searchi: Find the Damn File
My local desktop search project combines names, keywords and meaning, with document previews, optional agent access and explicit privacy boundaries.
Karl Machleidt
Curiosity.
Trial. Error.
Security research, self-hosting, and the things I learn by taking things apart.
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How I Use Grok Bot to Automate PAYBACK Coupons and Save Money
How I use Grok Bot for PAYBACK coupons, unit-price comparisons and gift-card rewards, with practical setup instructions and checks before buying.
My AMD GPU Has a New Job: Running llama.cpp Without Guessing What Fits
How I run llama.cpp on an AMD GPU with HIP, verified GGUF weights, a private API and measured context limits instead of optimistic VRAM maths.
Ghostwire: Reading My Own WhatsApp Desktop Without Clicking Through It
How Ghostwire uses a native Windows WebView bridge for local exports and authenticated webhooks, with session, compatibility and queue limits.
I Gave My AI Agents Credentials. I Would Rather Not Give Them All of Them.
How I use self-hosted Infisical, machine identities and selected credential injection for AI tools, with reproducible examples and honest permission boundaries.
I Built a Search Setup That Gives My Local Model Something to Read
Vane, SearXNG and local inference: searchable sources, honest engine failures, document conversion and a reproducible way to check the answers.
Pre-Astro: How I Got My WordPress Cache Above 90%
The caching setup I used before Astro: anonymous HTML at Cloudflare, an origin page cache, Redis limits and tests for private-content bypass.
My Websites Have a Bouncer Now: OPNsense, NAXSI and a Very Particular Block Button
A technical tour of my OPNsense nginx reverse proxy, NAXSI policies, Elastic evidence and guarded n8n response, including tuning, tests and current limitations.
