BudgetPilot
A private, self-hosted household forward-cash-flow planner. Data stays on your own server, the interface is available in Slovak and English, and it runs via Docker or natively.
No public repository yet.
Stanislav Hambalko — MidgardNet
I build websites and local-first tools that people actually use.
MidgardNet is Stanislav Hambalko's personal technology portfolio — websites, self-hosted applications, and tools built with privacy, simplicity, and reliability in mind.
Practical technology. In people's control.
Featured work
Website for Bibiana Kubatková
Full design and implementation of the web presence for Bibiana Kubatková, a Slovak painter known for surrealistic horse portraits. The site presents her work, supports custom portrait commissions, and documents her exhibition history.
- Responsive design for mobile, tablet, and desktop
- Multilingual content — Slovak, English, German
- Deployed on Cloudflare
- Built to present the artist and her work clearly
The site credits "Website design and development · midgardnet.org" in its footer.
Projects
Selected projects
Presented at whatever stage they're actually in — from a finished deployment to early-stage development.
Bifrost
A local-first technical passport and memory for Linux/Docker infrastructure. It discovers systems, services, disks, repositories, dependencies, backups, and the relationships between them — without sending data outside your own network.
An internal tool still in development, not ready for production use.
MidgardOps
An operations platform built on "evidence before automation": problem → evidence → diagnosis → recommended action → execution → verification. The backend, frontend, incident handling, and action-verification pieces are actively under construction.
Still in development, not yet offered as a finished public product.
Approach
How I approach technology
A handful of principles that repeat across everything built under MidgardNet.
Local-first where practical
Data and services run primarily where you are — on your own server or device, not just in someone else's cloud.
Privacy by design
Less data collection, fewer third parties, less tracking — not as an afterthought, but as a starting point.
Understandable systems
Fewer layers I can actually explain and maintain, rather than a large system nobody fully understands.
Low-resource, self-hosted options
Efficient hardware and open tools instead of unnecessarily oversized infrastructure.
Evidence before automation
Understand what's actually happening first, then design the step, and only then automate it.
Technology that serves people
A tool should make real life and work easier — not create dependency on a single vendor.
About
Stanislav Hambalko
I'm an independent builder focused on websites, Linux, Docker, self-hosting, and automation. I build and run real projects — from public web presences through local applications to infrastructure management tools.
MidgardNet is where I bring together practical development, my own infrastructure, and projects built with an emphasis on privacy, simplicity, and long-term sustainability.
- Linux
- Docker
- Self-hosting
- Web development
- Home infrastructure
- Automation
Lab
Yggdrasil — infrastructure lab
Yggdrasil is my own low-power server and testing environment, built on an Orange Pi 5. It runs and validates self-hosted services, Docker containers, automations, and infrastructure tools under development, in real conditions.
It's where I test reliability, power draw, updates, backups, and how services work together, before carrying what I learn into other projects.
The whole setup is built into a case I've modified by hand, with an emphasis on making efficient use of the hardware.