About
// Who I Am Link to heading
I’m an IT technician and homelab enthusiast based in the US, currently building toward a career in cybersecurity.
This site documents that journey — the builds, the failures, the rabbit holes, and the occasional breakthrough.
// The Project Link to heading
The Librarian is a self-hosted AI intelligence system inspired by the Librarian daemon from Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash — an encyclopedic AI that knows everything its user has ever encountered, synthesises connections across domains, and operates as a single point of contact for an entire digital life.
The goal is to build exactly that. A local AI running on a Mac Mini M4, orchestrated by an OpenClaw gateway, with an Obsidian vault as its long-term memory and a pipeline that continuously feeds it intelligence from RSS feeds, read-later articles, podcast transcripts, Kindle highlights, and field intelligence..
No data leaves the network. No cloud AI. Everything runs on hardware I own, in a rack I maintain, on a network I control.
// The Channel Link to heading
Everything here gets documented on the Grid Kid YouTube channel — build logs, deployment walkthroughs, architecture decisions, and the inevitable debugging sessions that come with running this much self-hosted infrastructure.
The blog carries the technical depth. The channel carries the story.
If you’re building something similar, or just want to watch someone try, both are worth following.
// Currently Working On Link to heading
- Deploying the Librarian on the Mac Mini inference server
- Building the OpenClaw gateway and Telegram interface
- Developing the intelligence pipeline skills
- Studying for the CompTIA CySA+ certification