diff --git a/infra/gitea/custom/templates/base/head_navbar.tmpl b/infra/gitea/custom/templates/base/head_navbar.tmpl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0c46797
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infra/gitea/custom/templates/base/head_navbar.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+{{/* fhirworx copy of Gitea 1.25.4 templates/base/head_navbar.tmpl.
+   Home (custom/extra_links) is the first link, before Explore.
+   Re-diff against the new version whenever the Gitea image changes. */}}
+<nav id="navbar" aria-label="{{ctx.Locale.Tr "aria.navbar"}}">
+	<div class="navbar-left">
+		<!-- the logo -->
+		<a class="item" id="navbar-logo" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/" aria-label="{{if .IsSigned}}{{ctx.Locale.Tr "dashboard"}}{{else}}{{ctx.Locale.Tr "home"}}{{end}}">
+			<img width="30" height="30" src="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/img/logo.svg" alt="{{ctx.Locale.Tr "logo"}}" aria-hidden="true">
+		</a>
+
+		<!-- mobile right menu, it must be here because in mobile view, each item is a flex column, the first item is a full row column -->
+		<div class="ui secondary menu navbar-mobile-right only-mobile">
+			{{template "base/head_navbar_icons" dict "PageGlobalData" .PageGlobalData}}
+			<button class="item ui icon mini button tw-m-0" id="navbar-expand-toggle" aria-label="{{ctx.Locale.Tr "home.nav_menu"}}">{{svg "octicon-three-bars"}}</button>
+		</div>
+
+		<!-- navbar links non-mobile. Home is first. -->
+		{{template "custom/extra_links" .}}
+		{{if and .IsSigned .MustChangePassword}}
+			{{/* No links */}}
+		{{else if .IsSigned}}
+			{{if not ctx.Consts.RepoUnitTypeIssues.UnitGlobalDisabled}}
+				<a class="item{{if .PageIsIssues}} active{{end}}" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/issues">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "issues"}}</a>
+			{{end}}
+			{{if not ctx.Consts.RepoUnitTypePullRequests.UnitGlobalDisabled}}
+				<a class="item{{if .PageIsPulls}} active{{end}}" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/pulls">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "pull_requests"}}</a>
+			{{end}}
+			{{if not (and ctx.Consts.RepoUnitTypeIssues.UnitGlobalDisabled ctx.Consts.RepoUnitTypePullRequests.UnitGlobalDisabled)}}
+				{{if .ShowMilestonesDashboardPage}}
+					<a class="item{{if .PageIsMilestonesDashboard}} active{{end}}" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/milestones">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "milestones"}}</a>
+				{{end}}
+			{{end}}
+			<a class="item{{if .PageIsExplore}} active{{end}}" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/explore/repos">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "explore"}}</a>
+		{{else if .IsLandingPageOrganizations}}
+			<a class="item{{if .PageIsExplore}} active{{end}}" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/explore/organizations">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "explore"}}</a>
+		{{else}}
+			<a class="item{{if .PageIsExplore}} active{{end}}" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/explore/repos">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "explore"}}</a>
+		{{end}}
+
+		{{if not .IsSigned}}
+			<a class="item" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.gitea.com">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "help"}}</a>
+		{{end}}
+	</div>
+
+	<!-- the full dropdown menus -->
+	<div class="navbar-right">
+		{{if and .IsSigned .MustChangePassword}}
+			<div class="ui dropdown jump item" data-tooltip-content="{{ctx.Locale.Tr "user_profile_and_more"}}">
+				<span class="text">
+					{{ctx.AvatarUtils.Avatar .SignedUser 24 "tw-mr-1"}}
+					<span class="only-mobile">{{.SignedUser.Name}}</span>
+					<span class="not-mobile">{{svg "octicon-triangle-down"}}</span>
+				</span>
+				<div class="menu user-menu">
+					<div class="header">
+						{{ctx.Locale.Tr "signed_in_as"}} <strong>{{.SignedUser.Name}}</strong>
+					</div>
+
+					<div class="divider"></div>
+					<a class="item link-action" href data-url="{{AppSubUrl}}/user/logout">
+						{{svg "octicon-sign-out"}}
+						{{ctx.Locale.Tr "sign_out"}}
+					</a>
+				</div><!-- end content avatar menu -->
+			</div><!-- end dropdown avatar menu -->
+		{{else if .IsSigned}}
+			{{template "base/head_navbar_icons" dict "ItemExtraClass" "not-mobile" "PageGlobalData" .PageGlobalData}}
+			<div class="ui dropdown jump item" data-tooltip-content="{{ctx.Locale.Tr "create_new"}}">
+				<span class="text">
+					{{svg "octicon-plus"}}
+					<span class="not-mobile">{{svg "octicon-triangle-down"}}</span>
