The quieter AI trade-off inside open source projects
The “AI is destroying open source” headline has been recycled in some form every six months since 2022. The actual story is more interesting and less dramatic. Generative AI has changed who…
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A home network dashboard that ends the SSH-and-guess routine
I used to guess whether my home network was healthy. SSH into the router, check the load, count the connected devices, check the ISP status, check the NAS. The guess work was…
Three open-source whiteboards with no account and no server
Whiteboard tools have multiplied over the last three years, and most of them require an account, send your data to a server, or both. The three below do neither. They are self-hostable,…
When local models stopped being news, the real work began
Two years ago, running a local language model meant downloading 4-bit quantized weights (a compressed version of a model where the numbers that represent how strong each connection between neurons is have…
I retired Nextcloud for something that actually loads fast
I had been running Nextcloud on a Synology DS923+ for about three years when I finally admitted I was not using it. The web UI took five to eight seconds to load…
Why I Self-Hosted My Password Manager And Immediately Regretted It
Why I Self-Hosted My Password Manager and Immediately Regretted It (And What I Did Instead) I have been self-hosting services for about a decade. I run my own email, my own file…
I Ditched Shazam for This Open-Source App — Never Going Back
I Ditched Shazam for This Open-Source App. Never Going Back. Shazam was the first app I installed on every new phone. I have been a Shazam user for fifteen years. The app…
This simple container turned my markdown files into a personal wiki
This Simple Container Turned My Markdown Files Into a Searchable Wiki I have about 400 markdown files spread across six git repos, two cloud drives, and a folder called notes-from-2023 I have…
This Free Tool Watches My Server Logs So I Don’t Have To
This Free Tool Watches My Server Logs So I Don’t Have To I have a small home lab: three Linux boxes, a NAS, a router running OpenWrt (an open-source router operating system),…
5 Reasons Virtual Machines Still Matter in 2026
Virtual machines (VMs, programs that emulate an entire physical computer inside your existing one) have been declared dead at least once a year for the last decade. Containers were supposed to make…