All articles tagged "nostr" : self-hosted AI fixes, setups, and architecture notes.
Emanator is a full Buffer clone for Nostr with Rails, database, and background jobs. Our Python script is 492 lines, zero dependencies. Continuation of the Anti-Slop article: what we borrow, what we don't, and why Sovereign AI often means less code.
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The planning post before the implementation post. FIPS is an open-source mesh protocol with cryptographic identity and transport-agnostic routing. My sovereign AI stack is sovereign at the model and the hardware, and leaks the whole workload at the network boundary. Here is why that gap matters, the five concrete pieces of work I am committing to, and why I write the plan in public before I know if it works.
Six traits I keep seeing across the people who fit the sovereign-engineer description: they argue with specs, name every dependency, default to publishing, plan in decade arcs while shipping weekly, price friction honestly, and gate their optimism. Written from the outside, by the operator who runs the iron the sovereign software eventually touches.
Five posts a week, no marketing department, no template-substitution. Building a Nostr distribution cadence for a self-hosted blog that does not embody what readers can spot in two scrolls.
Run your own Lightning node on an ARM64 Linux box. Five-minute Docker setup, channel opening, sub-wallets via NWC, and the gotchas that x86-only guides skip.
Cipherfox and Hexabella post curated content without human oversight, using Mistral Small 4 on a DGX Spark and a hardened signing service. Here’s how it works today.
Three Nostr identities, a working zap-attribution pipeline, 44 articles live at the time of writing, and after 30 days exactly zero zaps. What I learned about V4V on a small technical blog.
Status snapshot of what is running on this stack today and what is being built next. For returning readers. New here? Read 'Self-Hosted AI: Start Here' first.
A hands-on guide to deploying a self-hosted AI blog with Docker, Astro, and MCP discovery, complete with working code, real-world gotchas, and monetization via Lightning and Nostr.
Learn how to implement Value-4-Value payments in Feedbin using podcast:value tags and the Alby bounty for a zap button.
Learn how to install Alby, receive your first Lightning payment, and become a Nostr power user with Zaps, all without trusting a bank or exchange.
Skip the cloud accounts. Use Alby’s NIP-07 signer to send Bitcoin zaps directly from your browser, no middlemen, no passwords, just your keypair and a Lightning wallet.