NightFox

NightFox

Hi, I’m Travis.

NightFox is where I keep the things I do not want to forget.

I have been building websites, running servers, breaking networks, fixing them again, and generally disappearing down technical rabbit holes since the early 2000s. This site is part notebook, part reference shelf, and part archive of whatever I am interested in this week.

A lot of it is technology because that is what I have spent most of my life doing. Some of it is buses because apparently one complicated machine was not enough. You will also find old-web nostalgia, homelab projects, carnivorous plants, utilities I built for myself, and the occasional opinion that needed somewhere to live.

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How I write here: I would rather explain why I do something than hand you a polished list of “best practices.” When I know something because I have operated it, repaired it, migrated it, driven it, or learned it the hard way, I try to say so.

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Things I spend a lot of time on

Hosting & infrastructureRunning servers and a small provider when there is no giant team behind the curtain. NetworkingBGP, VLANs, routing, data-center networks, and troubleshooting packets that refuse to cooperate. ProgrammingMostly PHP and MySQL, plus APIs, old code, new code, and the glue that keeps real systems moving. BusesDriving them, owning them, maintaining them, and remembering far too many details about them.

Still on the old web

This site has history

NightFox first showed up during the AOL and early personal-web era. It eventually returned to the nightfox818.com domain I used in 2007, and I still like the idea that a personal website can be a little weird, a little homemade, and entirely its owner’s.

Site notebook

Recently updated

Complete changelog
  1. Added a Software section for notes on software I use, and moved Bringing Software Back On-Prem there from Homelab.
  2. Reorganized the menu: Linux and Email now live together, Homelab and Buses have their own sections, and every tool is listed under Tools.
  3. Rewrote the Networking, Hosting, and Programming pages so they read like my notes instead of a textbook, and simplified the page design.
  4. Reworked the ColdFusion and Lucee section so it better reflects where I actually am with the platform: I knew of ColdFusion MX years ago, but did not use it then. I first started experimenting with it in December 2025 and am now learning modern CFML through Lucee.
  5. Trimmed the ColdFusion section back from the overly broad tutorial-style material and kept it focused on my own experiments, notes, and the old MX curiosity that started the whole thing.

Last Modified: October 12, 2026, 11:46 am