Apr 08, 2026
Infrastructure
Notes on observability for GPU-bound services
The interesting metric is not latency — it is the variance of latency conditioned on batch composition.
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PHIL GATTONE · ENGINEER · FOUNDER
Building with Purpose.
Intentional technology for healthcare, AI, infrastructure, and human connection — built to meaningfully improve how people think, connect, and live.
// built with AI· pair-engineered with ClaudeMy Home Data Center·Live Telemetry
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// live · home infrastructure
A small window into what's running.
Real-time telemetry from the systems I run — the data center, the network, and the environment around them.
// home data center
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Home Data Center
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Network
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Intelligent Environments
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view →// pulled from the data center, UniFi, and Home Assistant — live when each system is reachable, demo on fallback. trend lines build over time and persist on this device.
// domains
Where the work happens.
Each domain is a broad area of my focus. Inside it live the systems and projects I actively build, operate, and refine. Infrastructure I run, environments I build, software I design, and the ongoing thoughts that document all of it.
always-on · monitored
My Home Data Center
My homelab executes local GPU inference, Kubernetes, observability, and data redundancy.
ProxmoxKubernetesGPUOpenTelemetryvLLMTailscale
// systems
- AI Infrastructure
Local inference · vLLM · DevBots agents · RAG pipeline
- Kubernetes Cluster
GPU passthrough & inference · Local fine-tuned LLMs
- Virtualization & Storage
Proxmox hypervisor · ZFS on NVME SSDs
- Observability
OpenTelemetry pipeline
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in production · my house
Intelligent Environments
Home Assistant + local & frontier LLMs. Predictive automation and real-time presence detection.
Home AssistantWhisperLlama.cppMQTTPythonFP2
// systems
- Home Assistant
Integrations · Automations
- Presence Detection
mmWave FP2 zones
- Voice Assistant Platform
Whisper STT · Piper TTS · Intent routing
- NVIDIA Jetson
Python scripts · MQTT
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building · onboarding cohort
Neurish
The foundation used to develop digital health communities — Neurish and Friends With Epilepsy.
NuxtPostgresTimescaleDBOpenAIAnthropicVercel
// systems
- Community Foundation
Neurish · Friends With Epilepsy
- APIs
Core API · Behavioral engine
- User Engagement Tools
Wave notifications · Onboarding loops
- Digital Health Analytics
Retention signals · Trust & safety metrics
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37 notes · 2024 — now
Ongoing Thoughts
Field notes from the domains above — decisions, mistakes, traces, and product ideas.
InfrastructureAIEnvironmentsBehaviorPhilosophy
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// philosophy
I build technology that does more than optimize attention and consumption.
Intentional technology. Human-centered systems. Meaningful interaction. The systems we build shape how people think, connect, and live.
// latest thoughts
Recent thinking and ongoing thoughts
Field notes from the systems above.
Mar 18, 2026
Environments
When Home Assistant learned to wait
A 600ms debounce changed how my house felt. The most intelligent automation is the one that does not act.
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Feb 24, 2026
Behavior
A tagging system and email notifications
Many notification systems are have one channel. Adding a tagging system turned out to be more effective targeting.
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Feb 02, 2026
Infrastructure
My storage layout
Redundant 4TB ZFS for the hypervisor and the Kubernetes K8s cluster, and planning a separate NAS pool for cold media.
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// colophon · how this site was built
Pair-built with an AI.
This site was designed and directed by Phil, and pair-engineered with Claude — Anthropic's AI assistant.
The architecture, the copy, the design language, and every final call belong to a human. The components, the SVG diagrams, and a fair share of the keystrokes were written alongside an LLM. Pretending otherwise in 2026 would be the loud thing. Acknowledging it is the calm one.
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Date: 2026-05-20
Scaffold the site with calm-technical-futurism identity
Dark-mode-first single-page experience, four projects with bespoke architecture diagrams, ongoing thoughts, systems philosophy, and a quiet contact channel.
- Authored-By: Phil Gattone <phil@philgattone.com>
- Co-Authored-By: Claude <anthropic.com>
- Direction-By: a human
- Reviewed-By: you, just now
// every commit on this branch shipped with the same trailer.