Open Source

Reviews, self-hosting walkthroughs, and ecosystem notes about open source software. The projects we actually use and the licensing that keeps them ours.

Self-host

Best Self-Hosted Open Source Tools of 2026

The mature alternatives to mainstream SaaS.

Self-host

Self-host Nextcloud, Properly

Postgres, Redis, APCu, nginx — production config.

Git Hosting

Self-host a Git Server with Gitea

A GitHub-in-a-box you can deploy in twenty minutes.

Observability

Grafana + Prometheus Monitoring Stack

Scraping, alerting, dashboards that actually help.

VPN

WireGuard VPN: From Zero to Tunnel

The modern VPN that fits in a single config file.

Database

PostgreSQL Performance Tuning

shared_buffers, work_mem, EXPLAIN ANALYZE.