A working build log of local-first AI, homelab infrastructure and honest cost ledgers — written from a real homelab in Singapore, not a marketing deck.
What is Self-Sovereignty? — the premise, minus the sermon.
The Private Local AI Server Install — hardware, temps, regrets.
An AI trading bot in four hours, for twenty bucks — costs, failures, truth.
Twenty-plus years in IT — ERP, cybersecurity, POS and billing across eleven APAC countries. CISSP since 2002. Now: IT advisory practice, and this site as the working record of doing it all sovereign. More about me →