Infrastructure, security, and the making and breaking of things. Occasional writing from Belgium.https://habeland.com/https://habeland.com/blog/building-a-hardened-ami-factory/https://habeland.com/blog/building-a-hardened-ami-factory/I built a Packer factory that turns out CIS-hardened cloud images on a production line. Here is how it works, and the parts that turned out to be more interesting than the build itself.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://habeland.com/blog/an-npc-that-never-leaves-tamriel/https://habeland.com/blog/an-npc-that-never-leaves-tamriel/Fine-tuning a small local model to play Skyrim NPCs for Mantella, so it stays in character, knows its lore, and has never heard of a phone. What worked, and the two experiments that made it measurably worse.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://habeland.com/blog/a-cloud-gpu-for-your-skyrim-npcs/https://habeland.com/blog/a-cloud-gpu-for-your-skyrim-npcs/I put the lore-locked Skyrim NPC model on a cheap cloud GPU so anyone can run it without owning one. A one-click CloudFormation stack: your own AWS, IP-locked, auto-stops when idle, and it happens to work for any open model.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT