[{"content":"","date":"18 March 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"Connor Schicht","summary":"","title":"Connor Schicht","type":"page"},{"content":"","date":"18 March 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/","section":"Projects","summary":"","title":"Projects","type":"projects"},{"content":"Tagline is a simple guessing game that runs within a single docker container, making it easily self-hostable.\nSee Tagline Here\nThe game itself involves guessing a movie based on the tagline or promotional line of the movie. If you can\u0026rsquo;t guess the movie, you can get various hints to help you guess.\nThe frontend is very simple and written in react for simple styling and fetching of information.\nThe backend is written in Rust, using the axum package. All movie details are fetched from TMBD. Tagline also features a way to play the game in the CLI, without the need for a browser.\nTechnology Utilised: Rust, React, Docker\n","date":"18 March 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/tagline/","section":"Projects","summary":"","title":"Tagline","type":"projects"},{"content":"","date":"19 February 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/blog/","section":"Blog","summary":"","title":"Blog","type":"blog"},{"content":" Why more software? # Because it\u0026rsquo;s fun. I find it shockingly fun to spin up a new docker container running some service that I\u0026rsquo;m never going to use past the first 2 days of starting it (To be fair with most of the projects mentioned here they are used on the daily). There are so many well maintained, useful projects that can improve my life as well.\nHow do you find out about all of these? # I have spent a lot of time scrolling reddit posts on r/selfhosted about peoples favourite self-hosted apps and their most used. All of my services are also very well known so are very easy to come across when browsing. I have also recently found out about all of the sites that have big lists of free and open source software for you to self host:\nselfh.st awesome selfhosted These have been very helpful at finding cool services on, especially when you can filter by iPhone companion apps!\nWhat are my favourite apps? # Home Assistant Immich Paperless-ngx Jellyfin All of these services simply just work. You spin them up and start using them, it’s as simple as that. They also do what they do very well. Home Assistant is as simple as opening it up and then switching things on and off. It can automatically pair with practically every smart device in your home.\n","date":"19 February 2026","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/blog/more-software/","section":"Blog","summary":"","title":"More Software","type":"blog"},{"content":" Introduction # Recently, I have been inspired to use my own hardware and storage to self-host my own private information, private entertainment, and any other private services I may want to host. This project has been greatly inspired by the sheer number of services that require subscriptions, the pricing of those subscriptions, and finally, the desire to be in control of my own data.\nStep One: Acquiring the Hardware # Hardware, being the first step in a project like this, can definitely be very daunting, as it often requires quite a large investment for something that you haven\u0026rsquo;t even experimented with yet. Luckily, I had gotten a taste of self-hosting some very basic services on my old MacBook Pro, which was sitting covered in dust, forgotten from my high school days. This small bit of experience had given me the confidence and the desire to make a bigger investment.\nMy plan has always been to purchase a small mini computer that would be low in power consumption but has expandability for future requirements, especially storage. This idea ruled out a Raspberry Pi for my needs as, any expandability would increase connections or complexity of the machine. The price of Raspberry Pis was also a major factor, with even older generations costing more than $150 in Australia. I settled on finding a small Dell or Lenovo mini PC, preferably used on eBay for extra savings.\nAfter many weeks of looking around at the different options on eBay or refurbished sites, I finally started placing bids on a 7th Gen Intel Lenovo Mini PC with 8GB of RAM. In the end, I managed to snag a used one for $150AUD. I landed on this specific PC as the 7th Gen Intel chips are capable of hardware transcoding H.265/HEVC, which I figured would be worth the extra $30 while I\u0026rsquo;m setting up my whole operation.\nStep Two: Deciding on an Operating System # On the other side of the server is the software, and the decision that had to be made about the operating system and how I would host my services. I had heard a lot of good things about Proxmox, a bare-metal operating system that allows you to easily run many different virtual machines on your computer. Instead, I chose to keep it simple with software I already have experience in and that I thought would be a bit more hands-on and fun.\nI ended up going with a bare-metal install of Debian Linux, running in headless mode, but I did also set up a VNC server if I needed to have a GUI. For the services, I will choose to go with Docker containers using Docker Compose to allow for some YAML files that I can backup, as well as an easy way to update the services in the containers.