The lab

Projects

What I build and run on this infrastructure when I'm not doing client work. Some are polished and some are experiments.

Live

Vassago Search

A private web, news and media search engine with AI answers. Metasearch, with no tracking and no ad profile.

SearXNG · Node · Azure OpenAI

Live

Plexaholics

An independent Plex community, with news, releases and a busy forum for media-server people.

Next.js · Discourse · Docker

Shipping

NOVA AI

A private offline AI assistant on a USB stick or as a download. Voice, chat and a Creator Edition that turns scripts into vertical videos, with no cloud.

llama.cpp · Whisper · FFmpeg

Ongoing

Agent fleet

Self-hosted AI agents for email, monitoring, automation and ops, behind watchdogs and a Tailnet command center.

Python · Tailscale · Telegram