I’m Doug Cashio. I started in IT in 1996, the year Quake went truly 3D after the brilliant 2.5D worlds of Wolfenstein and Doom. This is my workshop after hours: local AI, original worlds and a few things that fly.
Eagle · A short film
From the ringed horizon to the workshop below. A 36 second film from House Cashio.
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A ringed planet fills the horizon. A ship rests above a lamplit workshop, turns toward the sky and departs into the blue evening. A brass instrument catches the light. We return to the planet and the workshop. The machines can think. You still decide.
Watch Eagle 36 secondsA backup only counts if you can get your files back. This observation checks the integrity of the latest reported snapshots. A recovery rehearsal is a separate test.
Observed October 23, 2026. A new restore rehearsal was not performed.
Read the repair and receipt →Choose what matters. Keep the sources and the unknowns attached. Take the decision brief with you.
Zeus and Apollo are my two servers. Hermes schedules jobs; Atlas is a local model. The experiments below illustrate the routing rules. The dated evidence shows what was actually observed.
Everything you try here runs in your browser; nothing reaches my servers. The evidence section answers from a dated record, and a small copilot marks where a person holds authority.
Open to speaking, mentoring and comparing notes.Say hello →Certifications on Credly ↗
Fly, tinker, watch or read. Each world opens as its own page and brings you right back.
Shape the light, explore the signature or settle into the short film collection.
FEATURED PARODY · 4:59 · VERSION 9
One man. Several providers. No remaining hobbies.
My AI journey since 2022, reimagined as an attempt to ride a very large worm. The worm is AI. The sand is apparently a dependency.
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AI assisted likeness and original meme captions. Scene and soundtrack: Dune: Part Two. Unofficial fan parody.
FROM MY WORKSHOP · INTERACTIVE 3D
Explore the motors, pressure tanks and all ten thrusters in my independent automotive CAD study. Play the cinematic tour or compose your own studio photograph.
Explore Roadster Studio ↗A slow departure over the workshop, into the deep blue evening.
Qualitypicksthemodel.
Costonlybreaksatie.
One choice, one result, about twenty seconds.
Analyze a document and require sources. Now make that document private.
Quality picks the model.
Cost only breaks a tie.
Try the rule: change the task, require sources, then make the input private. Watch which constraint wins.
Choose a question. Change the inputs. See the rule at work.
Choose the work. Add a boundary. See the route.
Choose a task, then follow its five step route.
Change the inputs. See the rule choose a route.
Intent and sources choose the route. Privacy can overrule both.
What wins when intent, evidence requirements, and privacy disagree?Two servers I own, Zeus and Apollo, do the computing. Hermes, my job scheduler, decides where each task goes, and my operator console (DSH) is where I watch and approve. Follow one request across them.
The scheduler was not measured in this probe. A read only refresh was requested from its operator.
October 2026 · Scheduler and routing not measuredThe same request and routing rule as the HERMES experiment.
Continue with these settings in HERMES ↑Ask the evidence console what was observed, or inspect the raw record.
21 of 21 latest reported snapshots passed their integrity check. Observed October 23, 2026.
Snapshot presence and integrity are not proof of recovery.
Read the October 2026 observationA workbench for the things I keep wondering about.
I like systems I can take apart, explain and put back together. This site is where that curiosity meets aviation, science fiction and the pleasure of making something work.
The GitHub and Credly handles use my first name, James. Everyone calls me Doug.
Bring me your trickiest question about local AI, private data or keeping a human in the loop. I am open to speaking, mentoring and comparing notes. The answer is probably not 42.
