Journal

My journey through
the lands of local AI.

A publication dedicated to sharing stories, scripts, and blueprints for building high-performance AI systems. Join our journey below.

Automation Sep 25, 2026

Giving Ultron Super Powers: VPS, Hermes, and N8N

The finale — connecting Ultron to the world with nginx, Hermes, n8n, and making AI useful every day.

Tooling Sep 15, 2026

Ollama, HuggingFace, DS4, and the Apple privilege — how tooling finally caught up with hardware and Ultron was born.

Architecture Sep 9, 2026

How Apple accidentally built the perfect local inference machine — unified memory, DS4, and why I started flirting with Cupertino.

Hardware Sep 4, 2026

Hardware misconceptions, the AMD experiment that failed, and the Docker GPU facepalm that cost two months of inference time.

Hardware Aug 19, 2026

How rising API costs and a late-night shopping spree led to building Ultron — and the discovery that local AI is cheaper, easier, and already here.

Architecture Aug 16, 2026

Why I split my AI between a local Mac and a cloud VPS — and why neither could do the job alone.

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