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…
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I Open-Sourced MarketEye — Here's Why (and the GitHub Link)
I open-sourced MarketEye today. For anyone who missed the first post: MarketEye is a self-hosted competitor price monitor I built because I didn't wan…
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…
Local Inference Powers Browser Sign Language, Open-Source Agent Infra, & AI Engineering Guides
Local Inference Powers Browser Sign Language, Open-Source Agent Infra, & AI Engineering Guides Today's Highlights This week highlights practical a…
The Cheapest Way to Self-Host Fider in 2026
Last updated: June 2026 Fider is the open-source feedback board a lot of teams reach for once Canny or UserVoice sends the renewal invoice. Public roa…
Migrating Off OpenClaw Without Downtime — and the Offset That Made Hermes Look Dead
A while back I wrote a comparison of OpenClaw and Hermes — two open-source, self-hosted AI agents I run on the same bare-metal box, both wired to Tele…
I Built a Private AI Brain on My Laptop for $0
Last week I couldn't shake an idea: what if I had an AI that knew everything I know ? Not ChatGPT — something on my hardware, holding my knowledge, an…
Your agent finished at 3 a.m. Where did the report go?
Overnight agents do good work, then dump it in a log file or a noisy Slack channel. Here's a pattern for delivering their output to a private, end-to-…
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…
Rebuilding the Hull at Sea
The box that ran everything started dying in April. Not dramatically. Machines almost never die dramatically. It started with instability... the kind …
I got tired of SSH and Loki for four containers, so I built DockLog
If you run a few containers on one VPS or homelab box, you've probably lived this loop: SSH in docker logs -f something Realize someone else on your t…
Flowork Agent: Self-Hosted AI Agents in a Single Go Binary
Flowork Agent is a self-hosted operating system for AI agents distributed as a single Go binary—no Docker, no Python, no separate database. It's a pra…
Deploying Dokku Lightweight Open-Source PaaS on Ubuntu 24.04
Dokku is an open-source, Heroku-like Platform-as-a-Service that lets you git push apps and have them built and deployed automatically. This guide depl…
Deploying Ant Media Server Live Video Streaming on Ubuntu 24.04
Ant Media Server is an open-source live video streaming engine that handles WebRTC, RTMP, HLS, and DASH for ultra-low-latency broadcasts. This guide d…
Deploying Seafile Secure File Sync on Ubuntu 24.04
Seafile is an open-source file sync and share platform focused on speed, reliability, and end-to-end encrypted libraries, with desktop and mobile clie…
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…
Deploying Hermes WebUI with Docker — The 8 Errors I Hit and How to Fix Them
Deploying Hermes WebUI with Docker — The 8 Errors I Hit and How to Fix Them I needed a web UI for the Hermes Agent. Docker Compose looked simple. Eigh…
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 …
Odysseus: The Self-Hosted AI Workspace That Bundles Everything (59k ⭐)
I Tried PewDiePie's Open-Source AI Workspace. It's Actually Good. Yes, that PewDiePie. Felix Kjellberg (110M YouTube subscribers) spent late 2025 buil…
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…
Everything's Green Cap.
My AI told me the job was done. My container said it was running. My firewall said it was up. All three were lying. I run a security homelab out of a …
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…
Self-Hosted CMS Backup Strategy: Practical Guide 2026
📝 Originally published on unfoldcms.com — reposted here for the DEV community. (I work on UnfoldCMS.) TL;DR: A self-hosted CMS without a tested backup…
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…
Stop picking a homelab mini-PC by TDP. The number that decides the power bill is idle watts.
A homelab box that never sleeps runs 8,760 hours a year. So the spec that decides what it costs you is not the one on the box. It is the one nobody pr…
The Habit That Was The Bug
The first time it happened, I lost 45 minutes diagnosing it. By the tenth or so, I was muscle-memory typing the fix before the symptoms finished regis…
How hard can it be to build a CI/CD system?
How hard can it be to build a CI/CD system? That question stuck with me long enough that I actually started building one. Not because someone asked me…
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…