Soundings
who this is
I taught myself to build, then built the place to do it: a homelab assembled from salvaged hardware — retired enterprise iron alongside thin clients that draw single-digit watts.
The constraint is the point. Every system here had to work on hardware somebody else threw away, which means it runs on my own terms — no cloud invoice, no third party holding the data.
Deep Water
geosynopsis
GeoSynopsis turns 82,764 census tracts into plain-language answers about the places they describe. Local LLMs run across a swarm of salvaged thin clients, feeding a retrieval pipeline that keeps every answer anchored to the source records rather than to a model's memory.
Nothing leaves the lab. The corpus is never handed to an outside model to read.
Request enrollment →Enrollment is reviewed by hand — expect a reply, not a redirect.
Benthic
depth of work
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HITL Image Gallery
Local image generation with a person in the loop — queue a batch, then approve or retry each frame before any of it counts as finished.
Open demo → -
Voice Dictation Coach
Learns how you actually talk, so the prompts you dictate land the way you meant them.
demo coming -
Obsidian Vault Organizer
Points a local LLM at a sprawling note vault and rebuilds the link tree that should have been there all along.
demo coming -
Silicon Inspector
One dashboard for every machine in the lab — temperature, load, and which box is actually earning its watts.
demo coming -
Swarm Monitor
The live view of the ingestion swarm: queue depth falling, throughput per worker, and which node is lagging the tide.
demo coming
Drop Anchor
contact
A way to reach me is being fitted here — a form for reporting anything broken, and one for simply saying hello.
Until then, the enrollment link above is the open channel.