+					<span class="only-mobile">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "create_new"}}</span>
+				</span>
+				<div class="menu">
+					<a class="item" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/repo/create">
+						{{svg "octicon-plus"}} {{ctx.Locale.Tr "new_repo"}}
+					</a>
+					{{if not .DisableMigrations}}
+						<a class="item" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/repo/migrate">
+							{{svg "octicon-repo-push"}} {{ctx.Locale.Tr "new_migrate"}}
+						</a>
+					{{end}}
+					{{if .SignedUser.CanCreateOrganization}}
+					<a class="item" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/org/create">
+						{{svg "octicon-organization"}} {{ctx.Locale.Tr "new_org"}}
+					</a>
+					{{end}}
+				</div><!-- end content create new menu -->
+			</div><!-- end dropdown menu create new -->
+
+			<div class="ui dropdown jump item" data-tooltip-content="{{ctx.Locale.Tr "user_profile_and_more"}}">
+				<span class="text">
+					{{ctx.AvatarUtils.Avatar .SignedUser 24 "tw-mr-1"}}
+					<span class="only-mobile">{{.SignedUser.Name}}</span>
+					<span class="not-mobile">{{svg "octicon-triangle-down"}}</span>
+				</span>
+				<div class="menu user-menu">
+					<div class="header">
+						{{ctx.Locale.Tr "signed_in_as"}} <strong>{{.SignedUser.Name}}</strong>
+					</div>
+
+					<div class="divider"></div>
+					<a class="item" href="{{.SignedUser.HomeLink}}">
+						{{svg "octicon-person"}}
+						{{ctx.Locale.Tr "your_profile"}}
+					</a>
+					{{if not .DisableStars}}
+						<a class="item" href="{{.SignedUser.HomeLink}}?tab=stars">
+							{{svg "octicon-star"}}
+							{{ctx.Locale.Tr "your_starred"}}
+						</a>
+					{{end}}
+					<a class="item" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/notifications/subscriptions">
+						{{svg "octicon-bell"}}
+						{{ctx.Locale.Tr "notification.subscriptions"}}
+					</a>
+					<a class="{{if .PageIsUserSettings}}active {{end}}item" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/user/settings">
+						{{svg "octicon-tools"}}
+						{{ctx.Locale.Tr "your_settings"}}
+					</a>
+					<a class="item" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.gitea.com">
+						{{svg "octicon-question"}}
+						{{ctx.Locale.Tr "help"}}
+					</a>
+					{{if .IsAdmin}}
+					<div class="divider"></div>
+					<a class="{{if .PageIsAdmin}}active {{end}}item" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/-/admin">
+						{{svg "octicon-server"}}
+						{{ctx.Locale.Tr "admin_panel"}}
+					</a>
+					{{end}}
+					<div class="divider"></div>
+					<a class="item link-action" href data-url="{{AppSubUrl}}/user/logout">
+						{{svg "octicon-sign-out"}}
+						{{ctx.Locale.Tr "sign_out"}}
+					</a>
+				</div><!-- end content avatar menu -->
+			</div><!-- end dropdown avatar menu -->
+		{{else}}
+			{{if .ShowRegistrationButton}}
+				<a class="item{{if .PageIsSignUp}} active{{end}}" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/user/sign_up">
+					{{svg "octicon-person"}}
+					<span class="tw-ml-1">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "register"}}</span>
+				</a>
+			{{end}}
+			<a class="item{{if .PageIsSignIn}} active{{end}}" rel="nofollow" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/user/login{{if not .PageIsSignIn}}?redirect_to={{.CurrentURL}}{{end}}">
+				{{svg "octicon-sign-in"}}
+				<span class="tw-ml-1">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "sign_in"}}</span>
+			</a>
+		{{end}}
+	</div><!-- end full right menu -->
+
+	{{$activeStopwatch := and .PageGlobalData (call .PageGlobalData.GetActiveStopwatch)}}
+	{{if $activeStopwatch}}
+		<div class="active-stopwatch-popup tippy-target">
+			<div class="tw-flex tw-items-center tw-gap-2 tw-p-3">
+				<a class="stopwatch-link tw-flex tw-items-center tw-gap-2 muted" href="{{$activeStopwatch.IssueLink}}">
+					{{svg "octicon-issue-opened" 16}}
+					<span class="stopwatch-issue">{{$activeStopwatch.RepoSlug}}#{{$activeStopwatch.IssueIndex}}</span>
+				</a>
+				<div class="tw-flex tw-gap-1">
+					<form class="stopwatch-commit form-fetch-action" method="post" action="{{$activeStopwatch.IssueLink}}/times/stopwatch/stop">
+						{{.CsrfTokenHtml}}
+						<button
+							type="submit"
+							class="ui button mini compact basic icon tw-mr-0"
+							data-tooltip-content="{{ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.issues.stop_tracking"}}"
+						>{{svg "octicon-square-fill"}}</button>
+					</form>
+					<form class="stopwatch-cancel form-fetch-action" method="post" action="{{$activeStopwatch.IssueLink}}/times/stopwatch/cancel">
+						{{.CsrfTokenHtml}}
+						<button
