Leighton's Sea

0 fm · Local AI · Geospatial systems · Practical automation

I build systems from the hardware up.

Self-taught builder working across data, infrastructure, and creative tools—mostly on a salvaged-hardware homelab, always with an eye toward systems that survive the real world.

120 fm / Now

Currently in the water

The projects receiving active build time: finding real opportunities in public records, making distributed work durable, and designing a geospatial runtime that can resume after interruption.

400 fm / Work

Systems at depth

Working systems, field experiments, and purpose-built tools. Filter by the kind of problem they solve.

Geospatial intelligence

GeoSynopsis

Turns every U.S. census tract into source-grounded, plain-language answers using a local retrieval pipeline and salvaged thin clients.

82,764 tracts · local LLM synthesis · data-license fences

RAGMapLibreSwarm
Explore the map →
Evidence engine

Career Intelligence

Distributed public-source career research with bounded jobs, stored evidence, local-model extraction, and citations required for material claims.

Lease-based broker · reproducible reports · public sources only

ResearchSQLiteLocal LLM
Media pipeline

Diffusion Media

A local render forge scheduling image, video, Blender, voice, and 2.5D animation work across every usable GPU in the fleet.

9 GPU lanes · atomic job claims · verified publishing

BlenderDiffusionGPU fleet
Meet the living renderer →
Child-centered software

Zoomammals

A personalized Android play space whose tap telemetry feeds directly back into target size, placement, and a custom local-art pipeline.

On-device tap logs · bespoke sprites · Fire tablet delivery

AndroidUX dataGenerative art
Infrastructure map

Visual CMDB

A visual configuration database for understanding machines, services, network paths, and what-if changes across the homelab.

Evidence-backed inventory · dependency views · local SQLite

CMDBTopologyOperations
Open the topology →
Personal knowledge

Vault Organizer

A local agent that ingests notes, proposes links, maintains map-of-content hubs, and measures how an Obsidian knowledge graph grows.

Hourly organizer · reversible Git history · local-model judgment

ObsidianMCPKnowledge graph
Human interface

Dictation Coach

Push-to-talk transcription that polishes speech locally, types into the active window, and tracks pacing, fillers, pauses, and clarity.

Whisper on CPU · local LLM rewrite · automatic coaching metrics

WhisperSpeechLocal-first
Coding infrastructure

Local Coder

A routing and editor workflow for moving everyday coding onto local GPUs while retaining a practical path to stronger models.

Dual GPU endpoints · editor integration · workload routing

QwenAiderRouting
Market watcher

Deal Radar

A disciplined watcher for saved eBay searches that reports genuinely new listings through the official API and a durable seen-item record.

Official API · deduplicated alerts · no marketplace scraping

AutomationeBay APISQLite
800 fm / Method

Constraints are part of the design

The journey of a thousand nautical miles begins with a single ping.
  1. Local-first where privacy, cost, or control matter.
  2. Durable state before clever orchestration.
  3. Public and licensed data remain explicitly fenced.
  4. Old hardware earns its watts through useful work.

1000 fm · the lure

You found the light.

Everything above is part of the same experiment: make useful things, make the machines earn their watts, and leave a signal bright enough to follow.

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