Technical writing and release notes on sovereign AI, local infrastructure, cybersecurity, communications, and the engineering behind Project Kaizen.
The platform has a name and a frozen architecture. Release notes on the dedicated Proxmox compute foundation, a restore-proven parity-first migration with three of twelve roles in production, the containerized Orchestrator, a refreshed cloud model roster, the governed CLI bridge, and iOS 1.0.115.
Read Article →Twenty years of making incompatible things behave like one system — router firmware, Groovy drivers, bridges on bridges, and the migration to Home Assistant under a governed local AI. Plus the sentinel phase now standing watch: Max ranks threats, announces, texts, and calls until it knows the owner is safe.
Read Article →Release notes for the parts of Kaizen that are now easier to verify: Communications Hub, Max SMS, voice-call alerts, reminders, Beacon workflows, delivery receipts, dashboard visibility, and public/private AI boundaries.
Read Article →AI is not a doctor, coach, or dietitian. Used well, it can be the support layer that keeps your goals, logs, trends, and care-team questions organized between appointments.
Read Article →Intelligence is transient. Context is persistent. One MCP connector that injects the same context into every cloud AI at once — the thinking, the use case, and why a shared context layer has to be built defensively.
Read Article →Local Git remains the source of truth. Read-only ingest packs fresh context. OAuth MCP exposes it safely to AI clients. No stale chat memory. No drifting Markdown skills.
Read Article →On being called weird for building things, sharing publicly, and seeing what's coming before the room catches up. The weird ones were never wrong. They were just early.
Read Article →Roku Live TV on Emby + Apple Silicon was broken. Every forum said give up. We found the root cause, built a wrapper-based fix, tested it end-to-end, and open sourced it.
Read Article →Building production-grade security around a 19-container Mailcow Docker stack on peered infrastructure. Custom firewall, kernel hardening, automated auditing, off-box monitoring. From zero to a 94/100 automated security audit score.
Read Article →Is Apple sitting on the most important AI infrastructure play that nobody's talking about? Four Mac Studios. 2TB unified memory. 600 watts. The math is changing.
Read Article →Most people use large language models to generate text. I built one that locks doors, arms alarms, adjusts thermostats, and reasons about who just pulled into the driveway.
Read Article →In 1998, I co-founded a cybersecurity company called INTRAC.NET. Nearly three decades later, the same question drives me: how does every layer of a system talk to every other layer? The answer now fits in a rack in my closet.
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Project Kaizen and KaizenAI: cybersecurity, infrastructure intelligence, local-first AI orchestration, the AI Orchestrator Console, KaizenAI iOS app, private Max assistant workflows, public KaizenAI Open chat, search, memory, voice, image generation, and MCP connectors.
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