\nStep Three: Starting the Servers # The final step in the setup phase was to start doing some self-hosting! I chose to take it slow with this and ended up starting with Mealie, a recipe manager. This was nice and easy to set up using the Docker Compose documentation, which would end up being a common theme with all of these open source services; the documentation is always very good. I also decided to set up a dashboard for my home server, for which my choice of software was Homepage. I thought this was a very simple but very nice-looking dashboard. I particularly like how easy it is to customise, as well as all of the widget integrations with different services that are possible.\n","date":"21 December 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/blog/self-hosting-setup/","section":"Blog","summary":"","title":"Self Hosting Setup","type":"blog"},{"content":"Working in a group, we designed and built a functional webapp for finding student accommodation for university students in Sydney. This involved multiple stages of design and weekly meetings with a client for development updates and design decisions.\nWe had to produce a scope of work, multiple demo stages including a minimum viable product, and final documentation on using the webapp after a handover.\nAnother essential part of this project was the development of group working skills. We used organisation tools including Jira as well as held retrospective meetings to discuss organisational strongpoints and drawbacks.\nFor the development of our webapp we utilised Next.js and an existing Supabase database for easy deployment and to maintain compatibility with an existing mobile app.\nTechnology Utilised: Typescript, React, Next.js, Supabase, Github, Jira, Google Slides/Docs\n","date":"26 November 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/rekro/","section":"Projects","summary":"","title":"reKro","type":"projects"},{"content":"My girlfriend and I review some food and restaurants that we experience on a social media account for our friends and family to see and interact with.\nI modify and post these reviews to a website called NCSFood that I maintain.\nThe website in question is a simple site developed using Next.js and Supabase that stores all of our reviews so that they become searchable and publicly accessible.\nLink to Website\nWhile this project is mainly a passion project where I get to share my love of certain foods and restaurants, it has also helped me further develop my skills. Specifically with Git, Github, and static site development/hosting.\nTechnology Utilised: Typescript, React, Next.js, Supabase\n","date":"3 August 2025","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/ncs-food/","section":"Projects","summary":"","title":"NCS Food","type":"projects"},{"content":"This project focused on exploring data and research available online to explore a topic of interest. The main goal was to develop my data visualisation and communication skills.\nLinkedIn Post\nWe don’t know how long our minerals will last for, so why are 60% of our exports from mining?\nThis is a data story looking into the future of the Australian mining industry and how sustainable it is. As part of my COMM2501 project, I delved into how the industry affects both the economy and environment as well as how action should be taken to prepare Australia for the future.\nMy name is Connor Schicht, and I am a UNSW student studying Actuarial Studies and Computer Science. Throughout this project, I have developed many skills in data visualisation and communication but have also improved my ability to source and implement feedback in my work. Some of this feedback included making sure to consider the perspective of the audience when writing or creating as well as focusing on not adding unnecessary information.\nTechnology Utilised: Tableau, Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint\n","date":"24 November 2024","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/australias-mining-reliance/","section":"Projects","summary":"","title":"Australia's Mining Reliance","type":"projects"},{"content":"Performed a variety of machine learning techniques on data from COVID hospitalisations in Brazil to develop a model which would be able to accurately predict a patients risk of dying based on their characteristics.\nAfter comparing Logistic Regression, Lasso, Ridge, Polynomial models, and Random Forests, the Random Forest model performed best, achieving strong predictive accuracy.\nFeature-importance analysis highlighted age, ICU and hospital stay duration, fever, gender, and vaccination status as key factors associated with severe outcomes.\nThis project demonstrates how data-driven modelling can uncover clinically relevant patterns and support medical decision-making.\nLink to PDF of Report\nTechnology Utilised: R Studio/R, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel\n","date":"30 August 2024","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/predicting-covid-risk/","section":"Projects","summary":"","title":"Predicting Covid Patient Risk","type":"projects"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/authors/","section":"Authors","summary":"","title":"Authors","type":"authors"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/series/","section":"Series","summary":"","title":"Series","type":"series"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"}]