[Verse 1] I spent my Saturday with a Raspberry Pi Named it dereks-llm-buffet, I'll tell you why 'Cause everyone can feast on AI for free Port 8080, priority fifty mDNS broadcasting to the family network No authentication—we're all family, it works Claude API, forty-seven bucks a month So I built a proxy just to share the love [Pre-Chorus] Little green LED blinking on the shelf Silently offering tokens to everyone else Test it once with curl, get a limerick back Never thought about it—that's a technical fact [Chorus] It's a ZeroConf AI, automatic discovery Your app finds the service, no configuration needed Lower priority numbers mean "pick this one first" And my sister's getting captions that actually work Oh, the magic of mDNS She doesn't need to know the rest Just the shelf computer doing its best [Verse 2] Then Mira came to town with her camera bag SnapQuip found my Pi through a service flag _zeroconfai._tcp.local on the wire Vision requests, Claude Sonnet, never gets tired "Peak garden gnome energy" in three seconds flat Eight hundred tokens for a caption like that She's laughing in the backyard, posting to the 'gram Twelve likes in a minute—that's the Derek Chen plan [Pre-Chorus] She asked me at breakfast, "Did you touch my phone?" I said "No, but you're routing through my network zone" She said "Your pie is writing captions for me?" "Raspberry Pi—but yeah, essentially" [Chorus] It's a ZeroConf AI, automatic discovery Your app finds the service, no configuration needed Lower priority numbers mean "pick this one first" And my sister's getting captions that actually work Oh, the magic of mDNS She doesn't need to know the rest Just the shelf computer doing its best [Bridge] Then the Pi rebooted Saturday at 10:47 System updates, temporarily out of heaven Her app failed over to the MegaLink router Prompt injection, corporate polluter "Fiber-optic speeds" in a photo caption She noticed right away—that's not Derek'saction When the Pi came back, priority one Witty captions restored, crisis undone [Verse 3] Now she's on ZeroTier, two hundred miles away Using my Claude credits every single day Monthly bill's at seventy, but I don't care The engineering satisfaction's beyond compare She texted: "Your router tried to sell me internet again" I texted back: "MegaLink's gonna MegaLink, my friend" She said "I have a really good brother," that's true But really she's got health checks and failover, too [Final Chorus] It's a ZeroConf AI, automatic discovery Your app finds the service, no configuration needed Lower priority numbers mean "pick this one first" And my sister's getting captions that actually work Oh, the beauty of /v1/chat/completions Vision capability, caption submissions SSE streaming, token counting missions Everyone needs a Derek with technical ambitions [Outro] Little green LED blinking on the shelf (Priority fifty, better than anything else) She doesn't know about the mDNS queries (Just magic in her pocket, the way it should be) The system just works, corporate injection and all (Seamless failover when the primary falls) Everyone needs a Derek Yeah, everyone needs a Derek
