Self-Hosting

How to run your own servers, Docker stacks, and self-hosted services without losing weekends to config files.

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OmniGet wraps yt-dlp in an app that plays your courses

OmniGet is an open source video downloader app built on yt-dlp, with a clipboard hotkey, a course player, an ebook reader, and no command line.

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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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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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Does the AIRI anime companion really play Minecraft?

AIRI is a self hosted AI companion with a 3D anime body that talks, listens, and even plays Minecraft, running in a browser or as a desktop app.

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Pumpkin runs Minecraft on 100MB but pistons don't work

Pumpkin is a Minecraft server in Rust that starts in milliseconds on roughly 100MB of RAM, but pistons are broken and version 1.0 has no release date.

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Gitea vs Forgejo, which self-hosted Git server to pick

Gitea vs Forgejo in 2026 compared on governance, license, and features, plus why the drop-in upgrade between the two Git servers no longer works.