I build infrastructure. Fifteen-plus years of it — Linux systems, containers, CI/CD, the DevOps plumbing that keeps everything standing. These days I’m building out a local agentic AI stack — tools I own, running on hardware I own. I write about it on the blog.
Eagle Scout, semi-professional photographer, DnD enthusiast, gamer, and a licensed HAM radio operator (KN4FHS). I have too many hobbies and no plans to fix that.
The rotation test stops being a crash detector and starts finding config fields that were parsed, stored, and then quietly ignored. Plus the case for YAML presets, a blunt list of cxx-qt complaints, and melody/harmony quality work that finally stops the trumpets from screeching.
read more →A rotation test catches bugs across 51 subtypes, a parallel librosa pipeline measures 470+ source tracks and finds the last dungeon was 44 BPM too slow, battle generation gets a major overhaul, and raising the base velocity breaks every soundfont profile at once.
read more →Studying classic and modern JRPG soundtracks to fix the generator, three FluidSynth bugs that required reading C source code, and what cxx-qt property signals do when you’re not looking.
read more →A 1999 Windows program that generated music from math, a Rust/Qt/QML stack that shouldn’t work but does, and the MCP integration nobody asked for but I built anyway.
read more →Local compute, custom agents, and way too many models.
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