From the desk of a CTO
Notes on building.
Essays on engineering leadership, SaaS architecture, and the strange shape of small technical teams.
May 22, 2026 · Personal Data Sovereignty / Local AI / Self-Hosted / Homelab / Intel Arc
Keep Your Own Data: A Personal Data Sovereignty Stack for 2026
The asymmetry no one's fixing: every AI company has your data and you don't. Here's the personal data sovereignty stack I'm building on an Intel Arc Pro B70 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
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Hello, again
Kicking off a writing habit on engineering leadership, fractional CTO work, and the strange shape of small technical teams.
Read post May 20, 2026 · Local LLM / Intel Arc / llama.cpp / vLLM / Qwen
Running Qwen3.6 Locally on the Intel Arc Pro B70: Why I Chose llama.cpp Over vLLM
Real benchmarks running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on the Intel Arc Pro B70. Why llama.cpp beats vLLM for this model today, and what's coming next.
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