by davidcrilly | Jun 29, 2026 | AI, Home Lab, Moya
When I teased “private AI workloads on Moya” in my first post, a few people asked me the same question: why bother? Cloud AI is one API call away, it’s cheap, and somebody else deals with the GPUs catching fire. Fair question. Here’s my honest...
by davidcrilly | Jun 26, 2026 | Musings, Reno
We geared up for the weekend. The recurring nightmare—a stubborn sewer backup plaguing the right side of the house—needed a resolution. We decided to take a gamble: tear up the tile and poured quickset on the patio conversion. The goal? Find a buried sewer cleanout, a...
by davidcrilly | Jun 25, 2026 | Musings, Reno
We’ve all been there. You’ve finally harnessed that elusive wave of ADHD hyperfocus. The tools are laid out, the music is blasting, the budget is calculated to the cent, and you are ready to conquer the bathroom remodel. Then, you pull back the old drywall and find...
by davidcrilly | Jun 23, 2026 | Musings, Reno
I mentioned on the homepage that when my eyes need a break from Kubernetes YAML, I transfer that same re-engineering energy into the physical world — remodeling the house, fixing things around the property. What I didn’t mention is that “remodeling”...
by davidcrilly | Jun 22, 2026 | Home Lab, Musings
Last post covered why homelabs and Kubernetes specifically seem to be such a good (or dangerous) match for ADHD-style novelty-seeking and hyperfocus. This one is more practical: what the research and the ADHD community actually suggest for working with that pattern,...
by davidcrilly | Jun 21, 2026 | Home Lab, Musings
I’ve never met a homelab that was “done.” Mine certainly isn’t — Moya gets a new workload, Talyn gets torn down and rebuilt to test an idea, Pilot’s storage layout gets reorganized for the third time this year because I read one blog post...
by davidcrilly | Jun 19, 2026 | Home Lab, Moya, Pilot, Talyn
If you are anything like me, you cannot look at a perfectly functioning piece of technology—or a solid kitchen wall—without immediately thinking: “How does that work?” That foundational itch to tear things down, figure them out, and re-engineer them is...
