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stevemurch.com is the personal blog and project portfolio of Steve Murch, a Seattle-based tech entrepreneur. The site collects his original writing and build logs across technology, maker projects, hobbies, and occasional political commentary. If you want practical primers on running AI models locally, notes on hardware tinkering, or write-ups of small software products he has shipped, this is where he publishes them. It is a single-author site, not a company or news outlet, so the value is in first-person project detail rather than broad coverage.
Who is Steve Murch?
The site's own tagline describes him as "tech entrepreneur – seattleite – dad – ms – mba." That framing matches the content: a founder-type operator who writes about what he is building and testing, often with a family or home-life angle (a closet weather display, a shared vacation-home calendar). The "MS" and "MBA" in the tagline are presented as credentials without further expansion on the homepage, so treat them as background rather than as the basis for any professional advice.
What kinds of posts are on the site?
Posts are organized under categories, and the mix is deliberately wide. The homepage excerpt shows these sections and recent entries:
| Category | Example post | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| QR Codes | "5 Ways to Turn Your Presentation into a Conversation" | Using his live polling service PollQR to make talks interactive |
| Tech | "Primer: How To Run AI Models Locally" | Running a capable AI model on your own laptop, what Hugging Face is, how model files and runtimes fit together, plus a step-by-step quickstart |
| Hobbies & Fun | "Flip 7 Card Game: Optimal Strategies" | Simulating the card game in Python to find optimal play |
| QR Codes | "Event Organizers: Run Competitions Easily with PollQR." | "Rate this Booth" competitions with jury dashboards and leaderboards |
| Maker Projects | "Weather Display Screen for Closet" | A battery-powered e-paper display that suggests what to wear based on current conditions and a 48-hour forecast |
| Politics and News | "The Ferry Is Free" | A short piece of fiction or commentary set in 1980 |
| Vacation Rentals | "Shared Vacation Home Calendar App on iPhone" | OurSharedPlace, a shared vacation home calendar app for iPhone and iPad |
| Maker Projects | "Building a Water Tank Monitor for an Off-Grid Wellhouse" | A water tank measuring system built from two ESP32 LoRa devices |
| Politics and News | "Washington State Income Tax: New Voters Guide Uses AI to Read the Tea Leaves on Jud…" | AI-assisted analysis of a state tax measure |
The through-line is that most posts document something the author actually made or tried, often with the reasoning and the snags included.
How should you read it?
- For a how-to: Start with the Tech and Maker Projects categories. The AI-models-locally primer is explicitly framed as a primer with a quickstart, so it is meant to be followed rather than skimmed.
- For product context: The PollQR and OurSharedPlace posts double as launch notes for his own tools, so read them as maker's documentation, not neutral reviews.
- For lighter material: Hobbies & Fun and Politics and News are the least instructional sections; the Flip 7 post is a personal experiment, and the political pieces are opinion or fiction.
One caveat worth stating plainly: because this is one person's blog, claims about tools, prices, or technical setups reflect his own experience at the time of writing. The site's homepage does not list pricing for PollQR or OurSharedPlace, so do not assume any of the products mentioned are free — check the individual product pages if cost matters to you.
When is this site useful to you?
It is a good fit if you want a concrete, first-person account of running AI models on your own hardware, wiring up ESP32 sensors, or building small apps for household and event use. It is a poor fit if you need authoritative, up-to-date reference material on those topics, since posts are dated and written from a single practitioner's viewpoint.