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Linux infra, local AI, shipped apps.

Enterprise Linux operations, LLM inference on Intel Arc Pro B70, and production Android apps — documented with the trade-offs left in.

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Enterprise Linux

Lifecycle, automation, hardening, HA and the operational work that keeps platforms predictable.

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Local AI Lab

One GPU, measured to the token.

Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB. Each card is one engine, one model, one cell — not a blended leaderboard.

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Production Apps

Useful software, not AI wrappers.

Two privacy-minded Android products built around local-first value and resilient cloud boundaries.

ANDROID / VEHICLE OPS Live on Play Store
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IntelliAuto

Vehicle management. AutoMind AI, ML Kit OCR, offline encrypted storage.

KotlinFirebaseOffline-firstML Kit
ANDROID / FINANCE OPS Live on Play Store
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IntelliFlow

Finance tracker. Offline-first, cloud sync, budget projections, spending summaries.

KotlinFirebasePrivacy-firstForecasting

03 Educational Series

The LLM Infrastructure Handbook

An engineer's guide to Local AI. Demystifying Transformer architectures, KV cache quantization, modern attention and MoE routing.

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Local LLM Recipes

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More field notes

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Zero-Cost Model Splitting: Distributed LLM Inference at 101% of Single-GPU Speed

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Renewing Red Hat Satellite's HTTPS Certificate (katello-certs-check + satellite-installer)

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Qwen3.8-27B FP8 on Two Intel Arc Pro B70s: TP2, Graphs, and Context

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Qwen3.8-27B on Windows 11 + Arc Pro B70: the 19 August upgrade

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Phase 1: The vLLM Question on Intel Arc Pro B70 (MXFP4 Native Test)

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118B MoE on a single 32GB GPU: Laguna S 2.1 partial expert offload

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Arc Pro B70 clean suite: Gemma 4 31B MTP, MoE prefill, and Grok tools

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Grok Build CLI with local models on llama-server (Arc Pro B70)

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The Reality of Edge AI Research: Why TurboQuant on Intel Arc SYCL Failed (For Now)

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Breaking the 67 tok/s Barrier: Optimizing Intel Arc Pro B70 for High-Concurrency MoE Inference

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MTP-4 Speculative Decoding Power Scaling and Benchmark Methodology Fix on Intel Arc B70

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Intel Arc Pro B70 32GB: Running Qwen3.6-35B on llama.cpp SYCL

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Optimizing DeepSeek KV Cache for Serverless AI Pipelines

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RX 7800 XT 16GB: Running 35B MoE at 128K Context with llama.cpp + ROCm

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Git Branch Splitting: Untangling Mixed Feature Branches

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14 Models Benchmarked on RK3588: The Definitive CPU vs NPU Ranking

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llamacpp-workbench: Remote llama.cpp Control and REAP Model Serving on RK3588

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Qwen3.5 on RK3588 with llama.cpp: Real Benchmarks from a Radxa ROCK 5B+

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GPU VRAM, CPU Offload, and llama.cpp: The Real Performance Cliff

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Implementing Google's TurboQuant: Hybrid KV Cache for Edge LLM Deployment

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The Architecture of Speed: Real-Time Telemetry and Generative AI in 2026 Motorsport

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RK3588 NPU Router Architecture: What Actually Runs, What Wins, and Why

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The Comprehensive Linux Engineer Command List

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Architecting for Stability: Replacing Legacy IP-Binding with Layer 7 Proxy Routing

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Azure Provisioned Throughput: When Fixed Costs Beat Pay-Per-Token

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Ansible Vault, Python, and Molecule Snippets

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Daily Linux Ops Command Cheatsheet

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Training Custom AI Models for Insurance Document Processing

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DNS Migration Strategy for Zero-Downtime System Replacement

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Edge LLM Optimization: Memory Bandwidth and Context Management

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Enterprise Certificate Lifecycle Management with Ansible

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IntelliAuto: AI-Powered Automotive Assistant with Secure Monetization

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IntelliFlow: Building a Production-Ready Finance App with AI

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Linux-Active Directory Integration: Access Control, SSO, and Troubleshooting

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LVM Operations: Expand, Shrink, and Migrate Volumes

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Automating NFS Share Management at Scale

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Server Provisioning Playbook: From VM Request to Production

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Security Layering for Edge AI APIs: Encryption, Rate Limits, Validation, and Monitoring

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Automating Firebase Deployments: Multi-Account Routing and Discord Notifications

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RK3588 LLM Performance: NPU vs CPU in a Discord Agent

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Stretched Networks and Leaf-Spine Architecture

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Automating AD Computer Object Deletion on Linux Decommission

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Modernizing Android UX: High Refresh Rates & App Shortcuts

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Silent Software Installations with Ansible

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Building Custom Ansible Execution Environments

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PostgreSQL WAL Archiving with SELinux Considerations

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Apache as a Reverse Proxy: Ansible Deployment Pattern

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Shipping My First Android App: IntelliFlow

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Building Golden Images with Packer and StackGuardian

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Securing and Scaling AI Context in an Automotive Assistant

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Orchestrating Patching Waves for Enterprise Linux

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Testing Ansible Roles with Molecule and Docker

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Building a Multilingual AI Backend for Part Recognition

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Slashing LLM API Costs with System Prompt Caching

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Managing Linux Users and Groups with Ansible

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Bash Script for User Permission Audits

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Implementing the Outbox Pattern for Offline-First Sync

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Tracking Required Reboots with RHEL Tracer

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Essential Red Hat Linux Administrator Commands

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Safely Resolving Git Merge Conflicts

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Infrastructure as Code: Structuring Ansible Repositories

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