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

Aug 14, 2026 | Uncategorized

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 | Uncategorized

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 | 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...

Agentic Web Scraping with Browser Automation

Apr 4, 2026 | Case Studies

The Challenge I went into this project wanting to build an agentic agent that could scrape the web and populate web application forms with information. Traditionally, building a scraping agent is stopped by the goalkeeper the minute the site renders content with...

Research Lab Infrastructure Modernization

Jul 13, 2025 | Case Studies

Executive Summary Faced with 10‑year‑old Ivy Bridge servers, fragmented GPUs, and mounting energy bills, the lab launched a six‑month modernization from January to June 2025. The goals were to: Cut idle power and HVAC costs Consolidate scattered compute and GPU...