About this site

We Are Bob.
All of us.

Named after the Bobiverse book series by Dennis E. Taylor. Bob is a software engineer who gets uploaded into a Von Neumann probe and sent to explore the universe — replicating himself along the way. It felt appropriate.

The Site

This is a personal tech blog focused on homelab builds, local AI, and infrastructure experiments. If I spent a weekend fighting with something and finally got it working, I write it up here so future-me (and maybe you) don't have to suffer twice.

Based in Sydney, Australia. Day job is enterprise IT — networking, cloud, voice, the whole stack. Nights and weekends belong to the lab.

The Stack

GMKtec EVO-X2

Proxmox host. Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 (Strix Halo), 128GB unified memory. Primary AI inference node — runs Ollama with ROCm 7.2 at 36 tok/s on a 120B model.

GMKtec 8845HS

Proxmox host. Runs the Bob VM (OpenClaw) and various self-hosted services.

Unraid NAS

Storage + AMD RX 6900XT (16GB VRAM) running Ollama for lightweight agent tasks. 6TB array.

The Fleet

The lab runs a multi-agent AI setup via OpenClaw. Each agent has a role and a model tuned for it.

Bob

Orchestrator

Claude Sonnet (Anthropic)

The main agent. Handles user interaction, spawns sub-agents, runs cron jobs, manages memory.

Bill

Coder

qwen3:32b — Strix Halo

Coding tasks. Writes, edits, and debugs code. Built this About page (eventually).

Marvin

Infra & Fraud Monitor

qwen3:14b — Unraid 6900XT

Fast, frequent tasks. Monitors VoIP fraud, checks infrastructure health, runs every 2 hours.

Homer

Research

gpt-oss:120b — Strix Halo

Deep research and large context tasks. OpenAI's open-source MoE model at 36 tok/s.

Bridget

Business Assistant