Hello! I’m David.
My love for computers began in the mid-90s with a well-aged hand-me-down 386, quickly moving to a 486DX and Pentium soon after.
This early fascination has grown into a lifelong passion that now sees me managing my own homelab/mini data center, gaming rigs, networks, storage, servers, and more; along with a lengthy career in various IT-related roles.
These days, I’m deep down the rabbit hole of generative AI. It’s fun to see what can be run on fairly modest consumer hardware.
Whether it’s text or image generation, RAG, agents, text-to-speech, writing chatbots, LLM-powered home automation, or other similar services, I’ll try and see how it works out.
I strongly believe in data privacy, self-reliance, and avoiding cloud-based services whenever possible. I’ve witnessed too many breaches and companies shutting down to trust my data with them long-term.
If it’s possible to self-host it, I will give it a shot, and much ends up being a part of my daily life and workflow. This site is where I share my projects and experiments related to self-hosting and taking control of technology—all while hopefully helping others along the way.
I don’t claim to be an expert on the topics I post about, so interpret that as you wish. I’m just a guy who loves to break and fix things and see what incredible new tools the future has in store for us.