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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Claude Design, but the free tier you can actually run
Up until a few months ago, my biggest complaint with AI tools was that the free tiers simply did not cut it anymore. I have since accepted that there is no escaping…
Indirect prompt injection: the AI security hole nobody has closed
I read the recent Brave disclosure about indirect prompt injection attacks on Mozilla Tabstack and Cotypist twice, and the most unsettling line in the paper was the one near the end. The…
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…
Strava paywalled its API, and self-hosters are still fuming
The 5 June 2026 Self-Host Weekly carried a lead item about Strava paywalling its API, and I have been thinking about it for a week. Strava is the hosted fitness tracking service…
Plex’s $750 lifetime pass and GitHub’s pricing bombshell, side by side
I read the Self-Host Weekly digest for the week of 22 May 2026 the morning after it landed, and two stories have been sitting in my head since. The first is Plex…
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…
Rclone UI: a real graphical face for the command-line workhorse
I have been using rclone from the command line for about three years. It runs my offsite backups, syncs files between the two cloud providers I keep subscriptions with, and handles the…
The 5-Minute Kubernetes Cluster Health Check
The 5-Minute Kubernetes Cluster Health Check Kubernetes (the open-source container orchestrator that runs and schedules your applications across a fleet of machines) is great until it is not. One bad node, a…
Linux Directory Permissions: The Practical Guide
Linux directory permissions look like noise the first time you see them. A string of letters and dashes, three groups of three, maybe a + or an @ at the end. After…