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Builds, guides, and experiments from the shop.
InfoForge: Offline Wikipedia as a RAG Source for My Local AI Agents
All of English Wikipedia — 19.19 million entries, 52.69 GB, no internet — sitting behind a search index my AI agents query in milliseconds. Every answer cites its articles, and when it can't find one it says so instead of guessing.
StudioForge: A GPU-Only LLM Server That Replaced LM Studio on My Rig, Run Remotely by My Agents
I wrote the model server I wanted: an OpenAI-compatible llama.cpp gateway on port 1234 that plans VRAM before it loads, refuses a model rather than spilling it to the CPU, pins the ones that must stay warm, and publishes 29 MCP tools so an agent on another machine runs the whole rig. Free download, source on GitHub.
OpenClaw Model Manager: a GUI so I stop hand-editing model routing JSON
A GTK4 desktop app that edits the config deciding which AI model every agent in my local stack talks to. Safe writes, dead-model checks, and one-click Claude Code rerouting without hand-written systemd files.
ArkVault: A BorgBackup GUI Where the Drive Rebuilds Your Linux Box
A free GTK4 front end for BorgBackup that writes a guided restore kit onto the drive itself, so a bare Linux install can rebuild your dotfiles, SSH keys, and services — I ran the restore drill for real.
MailForge: A Local-LLM Email Assistant That Reads Your Mail, Writes the Reply, and Never Sends It
A self-hosted email triage assistant: an IMAP listener, a local model, and a drafts queue. It classifies, labels and writes the reply — then stops. Sending is a human click, always. Free, MIT, download below.
My OpenClaw Setup: One Box That Can Make Websites
One Linux mini PC runs OpenClaw agents that write, build, and publish my websites through a gated, backed-up deploy pipeline — every deploy dry-runs first, backs up the server, and waits for my go-ahead.
Eight AI Agents, One AMD Box: My Local Agent Stack (OpenClaw)
Eight named AI agents live on one mini PC in my house — a dispatcher, a hard thinker, a local workhorse, a vision bot — with DeepSeek's cheap API doing the heavy lifting for about $24 a month.
DisPatch: A Self-Hosted Chat App for Local AI Agents
A locally hosted LLM chat app, file server, and terminal — available on every device in the house at all times. The ~720KB app I built to replace a 30-container Rocket.Chat install.
DeepSeek Harness (dsh): I Installed DeepSeek's Open-Source Coding Agent, Wired It Into My Chat App, and Benchmarked It
DeepSeek shipped an MIT-licensed coding agent on August 13. Five days later it runs on my Bluefin box as a systemd service, sits next to Reasonix in DisPatch, and passed 15/15 tasks on three models — including a local one. Setup, numbers, gotchas.
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Running AI on your own hardware — local LLMs, agents, and image generation. No subscriptions, no cloud, no computer-science degree.
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Cutting, engraving, and the occasional small fire. Each post has the details, process, and settings you need to duplicate it yourself.
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Small apps and utilities I built and actually use. Free downloads for personal use, source included.