Insights
Write-ups from production
Architecture, AI, and engineering decisions, written from real projects. Some write-ups include working models.
architecture
How this site works
A server-rendered Next.js app on Lambda, a procedural WebGL sky, and an AI that wrote most of the code.
ai
AI tools reward preparation
The model wrote the first pass of this site. The plan and the debugging were still mine.
infrastructure
A homelab with three-node HA, SSO, and zero open ports
Two old laptops, a homemade server, and two mini PCs, none of them enough alone, turned into a five-node Kubernetes cluster with enterprise-grade GitOps, identity, and network discipline.
ai
GroundNet: putting an AI inside the trolley problem
A small game about agentic misalignment, moral pressure, and whether a player can push an AI past its own safety rules.
ai
Ziggy: an assistant built like a brain, not a chatbot
A home AI assistant that routes, remembers, and forgets the way a brain does, built on FastMCP, Neo4j, and Haystack.