…main display, this open-source tool is going to be your new favorite utility. Sometimes I’m doing focused writing, and I find the dual monitor setup distracting. Instead of turning another…
…My setup already includes things like Paperless-ngx, Home Assistant, and other tools that prioritize privacy and control. But when it came to large language models, I was still hesitant. LLMs have…
…Everything looked alright, a few self-hosted services and a monitoring tool to watch over them. On paper, it was a perfect setup. But when my server went down, the monitoring disappeared…
…So, I nuked my VS Code instance and rebuilt it from scratch to optimize my coding setup – and it turned out to be the best productivity decision ever. Related I built a…
…For reference materials, a tool like Kiwix is worth having in your setup. It lets you download online content as local files using a .zim format, which can be opened and browsed…
…setup is split across multiple folders. Claude Code then starts operating more like a sysadmin than an autocomplete tool. It reads the configs, proposes changes, asks for approval, edits the files, and…
…The tool works like a self-hosted file sync and storage system. And once setup, it behaves like a mainstream cloud drive, except it is entirely self-hosted. NextCloud is my working…
…That kind of cleanup is easier when you can see the whole picture instead of jumping between browser bookmarks and old notes. It also helped me separate daily tools from maintenance tools…
…are future-proof and tool-agnostic, so I can quite literally keep them forever and use them anywhere. Even though I appreciate the privacy wins about this setup, it’s not even…
…I solved that problem with a persistent Ventoy USB drive that remembers all these changes and treats the demo like a permanent OS installation. So, I can use the apps, tools, and…