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Building in the open

Architecture decisions, setup guides, and honest lessons from running a family server. Follow along as it takes shape.

Building FamilyKit

Local LLMs on a Mac: From Magic to Disappointment

Running Ollama on a Mac Studio for the first time, the grin when local AI just works, and why making it useful for a family is harder than expected.

Building FamilyKit

I Bought a Used Mac Studio to Run Local LLMs

How a LinkedIn post, a Gemini chat, and an impulse buy led to the machine that started FamilyKit.

Building FamilyKit

The €900 NAS I Never Built

A 15-year-old Synology, a phone that was always full, and the lucky hesitation that saved me from building the wrong server.

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