Engineering notes on local AI infrastructure, self-hosted software, and adjacent technical work.https://husarlabs.com/en-gbTue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://husarlabs.com/posts/home-assistant-morning-briefing/https://husarlabs.com/posts/home-assistant-morning-briefing/A door-triggered morning briefing that took three evenings to debug and one line to fix. Notes on layered Cast abstractions and why the working version is shorter than the broken one.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTShaunhttps://husarlabs.com/posts/bitnet-ternary-models/https://husarlabs.com/posts/bitnet-ternary-models/Ternary weight models promise a step change in local inference economics. Microsoft's bitnet.cpp is the most concrete piece of infrastructure to date. A practitioner level read on where it is at and what still needs to happen.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTShaunhttps://husarlabs.com/posts/claude-code-ollama/https://husarlabs.com/posts/claude-code-ollama/Trying to wire a local LLM into Claude Code looks great on paper. In practice, the capability gap is still too wide for it to be a daily driver. A measured negative finding.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTShaunhttps://husarlabs.com/posts/slack-digest-ollama/https://husarlabs.com/posts/slack-digest-ollama/A small Python pipeline that summarises Slack channels overnight using a local LLM and posts the digest to Telegram. No third party AI services in the loop.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTShaunhttps://husarlabs.com/posts/stash-notes/https://husarlabs.com/posts/stash-notes/A frank write up of building a self-hosted notes app with end-to-end encryption, image attachments, and a shopping list mode. The unsexy parts took the longest.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTShaunhttps://husarlabs.com/posts/local-vision-app/https://husarlabs.com/posts/local-vision-app/Object detection with RF-DETR, vision-language reasoning with Gemma, speech transcription with Whisper.js, all served from a Mac Mini M4, all running without the cloud.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTShaunhttps://husarlabs.com/posts/gemma3-mac-mini-m4/https://husarlabs.com/posts/gemma3-mac-mini-m4/What works and what doesn't when you run Gemma 3 on Apple's smallest M4 box with 32GB unified memory, with practical notes on Ollama, Open WebUI, and the VRAM ceiling.Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTShaun