LAB · NOTEBOOK · No. 7
tinkerlab.dev
a homelab for experiments, pet projects, and random stuff without a home
§01 The folio · about · /now
FOLIO 001 — ABOUT
I tinker.
I host my own software, raise my own LLMs, build small tools, and break things on purpose. This page is the workbench.
github @vredchenko linkedin /in/vredchenko email jcousteau@proton.me
FOLIO 002 — /NOW
·Teaching a small model my own writing voice.
·Building shelfd v0.3.
·Reading about hypertext.
§02Pet projects
Конспект історії України, Михайло Брайчевський
preserving Braichevsky's 1993 Outline of Ukrainian History — OCR of the scans into Markdown, then Pandoc out to HTML, PDF, ePub & DOCX.
§03Recent entries — index cards
Raising a small LLM on a noisy desk
2026·04·12
Notes on fine-tuning a 7B model on personal correspondence without losing my mind, or my GPU.
Forgejo as the heart of my homelab
2026·03·28
Why I moved off SaaS git and what broke. (Mostly: my assumptions.)
A photo organizer that doesn't sell my face
2026·03·02
Building a personal media pipeline with Immich, embeddings, and stubborn YAML.
On the ethics of curating your own training data
2026·02·14
What does it mean to teach a machine using only the things you've personally written?
§04The lab is on
§05Starred on GitHub
★ soon — pulled from github.com/vredchenko?tab=stars
§06Bookmarks