NixOS version-controls your whole system: config, packages, services, dev shells. One flake lock makes two machines identical and ends drift.
Hands-on experience with AI, self-hosting, Linux, and the developer tools Botmonster actually uses
PiKVM KVM-over-IP: Raspberry Pi, $80-$385, virtual media, ATX
Turn a Raspberry Pi into a KVM-over-IP device with PiKVM: hardware setup, software install, virtual media, multi-server switching, and Tailscale.
Run vision models locally: Florence-2 and Qwen-VL for image analysis
Run Florence-2 and Qwen2-VL locally on an 8GB NVIDIA GPU for OCR, object detection, image captioning, and visual QA, fully offline.
The Claude Code source leak: what 512,000 lines of TypeScript revealed about AI agent architecture
Claude Code source leak revealed: KAIROS daemon mode, anti-distillation defenses, and a five-stage context cascade from 512K lines of TypeScript.
Gatus: 50 endpoints, 40MB RAM, free status page for self-hosters
Gatus is a lightweight monitoring tool that watches self-hosted services and serves a clean status page with Slack, Discord, and 20+ alert providers.
Raspberry Pi 5: N64 and Dreamcast finally run full speed
Build a retro console with Pi 5 and RetroPie or Batocera. Emulate NES through PSP with hardware guide, emulator setup, CRT shaders, overclocking.






