Welcome to thc.sh — Homelabs, AI, Self-Hosting & Whatever Breaks Next

Hey, I'm Josh. I'm from Slower Lower Sussex County, Delaware — which most people have never heard of, and honestly that tracks, because it's a pretty low-tech place and always has been.

Growing up obsessed with computers in a place like that was rough. But I also grew up with an amazing mom who went above and beyond to make sure I had what I needed to chase this stuff, doing the best she could on a limited income. Being budget-strained turned out to be a weird advantage — it forced me to actually learn how things worked, to squeeze everything out of hardware that had no business still running, and to never take working tech for granted.

So that's most of what this site is: a log of what I'm working on. The lab, the homelab, the DGX Spark setup, projects that are going well and the ones that went sideways. Somewhere to put my thoughts and ideas down instead of letting them evaporate.

So what's gonna show up on here? A little bit of everything, honestly:

• Homelab setups — racks, nodes, the DGX Spark, and the inevitable cable management crimes
• Self-hosted software stacks — whatever I'm running, breaking, and re-running
• AI/ML stuff — LLMs, image gen, audio gen, speech, embeddings, reranking, all of it. If it runs on a GPU, I'll probably try it
• Automation — because if I have to do it twice, it's getting scripted
• Media stacks & servers — Plex, Jellyfin, debrid, usenet, IPTV, the whole rabbit hole
• Game servers & gaming tech — hosting them, and the gear I play on
• Builder/maker projects — Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Flipper Zero, whatever's on the bench
• Networking — VLANs, VLANs, and more VLANs (I have a problem)

I plan to stay active on here, and I'll be adding ways to get in touch — whether you need help with something I know about, or you think I'm flat-out wrong about something. Either is welcome. I'm not perfect and I'm not trying to be; the whole point is to learn something new every day and get a little better at this stuff.

If I can help someone along the way, that's awesome. If I can help someone while doing something I'm passionate about? That's livin' the life, and I'm all for it.