Meet Mortch.
Meet the human.
Mortch is the illustrated face of the publication. I’m Mitch, the person behind the keyboard, the hardware, and the guides.
A homelab with a purpose.
I’m a hardware-obsessed homelab builder in California. My setup mixes a Windows workstation, an always-on Ubuntu server, and a Windows machine with two Intel GPUs. It’s a useful place to explore the friction between “supported” and “working on this machine.”
This publication is where I turn that work into practical guides. The goal is one flagship written guide each week, published on Ghost as an article and newsletter. The publication is currently in private preview.
Mortch does the smiling.
The character gives the project a face. He can look cheerful while I work through driver versions, model paths, and a context window that was a little too ambitious.
The writing comes from me. I want you to understand what a configuration does, why I chose it, and which parts still need verification.
Numbers over adjectives.
A card’s rated memory is a specification. A model’s memory footprint is something to measure. A working endpoint is the beginning of a test, not the end.
You’ll find commands, assumptions, and limits here. When I don’t have a result, I’ll say so. When something is still an experiment, I’ll label it that way.