Guides

Hands-on walkthroughs for AI infra, agents, and local LLMs — written for engineers, not analysts.

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Difficulty
ai-agents

Running a Hermes Agent Locally

Set up a function-calling Hermes agent with tool registration and optional memory backend in under 20 minutes.

Intermediate18 min readUpdated 5/30/2026
vps

Hetzner VPS Setup for AI Workloads

Rent and harden a Hetzner Cloud VPS for running local LLMs, agents, or a private inference gateway.

Beginner25 min readUpdated 5/30/2026
local-llm

Run Local LLMs on Mac (Apple Silicon)

Use Ollama and Open WebUI to run quantized language models locally on M1/M2/M3 Macs with Metal acceleration.

Intermediate22 min readUpdated 5/30/2026
notebooklm

NotebookLM: From Zero to Useful in 15 Minutes

Load your documents into NotebookLM and start getting answers, summaries, and audio overviews immediately.

Beginner14 min readUpdated 5/30/2026