the workbench
Cloud engineer by day. Local AI, printers, and a home lab by night.
I’m Jake — a senior software engineer who automates infrastructure for a living, and spends whatever computing headroom is left on experiments that will never make a résumé. This site is where those experiments live.
pick a rabbit hole
5 doors
local-ai ↗
A 27B brain in a 32GB Mac
No cloud inference. A Metal-kernel engine, three local models, and the agent stack that drives all of it — plus a local model that manages Google Sheets.
printer ↗
An Anet A8 with a camera and opinions
Klipper on the Pi, a Cura profile recovered from old G-code, and a local model that judges my first layers before I walk into the room.
lab ↗
One Pi, two jobs
The klipperpi is both the 3D-printer server and the home-automation hub — administered over SSH by agents I drive from my phone.
keyboards ↗
Two 40%s, a split, and a trackball
A Vortex 40% sandwiched between the Moonlander halves, a Ploopy under the thumb, an Apple trackpad for daily pointing — and no mouse.
water ↗
A lake that models itself
What-if water dashboards — drag the rivers, watch the level respond. Great Salt Lake first, more basins to come.
at a glance