I'm Walid, a product builder based in Paris. I take ideas from the first sketch to production: my own tools, and cloud and generative AI systems for the companies I work with. I also run a homelab. This is where I write about all of it.
A self-hosted Paperless-ngx where a vision model reads every page and AI agents file documents, attach receipts to bank transactions and answer questions, plus a 12-model benchmark.
Presto, a self-hosted activity report tool for freelancers: mark worked days on a calendar, export the monthly PDF, or let an AI agent do it over MCP.
How my homelab deploys from git: Compose projects on one VM per trust tier, a container that pulls main every minute and applies only commits I signed.
My homelab today: one Proxmox host in a 16U rack, Docker Compose apps on one VM per trust tier, network tiers like a cloud VPC, and Tailscale as the only door.
How coding agents write my homelab: the AGENTS.md files and skills they follow, the guardrails, the incidents that became rules, and the risk I accept.
