$ whoami
James Cockerham
Night-shift worker in Lexington, Kentucky, I've been hands-on with PCs since I got my first one at 13. I'm comfortable with hardware, and I teach myself the software that interests me by building, breaking and rebuilding.
What I'm working on
- homelab
A self-hosted home
A Synology NAS running my own cloud, home automation, recipes, AI chat, whiteboards and git server, all over Tailscale.
- local AI
Gufo
A local AI server running Qwen models on an ASUS ROG Flow Z13, shared with the services on my network.
- web app
Locus
“Compiled Map”, a web app I'm building and iterating on.
- family
Cockerham genealogy
Ongoing research into the Cockerham family and its Kentucky roots, at cockerh.am.
How I work
I decide what my setup should do; a team of AI assistants helps me keep track of the details. It lets one person with a night-shift schedule run a surprisingly capable little network, and I learn something every time.