From the desk of a CTO

Notes on building.

Essays on engineering leadership, SaaS architecture, and the strange shape of small technical teams.

Jun 22, 2026 · Intel Arc B70 / Qwen3.6 / llama.cpp / Local AI / Battlemage / Mesa 26.1 / Vulkan / SYCL

Don't trust your old benchmarks: a weekend of testing on the Intel Arc B70

A Saturday of testing on the Intel Arc B70 produced 8× throughput on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. Mesa 26.1, backend choice, and ubatch tuning.

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Jun 12, 2026 · Local AI / AI Agents / Self-Hosted / Data Sovereignty / Intel Arc

Keep your own keys: running a local AI agent on hardware you own

How I run AI agents on my own hardware: a frontier model plans, a local model executes, and my credentials never leave the box. The setup, the risks, the why.

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May 23, 2026 · Personal Data Sovereignty / Local AI / Self-Hosted / Homelab / Intel Arc

Keep Your Own Data: A Personal Data Sovereignty Stack for 2026

The asymmetry no one's fixing: every AI company has your data and you don't. Here's the personal data sovereignty stack I'm building on an Intel Arc Pro B70 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.

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May 21, 2026 · meta

Hello, again

Kicking off a writing habit on engineering leadership, fractional CTO work, and the strange shape of small technical teams.

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May 21, 2026 · Local LLM / Intel Arc / llama.cpp / vLLM / Qwen

Running Qwen3.6 Locally on the Intel Arc Pro B70: Why I Chose llama.cpp Over vLLM

Real benchmarks running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on the Intel Arc Pro B70. Why llama.cpp beats vLLM for this model today, and what's coming next.

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