Sovereign

Building a Local-First AI Stack on Mac M-Series

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Building a Local-First AI Stack on Mac M-Series There are two kinds of people in tech today: those who rely entirely on cloud AI… and those who build their own stack, tune their own tools, and sleep better knowing everything runs under their roof. I’ve lived long enough in this industry to see the pendulum … Read more

Why Technical Sovereignty Matters in 2026

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men using computers terminal cyberpunk style

There’s a quiet war happening in tech right now. On one side, there’s the corporate machine: subscription-only tools, vendor lock-in, opaque AI pipelines, and dashboards designed to look “clean” while hiding all the internals that actually matter. On the other side, you have something I care about deeply: technical sovereignty. Owning what you run. Knowing … Read more