Nick Wharton · Independence, MO

Quiet systems.
Loud results.

I build self-hosted AI, run a 22-node home cluster that thinks like one machine, and ship product end to end - from kernel to checkout.

See the work Open the fleet

14: online / 20 managed
136: k3s pods
1: operator

S.A.M · one mind, many machines

What I build

A few layers down from the dashboard.

Self-hosted AI

Local models, real workflows. Inference orchestration, retrieval, and agent runtimes that live on my own metal - not rented tokens, not vendor lock.

ollamamcpagents

Fleet operations

Twenty-two machines that behave like one. Doctrine, syncing, and shared memory across hardware that runs from a closet, not a region.

k3stailscaleobservability

Shipped product

Full-stack delivery on a tight schedule - e-commerce, internal tools, collector workflows. Whatever the business needs, one operator can ship.

reactphpmysql

Agent doctrine

Long-running systems that act on intent, not just instructions. Memory, identity, and guardrails so the next session picks up where the last stopped.

memoryhandoffguardrails

Observability

Real telemetry on real workloads. Not dashboards for show - signals that actually wake somebody up when the right thing breaks.

metricslogstraces

Hardening & ops

Backups, isolation, secrets routing, and the unglamorous work of keeping anything serious in production. The reason the rest still runs.

backupssecretsrecovery

Live proof

Five live reads, backed by public signals.

The headline is backed by real numbers: fleet health, deployed properties, current work, and backup state - the same public-safe data that powers the rest of the site.

Fleet pulsecached

14 / 20136 pods across 7 k3s nodes

Open fleet

Cluster homelive

Independence, MO22 pieces of hardware, one closet, one operator

See the room

Now shippingactive

Floating-layer rebuildGlass surfaces across every route

Timeline

Self-hosted AIwarm

S.A.M doctrineLocal models on owned metal, no cloud bill

Read the doctrine

Backupssynced

UNAS Pro · 3-2-1Snapshot 14 min ago, offsite nightly

The stack

The fleet

S.A.M - one mind, many machines.

Twenty-two pieces of hardware - workstations, servers, laptops, GPU boxes - running a shared doctrine. One operator, one source of truth, and just enough automation that the machines stay in agreement when I'm not looking.

Open fleet evidence

nick@fleet - status

S.A.M shell · fleet brief · cached

Type 'help', or try 'fleet'.

Built with Poke

This one shipped from a text thread.

Poke is the iMessage-native agent that designs and deploys these sites. I describe what I want; it builds, commits, and ships — then the same build runs in two homes: Poke’s cloud and my own fleet.

Poke’s cloudtinybluedev.poke.com

The build Poke hosts and deploys itself — provisioned straight from the thread, no console touched.

My own fleetpoke.tinyblue.dev

The same build, self-hosted on the cluster — my domain, my registry, my TLS. One repo, mirrored home.

Describe it over text

Plain iMessage — no IDE, no dashboard. Poke turns intent into a real, deployable build.

Ship to one repo

Every change lands in GitHub — the single source of truth both homes build from.

Deploy to both

Poke rebuilds its cloud copy; my fleet pulls the same image. One push, two live sites.

Apps & sites

Everything ships from one desk.

Every property runs on the same fleet, shares the same auth and edge layer, and ships from the same operator desk.

CardsCloudTCG collection manager and card marketcardscloud.io

app

SmurfVillagePWA emulator with browser games and cloud savessmurfvillage.cloud

app

WePayUnCheezeVoxel worlds in the browserwepayuncheeze.com

experiment

System AI-XPublic S.A.M brain surfacesystem-ai-x.com

MLB CentralLeague-wide live baseball enginetinyblue.dev/mlb

data

WeatherLive local conditions and forecastLee's Summit

data

Strange Music & The OG Network

Strange Music - BlogLabel news, releases, and tour coveragestrangemusicinc.com

Strange Music - MerchOfficial Strange Music merch storestrangemusicinc.net

The OG NetworkMain network platformtheognetwork.net

The OG Network - MerchOG Network merch storefronttheognetworkmerch.net

Artist & family storefronts

SkyDxddy MerchArtist merch storefrontartist store

Saigon MerchArtist merch storefrontartist store

unConventionAl KingZArtist merch storefrontartist store

Get Your Crocs OffThreshold kits and guest signsgetyourcrocsoff.com

Contact

If the work looks like your problem, get in touch.

I take on a small number of consulting engagements when the fit is right - infrastructure design, AI ops, or full-stack delivery that needs a senior pair of hands.

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Quiet systems.Loud results.