I’m Shane Spillman - a full-stack web developer, iOS developer, and designer based in Winston-Salem, NC. HomeLab is where I document the things I’m building, the tools I’m using, and the solutions I’ve worked through so I don’t forget them (and maybe save someone else the trouble).

What I Do

My work spans a few different areas:

Web development is my home base - full-stack projects ranging from quick utilities to production apps. I’m comfortable across the whole stack and spend a lot of time thinking about developer experience and clean code.

iOS development - I built Safe in Sound, a volume limiter app for kids that keeps headphone listening at safe levels. Shipping something to the App Store teaches you things that no tutorial covers.

Design - icon design and UI/UX are part of how I think about software. Good design and good code aren’t separate concerns.

Data and analytics - I built lottopickle.com, a data science project that analyzes lottery number frequency patterns. It started as an excuse to dig into data pipelines and ended up being a fun rabbit hole.

What HomeLab Covers

This site is a working dev blog - practical how-tos, tool breakdowns, and notes from actual projects. Posts tend to be the kind of thing I wish I’d found on Google: specific, reproducible, and skipping the preamble. If you’re a developer who learns by building things, it’ll probably be useful.

Topics include web dev, iOS, Linux, self-hosted tools, shell scripting, and whatever else I’m figuring out at the time.

Get in Touch

• GitHub: samsdogjack
• LinkedIn: shanespillman
• Portfolio: oddbot.dev