Artificial Intelligence - Jon DePalma

Artificial Intelligence

Self-Sovereign Identity for the Agentic Age

Machine identities now outnumber human employees by a staggering 82 to 1. We are populating a digital workforce that operates at machine speed, without an effective way to provide scalable identity and security. My solution: The didlite decentralized self-sovereign identity utility.

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Part 3: The Final Layer – Hosting Ghost & The Great Migration

The blog is live! My Pi Cluster implementation has been live and stable for two months. Ghost is configured and cut over to my production domain, and I’ve been actively developing applications.

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Part 2: Services, Services, Everywhere!

The concept has become reality. I am hosting real services from a three-node Raspberry Pi cluster. I have traffic flowing through Cloudflare and routed to K3s services without needing to set up port-forwarding or complex router configurations.

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Blogging with Google Gemini

Building a Kubernetes cluster on a stack of Raspberry Pi 5s is the technical grunt work. But turning my build into a readable blog series? That’s where the real creative pain starts. Turns out, I could continue my AI experiment, which is how my content planning partnership with Gemini took off.

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Part 1: Core Cluster Hardware Build and Initial Install

First was to refine Claude’s over-engineered solution into something focused and manageable. I need space to develop apps, I want to self-host some sites and blogs, and I want to be able to publish projects. Ultimately, Claude arrived at a more straightforward and simplified approach.

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The Cluster Chicken & Egg: How to Blog About a Server That Doesn't Exist

My entire goal for this project is to self-host everything, including the blog you're reading right now, on a Raspberry Pi 5 K3s cluster. That presents a small, hilariously meta problem: How do I blog about building the server when the server hosting the blog doesn't exist?

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The Spark - Why I'm Building a Raspberry Pi 5 Cluster for AI & Blogging

You know how it starts? A simple thought that doesn't go away. So I started a Claude Project, and issued a prompt: could I actually build a tiny, personal data center on my desk using just a few Raspberry Pi 5s?