Upgrading Appwrite on CapRover from 1.4.13 to 1.9.5
Upgrading Appwrite from 1.4.13 to 1.9.5 on CapRover: A Field Guide Through Five Years of Breaking Changes TL;DR What looked like a routine "bump the D…
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What Replacing Calendly Taught Me About Trusting Open Source
cal.com, Calendly, zcal... booking SaaS isn't short on options, and most of them are genuinely decent. Free tiers cover the basics for a lot of freela…
Coolify: The Complete Manual Setup Guide (For When the Auto-Install Script Won't Cut It)
Coolify's one-line install script is great — until it isn't. Right now it officially supports Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04 LTS. If you're running an…
AI Agent Run Log Template: Track Cost, Failures, Evidence, and Approval
An AI workflow is not observable because a chat transcript exists. A useful run log shows what outcome was attempted, what evidence supports it, what …
You don't need an observability stack yet
The question gets asked on r/node every few months, on r/selfhosted every few weeks, and on Hacker News whenever a Datadog invoice goes viral. Some va…
I Automated My Entire Dev Workflow with AI Agents Running 24/7 on a Mac Mini
I Automated My Entire Dev Workflow with AI Agents Running 24/7 on a Mac Mini Every morning I wake up and check Telegram. There's a message from Celebi…
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 …
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 …
I got tired of paying $139/month for SEO data that costs $4 wholesale, so I built my own
Last year Ahrefs raised prices on small teams by 81% ( SpendHound tracked it ). Semrush Pro sits at $139.95 a month. And here's what those subscriptio…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
Restream + SavePoint: Simulcast to 30+ Platforms from One Station
We’re proud to share that SavePoint now supports Restream as a native channel type. For developers and station builders, the architecture is straightf…
How I Run a 50-Agent AI Workforce on a Single 6GB GPU
Build-in-public. This is the real architecture behind running ~50 local AI agents on 6GB of VRAM — one GPU lock, an eviction watchdog, a resource gove…
A complete tour of Qeli: a self-hosted, post-quantum VPN in Rust
Qeli is an open-source VPN you run on your own server. No third-party service, no account with someone else, no telemetry - the server is yours, the k…
I Stopped Paying Google and Built My Own Cloud
How I replaced Google Photos, Google Drive, and Google Home with a self-hosted Raspberry Pi 5 setup - and what the full technical stack looks like. Th…
I Built a Self-Hosted Competitor Price Monitor Because SaaS Pricing Is Out of Control
I Built a Self-Hosted Competitor Price Monitor Because SaaS Pricing Is Out of Control The Problem I run a small online store. To stay competitive, I n…
LLM KV Cache Optimization, Open Model Evaluation, & Agent Engineering Skills for Local Deployment
LLM KV Cache Optimization, Open Model Evaluation, & Agent Engineering Skills for Local Deployment Today's Highlights This week, a groundbreaking K…
Self-hosting OpenClaw: a money trap and two silent failures
I run OpenClaw on a Hetzner CAX ARM VPS. It talks to me over Signal and does a morning press review. Three gotchas on that box are worth writing down:…
Open Notebook Review: Self-Hosted NotebookLM Alternative
Originally published on andrew.ooo — visit the original for any updates, code snippets that aged out, or follow-up posts. TL;DR Open Notebook (by Luis…
I Built an AI Assistant That Lives in My Telegram — Here's What 6 Months Taught Me
Six months ago I got tired of switching between apps to talk to AI. ChatGPT in the browser. Claude in another tab. Local models in a terminal. It was …
Why I Bypassed the Cloud Treadmill to Build a 100% Independent Self-Hosted Stack
Philosophy doesn't mean much without execution. If I’m going to advocate for data sovereignty and owning your data, I need to show you exactly what my…
NousResearch Agent, Open-Source Notebook LM, & Local Multimodal OCR for Consumer GPUs
NousResearch Agent, Open-Source Notebook LM, & Local Multimodal OCR for Consumer GPUs Today's Highlights Today's highlights feature new open-sourc…
Why I Built a Lightweight Heroku Clone in Go?
If you are a developer, you probably have a graveyard of side projects. For years, the formula for launching these projects was simple: push to Heroku…
chroma-vs-qdrant-vs-weaviate-2026
This article was originally published on aifoss.dev --- title: 'Chroma vs Qdrant vs Weaviate 2026: RAG Database Compared' description: 'Compare Chrom…
Why DDR5 Bandwidth Kills Dual-LLM Inference on APUs (Benchmarks Inside)
Did you know that a 35-billion-parameter model can generate tokens at the same compute cost as a 4B model? That single fact made me abandon a multi-mo…