Projects

A few things I’ve built or am tinkering with. More will land here as they hold up.

coles.codes

My blog (this site). Used Hugo with my own theme, hosted on S3 behind CloudFront, deployed by GitHub Actions, and provisioned with AWS CDK (Python). The source codes public if you want to take a look: MattJColes/colescodes.

The homelab

A few Raspberry Pis, a NAS, a Framework Desktop, a DGX Spark, some Dell OptiPlexes, and more routers than I need. It all runs on Tailscale so I can get to it from anywhere, and there are a lot of containers going at any time. I use it to self-host things, and run local AI.

Fine-tuning local vision LLMs

Fine-tuning open-source vision models like Qwen with Unsloth on my DGX Spark and Framework Desktop. Mostly for fun — I want to see how good a model I can run at home is at OCR and reading images. I also like experimenting with swarms of AI Agents.

More soon

Whatever I’m building next: a Python tool wired up to an AI agent, an agent-orchestration experiment, or some homelab automation. I’ll write them up if i think they’re worth sharing.