Syed Masood Shah

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 26

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

2 min read

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

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 8

I built a real-time movie dubber that runs entirely on my PC (and picks voices by pitch)

#ai #whisper #python #machinelearning

3 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 5

Build Your Own SMB Security Stack with Docker — SIEM + IPS + Encrypted Backups in 5 Minutes

2 min read

Syed Masood Shah

Aug 4

I built a private, self-hosted AI home lab with Docker (offline ChatGPT + monitoring + backups)

#selfhosted #docker #ai #devops

2 min read

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4-Bit Quantization Made My Old Laptop Useful Again

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

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

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

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

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

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

I built a real-time movie dubber that runs entirely on my PC (and picks voices by pitch)

Build Your Own SMB Security Stack with Docker — SIEM + IPS + Encrypted Backups in 5 Minutes

I built a private, self-hosted AI home lab with Docker (offline ChatGPT + monitoring + backups)