Setting Up Your Self-Hosted AI Stack - Part 3: From Receipts to Structured Data with Vision Language Models and n8nIt's Been a While Sorry for being away for so long. I've been head-down strengthening my software engineering foundation—consuming rather than producing. After a while, I started feeling this pull to balance things out by building again. I just finis...Feb 3 · 21 min readtriedandtestedbuilds.com
Setting Up Your Self-Hosted AI Stack - Part 2: Document Processing and RAG with Apache Tika and Qdrant Vector DatabaseWhat we're building today We're adding document processing capabilities to the foundation from Part 1. This extends your chat interface to work with your files and documents. Two key additions make th2FAAug 10, 2025 · 15 min readtriedandtestedbuilds.com
Setting Up Your Self-Hosted AI Stack - Part 1: Building the foundation with Open WebUI, Ollama, and PostgresWhat we're building today By the end of this post, you'll have a fully operational chat interface connected to the LLM of your choice, running completely locally. No external APIs, no data leaving youAug 3, 2025 · 11 min readtriedandtestedbuilds.com
Blue-Green Deployments: Your Ticket to Stress-Free Software ReleasesIntroduction: The Art of Painless Deployments Howdy! I'm back with some fresh insights and experiences to share. This time, we're diving deep into the world of release deployments, with a special focus on a strategy that might just revolutionize your...Aug 25, 2024 · 26 min readtriedandtestedbuilds.com
A Journey Through Software Engineering: Uncovering Insights and Embracing GrowthThe Journey Begins As I sit down to write this, I’ve been navigating the software engineering landscape for almost two years. Now, that might not sound like a lot, but the list of things I’ve picked up along the way could stretch on so long, you’d pr...Feb 14, 2024 · 27 min readtriedandtestedbuilds.com