IDEAS UNDER TEST
On the
workbench.
A place to pull things apart.
And put better things together.
Experiments, systems and tools behind the projects. The questions are real. The answers are still being worked on.
EXPLORE THE LABThe other side of the screen.
HOMELAB / TWO RACKS
Real hardware.
Plenty to explore.
Dell servers, Cisco networking, OPNsense and Proxmox. A 19-inch rack and a compact 10-inch setup, with a 10G fibre backbone.
EXPLORE THE HOMELABOpen on the bench.
Each note follows a question through the setup, observations and next steps. Status labels describe the work, rather than a product’s availability.
3 NOTES
Experiments
Making call relationships visible.
Exploring a relationship-first view of Cisco CUCM directory numbers, devices, forwarding and voicemail.
OPEN WORKBENCH NOTESystems
Following a record all the way through.
Looking beyond a successful file transfer to the completeness of the records that become searchable.
OPEN WORKBENCH NOTETooling
Beyond the development folder.
The packaging, versioning and recovery work that sits between working code and a usable application release.
OPEN WORKBENCH NOTETHE LAB MINDSET
Useful questions.
Honest results.
Some experiments become features. Some expose a better question. Both belong here.
These are selected notes from the work, with simplified diagrams and no live production connections. When something is ready as a product, you’ll find it under Projects.