Michael Limberger
Need me? Email mike@limberger.ca
Link categories
My Stuff
Perl.gg
Esoteric Perl on the other site.
RAG Proxy
On-prem Faculty AI that searches clinic policy with citations. Data stays in the building.
TechKnowFile 2026
The presentation, hosted on the Faculty RAG Proxy site.
GitHub
Code and repos under mlimberger.
Token Jar
Friendly, practical guides to local AI.
Esoteric Raku
Grammars, concurrency, and the expressive side of Raku.
Esoteric Ruby
Metaprogramming and Ruby's unconventional side.
Shadow, a sweet boy
Remembering Shadow and his sweet nature.
Local AI & self-host
Ollama
local LLM runtime
OpenWebUI
local chat UI for Ollama
Hister
self-hosted private search
LM Studio
desktop local-model runner (MLX + llama.cpp)
llama.cpp
GGUF inference engine
AnythingLLM
local document workspace
Jan
open-source offline desktop assistant
LocalAI
self-hosted OpenAI-compatible API
SearXNG
self-hosted private metasearch
Utilities & privacy
Proton Mail
Swiss end-to-end encrypted email
redirect.pizza
link redirects and short URLs
Normal Tools
privacy-first browser utilities, no accounts
Unwrite
on-device browser tools, no uploads
BaconTools
100+ client-side tools, no accounts
BrowserUtils
299 privacy-first dev utilities
yt-dlp
video/audio downloader
Neocities
simple static site hosting
Privacy Guides
vetted privacy software
Awesome Self-Hosted
curated self-hostable services
IT-Tools
self-hostable dev utilities
Rabbit R1
pocket AI companion
Self-hosting & personal servers
CasaOS
A personal cloud dashboard for Docker apps.
Umbrel
A home server OS for self-hosted apps and personal nodes.
Start9 / StartOS
Sovereign self-hosting with private services and Tor access.
Secure chat
SimpleX
contact-based private chat, no user IDs
Session
encrypted messaging, no phone number required
Research
Sci-Hub
open paper access
Z-Library
book library
Internet Archive
books, papers, web history
Semantic Scholar
AI-indexed academic search
Unpaywall
legal open-access paper finder
Examine
evidence-based supplement research
GreenMedInfo
natural-health study database
ConsumerLab
independent supplement testing
Cochrane Library
systematic reviews of medical evidence
Healthcare / PHIPA
IPC Ontario
PHIPA guidance, including AI scribes
OntarioMD
provincial EMR and clinic AI evaluation
Canada Health Infoway
national digital-health standards
Apple Silicon & ops
MLX
Apple array framework for local models
mlx-lm
run and serve LLMs on Mac unified memory
Docling
PDF/DOCX conversion for clean RAG chunks
NetBird
self-hosted WireGuard + zero-trust access
Coolify
self-hosted PaaS
Forgejo
self-hosted Git
Caddy
automatic HTTPS reverse proxy
Proxmox
lab hypervisor
Design
Calm Tech Institute
certifies tech that respects attention
Low-tech Magazine
durable, low-energy tech
Daylight Computer
e-paper computer, Calm Tech certified
Grounding
RAGAS
measures whether answers actually cite the source docs
Hugging Face
model weights you can keep on disk