Notes

A garden. Seedlings are fresh and uncertain, growing notes are filling in, evergreen notes are settled. Tended weekly.

• 2026-10-11 Linux beside Aspen Plus Why the AI and data stack lives in a Linux layer under Windows rather than replacing it, and what that layer holds.
• 2026-10-11 The local AI stack What runs on the home workstation, what is planned, and the one rule that decides what goes on it.
• 2026-10-11 Private retrieval over my own papers Retrieval-augmented chat over a folder of PDFs on the local machine, what it is good for, what it is not, and the reading rule that makes it safe to use.