A quiet port on the open web

dockyard.navy

Where the cranes run at golden hour and the tide is always going out.

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The manifesto

Small boats, short routes, real cargo.

Ship small things often. Finished beats perfect. Every idea that stays in the drydock rusts, and every idea that leaves the harbor teaches something.

The goal isn't to build a flagship. It's to keep the dock busy.

The cargo

Things that shipped.

Projects built at the dockyard. Some are tools, some are experiments, some are just things that needed to exist. Each one left the harbor.

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Isometric workshop

The Dockyard

A hand-built site with ambient animations and AI-generated isometric artwork. No frameworks, no build step — just markup and motion.

Web
Animated isometric port

Local Image Gen

Training custom style models, generating animations, and running the whole pipeline on local hardware. No cloud APIs, no subscriptions.

AI / ML
Isometric underground vault

Hashed Secrets

Rethinking how credentials are stored and rotated. Hashing where others encrypt, trusting less by default.

Security
Isometric terminal station

Shell Runtimes

Building execution environments that are fast to spin up and hard to escape. Sandboxes, process isolation, and minimal attack surfaces.

Infrastructure
Isometric containment facility

Container Sandboxing

Layering security boundaries around untrusted workloads. Lightweight isolation without the overhead of full virtualization.

Infrastructure
Isometric home server room

Home Lab

A local-first server for GPU compute, model inference, and experimentation. Everything runs at home before it ships anywhere else.

Hardware
The stack

What runs in the engine room.

The dockyard is built on local-first tools wherever possible. Your data stays on your machines. Your models run on your GPUs. The cloud is for shipping, not for thinking.

  • Local inference
  • Image generation
  • Style training
  • Animation
  • Container isolation
  • GPU compute
  • Static hosting
  • Sandboxed runtimes
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The log

Signals from the lighthouse.

Notes, writeups, and dispatches from the dockyard. Things learned while building, breaking, and shipping.

Teaching a model your style

How a small dataset and the right captions can distill a visual identity into a reusable weight file. Trade-offs, surprises, and results.

Writeup

Animations on a budget

Generating motion from still-image models on consumer hardware. Where the VRAM limits bite and how to work around them.

Writeup
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Isometric illustration of a cargo ship sailing through open ocean at sunset