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Syed Masood Shah

Sep 15

Why I export meeting notes to markdown in 2026

#productivity #ai #windows #localllm

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 15

What real-time video translation needs under the hood (2026)

#ai #localllm #whisper #python

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 15

Your backup isn't a backup until you've tested the restore (2026)

#backup #selfhosted #docker #security

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 15

Q4_K_M vs Q8_0 for your local LLM: what I actually notice (2026)

#ai #localllm #selfhosted #privacy

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 13

Private meeting notes in 2026 stay on your own PC

#privacy #ai #productivity #windows

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 13

What cloud dubbing actually costs vs running it locally (2026)

#ai #localllm #whisper #python

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 13

Self-hosted SIEM vs cloud SIEM: what I learned in 2026

#security #docker #selfhosted #sysadmin

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 13

Run Your Own Private ChatGPT With Open WebUI (2026)

#ai #selfhosted #localllm #privacy

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 11

Meeting notes without a bot joining your call (2026)

#productivity #ai #windows #privacy

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 10

How to Capture Browser Tab Audio for a Local AI Dubber (2026)

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 10

Open source SIEM in 2026 is cheaper than you think

#docker #security #selfhosted #sysadmin

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 10

Local RAG: querying my documents without the cloud (2026)

#ai #selfhosted #llm #privacy

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 9

AI meeting notes vs manual: stop writing, start listening (2026)

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 8

How to Dub Videos Locally: 10-Minute Setup (2026)

#ai #localllm #whisper #python

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 8

A self-hosted security stack isn't a SIEM — it's three layers (2026)

#docker #security #selfhosted #sysadmin

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 8

Ollama vs LM Studio for your home lab (2026)

#ai #selfhosted #privacy #devops

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 7

AI meeting notes cost $20 a month. Mine cost $9 once.

#ai #productivity #windows #opensource

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 5

How to transcribe meetings locally and get action items with owners (2026)

#ai #productivity #windows #localllm

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 5

Whisper Streaming Transcription Without the Cloud (2026)

#ai #whisper #localllm #python

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 5

CrowdSec vs fail2ban: the one I kept on my servers in 2026

#security #selfhosted #docker #sysadmin

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 5

How Much VRAM You Actually Need for a Local LLM (2026)

#ai #localllm #llm #privacy

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 3

A transcript is a record. Minutes are a promise.

#productivity #ai #locallm #windows

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 3

I started learning a language by dubbing films instead of studying

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 3

I check one dashboard in the morning instead of three. That's most of my security ops.

#security #selfhosted #grafana #sysadmin

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 3

I did the math on renting a model vs running one at home. The break-even was embarrassing.

#ai #selfhosted #privacy #docker

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Sep 1

My work laptop has no gaming GPU. It still writes my meeting minutes.

#productivity #ai #windows #localllm

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 31

My dub tool always picked the wrong voice. Here's how pitch solved it.

#ai #localllm #whisper #python

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 31

My SIEM emailed me forty times a day. Now it emails me once a week, and it's usually right.

#security #wazuh #selfhosted #sysadmin

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 31

My whole AI home lab is just a folder of docker-compose files

#selfhosted #docker #openwebui #localllm

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 30

A meeting recording that only hears your half of the call is half a recording

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 29

My live dubber waits a sentence before it talks. That's not a bug, it's the honest one.

#ai #localllm #whisper #python

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 29

We failed a security audit over something we actually had. We just couldn't prove it.

#security #sysadmin #docker #selfhosted

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 29

When our internet died, my local AI didn't notice

#selfhosted #localllm #ai #homelab

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 28

My meeting minutes go out as files now, not a chat bubble nobody scrolls back to

#productivity #ai #localllm #windows

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 26

The model didn't mistranslate the film. It rewrote it.

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Syed Masood Shah

Aug 26

A year of meetings, and my minutes are plain text files on my own disk

#productivity #ai #localllm #windows

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 26

The server got hit and I only knew because a file quietly changed itself

#docker #infrastructure #monitoring #security

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 26

I stopped pasting my company's code into free chatbots. A local model is where it lives now.

#ai #localai #selfhosted #privacy

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 24

Windows won't record its own calls. I fixed it with a loopback instead

#productivity #windows #localllm #ai

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 24

Cloud translation costs me a rent and a delay. My local dubber does neither.

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 24

When the auditor asked if my backups actually worked, I had a screenshot instead of a shrug

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 24

I stopped chasing the one perfect model. Now I run three small ones.

#ai #selfhosted #privacy #openwebui

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 22

I stopped using my meeting app's built-in recorder (compliance nightmare, and it gives you a transcript, not minutes)

#productivity #ai #windows #privacy

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 21

Getting Tab Audio Out of a Browser Was the Hardest Part of My Dubbing Tool

#ai #localllm #whisper #python

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 21

My firewall logs were a scrollable list of bots. I let a shared blocklist do the reading.

#docker #security #selfhosted #sysadmin

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 21

Why I stopped renting a chatbot and run Open WebUI at home instead

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 20

My meeting notes used to be a wall of text no one read. Now they come out as decisions and action items

#productivity #ai #localllm #windows

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 19

A Local Video Dubber, Fully Running, in About Ten Minutes

#localllm #whisper #python #ai

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 19

I stopped trusting automatic backups and started watching them like the operations problem they are

#docker #backups #selfhosted #security

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Syed Masood Shah

Aug 19

I moved my drafting off ChatGPT to a local model. Here's where it's actually good

#localllm #selfhosted #ai #privacy

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 18

The meeting-notes app my boss wanted us to trial uploaded every word. I said no.

#productivity #ai #localllm #windows

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 13

I stopped sending my meeting audio to the cloud — here’s what I built instead

#productivity #localllm #windows #privacy

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 13

The Night My SIEM Paged Me at 2 AM (And Why I Was Glad It Did)

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 13

4-Bit Quantization Made My Old Laptop Useful Again

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 13

How I Learned to Watch Foreign Films Without Subtitles — Using a Dub Tool I Built

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 12

I don't send meeting recordings to the cloud anymore — and it only costs $9

#productivity #windows #privacy #localai

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 11

The hidden engineering problem in real-time movie dubbing: staying synced with playback

#ai #local #dubbing #whisper

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 11

Stop Paying $20/month to rent an AI that knows everything about you

#ai #localllm #selfhosted #privacy

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 11

The $20k/year logging tool I replaced with Docker containers (and saved our small business)

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 11

I built a movie dubber that runs entirely on my PC — no cloud, no API keys, no monthly fees

#ai #localai #dubbing #whisper

4 min read

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