Step-by-step installation guides for the sovereign AI stack. Tested on NVIDIA DGX Spark.
The honest decision tree for taking a local LLM stack seriously. Hardware tradeoffs I actually made, the inference engine I picked and why, the parts that hurt the most after I started, and the reading path through the rest of this blog.
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Honest minute-by-minute log of building a friend's sovereign-AI workstation from a stock Lenovo with Windows to a fully self-hosted KI-stack with custom dashboard, MCP-routed RAG, and bidirectional cross-tailnet sharing. With the mistakes.
Replace cloud AI coding assistants with opencode, a provider-agnostic Node CLI plus Electron desktop app. Points at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, ships in three frontends. Includes the 2026-05-13 correction on the auto-title-generator Mistral BadRequest gotcha and the JSON-config-only setup syntax.
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.
Why the first Sovereign AI MCP server isn't worth installing yet, but will be once it hits 200 articles and adds specialized tools. An honest MVP/POC critique.
Move your AI stack off cloud servers. This post shows how to migrate a production Sovereign AI blog and MCP server to a €163/year VPS, harden it, and run it with Docker and Caddy, complete with real configs and pitfalls.
A practical guide to setting up a searchable, growing knowledge base using Markdown files, JSON indexing, and local LLMs, no vector stores required.
A hands-on guide to installing and configuring OpenClaw on NVIDIA DGX Spark, switching between cloud and local models, and wiring MCP servers.
Learn how to run a self-hosted MCP server for your blog’s knowledge base, integrate it with OpenClaw and Vibe, and avoid the pitfalls I hit while migrating from cloud to Sovereign AI.
Built a self-hosted MCP, mirrored it to GitHub, listed it on Smithery, hit a perfect quality score before dinner. The exact patches, badges, and pitfalls. Plus an honest take on why a number on a dashboard is not a customer.
A practical guide to running a full content pipeline, writing, generating images, and serving, on your own hardware with Astro, Mistral Small 4, and ComfyUI FLUX.
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.
Run Mistral Small 4 119B on NVIDIA GB10 with SGLang nightly: exact flags, real benchmarks, every gotcha that costs a day
Optimized workflow for running FLUX.1-schnell and Mistral sequentially on NVIDIA DGX Spark with 128GB unified memory
A practical guide to optimizing a self-hosted AI content pipeline with targeted scripts, grep-based validation, and precise flag handling.
Lessons learned from a failed LLM self-review experiment that broke our validation pipeline and how we fixed it with deterministic checks.
A weekly automation pipeline that repairs, updates, and optimizes self-hosted blog articles in place using Mistral and SearXNG.
Learn how to implement Value-4-Value payments in Feedbin using podcast:value tags and the Alby bounty for a zap button.
A detailed guide to deploying Gitea on ARM64 with Docker, SQLite, Tor access, and automated encrypted backups.
Deploy a privacy-respecting AI coding assistant with Mistral Small 4 and SearXNG using Docker on ARM64 hardware.
Turn your Android device into a full terminal for your Sovereign AI Grid with Termux, Tailscale, and tmux for seamless remote access.
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.
Why Swiss precision matters for your Bitcoin self-custody stack: and how to set it up in under 30 minutes without trusting anyone
Deploy a self-hosted WooCommerce stack with one command, full privacy control, and ARM64 support from Raspberry Pi 5 to DGX Spark.
Optimize your cloud costs, secure your login pages, and activate Amazon Associates with this battle-tested webshop setup guide.