Software Architecture, Homelabs and Videogames
“One more model won't hurt.” That sentence has probably caused more home-lab incidents than expired certificates, broken Docker volumes, and mysterious YAML indentation combined. It certainly caused mine. My NVIDIA DGX Spark was already busy. It was running chat models, an embedding service, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, vector search, automation
James Bond was my first memory. Watching my son play IO Interactive's 007 First Light handed the franchise down a generation — THEIA, the bluff, a reimagined Moneypenny, and why the games remember the fun the movies forgot.
Ever since I watched Iron Man, I have wanted my own JARVIS. Not necessarily the flying armor. Although, to be clear, I would accept the flying armor. What I really wanted was the assistant: something that could listen to me, understand my occasionally drunk-sounding broken English, remember previous conversations, search
OData has been around since before microservices were cool — quietly powering enterprise APIs while everyone else was busy reinventing REST for the 47th time (and still adding /v2 to the URL like it's 2009). Then GraphQL shows up — all swagger and curly braces — promising perfect queries, no overfetching,
Do you still open Google Analytics every Monday to see if your website’s traffic went up? Yeah… same here — until I automated the whole thing. In this post, we’ll create a workflow that fetches your site metrics from Google Analytics, formats them into clean HTML, and emails them
If you’ve ever watched your GPU twiddle its thumbs between prompts, this one’s for you. In this post we’ll cover what vLLM is, why it’s fast, how to run it with Docker Compose, and how to test it with real calls. I’ll also show concrete
Why Quantization Matters Large Language Models (LLMs) are huge. Even a “small” 7B parameter model can chew up 14+ GB in FP16 (16-bit floating point). If you’ve tried running one locally without a beefy GPU, you’ve probably noticed your machine crying in pain—or worse, swapping memory like
Introduction Every family has the same struggle: keeping track of everyone’s schedules. Swimming lessons overlap with dentist appointments, grocery runs clash with homework deadlines, and before you know it—you’re double-booked for two birthday parties on the same Saturday. Enter DAKboard, a customizable digital display that transforms your
Running LLMs in the cloud can burn a hole in your wallet faster than a bad crypto investment. Costs are steep, and every token adds up. My workaround? I run Ollama on my PC at home and connect my cloud Linux VM to it using Twingate. That way, I get
Every December my neighbors ask the same question: “How do you make your Christmas lights dance to music?” The answer is a mix of commercial software, open-source tools, and a tiny Raspberry Pi working overtime in the brutal cold of Southern California (you know, when it drops below 60°F
