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Thoughts on self-hosted infrastructure, local AI, automation, and building things that respect your privacy.
Building a 24-Service Homelab on a $400 NAS
How I replaced $300/month in cloud subscriptions with a TerraMaster F2-424 running Docker.
My Local LLM Stack: Running AI Without the Cloud
LM Studio, Ollama, WhisperX, Qdrant, and AnythingLLM: a complete local AI infrastructure on consumer hardware.
80 Workflows Later: How n8n Replaced My Entire SaaS Stack
From document ingestion to morning briefings, how self-hosted automation eliminated dozens of paid tools.
The Digital Brain: A Self-Hosted Personal Knowledge Management System
Obsidian, Paperless-ngx, Qdrant, and n8n wired together into a single searchable knowledge layer.
SolScribe vs Cloud Transcription: Why Self-Hosted Wins
Cloud transcription services charge per minute, store your audio on their servers, and can change terms overnight. Here's how SolScribe delivers the same features on hardware you control.
MCP Servers: Teaching My AI Assistant to Talk to My Homelab
Building Model Context Protocol servers that let Claude search documents, trigger workflows, and check service health.