Five self-hosting stories worth following this week
A useful self-hosting roundup should do more than list releases. It should tell me which change deserves an evening, which one deserves caution, and which one can wait until somebody else finds…
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Nine Rust publishing tools matched to the work they fit
Rust static site generators have split into recognizable jobs. One wants to build a conventional website from a single binary. Another turns Markdown into a book. A third treats connected notes as…
I stopped opening ports to reach my smart home and you should too
My Home Assistant install used to live behind a port forward on my router. So did my NAS, my printer, and a long-forgotten Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole. Every one of those was…
Stop paying for Windows cleanup and learn Sysinternals
I have removed more paid “PC cleanup” suites from family computers than I have installed. The pattern is familiar: a yearly subscription, a red warning badge, and a dashboard that claims the…
I stopped losing newsletters to my inbox. One Zap fixed it.
I subscribe to maybe thirty newsletters. I read maybe five of them properly. The other twenty-five just pile up in my Gmail until I open one with a subject line I half-remember…
Four Scheme tools for building small static websites
Scheme is not where most people start when they need a website. That is exactly why these four static site generators are interesting. They treat publishing as a programming problem, not as…
TiDB gave me a distributed MySQL on my laptop in fifteen minutes
I have been the person explaining to a junior engineer why their beautifully normalised MySQL schema will not survive Black Friday, and I have been the junior engineer who built that schema…
Browser makers just formed a coalition to break Microsoft’s defaults
The Browser Choice Alliance fired a shot across Microsoft’s bow this week, and it is about time. A coalition of browser developers (Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, and several smaller forks) has filed a…
One UI 8.5 finally made DeX worth plugging in for
I have been running Samsung DeX (Samsung’s desktop mode that runs on a phone when you plug it into a display) for about six years on three different Galaxy phones. The first…
One free streaming app earned more screen time than the rest
I have four TVs in rotation and zero interest in paying for another subscription. So for the last month I let four free, ad-supported apps fight it out across my main set,…