Independent publication // local-first AI // field reports from owned systems
Nodehome
A running publication about local models, private inference, self-hosted agents, weird hardware, research sweeps, and the builders wiring their own AI stack together.
AI is getting physical again. It shows up in terminals, racks, side projects, and ugly little workflows people actually control.
Latest
Daily Sweep - Oct 28, 2026Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary v2: Intelligent Multilingual Transcription You Can Prompt and Adapt
Hugging Face blog post - check for new model releases, library updates, or ecosystem shifts.
Microsoft Maia 300 Shown at OCP 2026
ServeTheHome coverage - server hardware reviews and benchmarks from a trusted source.
GeForce GTX 750 Ti with 8GB VRAM is now on sale, four times its original capacity
Memory management signal - matters for fitting large models across 72GB total VRAM.
Discord will make public server messages searchable on Google starting in December
RAG or embedding pipeline development - potential local workflow pattern.
Field Reports
builds, experiments, notesThree RTX 3090s, One 32B Model: A Pipeline-Parallel Canary
A current field note on why the 3x3090 serving path moved through pipeline parallelism, not tensor parallelism, for the tested 32B AWQ model.
Gemma 4 12B And The Sensory Agent Lane
A public-safe read on Gemma 4 12B as a local sensory preprocessor: useful for seeing, hearing, and structuring observations without turning into an action system.
Hardware
machines, thermals, economicsPower Caps On Three RTX 3090s: Bursts Versus Sustained Load
A measured note on 300W bursty inference, lower caps for sustained runs, and why power-cap sweet spots are workload-specific.
Parallel Agent Serving Is A Hardware Shape Now
A field-report read on 14x RTX 3090 agent serving, EXL3, FP8 KV cache, Aphrodite, and why concurrency is becoming the local hardware metric.