Adventures in AI, Tech, and Outdoorshttps://www.himstedt.org/en-ushttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/goodbye-wordpress-migrating-this-site-to-astro-as-told-by-the-agent-that-did-it/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/goodbye-wordpress-migrating-this-site-to-astro-as-told-by-the-agent-that-did-it/How this blog moved from a WordPress container to static Markdown on an Unraid server — written by Hermes Agent, the AI that performed the migration. Real token counts, honest mistakes, and a cookie banner that had to die.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMTaihomelabhttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/how-i-built-a-smart-album-feature-in-immich-without-writing-a-single-line-of-code-thanks-to-ai/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/how-i-built-a-smart-album-feature-in-immich-without-writing-a-single-line-of-code-thanks-to-ai/It started with curiosity. After spending a week immersed in Cognizant Vibe Coding — where I was dazzled by live AI pair programming, real-time refactoring, and code suggestions that felt almost psychic—I got hooked. Not just on the tooling… but on the possibility. What if I could use this to build something real? Something complex?…Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:16:16 GMTaihomelabphotographyhttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/aihome-part-6-connecting-obsidian-or-other-applications-to-your-local-ai/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/aihome-part-6-connecting-obsidian-or-other-applications-to-your-local-ai/Using local AI also means you can connect whatever you want and don’t have to worry about any additional costs. So, in addition to my Photo Tagging Jobs, which runs once a week and creates tags and titles for my photos in Immich, I have also connected my note-taking program, Obsidian. Obsidian is a powerful,…Wed, 11 Jun 2025 08:41:20 GMTaihomelabhttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/aihome-part-5-adding-websearch/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/aihome-part-5-adding-websearch/Last piece to describe – how to combine large language models with web content. Similar to using local documents for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), it is also possible to use content coming from a search on the web. If you have ever used perplexity.ai, you have seen this already. Personally, I love Perplexity. To a…Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:58:01 GMTaihomelabhttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/using-ai-to-tag-a-photo-collection/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/using-ai-to-tag-a-photo-collection/As photographers pro, or amateur we often accumulate large collections of images that need proper organization. Manually tagging thousands of photos can be tedious and time-consuming. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use my own AI setup along with Python and the OpenAI API to automatically tag my photo collection. The current flagship…Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:06:00 GMTaiphotographyhttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/aihome-new-hardware/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/aihome-new-hardware/As written in this post I preordered a Framework Desktop. I’m about to cancel this, and here is why. For the past few months, I’ve been deeply involved in experimenting with Large Language Models (LLMs), both running them locally and exploring different hardware options. I was extremely excited about the Framework Desktop. The promise of…Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:04:04 GMTaihomelabreviewshttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/aihome-part-4-expose-services-open-webui-to-the-internet/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/aihome-part-4-expose-services-open-webui-to-the-internet/In this part, I will explain why and how I made Open WebUI available publicly on the internet. First things, first. Why? Because it is possible and it allows me to use the services while being not at home (e.g connecting it to Obsidian or VSCode). I would also consider this as quite safe, as…Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:00:03 GMTaihomelabhttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/quick-impression-on-topaz-photo-ai/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/quick-impression-on-topaz-photo-ai/Not sure where I really stumbled across this but I recently tried Topaz Photo AI. To start with the conclusion: It can’t perform miracles but definitly can enhance photos quite a bit. Topaz Photo AI is an advanced photo editing tool that combines features from Topaz Labs’ previous products: DeNoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Gigapixel…Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:05:50 GMTphotographyhttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/framework-desktop-an-alternative-to-nvidia-to-run-aihome/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/framework-desktop-an-alternative-to-nvidia-to-run-aihome/Recently I came to know about a new processor from AMD, called AMD Ryzen Ryzen AI Max+ 395. I saw the first post of this, as I’m following the subreddit r/LocalLLaMA about local large language models. This Reddit post discusses an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip being 2.2 times faster than an NVIDIA 4090…Sun, 02 Mar 2025 20:16:46 GMTaihomelabhttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/aihome-part-3-generating-images-with-ai/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/aihome-part-3-generating-images-with-ai/Image generation using large language models like Midjourney, Dall-E, and Adobe Firefly has become immensely popular. This can also be achieved with certain software running on a local system. There are two options for this: Automatic1111 Stable Diffusion Web UI and ComfyUI. Both are user interfaces designed to leverage various available image generation models. For…Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:11:40 GMTaihomelabhttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/aihome-part-2-open-webui/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/aihome-part-2-open-webui/In the first part we looked at Ollama. Now let’s dig a bit deeper into Open WebUI which is the piece that glues everything together. Open WebUI is an open-source, self-hosted interface designed to facilitate interaction with various Large Language Models (LLMs). It provides users the ability to run LLMs locally on their own servers…Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:14:57 GMTaihomelabhttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/ai_at_home/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/ai_at_home/Starting with this I will describe my home AI setup. It consists of several pieces: As a sneak peak, have a look at the below video snippet. It shows prompting (“generate a prompt for … “) in Open WebUI and image generation based on the given response. Let’s start to dig into the various components…Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:01:51 GMTaihomelabhttps://www.himstedt.org/blog/hello/https://www.himstedt.org/blog/hello/Welcome to Pixels, Peaks, and Processors: Adventures in AI, Gadgets, Tech, Photography and Outdoors. This is my private experiment to blog about everything that comes to my mind. We’ll see how much / how often / if at all I’m able to maintain this. 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