I’m Don Cruver, a software engineer building and tinkering since the mid-90s. I work in data science, AI, and software integration.

I believe in data sovereignty—owning your infrastructure, your data, and your tools. Most of my projects reflect that—running local AI on secondhand datacenter hardware, self-hosting health metrics, building systems that don’t depend on someone else’s cloud.

Right now I’m running a pair of AMD MI60 GPUs for local inference, capable of running 70B parameter models at home. I track my own health data—ketones, blood pressure, labs—in a self-hosted InfluxDB instance. The homelab underneath it all runs Proxmox, k3s, and OPNsense on ZFS storage. I’m also researching coordinated information operations and building tools to detect narrative campaigns.

This site itself is part of my second brain—notes captured in org-roam, published via ox-hugo, and hosted on my own terms.

Why “Hullabalooing”? It sounds like a made-up word, but it’s real—it means making a commotion. This site is a collection of various projects, each making its own kind of noise.

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