+							type="submit"
+							class="ui button mini compact basic icon tw-mr-0"
+							data-tooltip-content="{{ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.issues.cancel_tracking"}}"
+						>{{svg "octicon-trash"}}</button>
+					</form>
+				</div>
+			</div>
+		</div>
+	{{end}}
+</nav>
diff --git a/infra/gitea/custom/templates/custom/extra_links.tmpl b/infra/gitea/custom/templates/custom/extra_links.tmpl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5decb89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infra/gitea/custom/templates/custom/extra_links.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<a class="item{{if or .PageIsHome .PageIsDashboard}} active{{end}}" href="{{AppSubUrl}}/">Home</a>
diff --git a/infra/gitea/custom/templates/home.tmpl b/infra/gitea/custom/templates/home.tmpl
index dbaf89c..6166fcf 100644
--- a/infra/gitea/custom/templates/home.tmpl
+++ b/infra/gitea/custom/templates/home.tmpl
@@ -1,423 +1,3 @@
 {{template "base/head" .}}
-<style>
-/* HTI-5 dashboard tokens — defined locally so the inline template is self-contained.
-   gitea.css maps Gitea's --color-* vars to hti5 tokens at load time. */
-.homelab-dashboard {
-    max-width: 1180px;
-    margin: 0 auto;
-    padding: 3rem 1.5rem;
-    font-family: "Source Serif 4", Georgia, serif;
-}
-
-/* Rule lines */
-.homelab-dashboard .rule-line {
-    border: none;
-    border-top: 3px solid var(--color-text);
-    margin-bottom: 1rem;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .rule-line-thin {
-    border: none;
-    border-top: 1px solid var(--color-border);
-    margin-bottom: 1rem;
-}
-
-/* Masthead */
-.homelab-dashboard .masthead {
-    margin-bottom: 1.5rem;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .masthead-row {
-    display: flex;
-    align-items: baseline;
-    justify-content: space-between;
-    flex-wrap: wrap;
-    gap: 0.5rem;
-    margin-bottom: 1rem;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .masthead-brand {
-    display: flex;
-    align-items: center;
-    gap: 1rem;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .masthead-logo {
-    width: clamp(48px, 6vw, 80px);
-    height: clamp(48px, 6vw, 80px);
-    display: block;
-    flex: 0 0 auto;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .masthead-row h1 {
-    font-family: "Playfair Display", Georgia, serif !important;
-    font-size: clamp(2.5rem, 5vw, 3.5rem) !important;
-    font-weight: 800 !important;
-    color: var(--color-text) !important;
-    letter-spacing: -0.02em !important;
-    line-height: 1.1 !important;
-    border: none !important;
-    margin: 0 !important;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .masthead-eyebrow {
-    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
-    font-size: 0.7rem;
-    text-transform: uppercase;
-    letter-spacing: 0.12em;
-    color: var(--color-text-light);
-    align-self: flex-end;
-    padding-bottom: 0.35rem;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .tagline {
-    font-family: "Source Serif 4", Georgia, serif;
-    font-size: 1.125rem;
-    color: var(--color-text-light);
-    max-width: 65ch;
-    line-height: 1.65;
-    margin-bottom: 1.5rem;
-}
-
-/* Section header */
-.homelab-dashboard .section-header {
-    margin-bottom: 1.5rem;
-    background: transparent !important;
-    padding: 0 !important;
-    border: none !important;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .section-eyebrow {
-    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
-    font-size: 0.7rem;
-    text-transform: uppercase;
-    letter-spacing: 0.12em;
-    color: var(--color-text-light);
-    margin-bottom: 0.4rem;
-    display: block;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .section-header h2 {
-    font-family: "Playfair Display", Georgia, serif !important;
-    font-size: 1.75rem !important;
-    font-weight: 700 !important;
-    letter-spacing: -0.01em !important;
-    color: var(--color-text) !important;
-    line-height: 1.2 !important;
-    border: none !important;
-    background: transparent !important;
-    padding: 0 !important;
-    margin: 0 !important;
-    display: block !important;
-}
-
-/* Grid */
-.homelab-dashboard .grid {
-    display: grid;
-    grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(280px, 1fr));
-    gap: 1.25rem;
-    margin-bottom: 3rem;
-}
-
-/* Tiles */
-.homelab-dashboard .tile {
-    background: var(--color-box-body);
-    border: 1px solid var(--color-border) !important;
-    border-top: 3px solid var(--color-text) !important;
-    padding: 1.5rem;
-    position: relative;
-    overflow: hidden;
-    transition: border-color 0.15s ease, background 0.15s ease;
