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A MacBook on a wooden desk under a navy tint, with the overlay text "Local AI · No cloud, 125,000 emails. One Mac." in white.

I asked Claude.ai and ChatGPT to read my inbox. They choked at 50 messages. So I built the local one.

Cloud AI can connect to your inbox. It cannot actually read it. Here is what happened when I gave up waiting for the vendors to fix that, and built a local-first AI assistant for my own mailbox on an M5 Max, 125,000 messages, a knowledge graph, all the AI inference running on my own machine, and the things you only learn when you try.

20 May 202615 min read

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A MacBook close-up under purple and blue lighting, with the overlay text "Built it, nobody else had, Fan control for the M5 Max" in white on navy.

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I bought a £6,700 M5 Max (128GB RAM, 4TB SSD) and immediately had to build its fan control

How a single hour with a new M5 Max and an MLX inference job sent me down a thirty-six-hour rabbit hole that ended with a custom fan-control daemon, a CFRunLoop power-event monitor, and the discovery of a macOS daemon Apple does not want you to know about.

20 May 202611 min read

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