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Things I built
to find out.

Projects I started myself, usually to find out whether something was possible. A home lab, a self-hosted finance ledger, a GPU sharing platform.

Idle GPU → billed at cost
Always on Accounts · ledger · invoices Reachable with your PC off
← Outbound tunnel No open ports
Your machine Ollama · Blender Only while powered on

kWh rate×GPU watts=price No markup

Self-hosted GPU sharing platform March 2026

GPUShare

Built a self-hosted platform for trusted users to share local AI inference and Blender rendering, with optional cloud routing and estimated usage-cost allocation.

Result The application implements auth, local and optional cloud inference, MCP tool routing, queued rendering, and append-only usage accounting. Host availability and a stale installer migration command remain operational limits; no adoption claim is made.

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Akahu feed → double entry
Raw transaction NEW WORLD −$82.40
  1. 1RuleGroceries
  2. 2NZFCCFallback
  3. 3SuspenseNever dropped
Journal
Dr Groceries82.40
Cr Cheque82.40

Balance0.00

Idempotent on Akahu id · every entry balances
Open-source finance ledger 2026

You Inc

Built a personal-finance ERP with a double-entry ledger, Akahu bank sync and configurable dashboards, then took the commercial layer back out and made it self-hosted and MIT licensed.

Result A working product you install rather than sign up for. youinc.net now serves a sample-data demo and the documentation; the software itself is on GitHub under MIT, and anyone running it points it at their own database and their own Akahu credentials.

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Apple Health→Postgres→Trends
Apple Health data pipeline January 2026

HealthAgent

Built a pipeline that normalises daily Apple Health exports into Postgres and produces personal trend views.

Result A working end-to-end ingestion and trend pipeline; generated insight backends remain optional and are not medical advice.

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One 5W host · two doors
PublicCloudflare TunnelPhotos · files · calendar
AdminTailscaleSSH · Postgres · SMB
Raspberry Pi 4 · 8GB
7.26 GB allocated · 9.25% headroom

Restore tested1h 45munder a 2h target

Raspberry Pi recovery architecture 2025

Home Lab

Designed and tested a resource-constrained home-lab stack with private administration, public access, and encrypted offsite recovery.

Result A full restore completed in 1 hour 45 minutes; 96GB of backup storage cost $2.82 per month at the recorded point in time.

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PySpark experiment1.88M records
Rare-event recall ↑False positives ↑
Academic machine-learning study June 2025

Wildfire PySpark

Tested a distributed Spark ML pipeline on 1.88 million United States wildfire records.

Result Class weighting raised rarest-class recall from 0 to 0.7518, but overall accuracy fell to 32% and rarest-class precision to 0.0099.

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