Euro-Office for a week, six years off Microsoft 365
I have been running my own business on Microsoft 365 for six years. I pay about $12 a month for the Business Basic tier, which gives me Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and…
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A self-hosted clipboard that doesn’t phone home
Copy and paste is the most fundamental thing we do on computers all day long. Yet somehow, making it work across devices has remained this surprisingly complex problem. Apple has Universal Clipboard,…
Local AI got boring, and that’s the best thing about it
Remember when running a local AI model felt like magic? You downloaded a model, your fans spun up, and you got responses seconds later. That was 2024 and 2025. In 2026, local…
A year of self-hosting my office, then the hits started
I spent the past year building a self-hosted office stack I actually liked. Nextcloud (an open-source file sync and collaboration platform) for file storage, OnlyOffice for document editing, everything running on my…
DOOM in Docker makes self-hosting fun again
There is a Docker image (a packaged, self-contained application that runs identically across any Linux server) circulating this week that lets you run DOOM inside a container, with the multiplayer server bundled…
Three things I keep off ChatGPT and run on my own box
The cloud is convenient until you realize how much of yourself you are leaking every time you paste something into a browser tab. Most days I use the cloud for almost everything.…
Make an AI book summary answer a question, not replace a book
A useful book summary should have a job to do. “Tell me what this book says” is broad enough to produce a tidy answer that feels complete while leaving the reader no…
A web host’s AI is useful only when a person can intervene
A hosting customer may notice a site-building assistant or a support chat box. The less visible work described in the source article happens on the provider’s side: predicting demand, spotting hardware trouble,…
Read the symptom before choosing a Linux troubleshooting command
A Linux troubleshooting interview is not a contest to name the most commands. The useful answer shows how one observation changes the next question. TecMint’s source runs through server problems involving disk…
Docker Compose is easier to maintain when each feature has a job
A Compose file usually becomes difficult for an ordinary reason: the same service settings get copied into several places, startup order gets mistaken for readiness, and tools needed only during development become…