Four Docker containers that earn their keep on an old phone
I have a home lab. It runs about thirty containers across two x86 boxes, and I reach them over Tailscale (a mesh VPN that lets devices on different networks talk as if…
#ebooks
65 articles
Siemens spent ten years before publishing their design system
I have spent most of my career inside small companies, so the Siemens Element story catches my attention every time. A 1000 product enterprise codebase did not become a public open source…
Four Android swaps that quietly gut Google from your phone
I made the switch to open-source apps on my Android phone for one reason. Privacy was the pitch I sold myself on a Tuesday night after a third ad for a vacuum…
Calibre 9.14 ships AI art tools and a server patch you need
The cover generator in Calibre 9.14 is the part that gets the press release. The Content Server patches are the part that should change your update schedule. Most users will see the…
Pair Claude Code with a local model and stop rationing limits
A few weeks ago I was hitting the Claude Code rate limit twice a week. The work I was trying to do was not exotic. It was ordinary multi-file refactors and a…
Running Docker on Proxmox: pick VM or LXC, not the host
Proxmox Virtual Environment ships with solid virtualization and LXC (Linux container) management out of the box, which covers most self-hosting needs without reaching for Docker at all. Sometimes you reach for Docker…
apache paimon is a streaming lakehouse table format worth trying
What it is, where it fits, and when you should bother Lakehouse storage (a hybrid model that blends a data lake’s cheap object storage with a warehouse’s structured table features) is one…
The three Windows repairs that beat a clean reinstall
The Windows installation USB is still in my desk drawer. I made it in 2021 during a panicked reinstall that took an entire Saturday. It has not been needed since. The reason…
Test every smart home device with the router unplugged first
Belkin killed the cloud servers behind Wemo (a line of smart plugs, switches, and dimmers) earlier this year. The hardware on many of those plugs was still perfectly good. The plugs that…
Beats Studio Pro at $170: the deal, the spec sheet, the trade-offs
A pair of over-ear headphones at $170 that originally retailed for $350 gets attention for the discount, but the headphone itself is the more interesting story. The Beats Studio Pro (a set…