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How to Pick Open-Source Tools by Fit — I Skipped an 84k-Star One
I weighed four similar tools and picked one. I dropped an 84k-star tool, and I trusted a license badge and got it wrong. Stars, badges, an AI’s first…
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I Built a Blog Publishing Skill — and This Post Is Its First Output
Publishing a post took 11 manual steps. So I built a tool to do it in one shot — and learned that building is easy, shipping is hard.…
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Yak Shaving, Idempotency, Dogfooding, Dead Man’s Switch — 4 Dev Terms That Work Outside Code
Yak shaving, idempotency, dogfooding — three dev terms that work outside code. Getting lured into side-quests, repeating an action safely, and using your own thing before shipping.
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No Open Ports — Reaching My Server from Anywhere with Tailscale
How to securely reach your home server from anywhere. A self-hosting guide using Tailscale to bundle your own devices into one encrypted private network and connect remote desktop…
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The Link That Won’t Tap — Opening Obsidian Notes From Telegram
Send an Obsidian note link (obsidian://) over Telegram and it won’t tap, because chat apps don’t turn custom schemes into links. How to work around it by inserting…
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A Hands-Off Server — The Small cron Automations That Keep It Running
cron is the built-in Linux scheduler that runs commands at set times. The chores our server handles every day, and three traps beginners always hit (empty PATH, silent…
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My Notes on My Server — Self-Hosting Obsidian LiveSync + CouchDB
Obsidian’s official Sync is a monthly fee. Sync notes to CouchDB on your own server for $0 plus data ownership. Why never to expose CouchDB on 0.0.0.0, and…
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Backing Up to a NAS Every Night — tar+ssh (and Why Not rsync)
Self-hosting without backups is a time bomb. A nightly cron tars a folder and ships it to a NAS over ssh. Why we skipped the rsync daemon (port…
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Free WordPress Defense — Wordfence’s Free Tier and the Premium Trap
WordPress is the No.1 bot target. Wordfence’s free tier covers firewall, 2FA, and malware scanning, yet the install screen nudges you to pay. Where the free key hides,…
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What Not to Publish — Privacy Review for Self-Hosting Posts
Locking down the server is only half of it: the post you write about that server leaks too. The five things self-hosting write-ups commonly expose (account name, internal…