-    cursor: pointer;
-    text-decoration: none !important;
-    display: block;
-    border-radius: 0 !important;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .tile:hover {
-    border-color: var(--color-primary) !important;
-    background: var(--color-body);
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .tile .icon {
-    font-size: 1.5rem;
-    margin-bottom: 0.75rem;
-    display: block;
-    line-height: 1;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .tile.storage .icon,
-.homelab-dashboard .tile.database .icon { color: var(--color-warning); }
-.homelab-dashboard .tile.git .icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
-.homelab-dashboard .tile.ci .icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
-.homelab-dashboard .tile.notebook .icon,
-.homelab-dashboard .tile.research .icon { color: var(--color-text); }
-.homelab-dashboard .tile.catalog .icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
-.homelab-dashboard .tile.query .icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
-.homelab-dashboard .tile.observability .icon { color: var(--color-warning); }
-.homelab-dashboard .tile.metrics .icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
-.homelab-dashboard .tile.logs .icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
-.homelab-dashboard .tile.proxy .icon { color: var(--color-text); }
-
-/* Tile eyebrow — mono metadata label */
-.homelab-dashboard .tile-eyebrow {
-    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
-    font-size: 0.7rem;
-    text-transform: uppercase;
-    letter-spacing: 0.12em;
-    color: var(--color-text-light);
-    margin-bottom: 0.25rem;
-}
-
-/* Tile title — Playfair Display */
-.homelab-dashboard .tile-title {
-    font-family: "Playfair Display", Georgia, serif !important;
-    font-size: 1.25rem !important;
-    font-weight: 700 !important;
-    line-height: 1.2 !important;
-    letter-spacing: -0.01em !important;
-    color: var(--color-text) !important;
-    margin: 0.25rem 0 0.5rem !important;
-    border: none !important;
-    text-transform: none !important;
-    transition: color 0.15s ease;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .tile:hover .tile-title {
-    color: var(--color-primary) !important;
-}
-
-/* Tile description — Source Serif 4 */
-.homelab-dashboard .tile-desc {
-    font-family: "Source Serif 4", Georgia, serif;
-    font-size: 0.95rem;
-    color: var(--color-text-light);
-    line-height: 1.55;
-    margin-bottom: 1rem;
-}
-
-/* Tile port — mono metadata */
-.homelab-dashboard .tile-port {
-    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
-    font-size: 0.65rem;
-    color: var(--color-text-light);
-    opacity: 0.7;
-    display: inline-block;
-}
-
-/* Status dot */
-.homelab-dashboard .status-dot {
-    position: absolute;
-    top: 1rem;
-    right: 1rem;
-    width: 8px;
-    height: 8px;
-    background: var(--color-success);
-    border-radius: 50%;
-}
-
-/* Badge */
-.homelab-dashboard .tile-badge {
-    position: absolute;
-    top: -1px;
-    left: 1.25rem;
-    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
-    color: var(--color-primary-foreground, #F7F5F0);
-    font-size: 0.6rem;
-    padding: 3px 7px;
-    text-transform: uppercase;
-    letter-spacing: 0.08em;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .tile-badge.new { background: var(--color-warning); }
-.homelab-dashboard .tile-badge.gpu { background: var(--color-primary); }
-.homelab-dashboard .tile-badge.data { background: var(--color-primary); }
-
-/* Bottom accent */
-.homelab-dashboard .stripe {
-    position: absolute;
-    bottom: 0;
-    left: 0;
-    right: 0;
-    height: 2px;
-    background: var(--color-border);
-}
-
-/* Footer */
-.homelab-dashboard .ftr {
-    padding-top: 1rem;
-    border-top: 3px solid var(--color-text);
-    color: var(--color-text-light);
-    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
-    font-size: 0.65rem;
-    letter-spacing: 0.08em;
-}
-.homelab-dashboard .ftr span { color: var(--color-warning); }
-</style>
-<div class="homelab-dashboard">
-    <div class="masthead">
-        <div class="rule-line"></div>
-        <div class="masthead-row">
-            <div class="masthead-brand">
-                <img src="/assets/img/logo.svg" alt="fhirworx" class="masthead-logo">
-                <h1>Homelab</h1>
-            </div>
-            <span class="masthead-eyebrow">git.fhirworx.io</span>
-        </div>
-        <p class="tagline">
-            Self-hosted infrastructure for FHIR data engineering — version control, CI/CD,
-            notebooks, and the full lakehouse stack.
