Guides
8 articles
How to Run DeepSeek Locally with Ollama
A step-by-step 2026 guide to running DeepSeek-R1 locally with Ollama: install, pull a model, and chat in about ten minutes. Includes a registry-checked download-size table with VRAM guidance, the distilled-vs-full caveat most guides skip, model management, the local API, and troubleshooting.
How to Build a Local LLM Server with Ollama and Open WebUI
A complete, copy-pasteable guide to running a private ChatGPT-style assistant on your own machine with Ollama and Open WebUI. Covers honest hardware sizing, install steps for macOS/Windows/Linux, the Docker setup, the port binding most guides get wrong, and the networking fix that trips everyone up.
ComfyUI Workflows Explained: Load, Run, and Customize
A practical, end-to-end guide to ComfyUI workflows built around three verbs: load a workflow JSON, run the node graph, and customize it. Covers the three ways to load, the missing-custom-nodes wall that stops most downloaded workflows, and when you'd need API format.
OpenClaw: Set Up a Self-Hosted AI Assistant (Beginner Guide)
OpenClaw is an open-source, self-hosted AI assistant you run on your own machine and talk to through chat apps like Telegram and WhatsApp. This beginner guide walks through prerequisites, install, onboarding, connecting a WhatsApp channel, picking a model, and the safety basics for a tool that runs real shell commands.
How to Set Up a Python Virtual Environment with uv
uv replaces venv, pip, and virtualenv with one fast Rust binary. This guide walks through installing uv, creating a virtual environment with uv venv, installing packages, and when to move up to uv's project workflow.
How to Install ComfyUI: A Beginner Step-by-Step Guide
A beginner-friendly, first-try install guide for ComfyUI — the free, open-source node interface for Stable Diffusion and Flux. Covers the one-click Desktop installer, the Windows Portable build, and a manual git install, plus hardware requirements and fixes for the errors beginners hit.
Running Qwen-Image on an Apple Silicon Mac: Low-VRAM Setup and Real Performance
A first-person field report on running Qwen-Image-2512, a 20B text-to-image model, on an M5 MacBook Pro with 32 GB of unified memory. It covers the memory math that forces quantization, a working ComfyUI/GGUF setup, the settings that matter, and the honest speed trade-offs.
How to Self-Host n8n with Docker Compose on a VPS
A 2026 production guide to self-hosting n8n on a VPS with Docker Compose: official images, PostgreSQL, external task runners, automatic HTTPS via Caddy, and a backup routine that protects your encryption key. Updated for the n8n 2.0 hardening release and the March 2026 RCE disclosures.