Awesome
Framebuf

Scaffolder by day, IT person for the same crew, and the builder of FrameBuff: a self-owned system that pools your machines, your files and your GPU into one encrypted space you control.

  • Scaffolding · Kim-Hvass STILLADS
  • IT
  • FrameBuff
  • BuffNet
  • Denmark

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I wasn't born with this name.

I chose it. "Framebuf" came off a Windows file, and "Awesome" is something I decided to live up to every day.

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About Awesome Framebuf

I put up scaffolding for a living, run the IT for the company I do it with, and spend the rest of my time building systems I want to own myself.

The nameI picked it, and I keep earning it.

I wasn't born Awesome Framebuf. I chose the name and changed it.

"Framebuf" came from a Windows file, after an error I didn't quite understand at the time. It sounded like a real surname, and a cool one, so I took it.

"Awesome" felt bigger than the name I had before. So I made a deal with myself: become awesome every day and live up to it. It's not a joke name. It's the one I work under, and my mom and my kids carry Framebuf too.

The system I build got the second F: FrameBuff. A frame buffer, and a frame that's buff.

The day jobScaffolding, and the IT behind it.

I work as a scaffolder at Kim-Hvass STILLADS. A lot of it is custom industrial work, building around dense piping where nothing is standard height and every bay gets adjusted by hand.

I'm also the company's IT person. My week splits between scaffolding days and IT days. I built systemstillads.dk, an ordering platform where scaffolders and warehouse staff order materials and tick them off in real time, and I'm setting up an on-site server that runs the platform and doubles as an AI machine for translation and the company's own assistant.

Why FrameBuffI wanted my own AI server, and my data kept at home.

I didn't want to send my context to someone else's server. I wanted it encrypted and in my own hands. I had one big machine with a good GPU and one without, so the first job was sharing that GPU across machines.

That turned into sharing every machine and everything on them, so I can reach all my data from anywhere and never lose a file. Then I added a family layer so the people I trust can share it too. That's FrameBuff.

BuffNet is the bigger swing: a community internet that lives on people's own devices and keeps working where the connection is patchy.

KenyaSome ideas started there.

I've spent time in Kenya. There are small shops and talented people everywhere, and it's hard to find what you need. That's where my marketplace idea comes from, and it's why BuffNet is designed to pass the internet from phone to phone when the signal drops.

The benchWhat it all runs on.

workstation
Lenovo P620 with an RTX 3090, for local models and image and video renders
second box
Lenovo P500 with two GTX 1060s
small nodes
A Celeron mini PC and an Orange Pi 5 with an NPU
front door
A VPS in front, with the real servers at home behind an encrypted tunnel
workshop
3D printer, a big laser cutter for birch and plywood, ESP32 boards, servos and a soldering bench

Also buildingSide projects.

One Last Thing, a digital-legacy service that hands passwords, messages and videos to the people you choose if something happens to you.

A tool where you type any Danish address and it maps the building and calculates the scaffold around it.

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