AI The 10,000-Server Problem: Vetting an MCP Server Before You Self-Host It The official MCP registry is closing in on 10,000 servers — most of them unaudited code from strangers. Here's a plain-English checklist for vetting a third-party MCP server before you run it, and how to contain the ones you do.
Home Lab How I Use AI to Help Me Manage My Home Lab (with MCP) MCP lets an AI assistant read from your home lab so you can just ask what's wrong — but most home-lab MCP servers are community projects, and the access you grant them matters. Here's how I wire AI in as a read-only helper, and the safety rails I won't skip.
AI The Hidden Risks of Your Self-Hosted AI Stack (And How I Locked Mine Down) Two 2026 incidents — a poisoned LiteLLM release and tens of thousands of exposed Ollama servers — show why self-hosted AI needs real hardening. Here's a 20-minute audit and the fixes I made to my own lab.
