The Question That Vanished, and the Fix That Was Almost Right

Aug 26, 2026 | Agents & AI

I run a self-hosted AI agent called Atlas. It lives in Slack, runs on my own Kubernetes cluster, and thinks on a pair of 24 GB datacenter GPUs in my basement — no cloud model in the path. Yesterday I asked it to do something routine: download a YouTube video into the...

Two Cards, One Model, and the Ethernet Between Them

Aug 23, 2026 | Agents & AI, Cloud & Infrastructure

I run a small fleet of self-hosted AI agents — they live in Slack, one per job, all of them on a homelab Kubernetes cluster spread across a few Proxmox servers. Their local brain is a pair of Tesla T40s: 24 GB datacenter GPUs, one in each of two physical servers,...

Turning a Document Archive into a Tool an AI Agent Can Use, Safely

Aug 14, 2026 | Agents & AI, Security, Data & Recovery

I keep years of receipts, statements, and scanned documents in a self-hosted document archive — the kind of system that’s genuinely useful once it’s populated, and genuinely useless if you can’t ask it questions. "What did I pay for that...

A Local Voice Agent, and the Two Weeks It Took to Make It Fast

Aug 12, 2026 | Agents & AI

I run a small fleet of AI agents that live in Slack — one per function, each with its own personality and toolset, all self-hosted on a homelab Kubernetes cluster. One of them, Atlas, got a new job this month: hold an actual spoken conversation in a Discord voice...

The Felt Experience of a Well-Tuned Network

May 4, 2026 | Cloud & Infrastructure, Process

Most networks are utilities. A few are tools. The difference is whether you can feel the friction every time information passes through. You spend eight hours a day inside your network. More, if you work with cloud services, remote collaborators, streaming media, or...