Pick a Linux backup tool in 2026 without burning another weekend
I have spent the better part of a decade running backup strategies for production servers and personal workstations. If there is one thing I have learned the hard way, it is this:…
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A self-hosted dashboard for Hermes Agent that does not need a browser zoo
If you have been running Hermes Agent on your own box and you keep opening three or four tabs just to check what your assistant is doing, you already know the pain.…
Find the Linux process hogging your bandwidth in under a minute
Your Linux server’s network is maxed out and you have no idea what is eating it. The standard reflex is to look at top or htop, and when those do not help…
GLM-5.2 from Z.ai may be the strongest open weights text model now
A new open weights model from Chinese AI lab Z.ai dropped on June 16th under an MIT license, and the early benchmarks suggest it deserves attention. GLM-5.2 (the latest in the GLM…
Self-hosting a website from a Linux box at home, the cheap way
I run a small WordPress site from a Linux box under my desk. The box cost me about the same as a year of managed hosting from a major provider, and it…
Schedule one-off Linux jobs with at and stop abusing cron
I used to write cron entries for things that should have been one-shot jobs. A temporary firewall rule for a vendor. A service restart at 2 AM. A reminder to pull a…
Ollama or LocalAI, and which one to actually install
Most people who want to run large language models (LLMs, the AI systems that generate text and code) on their own machine have heard of Ollama. You install it, type ollama run…
Ubuntu’s AI bet is staying out of your face, and that’s the point
I read Jon Seager’s post on the Ubuntu Discourse about where AI is going in Ubuntu, and the part that stuck with me was the sentence: “Ubuntu won’t become an AI product.”…
Xubuntu 26.04 LTS, reviewed by someone who keeps it installed
Xubuntu 26.04 LTS: Best New Features Xubuntu 26.04 LTS (codenamed “Resolute Raccoon,” a long-term-support release of the lightweight Ubuntu flavor that uses the Xfce desktop environment instead of GNOME) shipped on April…