Updates
2026
- Harness or Model?
We ran two agent harnesses, Hermes and Claude Code, on the same model against the same faults, graded blind. In these tests the model made the difference and the harness did not. What that means if you choose an agent for your own site.
3 min - The Seed, Complete (for Now)
The Seed's foundation is complete: all seven rungs now run on the bench, built by an agent from the published pages, and a second agent looks after the site. We also tested that agent on a local model on one GPU against a hosted one, and published what we found. (Additional features, workflows and apps to come soon.)
6 min - 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