The reasons
the garage light
is on at 11pm.
Three threads: things that print plastic, things that blink LEDs, and things that run on a GPU that's older than my dog.
Three printers,
one ongoing
argument about
first layers.
Started on an Anet A8 in pieces, ended up with a BLV AM8 in aluminum. The original Ender3 is the workhorse. The Creality K1 prints things I forgot I needed by morning.
Anet A8 → BLV AM8
Linear rails, aluminum extrusions, Klipper + Mainsail
Creality Ender 3
Marlin, BLTouch, E3D hotend
Creality K1
Stock firmware, fast benchies
A Pascal-era
GPU running
the future
in my closet.
An NVIDIA P100 picked up cheap, riding shotgun in my Pop!_OS workstation, and a stack of front-ends — SillyTavern, ComfyUI, KoboldCPP, Ollama — fronted by my own Switchboard broker.
I run Gemma 4 for fast work and Nemo for longer conversations, with smaller models handling speech-to-text, text-to-speech, embeddings, and image generation. The point isn't to beat the hosted models — it's that nothing leaves the house.
Married twenty years. Our daughter spends her days teaching other people's little ones now; our son is still a teenager, in no particular hurry to be otherwise; the dog stays unreasonably opinionated about supper. We're Christians, southerners, and quiet about both — we mostly just show up.
I'm always happy to talk about churches that take both questions and people seriously, dogs that run the household, and what teenagers think about right now.