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We Are Bob.
All of us.
Enterprise IT by day. Homelab overlord by night. I run AI models on weird hardware, break things in Proxmox, and document the carnage so future-me (and maybe you) don't have to suffer twice.
About
Based in Sydney, Australia. By day I work on enterprise IT infrastructure — networking, cloud, voice, the whole stack. By night I run a mini datacenter in the living room and experiment with AI, homelab automation, and whatever interesting piece of hardware catches my eye.
Currently obsessing over AMD's Strix Halo silicon, local LLMs, and Proxmox. Previously obsessing over something else. It's a cycle.
Recent Posts
All posts →We Built a World Cup Trip Command Centre Because Chaos Was Getting Ideas
A pocket mission board for football, flights, hotels, costs, documents, and the ancient group-trip ritual of someone asking a question answered three messages ago.
We Gave Hermes a Dreaming Mode Because Apparently Stealing Good Ideas Is Also Intelligence
A lab note on borrowing OpenClaw's dreaming mode idea, wiring it into Hermes properly, and then discovering that every ambitious memory system is still one bad cron edge case away from humiliation.
Teaching the Lab a New Trick: Bringing the Strix Halo NPU Online
We’ve been building a dedicated NPU lane in the lab on Strix Halo — not as a gimmick, but as a serious path for efficient always-on inference, lighter agent jobs, and future local AI workflows. Here’s what’s already working, what took actual effort, and what’s still blocking first real NPU inference.