Updates
2026
- The Seed, Built on a Bench
An agent built the first rungs of the Seed from its own published pages, on a bench of spare hardware, in six days. The pages, the configuration as it ran, the measurements and the mistakes are now public.
5 min - Node0, in the Open
The whole of Node0 is now published: how it is built, what broke, what it cost us to learn, and the smallest version anyone can start from. Written for people, and for their agents.
4 min - Node0 Is Online
51 machines. 572 cores. 1.7 petabytes. The sovereign foundation is running, and it was built storage-first on purpose.
3 min - What's Next
The roadmap from here. What's deployed, what's waiting, what's coming. Node0 is operational. Node0 is never finished.
3 min - The Collaboration Model
How human-DI partnership built Node0. Not DI as tool. Not human as supervisor. Something different.
3 min - What Would Be Different
Looking back at 22 months from purchase to production. What I'd do differently. What I'd do the same.
3 min - The DI Fleet: 128GB+ VRAM, Running Independently
Four DI servers operational. Threadripper Pro, RTX 4090s and 3090s, 128GB+ total VRAM. Running 70B models locally. Full control. Ready to share what works.
4 min - di01: The Heavy Iron
The flagship. Threadripper Pro 5975WX, 512GB ECC, dual watercooled 4090s. 70B models locally. Training capability. The machine for when you need everything.
3 min - di02: Production Server
The production inference workhorse. Threadripper Pro, 448GB ECC, dual 3090s with NVLink. Stable endpoints for real work.
3 min - di03 and di04: The Utility Servers
The utility tier of the DI fleet. di03 for capable workloads, di04 for light duty. Every role matters.
3 min - Fiber: Real Bandwidth
Fiber: 2.5 Gbps down, 1.6 Gbps up. What real bandwidth enables for sovereign infrastructure.
3 min - NixOS Standardization
One configuration language across the fleet. Declarative infrastructure from dev boxes to DI servers.
4 min
2025
- Five Days of Building
December 27-30, 2025. Five intensive days that transformed boxes into a sovereign computing foundation. ZFS, NixOS, Forgejo, Syncthing, Restic. All of it.
3 min - The Storage Foundation
Deploying nexus: 8x 8TB NVMe drives, ZFS RAIDZ2, 41.3 TiB usable. The storage layer that everything else builds on.
4 min - The Future We Were Promised
A Christmas manifesto on technology that enables rather than extracts.
3 min - The Tools That Stuck
After weeks with modern CLI tools, which ones earned permanent spots? The survivors and why they matter.
3 min - Config as Code: The Mental Shift
From imperative scripts to declarative configuration. The mental model change that made NixOS possible.
3 min - Framework 13: Sovereign Laptop
Framework 13 with Omarchy (Arch + Hyprland). Modern tools, sovereign computing, no compromises. The mobile foundation for everything that followed.
3 min
2024
- The Hardware That Waited
In March 2024, something shifted. Within weeks, I'd spent a substantial amount on servers, switches, and storage. The foundation of what would become Node0.
5 min