LAB · NOTEBOOK · No. 7

tinkerlab.dev

a homelab for experiments, pet projects, and home-grown AI
§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 @tinkerlab linkedin /in/tinkerlab rss /feed.xml email hello@tinkerlab.dev
FOLIO 002 — /NOW
·Teaching a small model my own writing voice.
·Building shelfd v0.3.
·Reading about hypertext.
read on →
§02Pet projects
homecanon
personal corpus → fine-tune pipeline
Python
★42
shelfd
tiny self-hosted RSS w/ embeddings
Go
★18
marginalia
annotate any webpage you read
TS
★91
lab-notebook
this site's source
HTML
★7
§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.
#ai · 11 min
Forgejo as the heart of my homelab
2026·03·28
Why I moved off SaaS git and what broke. (Mostly: my assumptions.)
#infra · 7 min
A photo organizer that doesn't sell my face
2026·03·02
Building a personal media pipeline with Immich, embeddings, and stubborn YAML.
#media · 9 min
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?
#ai · 14 min
→ see all 5+ entries
§04The lab is on
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calibre.tinkerlab.dev ●up
media.tinkerlab.dev●up
notes.tinkerlab.dev●up
model.tinkerlab.dev●warm
metrics.tinkerlab.dev●up
§05Reading
1945 · As We May Think, Vannevar Bush
1963 · Sketchpad, Ivan Sutherland
2024 · Tools for Thought, Maggie Appleton
ongoing · Evergreen Notes, Andy Matuschak