Constellation // 8 Nodes
Salt Lake City, UT

Aaron
Hendricks.

"If you see me looking at the stars,
I'm probably just checking the system logs."

I build things, break them, then fix them again to understand how they work end to end. This is fun for me, which I'm told makes me a nerd. I'm comfortable with that assessment. I'd like to travel more: more sunsets, more unique places to fly my drone, more strangers to beat at chess.

Who I Am

Builder by necessity.
Engineer by choice.

Self-taught, from Parsons, Kansas. I fix things because paying someone else to fix them never felt like a real option, and somewhere along the way the habit turned into a career.

Most of my homelab was pulled out of trash cans, and I mean that as a brag. A business threw out a perfectly good server because they bought a newer one. That server now runs my websites. Reviving a machine teaches you more than unboxing one ever will, and it costs exactly zero dollars.

What I actually like doing is building people things. A script, a program, a game, a workflow. Show me how you work and I'll find the part that's making you miserable and automate it. That's the whole pitch.

"Stupid humanity. Getting in the way of my hobbies."
— Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary
Parsons, KS
Grew up in the 620. Small town, big sky, not much to do except take things apart.
The N64
Our N64's RCA plugs wore out. You had to wiggle them just right, and if anyone bumped the console or moved wrong, the screen went black. I cut the ends off and spliced on new ones from a sacrificial VCR cable. First repair. The VCR cable did not survive, but it died for something.
8th grade
A friend showed me his Ubuntu desktop: a spinning compiz cube with emulators running on it. That was it for me. When I got my first car, I made an Ubuntu logo and stuck it on the hood. I should really make a new one for the current car.
The move
Left Kansas for Salt Lake City to build a different kind of life, with a plan that amounted to "get a job in IT" and enough stubbornness to make it stick.
10+ years
Storage empires, ISPs, MSPs. If it beeped, routed, or fell over at 2am, it eventually became my problem. I liked it that way.
Now
Running High Ground Web, studying for the CKA, and keeping a constellation humming in the basement.
10+
Years self-taught
8
Stars in the constellation
620
Kansas area code
SLC
Based in Utah
75mm
Preferred wingspan
Always packed
aaron@vega:~$ motd
AHComputing // Clear skies tonight.
# constellation is whole. for now.
 
aaron@vega:~$ cat about.txt
Remote: yes
Relocate: yes
Chess: always in the bag
Drone: BetaFPV Meteor 75
 
aaron@vega:~$ fortune
"My brain has a critical weakness to bullets."
# actual quote. context withheld.
Now

What I'm up to right now.

📖
Reading
Upgrade
Blake Crouch
🎮
Playing
XCOM
95% hit chance. missed.
🚁
Flying
BetaFPV Meteor 75
current mission: seagulls
📚
Studying
CKA certification
k3s cluster as the practice ground
Last updated · July 2026
Under the Hood

Things I'm building.

The homelab, the side projects, the things that keep the lights on and the brain occupied.

The Constellation
8-node homelab named after the stars. Proxmox cluster across two nodes (polaris, rigel), Headscale mesh VPN, command tooling via SSH to reach every machine at once. vega is the daily driver. The main Proxmox node came out of a dumpster after a business upgraded and tossed it. Nothing was even wrong with it. It now runs my websites, including this one.
Proxmox · Headscale
Butterpooch / Jarvis
SunFounder PiDog robot on a Raspberry Pi 5. OpenWakeWord wake detection, faster-whisper STT, Gemma 4 via LM Studio, Piper TTS. Full two-way voice conversation, multiple modes, motion detection security camera. The personality is aggressively cheerful and bureaucratically unhinged. This was intentional.
RPi5 · LM Studio
Project 1984
ESP32 Feather + I2S MEMS mic + microSD inside a hollowed-out hardcover copy of Orwell's 1984. Dual-mode firmware: record to WAV or serve files over a WiFi access point. 5.5 hours on a 1000mAh LiPo. Named appropriately.
ESP32 · Hardware
FPV Drones
Flying a BetaFPV Meteor 75 with DJI O4. Favorite activity: following birds. I saw a seagull at Decker Lake one day, started following it, and it just felt right. Also learned to go down a slide; you have to disarm right at the top before the drop. There's something about FPV goggles that collapses the distance between flying and being a kid again, both at the same time.
45 seconds of following a seagull around Decker Lake.
BetaFPV · DJI O4
Chess
I carry a chess set in my backpack everywhere I go. It's an invitation. The game is a great excuse to actually talk to someone, and it happens to be one of the few things I'll openly admit to being good at. The board is ready when you are.
Always packed
High Ground Web
Web design and hosting side business. I spotted a gap: small businesses with strong local reputations and zero web presence. Built the tooling, pipeline, and sites. New client from DNS to live in under 10 minutes. Stripe billing, Flask backends, automated nginx deployment.
highgroundweb.com
Get in Touch

Let's talk.

Need something built, want to argue about infrastructure, or think you can take me at chess: reach out.

Email admin@ahcomputing.com Blog blog.ahcomputing.com GitHub github.com/ahcomputing
aaron@vega:~$ whoami
aaron-hendricks
 
aaron@vega:~$ porkbun ping
✓ Credentials valid
12 domains under management
 
aaron@vega:~$ constellation status
vega ONLINE daily driver
sirius ONLINE RTX 3080 Ti
polaris ONLINE proxmox prox1
rigel ONLINE proxmox prox2
# 4 more in orbit
 
# constellation is whole. for now.