Austin's Nerdy Things

Welcome to Austin’s Nerdy Things, where we send punctuation to a frontier AI model 649 times and take notes on what crawls out.

This project exists because I bought 30 sticks of 16GB DDR4-3200 RDIMM for an EPYC build in early April: an r/homelabsales find at $80 a stick, which was a fair price that day.

Welcome to Austin’s Nerdy Things, where we spend years chasing nanoseconds that nobody asked us to chase.

I’ve been messing around with local LLMs on my 3090 for a while now — I have a growing collection of Qwen models on D:\LLM that I probably should be embarrassed about.

I’ve been building SkySpottr, an AR app overlaying aircraft information on your phone’s screen, using your device’s location, orientation, and incoming aircraft data (ADS-B) to predict where planes should appear on screen, then uses a YOLO model to lock o…

I’ve written before about building microsecond-accurate NTP servers with Raspberry Pi and GPS PPS, and more recently about revisiting the setup in 2025.