Senior software engineer building local LLMs, AI agents, and custom tools — a notebook since 2006.
I got tired of hot takes about local models from people who don't run them. So I built a benchmark that tests what I actually do - surgical edits in real codebases, on my own hardware, graded deterministically.
How frustration with Open WebUI and a T3 Chat speed challenge turned into FasterChat, a self-hostable AI chat app with 150+ stars on GitHub.
RovoCMS is a lightweight, open-source CMS built with vanilla JavaScript. Simple, fast, unbreakable—an alpha proof of concept for 2025
Lately, as the years stack up, I've been diving deeper into self-reflection. Mapping out the road ahead, replaying screw-ups, and tallying wins versus the ones that got away.
A little corner of the internet where I've been writing, tinkering, and breaking things in public since 2006.
It's gone through a few lives already — WordPress in the early blogging days, Jekyll for that developer control, and now Astro, where I'm bringing old content back to life and mixing it with new ideas. Part personal journal, part public lab notebook.
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