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Casual tech for builders, sysadmins, and the perpetually curious. Local AI, Linux, automation, and working notes from real sessions.
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Build Your Own Oracle
Use local AI with your document library. Learn how retrieval, pinned source files and answer checks fit together.
Teaching AI Something It Was Never Trained On
Hands-on RAG: give a local AI a brand-new language it has never seen and watch retrieval do the work. Retrieval supplies the new material without retraining the model.
Build Your Own Chatbot with Magidonia-24B
Companion chatbot on your hardware: model choice, quantizations, character cards, Open WebUI wiring.
Running OpenClaw Locally with Ollama on Apple Silicon
Locally hosted assistant on Mac silicon: install, models, hardening notes, performance.
Open WebUI: Your Local ChatGPT
Docker Open WebUI + Ollama, agents, vision models, all on your machine.
Claude Code + Local Ollama
Agentic coding CLI with local models: config, context limits, terminal power-user flow.
AI Companion Creation
Local LLM companions: character design, consistent voice, prompt patterns on your hardware.
Local Vision LLM Content Moderation
Image review pipeline with local vision models and structured pass/fail decisions.
Local Stable Diffusion
AUTOMATIC1111 on your hardware: SDXL, tagging, prompt weighting, practical examples.