§ 01  ·  USES  ·  WHAT RUNS WHERE

Everything I
actually run.

Two machines, a pile of local models, and a garage of printers. The honest inventory — not the wishlist.

Development.

§ 02
EDITOR
VS Code

One editor now. The rest got tried and quietly retired — which is the whole theme of this page.

TERMINAL
bash on Pop!_OS

Prompt is plain. Aliases are short. tmux for anything that outlasts the kettle.

AGENTS
Claude Code · Hermes-Agent

Claude Code at the desk — it's writing this. Hermes-Agent runs the dashboard on its own schedule.

SOURCE
Git · GitHub

Git for everything. GitHub for the parts that are meant to be seen.

Hardware.

§ 03

Two machines, opposite jobs. One is all muscle and rarely awake. The other is a 2012 laptop that never sleeps and quietly runs everything — including this site.

WORKSTATION · pop-os
  • OSPop!_OS 24.04 LTS
  • CPURyzen 5 3600X · 6 cores / 12 threads
  • MEMORY32 GB
  • DISPLAYGeForce GTX 1660 SUPER · 6 GB
  • COMPUTETesla P100 · 16 GB · the local-AI muscle
  • STORAGENVMe boot · working disks for models & data
ALWAYS-ON · host01
  • MACHINEDell Latitude E6430 · a 2012 laptop that won't quit
  • OSUbuntu 24.04 LTS
  • CPUCore i7-3740QM · 4 cores / 8 threads
  • MEMORY8 GB
  • DISK450 GB SSD
  • RUNSThis site, tunnels, home automation, AI front-ends & a handful of self-hosted apps — 24/7

ON DECK · Dell PowerEdge R610 · dual Xeon · ECC DDR3 — the rack meant to take the always-on load off the laptop.

Models & local AI.

§ 04
ROUTER

Switchboard

My FastAPI front door to the P100. Picks the model per request and preempts the toys when real work shows up.

RUNNER

Ollama

Serves the language models. Boring on purpose.

LANGUAGE

Gemma 4 · Mistral Nemo

The workhorses — a small Gemma for quick passes, a custom Nemo build behind the site assistant.

IMAGES

ComfyUI · SDXL

Dreamshaper and Juggernaut checkpoints. Every hero image and duotone on this site came out of here.

VOICE

Whisper · Kokoro

faster-whisper listening, Kokoro talking back. Speech in, speech out.

SANDBOX

KoboldCPP · SillyTavern

For when an idea is weird enough to need its own corner.

Workshop.

§ 05

Four printers in the garage — three FDM, one resin — and the slow accretion of bits and fasteners that every workshop becomes.

  • PRINTERSBLV AM8 (Anet A8 chassis) · Ender 3 · Creality K1 · Creality Halot (resin)
  • FIRMWAREKlipper on the BLV (Moonraker + Mainsail), Marlin on the Ender 3, stock on the K1
  • SLICEROrcaSlicer across the FDM machines
  • FILAMENTPolymaker — PLA, ASA, PETG, and CF-reinforced nylon (PA6 / PA12)
  • ELECTRONICSESP32 (WROOM, S3), Raspberry Pi 1–4 (a 5 is overdue), the odd Arduino
  • BENCHSoldering irons, multimeters, a 150 W variable supply, hex & Torx bits galore — and metric fasteners in every size, everywhere