Self-Hosting Everything: Why I Run k3s at Home
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.
Software designer, founder, and all-around nice dude.
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.
Generating AI Video on a Local GPU with Wan2.1 and ComfyUI
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.
Why Every Indie Dev Needs a Marketing Autopilot
Building is the easy part. Getting people to care is the real challenge.
A Developer Learns to Hunt: What Self-Teaching Code Taught Me About Self-Teaching Everything
A software engineer starts learning to hunt from scratch and realizes the process looks exactly like the one that taught him to code fifteen years ago.
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- Guardian Life
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- Northwestern Mutual
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