I am Patrick LaClair, a system administrator and software developer based in New Hampshire. I run LaClair Technologies (laclairtech.com), where I design and operate a homelab control plane, ship iOS and macOS apps under the prism suite, build productivity tooling for Obsidian, and quietly maintain web properties for hometown small businesses.
My day-to-day work moves between three layers. At the platform layer I operate Aegis, a self-hosted control plane that coordinates 60+ Docker services, eight Cloudflare zones, two Postgres clusters, and a fleet of self-hosted GitHub Actions runners across three Linux hosts and a macOS workstation. At the application layer I author and ship the prism suite — prismCalc, prismCapture, prismVox, prismNotebook, prismTask, prismCal, prismContact — each built in Swift and SwiftUI with a tight focus on calm, accessible UX. At the systems layer I work on observability (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Alertmanager), automation (n8n, custom AI agents), and identity (Authentik with strict RBAC).
The apps live on the App Store: prismCalc is a calculator with an unusually careful approach to memory of past calculations; prismCapture records timelapses with manual exposure controls; prismVox is a SIP/VoIP client built for clarity over feature surface area; prismNotebook and prismTask bridge into Obsidian and the broader productivity stack. GYO is a charitable proof-of-concept for the Gilmanton Youth Organization, and giveGear explores peer-to-peer equipment sharing among friends and clubs.
Aegis is the spine. It started as a status dashboard and now runs as a modular control plane with first-class concepts of blockers, technical debt, multi-agent coordination sessions, autopilot debt-resolution, and a Claude / Codex agent runtime that polls and executes work. The homelab beneath it lives across three hosts — trick (AI workstation with a GTX 1070), docker.home (the primary Docker host with 65+ containers), pavbl (dev workstation) — plus a macOS workstation for Apple-platform work and a NAS for cold storage. Everything is reproducible from IaC, with secrets stitched through 1Password Connect.
I write Obsidian plugins as part of the neuroFlow ecosystem — an ADHD-aware productivity toolkit with an MCP server that any agent (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini) can speak to. My GitHub activity (github.com/plac9 and github.com/LaClair-Technologies) sits across infrastructure, iOS app templates, agent tooling, and the occasional small-business website. I keep the code I can share open and the operational details documented; the rest lives quietly behind Cloudflare Tunnels.
Reach me via the link on the main page or through LaClair Technologies at laclairtech.com. For source code: github.com/plac9 (personal) and github.com/LaClair-Technologies (organisation).