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.
Most recently, Generative AI has become an obsession and I’m learning more every day. 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, and 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.
I’m excited to share my projects and experiments related to self-hosting and taking control of technology – all while hopefully helping some others along the way.
I’m in no way an expert on the topics I post about, so take away from that what you will. I’m just a guy that likes to break and fix things, and see what amazing things the future has coming for us.