State of the Infrastructure: March 2026 Architecture & Roadmap

3/14/2026

Executive Summary

Welcome to the latest update on the systems that keep everything running. Treating life and tech as a unified infrastructure means there are always deployments to verify, services to maintain, and a backlog to tackle. Here is a look at recent production releases, active operations, and the roadmap ahead across my network, development projects, and personal goals.

✅ Deployed to Production (Completed)

Network & Security Updates

• pfSense & VLAN Segmentation: Successfully implemented a segmented network architecture (LAN, HOME, SERVER, and IOT).
• Cloudflare Zero Trust: Established access-protected services to secure external connections.
• Monitoring Automation: Restored Uptime Kuma with active monitors and Telegram notifications for real-time alerts.

Software Development & App Design

• SakuraSavings: Locked in the core concept and anime-themed UI approach.
• My Hero Fit-ademia: Established the program levels, split structure, and structured workout archives.

Financial Operations

• Debt Optimization: Completed financial modeling and officially initiated the Avalanche payoff strategy.

Content & Documentation

• Blog Systems: Finalized the standard incident-report format for future blog posts.

🔄 Active Maintenance & Operations (Currently Working On)

Core IT Operations

• Homelab Maintenance: Ongoing management and light security hardening of the Ubuntu server.
• Organization Ops: Managing day-to-day IT operations for Phi Sigma Chi.
• Webmastering: Routine maintenance and operations for geodude.blog and https://www.google.com/search?q=gymtechventures.com.

Life Operations

• Financial Execution: Actively executing the debt strategy plan month over month.
• Content Pipeline: Managing content collections, drafting new posts, and publishing from the backlog for the “Life as Infrastructure” series.

🚀 The Backlog & Roadmap (Future Projects)

Sprint 1: Network Hardening & NAS Strategy

• Storage Improvements: Plan long-term NAS strategy, including migrating to a ZFS-backed dataset.
• Backup Validation: Conduct a formal disaster recovery test on the Uptime Kuma DB to verify restore capabilities.
• Cloudflare Optimization: Fix the ICMP ping_group_range warnings, deploy origin certificates to reduce log noise, and configure root redirects (e.g., placing the pfSense UI behind Access and standing up dashboard.gymtechventures.com).
• Full Stack Health Check: Validate Cloudflare Access auth flows, API endpoints, websocket monitors, and tunnel ingress rules.

Sprint 2: Development & App Production

• SakuraSavings MVP: Initiate a production sprint, define the MVP feature freeze, and complete a UI wireframe sprint.
• My Hero Fit-ademia Architecture: Finalize the core data model structure, select a persistent storage method (CoreData, JSON, or SwiftData), and clean up modular architecture.

Sprint 3: Smart Home & Personal Health

• Home Assistant Automation: Focus on system hardening, HVAC tuning, and implementing new energy/comfort automations.
• Homelab Dashboarding: Develop a unified dashboard using Homer or Uptime-Kuma to visualize active services.
• Nutritional Planning: Build out 7-day structured meal plans focusing on fitness-aligned macros and IBS-aware nutrition.

System Notes & Closing Thoughts

I think that my biggest flaw now is proper documentation of processes. Yeah I get shit done, but I often would need to start from scratch if something goes wrong. I'm learning a lot. Mainly the true price of back ups.

Until the next deployment, TaxTix - Signing off