The Lab

A single-sign-on layer sits in front of every service in the lab (the streaming network, the music tools, the admin surfaces), so there's one identity to manage and one door to lock, not a scattered pile of separate logins.

It's the same instinct that runs through the automation work: the boring, correct plumbing that everything else depends on gets built once and built right.

Underneath is a genuine streaming platform: an IPTV and media network Salik built and runs for family, not a hobby project pretending to be one.

It watches its own signal: each channel is health-sensed continuously, catching a feed that's degraded or gone dark before anyone watching notices. It behaves like real broadcast infrastructure because that's what it's built to be.

The lab also builds the tools it needs rather than buying them: ApproachableMusic, "Music Made Easy", is original software for writing and producing music with less friction, paired with an AI studio for the parts of that workflow worth automating.

Holding all of it together is a container orchestrator Salik wrote himself, provisioning and managing every service the lab runs: the same self-hosted, own-your-stack approach applied at the infrastructure layer.