[ Homelab ]

Discover insights, tutorials, and thoughts on technology, homelab, and development.

Dec 30, 2025 4 min read

How a NoMachine Update Nuked My Desktop (Twice)

A single config file can turn your Linux desktop into an expensive paperweight. Here's how NoMachine's bundled libraries broke my system and how to fix it.

linux homelab nomachine

Dec 20, 2025 3 min read

Symposion: My LLM Council for Research-Driven Builds

I stitched together Temporal, Mattermost, and three CLI agents to turn a paper into a shipped repo.

symposion llm-council temporal

Dec 16, 2025 3 min read

Building Cutting-Edge AI Research on Consumer Hardware with Mojo

An overview of my ongoing research exploring transformer injectivity, self-improving models, and high-performance AI on an RTX 3090

mojo ai-research transformers

Dec 16, 2025 9 min read

Self-Improving Models Without Labels: What I Just Proved and Why It Matters

A 7B model taught itself to generate better security commands using only its own understanding signals. No human labels, no external reward. Here's how and why it matters.

ai machine-learning self-improvement

Dec 11, 2025 11 min read

Building an Options Trading Platform with Temporal Workflows

How I use Temporal to orchestrate backtesting pipelines that process years of market data across multiple ML experts in parallel.

homelab temporal trading

Dec 11, 2025 6 min read

Why I'm Planning to Migrate from Redis Queue to Temporal in My Homelab

My RQ setup works, but Temporal's workflow orchestration promises better handling of complex multi-step jobs. Here's my migration plan and the real tradeoffs.

homelab temporal redis