GuideVault
Self-hosted library for manuals, strategy guides, magazines, and retro goodness — with shelves, metadata, and a reading experience built for the collection.
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Shredder Gaming
Shredder Gaming is my personal project hub for retro gaming setups, media-room tools, home-lab experiments, and self-hosted side projects. Start with GuideVault and PosterFlow, browse the retro front-end notes, check out the Kodi and Home Assistant posts, or grab a few wallpapers while you’re here.
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PosterFlow
A movie-poster display system and media showcase built to make a living-room setup feel more like a real media wall than a dead screen.
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LaunchBox
Box art, playlists, platform cleanup, startup polish, and the practical side of keeping a large retro library usable.
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Hyperspin
Wheels, themes, RocketLauncher weirdness, PC games, and the flashy arcade energy that still feels hard to replace.
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Kodi
Skins, widgets, library organization, and movie-night tweaks that make a media center feel intentional.
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Home Assistant
Dashboard cards, status widgets, automations, and home-lab ideas that make the retro room feel alive.
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PosterFlow and GuideVault both started as “I wish this existed in the room already” projects. The fun is in shaping the interface until the room feels right — posters rotating, libraries feeling curated, and dashboards acting like part of the setup instead of afterthoughts.
Recent Posts
All posts →Steam Account 'Now Playing' Card
Steam Account CardA custom Home Assistant button-card that displays a Steam profile with a dynamic game header background, avatar, level, and current game, ...
Meater Temperature Card
This custom Home Assistant card brings the MEATER cooking experience right into your dashboard with a sleek, dark-themed interface inspired by the original ...
Refrigerator Card
Refrigerator Card A sleek ApexCharts-based Home Assistant card for monitoring refrigerator temperature over the last 24 hours with smooth graphing, color-ba ...
Mass conversion of Mame bezels to Rlauncher Bezels
If you're a retro gaming enthusiast, chances are you’ve encountered the challenge of managing MAME bezels — the artwork and overlays that frame your ga ...
Project Map
About this side →What this site is organizing
Shredder Gaming is the personal project map for the fun builds: retro libraries, media-room display ideas, Home Assistant cards, self-hosted tools, and front-end polish.
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Steam Activity
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Run the Steam sync once and this section will replace this setup message with Steam activity or a library fallback.
npm run sync:steam Now Building
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GuideVault metadata directionLibrary + sync ideas
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PosterFlow polish passLayouts and display ideas
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Home-lab room tweaksCards, automations, cleanup