Basta’s Notes

AI Homelab Part 3: A self-improving agent

Or, how I brought Gemma Scout to Gemma 4 + Scout

Jul 29 • Matt Basta

2

Making a cache cluster more effective

Getting the most out of Varnish at Runway with rendezvous hashing

Jul 25 • Matt Basta

SaaS has to be better than custom

Agentic coding and raising the bar from "better than free"

Jul 9 • Matt Basta

2

AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot

When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.

Jul 8 • Matt Basta

1

May 2026

Not apparent

“Are you sure you want to move to San Francisco?” my dad asked me as we drove home from the electrical supply store.

May 1 • Matt Basta

13

1

A societal failure on all levels

A week in San Francisco

May 1 • Matt Basta

7

7

1

April 2026

AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement

My AI homelab named Daddy

Apr 27 • Matt Basta

6

3

March 2026

Happier development

On programming "the good old fashioned way"

Mar 26 • Matt Basta

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2

January 2026

December 2025

September 2025

August 2025