A tunnel home
Reaching the household model from outside the house without giving up the loopback-only posture -- a WireGuard front door, an SSH tunnel behind it, and dynamic DNS to survive a sticky IP.
NoDrama
Engineer | Rust & Python | Distributed Systems | Data Pipelines | ML/AI
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A self-hosted ChatGPT
I deployed Open WebUI ChatGPT-style chat UI for every device on the LAN, and a shared RAG-over-MCP retrieval server that both the chat and the coding agent can attach to.
A household coding agent
Running an open-weights coding agent entirely on the home LAN -- a spare box serves a Qwen3-Coder MoE over llama.cpp to laptops and phones around the house. Why the harness is Qwen-Code, and how a quantization sweep found the fastest model that still codes.
Bitcoin regime detection with HMMs
A 3-state Gaussian Hidden Markov Model identifies bear / ranging / bull regimes in BTC from a single causal feature -- drawdown from the running all-time high -- with median bear-posterior of 1.00 across calendar 2022 and exactly one Viterbi flip. Why drawdown beats log-return and log-price as the HMM observation.
Aggressive bear: GEM shorting in downwards markets
An aggressive short-mode counterpart to the conservative bear specialist: shorting the weakest tokens by negative momentum on Binance USDⓈ-M perps, 2022 bear market POC
Scoring under tension: Karpathy-style autoresearch loop on a GEM stack
Applying the Karpathy-style autoresearch loop to an HMM + per-regime GEM specialist + meta-allocator trading stack. Headline result from a 215-config / 18-hour run on 437 Binance + DefiLlama tokens, plus a scaled-down Python version over a 4-token bear-portfolio subset.
Winning with the Bear: GEM strategies comparison
GEM based strategies for a safe-haven portfolio selection during the 2022 crypto bear market
TheButton - A Smart Contracts-Based Game on the Aleph Zero Blockchain
In this bog post we describe TheButton, a smart-contract based game deployed on the Aleph Zero blockchain.
Spread on TV
Spread has been featured in the Belgian news broadcast VRT NWS
Spread security incident
In this blog post I describe a minor security incident