-        </p>
-        <div class="rule-line-thin"></div>
-    </div>
-
-    <div class="section-header">
-        <span class="section-eyebrow">Services</span>
-        <h2>Infrastructure</h2>
-    </div>
-
-    <div class="grid">
-        <a data-subdomain="traefik" target="_blank" class="tile proxy">
-            <span class="tile-badge new">New</span>
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#128279;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Networking</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">Traefik</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">Cloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-
-        <a data-subdomain="s3console" target="_blank" class="tile storage">
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#128190;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Storage</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">RustFS</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">S3-compatible object storage for all your data needs</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-
-        <a data-subdomain="git" class="tile git">
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#128025;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Version Control</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">Gitea</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">Self-hosted Git service with packages and CI</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-
-        <a data-subdomain="notebooks" target="_blank" class="tile notebook">
-            <span class="tile-badge gpu">GPU</span>
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#128209;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Analysis</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">Notebooks</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">Marimo reactive notebooks with CUDA acceleration</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-
-        <a data-subdomain="zotero" target="_blank" class="tile research">
-            <span class="tile-badge gpu">GPU</span>
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#128218;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Research</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">Zotero</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">Research reference manager in the cloud</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-
-        <a data-subdomain="docs" target="_blank" class="tile research">
-            <span class="tile-badge new">New</span>
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#128214;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Documentation</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">Docs</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">API reference and CMS bibliography browser</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-
-        <a data-subdomain="nessie" data-path="/api/v2/config" target="_blank" class="tile catalog">
-            <span class="tile-badge data">Data</span>
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#127795;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Catalog</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">Nessie</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">Git-like versioned data catalog for Apache Iceberg</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-
-        <a data-subdomain="trino" target="_blank" class="tile query">
-            <span class="tile-badge data">Data</span>
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#128269;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Query</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">Trino</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">Distributed SQL query engine for the lakehouse</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-
-        <a data-subdomain="polaris" target="_blank" class="tile catalog">
-            <span class="tile-badge new">New</span>
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#11088;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Catalog</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">Polaris</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">Apache Iceberg catalog with governance and Unity-style access</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-
-        <a data-subdomain="grafana" target="_blank" class="tile observability">
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#128202;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Observability</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">Grafana</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">Observability dashboards for metrics, logs, and traces</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-
-        <a data-subdomain="tempo" target="_blank" class="tile metrics">
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#128065;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Tracing</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">Tempo</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">Distributed tracing for microservices</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-
-        <a data-subdomain="prometheus" target="_blank" class="tile logs">
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#128200;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Metrics</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">Prometheus</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">Metrics collection and alerting</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-
-        <a data-subdomain="loki" data-path="/ready" target="_blank" class="tile database">
-            <span class="status-dot"></span>
-            <span class="icon">&#128203;</span>
-            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Logs</div>
-            <div class="tile-title">Loki</div>
-            <p class="tile-desc">Log aggregation system by Grafana</p>
-            <span class="tile-port"></span>
-            <div class="stripe"></div>
-        </a>
-    </div>
-
-    <div class="ftr">
-        <span>fhirworx.io</span> &mdash; self-hosted data lakehouse &mdash; &copy; 2025
-    </div>
-</div>
-<script>
-(function() {
-    var parts = location.hostname.split('.');
-    var base = parts.length > 2 ? parts.slice(1).join('.') : location.hostname;
-    document.querySelectorAll('.homelab-dashboard [data-subdomain]').forEach(function(el) {
-        var sub = el.dataset.subdomain;
-        var path = el.dataset.path || '';
-        var fqdn = sub + '.' + base;
-        el.href = location.protocol + '//' + fqdn + path;
-        el.target = '_blank';
-        var port = el.querySelector('.tile-port');
-        if (port) port.textContent = fqdn;
-    });
-})();
-</script>
+{{template "homelab/landing" .}}
 {{template "base/footer" .}}
diff --git a/infra/gitea/custom/templates/homelab/landing.tmpl b/infra/gitea/custom/templates/homelab/landing.tmpl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..731e4f4
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+++ b/infra/gitea/custom/templates/homelab/landing.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1,509 @@
+<style>
+/* HTI-5 dashboard tokens — defined locally so the inline template is self-contained.
