Travis Metcalf · home-lab & AI engineering
A personal platform of self-hosted apps — an AI-scored intelligence reader, a commute predictor with a native iOS app, security scanning, an LLM gateway over local and cloud models — sharing one design language, one set of operating patterns, and one very small maintenance budget. The budget stays small because AI does real work here: scoring content in production, running as budgeted agents, and pairing on the engineering itself. This site documents how the pieces fit.
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The apps themselves: what each one does, the stack it runs on, and what building it taught the rest of the platform.
See the projects →02
The architectural decisions that repeat across every project — edge security, deploy shape, monitoring axes, and the reasoning behind each — written down once, as decisions with dates.
Read the patterns →03
The dusk & cream design language: one crimson accent, editorial serif/sans type, and a token layer plain enough to skin React, Python templates, a themed third-party app, and an iOS build alike.
Browse the tokens →