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Whisper & Faster-Whisper: Self-Hosted Speech-to-Text That Actually Works

Whisper & Faster-Whisper: Self-Hosted Speech-to-Text That Actually Works

OpenAI Whisper is genuinely impressive speech-to-text — and you can run it entirely on your own hardware. Add Faster-Whisper into the mix and suddenly you've got transcription that's 4x quicker, uses less VRAM, and doesn't phone home to anyone. Here's how to set it all up without losing your mind.

LiteLLM & vLLM: One API to Rule All Your Models

LiteLLM & vLLM: One API to Rule All Your Models

Your app calls OpenAI, your side project calls Anthropic, your homelab whispers to Ollama — and your codebase looks like a crime scene. LiteLLM and vLLM are the dynamic duo that puts a single sane API in front of every model you'll ever run, local or cloud.

RAG on a Budget: Building a Knowledge Base with Ollama & ChromaDB

RAG on a Budget: Building a Knowledge Base with Ollama & ChromaDB

Stop paying per-token to ask questions about your own documents. This guide walks you through building a fully local RAG pipeline with Ollama and ChromaDB — from Docker Compose to Python code — so your AI can actually know things without hallucinating them.

SBCs in 2026: Homelab on a Budget

SBCs in 2026: Homelab on a Budget

DRAM prices are killing the hobbyist SBC market, but there are still great options. Here's what's worth buying in 2026 for a sub-$200 homelab setup.

Proxmox NAT Bridge: One IP, Many VMs

Proxmox NAT Bridge: One IP, Many VMs

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Run multiple Proxmox VMs and LXC containers behind a single public IP using NAT bridging and iptables port forwarding. Works on Proxmox VE 8 and 9.

EmDash: WordPress Done Right, Finally

EmDash: WordPress Done Right, Finally

Cloudflare rebuilt WordPress from scratch in TypeScript using AI agents. Sandboxed plugins, Astro themes, self-hostable. It's called EmDash and it's actually interesting.

Private Docker Registry with Harbor

Private Docker Registry with Harbor

Stop letting Docker Hub throttle your CI/CD. Run Harbor for RBAC, Trivy scanning, image replication, and a real UI — on infrastructure you control.

Let's Encrypt Without Certbot

Let's Encrypt Without Certbot

Certbot isn't the only ACME client. Explore Caddy, acme.sh, lego, and Step CA — with practical examples for wildcard certs and DNS-01 challenges.