Field notes from Petaluma, CA
What’s on my bench right now.
Field-tested tools, works in progress, and honest verdicts from 25+ years of building in IT. What it cost, how long it took, and whether I’d do it again.
01 / Notes
Latest from the bench
Build log
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I built this site by talking to Claude
No agency, no WordPress expert. Just a voice conversation with Claude and the new Framer connector, with feedback as I went.
Build log
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Running a private LLM on a Jetson AGX Orin
I tried running private speech-to-text and text-to-speech on a 64GB Jetson. It worked, but a one-to-two second delay told me a lot about when local voice AI makes sense.
02 / Projects
Projects and experiments
Including the ones I shelved. Especially those.
matthewsweet.rocks
Live
A fan site for Matthew Sweet that helps send his fans to the GoFundMe for his recovery.
Shelley on exe.dev, hosted on Cloudflare
Covered arena, rendered on site
Prototype
CAD floor plans in, a 3D render of a covered horse arena out, placed right on a photo of the real building site.
ChatGPT
sonomait.com rebuild
Live
My MSP site, rebuilt from a one-page static site into free tools, a blog, and a real lead source.
Shelley on exe.dev (GPT-6.1 Sol), hosted on Cloudflare
Virtual DJ
Live
Retro grayscale turntables in the browser. Load two MP3s, then scratch and mix.
Shelley on exe.dev
Long-term memory for Zo
Prototype
Set up a memory system for Zo Computer using MuninnDB, so it remembers our past conversations.
MuninnDB, Zo Computer
Shelley-cli
Prototype
A terminal interface for exe.dev’s Shelley agent, so I could use it from the command line like Claude Code.
Shelley on exe.dev
03 / Stack
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04 / About
Hi, I’m Dave.
Petaluma native with 25+ years in IT. I run Sonoma IT Solutions, a managed services firm for small businesses, nonprofits, and schools across Sonoma County.
My friend Shane told me to stop texting him every cool new tool and put them somewhere. So here we are.