workbench
I only learned this to spend fewer tokens
I did not want a proper AI stack. I wanted the small local model to stop swallowing a huge prompt for every question.
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incident
GPU passthrough broke again
The VM still showed as running, but inference had stopped. Restarting the host brought it back.
workbench
One dashboard is enough
I made one room-oriented Home Assistant dashboard the starting point and moved the older ones aside.
observation
Automating the repetitive work
A script that saves twenty minutes a day is a good place to start.
observation
Notes on private infrastructure
Moved another service off a third-party SaaS this month and onto the homelab. I prefer being able to inspect the setup when it breaks. That doesn't mean I always know why it broke.
observation
AI workflows, minus the hype
Treating a language model as a junior collaborator with no memory and occasional confidence problems has been more useful than treating it as an oracle. It drafts, it doesn't decide.
observation
Digital hygiene, revisited
Rotated credentials, pruned OAuth grants, and read through a year of third-party app permissions I'd forgotten I'd approved. Half of them belonged to services that no longer exist.