Platform product leader (Microsoft, Tableau, and Elastic alum). Lately I build self-hosted, local-LLM tools and tend an oversized homelab. Almost everything here runs privately, on my hardware.
| Project | Description | |
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| cruxwire | Self-hosted, local-LLM news reader that ranks, de-duplicates, and summarizes your RSS/Atom feeds privately. Uses Ollama with nomic-embed-text for semantic dedup and runs fully offline. Public Site |
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| backyard-birds | Self-hosted bird-sound monitoring. BirdNET listens to RTSP camera audio, logs detections to TimescaleDB, and a Next.js dashboard adds species pages, weather correlation, and an eBird / xeno-canto review queue. | |
| modularriffs | Browser-based generative MIDI tool for jamming over a modular synth. Derives four evolving monophonic parts (pad, bass, arp, melody) from real song-structure blueprints and melodic motifs. |
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