Building things that work. Photographing things that matter. Same instinct.
Self-hosted everything on a single server: 64 GB RAM, 11 TB, RTX 3050, 38 containers. Nextcloud, Matrix, my media stack, all behind Caddy with TLS, on a VLAN-segmented network.
Runs my local LLM inference via Ollama. Four more VMs for Home Assistant, GNS3, remote desktop, and dedicated agent workloads.
Decompiled the Samsung Camera app, mapped the vendor-specific device IDs, and found a private gamma capture path Samsung never documented — vendor tag (35, 5, 0).
Built an Android Camera2 app on top: 10-bit BT.2020 capture, hardware HEVC through MediaCodec, MPEG-TS muxing, SRT live streaming via NDK.
Persistent agent on a Linux VM, fronted by Telegram. Uses MCP for tool orchestration. Local Ollama when I can, the Anthropic API for harder problems.
Does the work I used to do by hand — research, code, file management, browser automation — and keeps doing it while I'm out with a camera.
