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…
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Local LLMs for an Infra-Monitoring Agent: The Ollama think Bug, and Why I Still Chose a Cloud Model
OpenClaw went from a weekend project to one of the most-starred repos on GitHub in under five months, and now everyone's using it to run their inbox, …
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Why your agent ignores its skill body but obeys the system prompt
You edit a skill's prompt to fix a behaviour. You confirm the change is in the file the runtime loads. You restart. The agent does the old thing anywa…
Лёгкая панель для управления личным VPN-сервером на Xray
У большинства self-hosted VPN-панелей одна и та же боль: Docker-стек, внешняя БД, реверс-прокси и куча конфигов, которые надо связать между собой, пре…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
A Practical Home Energy OS with Home Assistant
How five vendors, two batteries, an EV, and a careful policy engine became one operating system for my house. There is a moment when a solar installat…
ShareBox v5 — GPU transcoding, Netflix-style grid, and why I don't need Plex anymore
I wanted to send a movie link to a friend. Plex wanted me to scan a library, create an account, configure metadata agents. Jellyfin was lighter but st…
ICECODE — Self-hosted AI Agent Platform: Multi-Agent Swarm, Local RAG, 26-Page Web UI, 34 Platform Gateways
ICECODE is a self-hosted AI agent platform I built by unifying three open-source projects (Hermes, OpenCode, ClawX) into one cohesive system. It runs …
Stop Paying for Cloud VMs — Self-Host Your Dev Stack on Refurbished Enterprise Hardware
Cloud computing is brilliant. I'm not here to argue otherwise. But there's a specific use case where it consistently costs more than it should, and mo…
rift: expose private services to the internet without inbound networking
A common problem with a familiar shape: a process can dial outbound to the internet, but nothing on the internet can dial it back. Your dev server on …