Tuesday, August 26, 2026
30 projects · 7 mesh nodes · 4,804 docs indexed offline · 2 weekly papers
Creative
Photography, video tooling, and creative direction — with a GPU pipeline that ranks the footage before I ever open an editor.
photo archive by neighborhood · highlight-ranking pipeline · Resolve scripting next
AI
Local models doing real work: two weekly newspapers, a searchable podcast corpus, and a librarian that reads what the cloud never will.
4,804 docs offline · 19,451 episodes indexed · 2 papers a week
Homelab
Seven machines on a private mesh — storage, monitoring, a full node, and one very busy GPU. No port forwarding, no cloud dependency.
7 nodes · 24/7 monitoring · nightly backup chain
Money
Self-hosted finance tooling with tax-grade math. The code is the story here — the balances never leave the house.
2 engines · CRA-grade math · 0 balances published
A lab, not a product
I’m Adriel Caraoa — an HVACR tech by trade in Winnipeg, and the operator of a small fleet of machines that transcribe, index, monitor, back up, and publish while I sleep. Everything here is built local-first: sensitive data never touches a cloud model, services run on my own hardware, and every number on this page is measured, not rounded up for effect.
This site is the public index of that work. Each section is a short, hand-curated directory — the way the early web did it, because it still works.
