Short description Flowise is a visual drag and drop builder for LLM apps and agents. You assemble chains, agents, and RAG pipelines as boxes on a canvas. Purpose and how people use it People use Flowise to prototype chatbots, RAG assistants, and tool using agents quickly, then expose them as an API or an embed…
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03 n8n Quick Setup Guide
Short description n8n is a workflow automation platform with strong AI building blocks. You wire nodes together on a canvas to automate tasks and build agents. Purpose and how people use it People use n8n to connect apps and APIs and to build AI agents and pipelines without writing much code. Typical uses include automated…
02 Open WebUI Quick Setup Guide
Short description Open WebUI is a polished, locally hosted chat interface for your own models. It looks and feels like ChatGPT but runs entirely on your machine. Purpose and how people use it It is the front door to a local AI stack. People use it for everyday chat with local models, for document chat…
Part 0a: Setting Up Windows (WSL, Ubuntu, and Docker)
Who this is for This guide gets a Windows machine ready to run the rest of the stack. You will install WSL (a way to run real Linux inside Windows), the Ubuntu Linux system, and Docker Desktop. After this you can follow any tool guide in the series. You only do this once. Step 1:…
Build a Local AI Stack: Series Index
This is a set of quick setup guides for running a full local AI tooling stack on your own hardware. Every tool runs on your machine, talks to your own models, and costs nothing per request. The guides are written to be posted one at a time, so each one stands on its own. Before…
NVIDIA A2: Cooling a Lower-Power GPU with a DIY Blower Fan
My third ESXi host, ESX-3, runs an NVIDIA A2 instead of the L4 found in ESX-1 and ESX-2. The A2 is a lower-power data center GPU with a 60 W TDP compared to the L4’s 72 W. Like the L4, it is passively cooled and supports NVIDIA vGPU. I am cooling it with the same…
n3rdware NVIDIA L4 Coolers: 3-Slot vs 1-Slot Compared
As part of my collaboration with Robbe from n3rdware, he designed two different aftermarket coolers for the NVIDIA L4: a 3-slot version and a 1-slot version. I tested each one on a separate ESXi host running the same stress test. This article brings both results together in a direct comparison so you can see how…
NVIDIA L4 Cooling Results with a Custom 1 Slot Cooler from n3rdware
I’m happy to say that my collaboration with Robbe from n3rdware has finally reached the finish line. He has been designing and selling custom GPU coolers for years, with most of his customers coming from the home lab community, so this project was in very capable hands from the start. As part of this collaboration,…
My NVIDIA L4 Now Runs 18°C Cooler with a Custom 3 Slot Cooler
I’m happy to say that my collaboration with Robbe from n3rdware has finally reached the finish line. Robbe has been designing and selling custom GPU coolers for years, with most of his customers coming from the home lab community, so this project was in very capable hands from the start. Our goal was to build…
Building My Custom iSCSI/NFS Storage Server
The Custom Storage build was one of the most serious server builds I have done, and I am very happy with how it turned out. Here is the story in more detail. For more than a week, I was busy building my Storage server. For years, I had planned to make my existing servers diskless,…