Hi, I'm Clay.
I build home AI infrastructure and write about it here - including the parts that broke at 2am. Expect write-ups on local LLM inference, network automation, MCP servers, and running agents against real hardware.
Latest Write-Ups
All 15 posts →Resurrecting Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 with a Local Voice Gateway (And Four Ghost Bugs Along the Way)
Turning a retired Android 8.1 smart-glasses headset into an ambient lab terminal backed by a dedicated Whisper + Coqui TTS VM, plus four infrastructure mysteries where every health check returned 200 OK while the system was broken.
Blackwell FP4, the Thinking-Token Paradox, and Splitting MCP into Read and Write
Retiring Gemma 4 for Swift-Qwen3.8-27B on native Blackwell NVFP4 tensor cores, discovering why Qwen's thinking mode behaves the exact opposite of Gemma's on tool calls, and splitting five MCP servers into read-only and admin profiles.
The Backup That Died Silently, and the Mirror That Worked Too Well
A two-act homelab post-mortem: discovering that two independent backup legs had been failing in silence, and then discovering that the replacement was syncing unencrypted config dumps to cloud storage.
Why I Took the LLM Out of My AI Assistant's Morning Report (And Taught It to Sound Like Homer Simpson)
What happens when an autonomous cron agent quietly stops calling its tools for eight days, why deterministic scripts beat LLM health checks, and how a two-stage Piper + RVC daemon delivers voice notes in under ten seconds.
Current Lab Topology
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