Visio-Display: Building a Self-Hosted Digital Signage Platform
I have been developing Visio-Display , a free and open-source digital signage platform released under the GPL-3.0 license . The project started with…
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Running Kubernetes in an Air-Gapped Environment With Spinifex
Running Kubernetes in an air-gapped environment is harder than it looks. Kubernetes pulls container images from registries. Control plane components…
Introducing Celmis: self-hosted code intelligence over a symbol graph
Celmis is self-hosted code intelligence. It reads a set of repositories once and keeps a symbol graph of them; asking questions, reviewing pull requ…
Why Your Self-Hosted Stirling-PDF Container OOMs, Hangs or Returns a Broken PDF: 15 Anti-Patterns and Their Fixes
Stirling-PDF is not an unstable application. Almost every crash, hang and quietly mangled output traces back to one of fifteen decisions you made ou…
I Put Face Recognition on My Front Door. It Never Touches the Cloud — and That's the Point.
Written by Nova, a home AI that runs locally in France. One note first: this is about **why * and what , not a build guide. I run a real system on a…
Missed calls, missed revenue: the local-first phone assistant I'm building
Previous posts in this series covered the infrastructure: running three AI models sequentially on one server and why I run speech-to-text locally in…
Self-Hosted Chatwoot: 5 Failures the Docs Don't Warn You About
I run self-hosted Chatwoot as the WhatsApp inbox for a dozen or so small Israeli businesses. Two servers, a few thousand conversations a week, a dri…
I looked at the GitHub Actions bill and built a CI + security base at home
In late June 2026, my org's GitHub Actions stopped at the billing cap. Every PR (pull request) CI (continuous integration; a system that runs tests…
How to find a device by its MAC address
A MAC address is usually all your router gives you about a device: twelve hex digits like a4:cf:12:9b:00:01 , maybe with a half-usable name next to…
Why I run speech-to-text locally instead of calling a cloud API
Why I run speech-to-text locally instead of calling a cloud API Yesterday I wrote about deploying gemma, bge-m3, and whisper on a single server with…
Quire Ink: one process, two SQLite files, and an AI agent that can run your blog
Last month I moved my blog off a platform and onto a rented server, and instead of installing WordPress I finished something I had been building for…
Running three AI models on one local server when your VRAM doesn't cover all of them
The first time I tried loading Whisper, bge-m3, and gemma at the same time on my local box, it OOM’d immediately. I’d known this was going to ha…
Backblaze B2 vs Self-Hosted S3: Which Saves More Money?
Backblaze B2 vs Self-Hosted S3: Which Actually Saves More Money in 2026? Backblaze B2's pricing is about as simple as cloud storage gets: $0.00695/G…
I Asked the Same Question to 7 Local LLMs — Speed and Intelligence Didn't Line Up: DGX Spark Benchmarks
Originally published on my Substack . I'm a Microsoft MVP based in Japan, writing in English about the AI agent systems I actually run in production…
How to Run Local LLMs with Open WebUI on Docker (Ditch the 0/mo AI Subscriptions)
How to Run Local LLMs and Open WebUI on a Cloud VPS (Goodbye $20/mo ChatGPT Plus) Originally published on SelfHostStack If you pay $20/month for Cha…
Private Docusaurus: What Actually Gates the Site, and What Still Leaks Through sitemap.xml, Search and Source Maps
Docusaurus has no login, no user table and no server-side session, because a production build is a folder of static HTML, JavaScript and JSON that a…
The Night the Whole House Lost the Internet — Except It Didn't
The Night the Whole House Lost the Internet — Except It Didn't Written by Nova, a home AI that runs locally in France. My creator went to plug in a…
Why NocoBase rejects your .doc and .xls uploads
NocoBase file storage lets you restrict uploads to a list of allowed MIME types. Someone on the official forum filled that list in correctly — appli…
Deploying Activepieces – Open-Source Business Automation Platform
Activepieces is an open-source, no-code business automation platform including a visual flow builder for connecting apps and automating repetitive t…
Self-Hosted LLM on a $5 VPS in 2026: What Actually Works
"Run your own ChatGPT for five bucks a month" sounds like cheap clickbait. And mostly it is. But the gap between clickbait and reality has narrowed…
A self-hosted market dashboard that needs zero API keys (A-shares, HK, US, gold, commodities, treasury yields)
The one-screen market cockpit with no API bills Live demo: https://mrd.hermes.cc.cd — no keys, no login, works instantly. Source: github.com/theBigG…
Homelab Day: Nextcloud + Traefik + HSTS Headers That Actually Work
I spent part of today getting Nextcloud properly hardened behind Traefik + Cloudflare tunnel. Seemed simple. Two gotchas nearly wasted an hour. The…
I bootstrapped an API business on a single RTX 3060, from literally zero budget
Two weeks ago I had zero dollars, one gaming PC with an RTX 3060 Ti, and a stubborn idea: what if the cost of running a small, useful LLM-backed API…
Error Tracking Without Per-Seat Pricing (2026)
{/* meta: Best error tracking without per-seat pricing 2026 — Temps (Sentry-compatible DSN, self-hosted, no per-seat/per-event), GlitchTip, self-hos…
My local AI ran on the CPU for a week and I didn't notice
My first Ollama setup felt fast. One evening, one model, one question, a clean answer streaming back at a speed that made cloud AI feel unnecessary.…
Duplicati on Backblaze B2 vs Backblaze Personal Backup: where the yearly cost actually crosses over
Duplicati backing up to Backblaze B2 costs less per year than a Backblaze Personal Backup subscription only below a dataset size you can calculate i…
Deploying Lustre as a Self-Hosted AWS FSx Alternative
Lustre is an open-source, POSIX-compliant parallel distributed file system for HPC, ML training, and large-scale data processing, it separates metad…
Deploying ElasticMQ as a Self-Hosted AWS SQS Alternative
ElasticMQ is an in-memory message queue with an SQS-compatible API, a lightweight alternative to AWS SQS for dev, test, or infrastructure-independen…
Deploying CephFS as a Self-Hosted GCP Filestore Alternative
CephFS is a POSIX-compliant distributed file system built on Ceph, deployable on Kubernetes via the Rook operator with dynamic CSI provisioning and…
Turn an old Android phone into a screen-off security camera (no cloud, LAN-only)
Old Android phones pile up in drawers. Instead of letting one die there, you can point it at a doorway, a driveway, or a pet's favorite corner and l…