Writing

Notes on software architecture, self-hosted infrastructure, and designing so the bill stays small.

The basement cloud

How a home lab became a working miniature of enterprise AI infrastructure — a model gateway, zero-trust ingress, agentic CI with human review gates, and an eval harness — with no cloud bill.

July 2026

The app checks itself

Shipping a zero-backend app: give the client a static set of public links, let every install do its own fetching — and know exactly where that pattern stops working.

July 2026

Where the tokens actually go

Running a two-model coding loop at home — a frontier model to plan, a local model to execute — and designing it so the bill stays small.

July 2026