Architecture decisions, setup guides, and honest lessons from running a family server. Follow along as it takes shape.
Self-hosted document management for your family, with a memory: a wiki generated from your filed documents, voice memos that become notes, and answers with sources in the family chat.
First tagged release. Photos, documents in chat, local AI on a Mac. It works on my machine, hopefully on yours too.
A DNS server logging timeouts, a TCP stack with no source ports left, and a common Python HTTP pattern hiding underneath. The post-mortem of a home-network incident, and what it says about running your own stack.
Ran OpenClaw with a local 32B model on a Mac Studio M1 Max. Wanted a Jarvis, got a brain-amputated butler. Why it failed, the Mac Mini trap, and what I built instead.
Running Ollama on a Mac Studio for the first time, the grin when local AI just works, and why making it useful for a family is harder than expected.
How a LinkedIn post, a Gemini chat, and an impulse buy led to the M1 Max Mac Studio that became our family server and started the famstack project.
A 15-year-old Synology, a phone that was always full, and the lucky hesitation that saved me from building the wrong server.
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