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…
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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…
I Switched Minikube From Docker to KVM2—Here’s What Happened
I Switched Minikube From Docker to KVM2, And It Was Worth the Fuss Minikube (a tool that runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally for development and testing) defaults to the Docker driver…
Linux Devices and Drivers: Finally Explained Simply
Linux Devices and Drivers: Finally Explained Simply The Linux kernel talks to hardware through a layered system that can be hard to see from user space. When you plug in a USB…
Managing Services in Linux: The Practical Guide
Managing Services in Linux: The Practical Guide Linux service management has two parallel systems, and the fact that both exist on most modern distros is a source of constant confusion. Systemd and…
I Built a Container From Scratch in Go—And It Actually Works
I Built a Container From Scratch in Go, And It Actually Worked Building a container runtime in Go sounds intimidating, but the core of it fits in a few hundred lines. I…