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

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.