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The Lab
My homelab. It mostly behaves. It's where the tinkering half of this log actually happens.
# rig
- a deliberately overpowered desktop making questionable thermal decisions
- a serious GPU — shared between production inference and "let's see if this runs"
- WSL2 on Windows — yes, really; it works better than you'd think
# services
- self-hosted AI — local models, a routing gateway, RAG over my own notes
- photos & files — a private photo library and file sync, all on my own disks
- automation — agents, schedulers, and glue that keeps the rest honest
- observability — dashboards, health checks, and a dead-man’s switch that pages my phone
# reliability
- UPS + battery backup — short outages don't even register
- unattended auto-recovery — the box restarts itself from freezes, crashes, and reboots, then pages me about it
- daily health checks with an actual alerting path (learned that one the hard way)
// the lab exists so production doesn't have to be the experiment. mostly it works. the log doesn't lie.