#infrastructure

3 published posts

Jul 5, 2026

This Isn't a Chatbot Most people picture an AI assistant as a chat window — you type, it suggests, you copy the good parts. What runs on my own hardware doesn't suggest. It ships apps, keeps its own records, backs itself up, watches its own health, and works as a team that respects boundaries. A tour — and yes, an AI session wrote it, in my voice, pictures and all. ai-agents · ai-crew · homelab · infrastructure · self-hosting

Jun 27, 2026

Unspilled Is Not Backed Up Every system collects secrets the way a coat pocket collects lint. A token here. A password there. A key minted in a hurry and pasted into a config file you’ll never think about again — until the mach… backups · infrastructure · secrets · security · self-hosting

Jun 27, 2026

Interrogate the Metal, Not the Notes A bad time to lose your memory One of the AI agents I lean on to run my self-hosted setup got reset last week. Not crashed, not confused — reset. A power cut in the office took the machine it was thin… ai · automation · infrastructure · ops · self-hosting