+   gitea.css maps Gitea's --color-* vars to hti5 tokens at load time. */
+.homelab-dashboard {
+    max-width: 1180px;
+    margin: 0 auto;
+    padding: 3rem 1.5rem;
+    font-family: "Source Serif 4", Georgia, serif;
+}
+
+/* Rule lines */
+.homelab-dashboard .rule-line {
+    border: none;
+    border-top: 3px solid var(--color-text);
+    margin-bottom: 1rem;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .rule-line-thin {
+    border: none;
+    border-top: 1px solid var(--color-border);
+    margin-bottom: 1rem;
+}
+
+/* Masthead */
+.homelab-dashboard .masthead {
+    margin-bottom: 1.5rem;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .masthead-row {
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: baseline;
+    justify-content: space-between;
+    flex-wrap: wrap;
+    gap: 0.5rem;
+    margin-bottom: 1rem;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .masthead-brand {
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: center;
+    gap: 1rem;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .masthead-logo {
+    width: clamp(48px, 6vw, 80px);
+    height: clamp(48px, 6vw, 80px);
+    display: block;
+    flex: 0 0 auto;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .masthead-row h1 {
+    font-family: "Playfair Display", Georgia, serif !important;
+    font-size: clamp(2.5rem, 5vw, 3.5rem) !important;
+    font-weight: 800 !important;
+    color: var(--color-text) !important;
+    letter-spacing: -0.02em !important;
+    line-height: 1.1 !important;
+    border: none !important;
+    margin: 0 !important;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .masthead-eyebrow {
+    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
+    font-size: 0.7rem;
+    text-transform: uppercase;
+    letter-spacing: 0.12em;
+    color: var(--color-text-light);
+    align-self: flex-end;
+    padding-bottom: 0.35rem;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .tagline {
+    font-family: "Source Serif 4", Georgia, serif;
+    font-size: 1.125rem;
+    color: var(--color-text-light);
+    max-width: 65ch;
+    line-height: 1.65;
+    margin-bottom: 1.5rem;
+}
+
+/* Section header */
+.homelab-dashboard .section-header {
+    margin-bottom: 1.5rem;
+    background: transparent !important;
+    padding: 0 !important;
+    border: none !important;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .section-eyebrow {
+    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
+    font-size: 0.7rem;
+    text-transform: uppercase;
+    letter-spacing: 0.12em;
+    color: var(--color-text-light);
+    margin-bottom: 0.4rem;
+    display: block;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .section-header h2 {
+    font-family: "Playfair Display", Georgia, serif !important;
+    font-size: 1.75rem !important;
+    font-weight: 700 !important;
+    letter-spacing: -0.01em !important;
+    color: var(--color-text) !important;
+    line-height: 1.2 !important;
+    border: none !important;
+    background: transparent !important;
+    padding: 0 !important;
+    margin: 0 !important;
+    display: block !important;
+}
+
+/* Grid */
+.homelab-dashboard .grid {
+    display: grid;
+    grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(280px, 1fr));
+    gap: 1.25rem;
+    margin-bottom: 3rem;
+}
+
+/* Tiles */
+.homelab-dashboard .tile {
+    background: var(--color-box-body);
+    border: 1px solid var(--color-border) !important;
+    border-top: 3px solid var(--color-text) !important;
+    padding: 1.5rem;
+    position: relative;
+    overflow: hidden;
+    transition: border-color 0.15s ease, background 0.15s ease;
+    cursor: pointer;
+    text-decoration: none !important;
+    display: block;
+    border-radius: 0 !important;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .tile:hover {
+    border-color: var(--color-primary) !important;
+    background: var(--color-body);
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .tile .icon {
+    font-size: 1.5rem;
+    margin-bottom: 0.75rem;
+    display: block;
+    line-height: 1;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .tile.storage .icon,
+.homelab-dashboard .tile.database .icon { color: var(--color-warning); }
+.homelab-dashboard .tile.git .icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
+.homelab-dashboard .tile.ci .icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
+.homelab-dashboard .tile.notebook .icon,
+.homelab-dashboard .tile.research .icon { color: var(--color-text); }
+.homelab-dashboard .tile.catalog .icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
+.homelab-dashboard .tile.query .icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
+.homelab-dashboard .tile.observability .icon { color: var(--color-warning); }
+.homelab-dashboard .tile.metrics .icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
+.homelab-dashboard .tile.logs .icon { color: var(--color-primary); }
+.homelab-dashboard .tile.proxy .icon { color: var(--color-text); }
+
+/* Tile eyebrow — mono metadata label */
+.homelab-dashboard .tile-eyebrow {
+    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
+    font-size: 0.7rem;
+    text-transform: uppercase;
+    letter-spacing: 0.12em;
+    color: var(--color-text-light);
+    margin-bottom: 0.25rem;
+}
+
+/* Tile title — Playfair Display */
+.homelab-dashboard .tile-title {
+    font-family: "Playfair Display", Georgia, serif !important;
+    font-size: 1.25rem !important;
+    font-weight: 700 !important;
+    line-height: 1.2 !important;
+    letter-spacing: -0.01em !important;
+    color: var(--color-text) !important;
+    margin: 0.25rem 0 0.5rem !important;
+    border: none !important;
+    text-transform: none !important;
+    transition: color 0.15s ease;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .tile:hover .tile-title {
+    color: var(--color-primary) !important;
+}
+
+/* Tile description — Source Serif 4 */
+.homelab-dashboard .tile-desc {
+    font-family: "Source Serif 4", Georgia, serif;
+    font-size: 0.95rem;
+    color: var(--color-text-light);
+    line-height: 1.55;
+    margin-bottom: 1rem;
+}
+
+/* Tile port — mono metadata */
+.homelab-dashboard .tile-port {
+    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
+    font-size: 0.65rem;
+    color: var(--color-text-light);
+    opacity: 0.7;
+    display: inline-block;
+}
+
+/* Health, inside the tile. Same shape as the corwins.media status badge:
+   a label, a status word, and a left edge that carries the state.
