools, plain-language docs, and lab notes from actually running the thing. Poke around. Everything here is live.
Baked in BreadLab, piped over fiber, served warm from the cloud — 27 seconds of how breadtoasting.com works.
A mix of public toys, friend-only game worlds, and production web apps. Everything below is up as you read this.
PictoChat from the Nintendo DS, rebuilt for the PC. Four rooms, two screens, and a real Excalidraw canvas for a stylus — draw a message, hit send, and everyone in the room sees it. Nothing is saved.
Toast Town, Shape Party, StringWeb, FontForge, QuickDraw West, and a space-pirate comic — the stuff built here for fun.
see all creative projects →A fitness blog with a built-in workout tracker — log your lifts and watch the volume, consistency, and estimated 1-rep-max charts fill in. Sign in with Google.
open the demo →Every service, every check, last 90 days. No marketing math.
see history →Personal media server. Hardware-transcoded, family only.
Built for real problems in BreadLab, then left open. No login, no ads, no email gate.
See all tools →Will that LLM fit in your VRAM — and how fast? Estimates validated on real BreadLab hardware.
check your hardware →CIDR in, everything out: network, broadcast, host range, mask, and a binary breakdown.
crunch a subnet →Top text, bottom text, download. Runs in your browser — no watermark, no login, no upload.
make a meme →Merge, split, compress, convert, sign, OCR — the PDF editor that doesn't ask for a subscription.
work on a PDF →Current conditions, hourly, and a 6-day outlook for any city or your location. No login, no ads.
check the weather →ToastFort, ToastScripture, ToastWen, ToastRFC, and Reader Comfort — close-reading tools for the FortiGate exam, the Bible, Literary Chinese, and the HTTP RFCs. Plus Lab Notes and Docs.
see all study tools →Small-batch physical goods.
The command-line cheatsheet you actually want on your desk — for Net+ studiers and anyone who lives in a FortiGate CLI all day.
view the full design →Stickers, prints, and Bread Boi things. Spinning up soon — check back.
coming soonGame servers, web apps, and weird little projects — hosted on the same hardware you see below. Plans from free to $55/mo, no fake SLAs.
BreadLab is one cabinet, professionally cabled, on commercial fiber with UPS-backed power. Below is the actual equipment list — not a "powered by enterprise hardware" stock photo.
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I'm Garrett — a network security and managed services professional based in Spartanburg, SC. Day-to-day that means managing enterprise firewalls, designing network infrastructure, keeping backups healthy, and administering Windows and Linux servers for real clients. BreadLab is an extension of that work, not a departure from it.
The lab runs off real rack hardware behind a FortiGate firewall, with Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels handling inbound traffic so nothing is exposed directly to the internet. Every service runs in Docker with health checks and automatic restart policies. I treat this the same way I treat production infrastructure at work — because sloppy habits don't stay contained to one context.
I passed my Fortinet NSE4 (FCP FortiGate) exam in October 2026, and the study tools I built for it are on this site. I don't claim enterprise-tier SLAs on a homelab — that would be dishonest. What I can say is that when something breaks, I know what to do about it, and I'll give you a real explanation instead of a "we're investigating an issue" email.
Describe what you need — a game server, a web app, or something else entirely. Reply within a day, usually faster.
[email protected] · Spartanburg, SC · PGP available on request