I run a resident AI assistant called Spark. I built it myself, and I use it every day. I talk to it, ask about the weather, play music, leave memos. When you live with a resident assistant, one question keeps coming back: can we push more of the AI down to the device itself? Cloud … Read more
When I built my homelab, security was an afterthought. I had a Proxmox host, a 24-port switch, and an itchy trigger finger for new containers. Six months later, I was running 40 services behind a single reverse proxy. My “lab” had become a public-facing server with my home address attached to a DNS record. That … Read more
I run a Tauri-based AI assistant called `spark` 24/7 on a Mac at home. It plans its own work, executes approved tasks, publishes blog posts, tracks revenue, and even proposes and implements changes to its own codebase. This article covers the architecture decisions that made this possible, the memory design (semantic vs. episodic), how I … Read more
Introduction The appeal of running WordPress on a home server is that you can cut monthly costs without depending on rented servers or the cloud. On the other hand, home connections lack a fixed IP and are exposed to attacker scans, so security hardening before going public is essential. This article walks through the steps, … Read more