My homelab in five layers, October 2026
One picture of everything that runs in my house, from Google Cloud down to a kitchen tablet, and the rule that made it calm: the layer that holds the context is the one that never sleeps.
Homelab & AI
One GPU, local models, a Mac mini that runs Claude Code around the clock, and what I measure along the way.
The voice box, measured: where two seconds really go, and the one-second trick that fixed the feeling
Three days of timestamps on a Home Assistant voice assistant: cloud versus on-prem on one device, a local voice that ties with Azure in a blind test, a 4090 that finally earns its place, and a filler word in the firmware that changed nothing in the numbers and everything in the conversation.
A voice assistant for a five-year-old, built on Home Assistant and Claude
Two evenings from unboxing to a kid asking why the sky is blue. What was slow, what was wrong, and why the two expensive computers in the house ended up doing nothing.