Notes on backends, the sky, and the rack in the corner.

Sh2-129 and Ou4: 43 hours and 35 minutes across fifteen nights, one very faint squid, and a suspiciously sudden interest in monochrome cameras.

What came after the robot arm: missing prompt instructions, overenthusiastic tags, and the less glamorous work of making a local AI document pipeline reliable.

A 34-key split keyboard, Colemak-DH, and thirty years of QWERTY muscle memory. Apparently changing one thing at a time was too sensible.

How I went from existing paperless-ngx AI tools, to an overengineered 4090-powered orchestrator, to building my own lightweight OCR and tagging pipeline.

A technical tour of my current homelab: network segmentation, Proxmox, Docker, backups, GitOps, observability, and a few local AI experiments.

Resolving Q0957+561, the first confirmed gravitational lens, with a small refractor, a 533-based camera, and a bit of 2x drizzle.