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Portainer 3.0 is the push your homelab needed to switch

Portainer 3.0 freezes Community Edition on 2.x and bets on Kubernetes. Why homelabs should switch now, which tool to pick, and how to move your stacks.

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Anthropic's cookbook hides 91 notebooks behind a list

The Claude Cookbooks repo holds 91 notebooks, including agent SDK, managed agents, and skills recipes the README table of contents never lists.

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dbx handles 70 databases in a 20 MB app with no Java

dbx is a lightweight database client covering 70+ databases from a 20 MB download, with no Java runtime and an MCP server your coding agent can query.

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Best AI video tools 2026

Best AI video tools 2026 for clips, avatars, and effects. Free tiers hand out credits, not minutes, and this is what a credit actually buys you.

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Pi Web drops your terminal coding agent in a browser

Pi Web is a web UI for pi coding agent work: it reads local session files, forks any message, and switches worktrees. Its password is off by default.

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Does bitchat work as well on Android as on iPhone?

bitchat for Android carries the same Bluetooth mesh as the iPhone app, plus Wi-Fi Aware and built-in Tor, at the cost of a permanent notification.

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