You have a few internal services on your homelab — a Home Assistant box, a Plex server, a TrueNAS UI, an Uptime Kuma dashboard. They all live on 192.168.1.x with random ports. You want to give them clean URLs (…
iCloud backup “just works” until it doesn’t — until your iCloud quota fills, or you decide that storing the unencrypted contents of your iPhone at Apple is a posture you don’t love, or your Mac dies and you want a …
You write. People want to subscribe. Substack used to be the obvious answer until they started taking 10% plus payment processing, plus the platform-risk of the next political controversy. Buttondown is a nicer option for $9-29/mo. ConvertKit and MailerLite both …
Google still has the best results for some queries. DuckDuckGo is fine for most of them. Kagi is excellent if you want to pay $10/month. But there’s a fourth option that gets oddly little airtime: SearXNG — a self-hosted metasearch …
The 3-2-1 backup rule is older than this whole industry: 3 copies of the data, on 2 different media types, with 1 of them offsite. It’s the conservative answer for a reason — ransomware can take out one local …
Pinboard is the bookmark service hardcore link-collectors swore by for over a decade. The thing was: it was always one person (Maciej Cegłowski), aging gracefully but increasingly out of touch with modern web platforms. Pinboard’s iOS extensions broke after iOS …
Pocket announced its shutdown in 2025. Instapaper still exists but is third-handed and feels frozen. Reader-by-Readwise is good but it’s a $10/month subscription. The self-hosted answer is Wallabag — PHP+MySQL, runs on a $5 VPS, has clean iOS / Android …
Your VPS is down. You don’t know it yet because nobody’s pinged you. The customer who emailed at 3 AM gets the “our server is unavailable” auto-responder, but it’s actually a real outage. By the time you wake up and …
RSS isn’t dead — it’s the part of the open web that the algorithm-driven feeds couldn’t kill. The trade is that you have to host the reader yourself if you want the experience to be good. Two reasonable self-hosted options …
You’ve spent enough years watching iCloud quietly rewrite your contact data, randomly de-syncing one device, “merging” the same family member into three different cards. The fix is leaving iCloud and running your own CalDAV/CardDAV server. Apple’s Calendar and Contacts apps …