+   The state colours come after the border so they win. */
+.homelab-dashboard .health {
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: column;
+    margin: 0 0 0.85rem;
+    padding: 8px 10px;
+    border: 1px solid var(--color-border);
+    border-left-width: 4px;
+    background: var(--color-body);
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .health-k {
+    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
+    font-size: 12px;
+    letter-spacing: 0.08em;
+    text-transform: uppercase;
+    color: var(--color-text-light);
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .health-v {
+    font-size: 18px;
+    font-weight: 600;
+    line-height: 1.2;
+    color: var(--color-text);
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .health-ok { border-left-color: var(--color-green, var(--color-success)) !important; }
+.homelab-dashboard .health-warn { border-left-color: var(--color-yellow, var(--color-warning)) !important; }
+.homelab-dashboard .health-bad { border-left-color: var(--color-red, var(--color-error)) !important; }
+.homelab-dashboard .health-unknown { border-left-color: var(--color-text-light) !important; }
+
+/* Badge */
+.homelab-dashboard .tile-badge {
+    position: absolute;
+    top: -1px;
+    left: 1.25rem;
+    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
+    color: var(--color-primary-foreground, #F7F5F0);
+    font-size: 0.6rem;
+    padding: 3px 7px;
+    text-transform: uppercase;
+    letter-spacing: 0.08em;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .tile-badge.new { background: var(--color-warning); }
+.homelab-dashboard .tile-badge.gpu { background: var(--color-primary); }
+.homelab-dashboard .tile-badge.data { background: var(--color-primary); }
+
+/* Bottom accent */
+.homelab-dashboard .stripe {
+    position: absolute;
+    bottom: 0;
+    left: 0;
+    right: 0;
+    height: 2px;
+    background: var(--color-border);
+}
+
+/* Footer */
+.homelab-dashboard .ftr {
+    padding-top: 1rem;
+    border-top: 3px solid var(--color-text);
+    color: var(--color-text-light);
+    font-family: "JetBrains Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
+    font-size: 0.65rem;
+    letter-spacing: 0.08em;
+}
+.homelab-dashboard .ftr span { color: var(--color-warning); }
+</style>
+<div class="homelab-dashboard">
+    <div class="masthead">
+        <div class="rule-line"></div>
+        <div class="masthead-row">
+            <div class="masthead-brand">
+                <img src="/assets/img/logo.svg" alt="fhirworx" class="masthead-logo">
+                <h1>Homelab</h1>
+            </div>
+            <span class="masthead-eyebrow">git.fhirworx.io</span>
+        </div>
+        <p class="tagline">
+            Self-hosted infrastructure for FHIR data engineering — version control, CI/CD,
+            notebooks, and the full lakehouse stack.
