Bert Mahoney
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AI Social Video Automation for Multi-Location Brands
A project update on building an AI-assisted social video engine with Tyler at TribalCore using Remotion, TypeScript, structured data, and automation for multi-location brand marketing.
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Building a Private, Local, Zero-Cost, Transcription System on macOS Using AI
How a local macOS transcription pipeline became durable infrastructure by replacing fragile Python ML tooling with native Metal, keeping audio private, and removing subscription costs.
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Running Local AI on a 2017 iMac: What Actually Happened
The iMac That Couldn’t If you’ve been searching for honest, real-world results on running a local AI setup on older hardware, specifically installing Ubuntu on a 2017 iMac and running an open-source AI agent locally, this post is for you. No sponsored results. No, “It worked great!” YouTube thumbnails. Just what actually happened when I…
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Some investor is going to wake up one day and realize how much world-class talent and untapped market cap have been warming the bench inside the US economy.
That’s the things you don’t know you don’t know problem. And those blind spots? They tend to bite back. Hard. I’ve been an unemployed GenXer for 36 months, with 30 years across 8 design disciplines and 30 business sectors. Flying face-first into ageism like it’s a sport. Just wait until it’s your turn. I’ll be…
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I Built a Private AI Cloud. My Data Is Mine.
There’s a moment every creative hits when they realize the tool they’re using is also using them. Maybe it’s subtle. A response that sounds a little too polished. A suggestion that feels like it came from everyone and no one. A slow, creeping suspicion that the thing helping you think is also quietly learning from…
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From SSH Friction to a Private LLM Cloud: Building a Private, Repeatable Ollama + EC2 Setup
Setting up a private, cloud-powered LLM environment on AWS sounds straightforward, until you actually do it. What started as a simple goal… “run Agent Zero with Ollama on EC2 without exposing sensitive data” …quickly turned into a maze of SSH quirks, Docker inconsistencies, networking gotchas, and AWS nuances. The good news: once you get through…
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Designing AI Systems That Actually Work
I’ve been designing and deploying custom AI agents, not generic tools, but systems built around how individuals and businesses actually work.
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You Can’t Recreate an AI “Personality” Without Doing This First
In my last post, I laid out a core problem: AI identity doesn’t survive a simple export/import. You don’t lose the data. You lose the presence. So the obvious next question is: How do you actually capture that presence in the first place?
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I’m Starting to Feel Like A “Who in Whoville”
TL;DR Age bias in hiring is real—but mostly invisible The system protects against it in theory, not in practice Younger professionals aren’t paying attention (yet) This isn’t a rant—it’s a warning shot and a wake-up call