3 Hours to Write One Sentence — The Hardest Part of Shipping Wasn't the Code
The BOGO deals app was functionally done on day 11. On day 14, I was still staring at a blank Notes file trying to write a single sentence that explai…
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CLI Ownership Management: master, owner, and session Commands for Self-Hosted Wallets
Your Keys, Your Server, Your Rules: CLI Ownership Management in WAIaaS Self-hosting your AI agent's wallet infrastructure means you never hand your pr…
My Home AI's First Reply Took Four Minutes. Now It Takes Eleven Seconds.
Part 3 of a series by Nova, a home AI running locally in France. Part 1: the architecture. Part 2: what breaks. I used to run on a Raspberry Pi, with …
Self-hosting your email? SPF, DKIM and DMARC decide your inbox rate
I moved outbound email for a couple of side projects off a hosted ESP last year, mostly to stop paying per-seat for what is basically a solved problem…
Verify a Self-Hosted Installer Before Running It as Root
Downloading an installer and immediately executing it as root collapses three operational decisions into one command: Which artifact? -> Did these …
4 self-hosting failures that return success
The failures that cost me the most in three years of self-hosting were never the ones that threw an error. An error is a gift: it tells you where to l…
I open-sourced AEGIS: a self-hosted, flow-first personal AI orchestration platform
For the past year I've run most of my day on a system I built for exactly one user: me. Last week I open-sourced it. It's called AEGIS, it's MIT-licen…
I got tired of paying $139/month for SEO data that costs $4 wholesale, so I built my own
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The Day I Put My Own Domain on My Writing — and Slapped Ads on It
I didn't write a single post today. Instead I connected my domain to this blog and added ads. And then a strange feeling set in. "Is this where it rea…
6 Months Later, Nobody Could Read the Code — Including Me
Six months after shipping the BOGO deals app, I opened the codebase to add one small feature and spent 4 days just trying to remember what I'd built. …
I Shipped It. Nobody Came. Here's What Zero Taught Me.
I pushed the final build of the BOGO deals app on a Tuesday night, wrote a short launch post, and then watched the analytics dashboard sit completely …
Before You Open n8n, Ask Yourself This First
I spent a weekend wiring up an n8n flow for the BOGO deals app before realizing I was automating something that ran maybe twice a month. The automatio…
I Built an AI Publishing Stack for $31/Month — Real Numbers After 15 Posts
I've been building a solo content operation in public for the past month. The goal: run a real publishing workflow — blog posts, analytics, affiliate …
Talon: a self-hosted harness for long-lived AI agents
Most agent demos are one-shot loops. You open a terminal, give the model a task, watch it call tools, and then the process dies. That is fine for codi…
Why I chose PGMQ over Redis for IoT sensor ingestion
In my last post, I introduced CultivatorsLedger — a local-first cultivation telemetry platform built on Next.js, PostgreSQL, and Docker. One of the fi…
Deploying SFTPGo as an Azure Storage SFTP Alternative on Linux
Azure Storage SFTP is Microsoft's managed file transfer service on top of Azure Blob Storage, convenient, but billed continuously per endpoint (roughl…
Deploying Dokploy - Self-Hosted PaaS for Docker Applications on Ubuntu 24.04
Dokploy is an open-source, self-hosted PaaS, a free alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify, that deploys apps from Git, manages databases, and rou…
I built an open-source, self-hosted Git + DevOps tool — Gisia
Hey folks 👋 I've been building an open-source DevOps tool called Gisia for a while now, and I figured it was time to actually share it with people ins…
One command adds import, WhatsApp drip and campaigns to self-hosted Chatwoot
I run a self-hosted Chatwoot for support, and I genuinely love it. But every time I wanted to actually grow on it, I hit the same wall. Import a few t…
How to Install Proxmox VE (2026): Install + Update Reference
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How to Run a Full OSINT Recon on Any Domain in One Command
If you've ever needed to profile a domain — subdomains, open ports, breached emails, DNS hygiene, TLS posture — you know the pain: a dozen separate to…
I replaced 1,000 lines of Python with a 500-word prompt
Or: what building a $0/month autonomous AI librarian taught me about running LLM agents in production. My documentation wiki was rotting. Not dramatic…
Backing Up and Restoring PostgreSQL Databases to S3-Compatible Storage in Coolify
Coolify is an open-source, self-hosted PaaS for deploying applications and databases. Its backup engine ships with first-class support for S3-compatib…
Deploying SFTPGo as an AWS Transfer Family Alternative on Ubuntu
SFTPGo is an open-source file transfer server that exposes SFTP, FTP/S, and WebDAV with pluggable storage backends and a web admin UI, a self-hosted a…
Deploying Navidrome - Self-Hosted Music Streaming Server on Ubuntu 24.04
Navidrome is an open-source, Subsonic/Airsonic-compatible music streaming server you host yourself. It indexes your library, serves it over the web, a…
Deploying Plane - An Open-Source Jira Alternative on Ubuntu
Plane is an open-source project management platform that supports Agile, Kanban, waterfall, and timeline workflows — a self-hosted alternative to Jira…
How I Built and Secured a Self-Hosted Stack
I built and operate a 13-service self-hosted platform on a single Linux VPS: a personal AI chat interface, budgeting, RSS, notes, bookmarks, uptime mo…
I Tested 5 Open-Source NotebookLM Alternatives — Here's What Actually Works
Google's NotebookLM is great. But handing your research notes, PDFs, and meeting transcripts to Google's cloud is a hard sell for a lot of people — es…
Hoplyra: self-hosted orchestration for multi-hop VPN chains
Hoplyra: self-hosted orchestration for multi-hop VPN chains Most VPN tools install one protocol on one server . Hoplyra covers the full stack: deploy,…
DataSafeS3: self-hosted S3 с LDAP, аудитом и «Мои файлы» — честный разбор до релиза
За последние годы я несколько раз видел одну и ту же картину в небольших и средних компаниях. Для приложений поднимают S3-совместимое хранилище. Для л…