Travel / Travel
What Diving Keeps Teaching Me About Preparation
A reflection on checklists, changing conditions, and why calm preparation leaves more attention for the experience itself.
Read travel noteProjects, places & field notes
MY Tinkering Journey Powered pushed further by AI
A personal journal about engineering projects, travel, photography, diving, and the practical lessons I want to remember.
One journal, two threads
From the workbench and beyond it.
01 / BUILD
Systems and experiments
AI agents, homelab infrastructure, embedded devices, networking, hardware, and software build logs.
Open build archive ->02 / TRAVELPlaces and observations
Travel stories, practical notes, photography, diving, and the small details I want to remember.
Open travel journal ->From the road
Recent travel notes.
Build of the moment
On the bench right now.
AI / self-hosted systems
Mission Control for Personal AI Agents
A self-hosted operations dashboard for seeing what personal AI agents are doing, where work is stuck, and what needs attention.
Why it matters
Open build log Agent experiments become difficult to trust when their work is scattered across logs, chats, and background processes. Mission Control is an attempt to make that activity understandable.
Recent experiments
Smaller builds, useful lessons.
Homelab
Segmented Home Network
A documented VLAN and firewall design that separates trusted devices, lab services, guests, and IoT hardware.
Read build logInside the workshop
Where software meets the physical world.
These are the areas I keep returning to—usually with a screwdriver, a serial cable, or too many browser tabs nearby.
AI and automation
Self-hosted agents, local models, and practical tools that make multi-step work easier to see and control.
Homelab and networking
Home servers, Docker services, NAS storage, Pi-hole, tunnels, monitoring, and the network that holds it together.
Embedded systems
Small computers, LicheeRV Nano experiments, embedded Linux, sensors, FPGA logic, and hardware-software boundaries.
Software engineering
C++, object-oriented design, university assignments, web tools, and software built to solve a specific problem.
Hardware and PC systems
PC builds, upgrades, repurposed components, troubleshooting, thermals, performance, and learning by taking things apart.
Latest engineering notes
Things worth remembering.
Fitting a TinyML Pipeline Into an Embedded Memory Budget
Lessons from measuring buffers, model arenas, and task stacks on a constrained camera node.
Read field noteA note from Alfred
“I use this site to remember what I built, where I went, what surprised me, and what I would do differently next time.”