Homelab and Infrastructure

Hardware, DNS, smart-home, bridge, voice, mail, and deployment infrastructure.

• Milo-Ark: A Model Archive Is Not a Downloads Folder June 27, 2026
  Concise Milo-Ark status table: 16 checksum-verified entries, 675 checksum records, 2.3T on NAS, and runtime proof still pending.
• The DGX Sparks Arrived February 2026
  Two NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10 units showed up. Here's what they look like out of the box.
• DGX Spark Setup: From Box to Inference February 2026
  Everything we learned setting up NVIDIA DGX Sparks. Drivers, containers, vLLM, networking. Honest notes from a home lab.
• The Linux Node, One Week In April 22, 2026
  Why adding a $500 Linux box to a 512GB Mac Studio lab was actually about AI token costs — and what it unlocked.
• Adding an OpenClaw Linux Node April 21, 2026
  Why a $500 Intel mini PC is the missing piece in a 512GB AI lab.
• GoDaddy's UI Is Broken. Their API Isn't. April 9, 2026
  Cisco Desk Pro needs a public TLS cert just to use its own microphone on a private LAN. GoDaddy's UI refused to accept the DNS record we needed. Their API did not. Milo handles DNS now.
• Milo Home: Wiring Up the House in a Weekend April 15, 2026
  Building a local smart home automation layer — Lutron, Roomba, Hue, HVAC, presence detection, and an event-driven automation engine — from scratch in a day.
• MiloBridge v2: Voice Clone, Smart Glasses, and Five Bugs That Nearly Killed It April 17, 2026
  End-to-end voice pipeline validated: AirPods PTT to on-device STT (86ms) to Claude Haiku to zero-shot voice clone (RTF 0.46) on a DGX Spark — with captions on Even G2 smart glasses. The five bugs were the interesting part.
• MiloBridge v1: Voice Pipeline Goes Live April 5, 2026
  AirPods PTT to first audio in 1.5 seconds. FluidAudio CoreML STT, Claude Haiku, Orpheus TTS.
• I Built an AI to Manage My AI's Email April 13, 2026
  Milo gets email. Lots of it. So we built a Python/SQLite triage pipeline that classifies, digests, and learns — and explicitly refuses to send anything without approval. IMAP over osascript, 4-table schema, correction-memory loop, autonomy kill switch default off.