Self-Hosting

Self-hosting the open-source MaxKB knowledge-base tool at home, and pointing it at a Qwen-backed model for Chinese-language documents.

Pairing a consumer GPU running local Llama 3 with Open WebUI and One API to combine local and remote models behind one interface.

Wiring up Obsidian’s Whisper plugin to the free Cloudflare-backed OpenAI API from the previous post.

Obsidian’s sync to Typecho doesn’t support custom fields over XML-RPC, so I patched the theme instead.

Adding a caching plugin for faster page loads, plus wiring up Google Analytics.

Some hands-on experiments with un-tuned open models, and a few thoughts on where the real value in LLM products actually sits.

Getting Immich running on a home NAS and bulk-uploading years of photos with the CLI.