Interesting open source projects, tools and libraries worth knowing about.
Ghost is what I use to run DevOpsPack. It's fast, focused, open source, and gets out of your way. Here's an honest overview of the platform from someone who uses it daily and contributes to the project.
Directus is an open source headless CMS that gives you a REST and GraphQL API plus a no-code admin panel — running on your own infrastructure with your own database. No vendor lock-in, no cloud dependency.
Algolia is fast, polished, and expensive. Typesense is fast, open source, and self-hostable. Here's what you actually give up when you make the switch.
GA4 is powerful. It's also a privacy nightmare, a GDPR headache, and genuinely unpleasant to use. Here's why I switched to Plausible and what I actually gave up.
The minio/minio repo was archived on April 25, 2026. There is a community fork. There are alternatives. But the real question is: who actually fills the gap that MinIO leaves behind?