Field Notes
Technical field notes from the RIKKETIK yard — AI systems, Linux, Kubernetes, infrastructure, audio tooling, and lessons learned while building things the stubborn self-hosted way.
Building Multi-Agent AI Systems — Lessons from QonQrete
QonQrete is now a file-based local-first agent yard with a real runtime, hardened execution, workspace deployment, and IDE integrations — not just a three-agent diagram.
Read Article →Running K3s on Bare Metal with Ceph — Notes from WoNQstaq_v3
WoNQstaq_v3 is a three-node Hetzner K3s + Ceph yard with GitOps, storage, registry, CI/CD, and observability stacked on owned hardware.
Read Article →Building a Video Generation Pipeline with ComfyUI and Visual FaQtory
Visual FaQtory is currently strongest as a ComfyUI-first local visuals yard: story-driven text2img → img2vid generation, live visuals playout, and QR crowd control.
Read Article →Writing Audio Plugins with JUCE — UltraGlitch BitFucker
UltraGlitch BitFucker is a public JUCE glitch-plugin project now sitting in a real beta state: multi-effect destruction, cross-platform builds, crash guards, and proper build packaging.
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