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TL;DR This site is deliberately boring infrastructure for a reason: Hugo generates static HTML with the PaperMod theme. Terraform manages AWS (S3, CloudFront, Route53, ACM). GitHub Actions and self-hosted k3s runners deploy on every push to main. An AI pipeline (Bedrock + a Python script) drafts articles into Hugo page bundles and opens PRs for review. There’s no dynamic backend, no database, no server to maintain. The AWS bill is ~$30/month. This post is a tour of the machine that prints the other posts. ...

TL;DR Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is 15 GB. RealVisXL is 6.5 GB. Throw in a few LoRAs and a VAE, and your SSD hits the wall fast. I run a MinIO bucket as the long-tail model store, sync it to a local overflow directory on a 30-minute schedule via rclone, and register both the hot (SSD) and cold (synced overflow) paths in ComfyUI’s extra_model_paths.yaml. Models appear transparently; the loader searches both tiers. A fresh model lands in MinIO, appears locally within 30 minutes, and ComfyUI finds it without any manual shuffling. ...