👾 About Shredder Gaming

Professional side: Andrew Builds →

Shredder Gaming is the personal side of Andrew Sutcliffe: the place for retro gaming, media-room projects, self-hosted experiments, Home Assistant dashboards, and the kind of UI polish that only matters when you care too much about the room feeling right.

The fun lane

Not everything has to be résumé-shaped.

I spend a lot of time building and tuning things that sit somewhere between hobby, preservation, and “this should already exist.” GuideVault grew out of wanting a better way to browse manuals, strategy guides, and magazines. PosterFlow came from wanting movie-poster screens and media-room displays to feel intentional instead of idle.

The same pattern shows up in Kodi, LaunchBox, Hyperspin, Home Assistant, Docker containers, dashboards, and random side quests: take something useful, make it cleaner, make it feel better, then keep iterating until it finally clicks.

Outside of the professional cloud/devops world, this is where the retro gaming, media-center, home-lab, guitar, woodworking, pixel-art, Batman, motorcycle, and “late-night idea that got out of hand” energy lives.

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What shows up here

Retro libraries: LaunchBox, Hyperspin, RocketLauncher, box art, wheels, themes, and front-end cleanup.
Media rooms: Kodi skins, movie-poster displays, room dashboards, and living-room presentation ideas.
Self-hosted tools: GuideVault, PosterFlow, Docker projects, library organization, and release polish.
Home automation: Home Assistant cards, sensors, routines, comfort automations, and practical dashboard experiments.
Creative side quests: pixel art, game ideas, visual design passes, and small builds that start as “just one more tweak.”