Notes from the workshop.
Tutorials, deep dives, and honest comparisons from building a private photo stack. We'll post roughly weekly once we launch — the first pieces are being written now.
In the works
Turn an old tablet into an Immich photo frame
The full recipe: which tablets work best, mounting ideas, and a setup that survives reboots and Wi-Fi blips.
Local AI captions with LM Studio
Captioning and tagging twenty years of photos without a single byte leaving your machine — models, speed, and honest quality notes.
Photo frames in 2026: subscriptions vs. self-hosted
What the subscription frames actually charge over five years, and what it takes to own the whole stack instead.
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