+        </p>
+        <div class="rule-line-thin"></div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="section-header">
+        <span class="section-eyebrow">Services</span>
+        <h2>Infrastructure</h2>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="grid" data-health-origin="https://fhirworx.io">
+        <a data-subdomain="llm" target="_blank" class="tile notebook">
+            <span class="tile-badge gpu">GPU</span>
+            <span class="icon">&#128172;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Chat</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Comment Chat</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">RAG chat over indexed CMS rulemaking comments, with cited sources</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="bcda" target="_blank" class="tile notebook">
+            <span class="icon">&#128196;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Claims</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">BCDA Manager</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Beneficiary Claims Data API v3 — exports, store, load, crosswalk</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="lead" target="_blank" class="tile notebook">
+            <span class="icon">&#128200;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">LEAD</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Public mirror</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Read-only explorer over the public-data DuckDB mirror</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="reach" target="_blank" class="tile research">
+            <span class="icon">&#128202;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">REACH</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Public mirror</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Read-only explorer over the public-data DuckDB mirror</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="traefik" target="_blank" class="tile proxy">
+            <span class="tile-badge new">New</span>
+            <span class="icon">&#128279;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Networking</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Traefik</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Cloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="s3console" target="_blank" class="tile storage">
+            <span class="icon">&#128190;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Storage</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">RustFS</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">S3-compatible object storage for all your data needs</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="git" class="tile git">
+            <span class="icon">&#128025;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Version Control</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Gitea</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Self-hosted Git service with packages and CI</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="notebooks" target="_blank" class="tile notebook">
+            <span class="tile-badge gpu">GPU</span>
+            <span class="icon">&#128209;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Analysis</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Notebooks</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Marimo reactive notebooks with CUDA acceleration</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="zotero" target="_blank" class="tile research">
+            <span class="tile-badge gpu">GPU</span>
+            <span class="icon">&#128218;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Research</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Zotero</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Research reference manager in the cloud</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="docs" target="_blank" class="tile research">
+            <span class="tile-badge new">New</span>
+            <span class="icon">&#128214;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Documentation</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Docs</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">API reference and CMS bibliography browser</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="nessie" target="_blank" class="tile catalog">
+            <span class="tile-badge data">Data</span>
+            <span class="icon">&#127795;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Catalog</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Nessie</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Git-like versioned data catalog for Apache Iceberg</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="trino" target="_blank" class="tile query">
+            <span class="tile-badge data">Data</span>
+            <span class="icon">&#128269;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Query</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Trino</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Distributed SQL query engine for the lakehouse</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="polaris" target="_blank" class="tile catalog">
+            <span class="tile-badge new">New</span>
+            <span class="icon">&#11088;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Catalog</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Polaris</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Apache Iceberg catalog with governance and Unity-style access</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="grafana" target="_blank" class="tile observability">
+            <span class="icon">&#128202;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Observability</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Grafana</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Observability dashboards for metrics, logs, and traces</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="tempo" target="_blank" class="tile metrics">
+            <span class="icon">&#128065;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Tracing</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Tempo</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Distributed tracing for microservices</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="prometheus" target="_blank" class="tile logs">
+            <span class="icon">&#128200;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Metrics</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Prometheus</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Metrics collection and alerting</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="loki" target="_blank" class="tile database">
+            <span class="icon">&#128203;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">Logs</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Loki</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">Log aggregation system by Grafana</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+
+        <a data-subdomain="api" target="_blank" class="tile proxy">
+            <span class="icon">&#9881;</span>
+            <div class="tile-eyebrow">API</div>
+            <div class="tile-title">Platform API</div>
+            <p class="tile-desc">FastAPI platform backend</p>
+            <span class="health health-unknown"><span class="health-k">health</span><span class="health-v">checking</span></span>
+            <span class="tile-port"></span>
+            <div class="stripe"></div>
+        </a>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="ftr">
+        <span>fhirworx.io</span> &mdash; self-hosted data lakehouse &mdash; &copy; 2025
+    </div>
+</div>
+<script>
+function paintHealth(el, origin, sub, fqdn) {
+    var box = el.querySelector('.health');
+    if (!box) return;
+    var value = box.querySelector('.health-v');
+    function paint(kind, text) {
+        box.className = 'health health-' + kind;
+        value.textContent = text;
+    }
+    fetch(origin + '/healthz/' + sub, {cache: 'no-store'}).then(function (r) {
+        if (r.status === 503) paint('warn', 'not ready');
+        else if (r.ok) paint('ok', 'up');
+        else paint('bad', 'down');
+    }, function () {
+        paint('bad', 'down');
+    });
+}
+(function() {
+    var root = document.querySelector('[data-health-origin]');
+    var origin = root ? (root.getAttribute('data-health-origin') || '') : '';
+    var parts = location.hostname.split('.');
+    var base = parts.length > 2 ? parts.slice(1).join('.') : location.hostname;
+    document.querySelectorAll('.homelab-dashboard [data-subdomain]').forEach(function(el) {
+        var sub = el.dataset.subdomain;
+        var fqdn = sub + '.' + base;
+        el.href = 'https://' + fqdn + '/';
+        el.target = '_blank';
+        var port = el.querySelector('.tile-port');
+        if (port) port.textContent = fqdn;
+        paintHealth(el, origin, sub, fqdn);
+    });
+})();
+</script>
diff --git a/infra/gitea/custom/templates/user/dashboard/dashboard.tmpl b/infra/gitea/custom/templates/user/dashboard/dashboard.tmpl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6166fcf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infra/gitea/custom/templates/user/dashboard/dashboard.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{{template "base/head" .}}
+{{template "homelab/landing" .}}
+{{template "base/footer" .}}