Uptime Kuma is the self-hosted monitoring tool that 76,000 GitHub stars built. Beautiful dashboard, 90+ notification channels, zero per-monitor fees. Here's what it does, how to deploy it, and where it fits in your stack.
Traditional VPNs are single points of failure held together with certificate management and firewall rules. NetBird replaces all of that with a WireGuard mesh, Zero Trust access control, and a setup that takes minutes instead of days.
Postiz is an open source social media scheduler built for the agentic era — self-hostable, API-first, and designed to be controlled by AI agents as much as by humans. Here's what it actually does and whether it's worth your time.
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.
Your browser console says ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED on WebSocket handshake. Your uWSGI logs say it needs SSL support. Here's what's actually happening and how to fix it.
Monitoring and observability aren't the same thing. This guide covers how to set up Prometheus and Grafana to monitor your infrastructure and applications — with real alerts that actually fire when something breaks.