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I’ve written about Sebastian twice before: once when he was a Caribbean-accented, monocle-wearing AI crab running our family’s digital life on OpenClaw, and once when we rebuilt him on Open WebUI and Ollama.

Last month I wrote about importing six thousand rural dispatch targets out of an old federal dataset like churches, cemeteries, dams, post offices, etc. to fix the small-town coverage gap.

I wanted to build something that didn’t just solve a math expression, but actually showed you what was happening at every stage, how the expression gets broken apart, and in what order the operations get resolved.

I spend a fair amount of my spare time running AI models on my own hardware.

I built a little web app to solve a problem that sounds trivial until you actually need it: turning a highway milepost into GPS coordinates.

A game that sends you out into the real world, and quietly helps map it.

If you’ve been following along with my earlier Sebastian post, you know I’ve been rebuilding our family AI assistant on a different foundation: Open WebUI + Ollama instead of our previous OpenClaw setup.

I introduced Sebastian a while back, our Caribbean-accented, monocle-wearing crab of a family assistant who runs the household’s digital plumbing.

When I posted about Dispatch Zero a month ago, I mentioned that the app was built from a town of about four hundred people, and that small-town coverage was the part of the system that worried me most.

If you’ve got an AMD Ryzen 7040 or 8040 series chip — laptops, mini PCs, the Phoenix family of APUs — you’ve got a Radeon 780M iGPU sitting there. gfx1103 in ROCm terminology.