Notes from the Field
I'm Lee: a Techie, a '90s Nerd, a Car Guy, a Father, and a Husband. Any job title runs sixth. The Techie and Car Guy parts do the writing: helping big companies move big workloads, HomeLabbing, and whatever's up on jack stands in the garage. All of it ends up here.
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| 08/16/26 | Garage Research |
Matrix headlights on a Palladium Model S or X: what the light actually needs from the car, why the connector changed, why the Model 3 gets this without an ad...
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| 08/09/26 | Garage Research |
FSD v14 Lite is cooking HW3 computers, and nobody who has watched the platform is surprised. The three computers in a Tesla, the wattage and packaging math b...
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| 08/05/26 | Research |
What happened when I pointed a small raid group of AI agents at 200+ backlog items and told them to verify every claim against the actual code.
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| 08/02/26 | Lab Research |
Bringing up a 16 GB NVIDIA A2 in a Lenovo SE350 edge server: GPU Operator, KAITO, Dynamo with a vLLM worker, and every gotcha between power-on and the first ...
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| 08/01/26 | Work Research |
How I built an agentic harness around my job search (the resume pipeline, the fact-checked record, the voice profile) so the human hours go to networking, in...
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| 07/26/26 | Work |
The honest decision tree I walk enterprises through when the virtualization renewal lands and the number has changed.
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| 07/22/26 | Work Lab |
Why I drove my own servers to a customer site, ran Azure Local and AKS on hardware that was never on the validated list, and left them there for half a year.
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| 07/12/26 | Garage Research |
A three-year-ish quest through Tesla's parts catalog: TW01 harnesses, unicorn cars, a relabeled part after a six-month wait, and the hybrid jumper harness I'...
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| 06/28/26 | Garage |
How making one adapter harness for my own headlight retrofit turned into a tiny parts operation, and what running it taught me about QA, group buys, and stan...
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| 06/15/26 | Lab |
The full setup guide: an isolated lab, VS Code Remote Tunnels, GitHub Copilot in agent mode, and the skill-building that turns an AI into a competent junior ...
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| 06/07/26 | Work |
A week at Microsoft Build on the San Francisco waterfront: proctoring Lab 510, booth duty for Azure Linux, Satya and Jensen sharing a stage, and my first rid...
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| 05/31/26 | Garage |
From an F250 nav unit in a 2010 Escape, to a factory tow package on a Lincoln MKT, to Tesla gateway configs: one instinct, three generations of vehicle archi...
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