About

Overview

Hi! My name is Nolan Casey. This website is developed and hosted by me, all on my own hardware! I made it to serve a couple of purposes.

First, I wanted a hub for all of my self-hosted services. Rather than remembering port numbers and IPs, I figured it would be easier to set up a reverse proxy with a website with links to everything.

Second, I wanted a place for recruiters to see what I can actually do. That is the major reason for this about page and the portfolio page.

About Me

I am a computer science major and will be graduating from Michigan Tech in December of 2025. I live in Ithaca, Michigan, also known as the big corn field in the middle of Michigan. I am a pretty big nerd, considering my hobbies are programming, video games, D&D, and managing linux servers and services, but I also enjoy hiking and camping.

I have worked in IT for about 3 years, from both high school and college, and I have had 3 software development internships at Nexteer Automotive. I also have an undergraduate research position working on augmented reality keyboards. For more specifics, see my resume.

Services

Many of the services I have running are not self-explanatory by their names, and I also want to give credit to those who made them, so here I will cover the different services I host.

Audiobookshelf is one of the few self-explanatory services here. It is a bookshelf for audiobooks. It has a ton of features and a mobile app, so if you have audiobooks that you want to host, I highly recommend this.

Gitea is a self-hosted github alternative. It focuses on being lightweight and simple to use. It is what I use for my personal repositories. If you want to browse my repositories, click on the 'Explore' option in the Gitea menu. This will show all of my public repositories.

Immich is a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos, and does a really good job at it. Both the UI and featureset are almost identical to Google's solution, but this one is controlled by you.

Jellyfin is a self-hosted streaming service. It supports things like movies, shows, music, and more. It is really useful for backing up your DvD and CD collection, and lets you access them anywhere.

Nextcloud is almost a google services replacement. I use it for hosting large files to send to people, but it comes built-in with things like folder sync, calendar, photos, and a lot more. There is also a plugin manager to add even more features than it has by default.