I’m Cary, a software designer and entrepreneur based in Milwaukee. I’m the founder and CTO of SparkForge, where you can ignite your ideas to forge the future. I also maintain SAVAGED.US, a character management platform serving 30,000+ Savage Worlds RPG players.
A software engineer discovers trail cameras and immediately turns deer scouting into a data engineering problem. Cellular vs SD cards, image analysis, and why I now have more cameras than servers.
I gave up on PaaS platforms a while back. Here's what I run on a two-node k3s cluster at home, how I got here, and whether any of this actually makes sense for you.
Running Wan2.1 text-to-video on an RTX 4070 Ti, iterating from luxury resort vibes to realistic community footage, and why quantization is the JPEG of AI models.
Building is the easy part. Getting people to care is the real challenge.
