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A conversational index of everything I've written and built. Ask about the essays, OffGrid Devices, the tools I use, or how I got here — answers are grounded in my own writing.
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Writing
I Moved My AI Chat's Embeddings From OpenAI to a Raspberry Pi in One Afternoon
What a Bag of Brass Inserts Taught Me About Parametric CAD
Building
Self-Hosted AI Chat (powers this site)
The AI chat on this site's home page. Open-source bge-m3 embeddings run on a Raspberry Pi 5 in my house, reached through a Cloudflare Tunnel; Groq writes the answers.