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Buy vs. Run: Costing a Rails Production Stack as a Team of One Rails
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Buy vs. Run: Costing a Rails Production Stack as a Team of One

Every "I saved money by self-hosting" post I've read makes the same mistake: it compares an invoice to an invoice. That comparison is not…

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NVIDIA DKMS Fails on Proxmox Kernel 7.0 — And How to Fix It Proxmox
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NVIDIA DKMS Fails on Proxmox Kernel 7.0 — And How to Fix It

If you run a Proxmox VE node with an NVIDIA GPU and recently ran apt full-upgrade, there's a good chance your system is now in a broken…

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ONCE by 37signals: Self-Hosting Without the DevOps Tax Docker
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ONCE by 37signals: Self-Hosting Without the DevOps Tax

Every month, the SaaS invoice pile grows a little taller. Slack, Notion, Linear, Loom — individually reasonable, collectively brutal. At…

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GitButler and the Evolution of Version Control Git
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GitButler and the Evolution of Version Control

A Practitioner’s Perspective on AI-Era Workflows GitButler recently raised $17M with a simple but ambitious idea: rethink version control…

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Ditching ddclient and Open Ports: Migrating to Cloudflare Tunnel for a Safer Homelab Docker
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Ditching ddclient and Open Ports: Migrating to Cloudflare Tunnel for a Safer Homelab

For years, my homelab setup followed the classic self-hosting playbook: ddclient updating my dynamic IP on Cloudflare DNS, ports 80 and 443…

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My Automated Tech News Digest with Claude Cowork Schedules Homelab
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My Automated Tech News Digest with Claude Cowork Schedules

There are tasks we keep pushing back. Not because they're hard, but because they're repetitive and time-consuming. Daily tech news is one…

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Mounting Nextcloud AIO User Files as Read-Only with bindfs Docker
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Mounting Nextcloud AIO User Files as Read-Only with bindfs

When running Nextcloud AIO (All-in-One) via Docker, your user files live deep inside a Docker volume. If you need other services on the…

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Build a daily tech digest with n8n, RSS and OpenAI Homelab
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Build a daily tech digest with n8n, RSS and OpenAI

What you'll build: an automated workflow that aggregates 16 RSS sources every morning (Reddit, Hacker News, newsletters, FR/EN blogs),…

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Proxmox: Why Only ZFS Storage Supports Snapshot Backups Proxmox
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Proxmox: Why Only ZFS Storage Supports Snapshot Backups

When configuring virtual machine backups in Proxmox VE, three modes are available: Stop, Suspend, and Snapshot. The Snapshot mode is by far…

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Self-Hosting a Docker Registry for Kamal Deployments Docker
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Self-Hosting a Docker Registry for Kamal Deployments

Self-Hosting a Docker Registry for Kamal Deployments Moving from GitHub Container Registry to a private, self-hosted registry on your local…

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