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Thoughts on self-hosted infrastructure, local AI, automation, and building things that respect your privacy.
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.
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, Whisper, 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.
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.