When I joined the Rowan Amateur Radio Society, the club website ran on WordPress. It worked — until it didn’t, which is the whole problem with WordPress. So I rebuilt it as a static Hugo site and paired it with an AI maintenance workflow, on purpose, so that the next volunteer doesn’t have to be me. The whole thing is...

An Elmer, in ham speak, is a mentor — the experienced operator who answers your dumb questions and gets you on the air. I’m lucky to have real ones. But I’m also an AI engineer with a rack of hardware running large language models in my house, so I’m running an experiment: can a local LLM be a useful second Elmer — a...