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HyperDX vs OpenObserve
HyperDX (ClickHouse, session replay) vs OpenObserve (Rust, cheap object storage), two modern self-hosted observability platforms compared for homelabbers.
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Garrul: The Audit Found My Rate Limiter
A security audit of Garrul, my Cloudflare Workers comment system, found 2 critical bugs. Both had the same root cause as one I had already fixed in June.
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Home Assistant Backups That Actually Restore
Home Assistant disaster recovery: off-site backups, secrets handling, Z2M coordinator, restore drills that catch missing pieces.
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Calibre-Web vs Calibre Server vs Kavita
Calibre, Calibre-Web, and Kavita compared for a self-hosted ebook library. Format support, reading experience, and which one belongs on your NAS.
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Multiple Claude Code Accounts, One Config
Run several Claude Code accounts on one Linux machine. CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR plus symlinks share your skills, hooks and history while each login stays isolated.
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Navidrome vs Funkwhale: Self-Hosted Music
Navidrome vs Funkwhale for self-hosted music streaming. Subsonic API support, mobile clients, federation, and which one fits a homelab in 2026.
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Tautulli Beyond Plex Stats
Tautulli's notification webhooks, automation, transcode alerts, and custom triggers unlock Plex monitoring beyond leaderboards and statistics charts.
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Overseerr vs Jellyseerr
Overseerr is Plex-only. Jellyseerr forked it for Jellyfin and Emby. How the two media request frontends compare on auth, setup, and Sonarr integration.
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The *arr Stack Without 9000 Reddit Threads
Self-hosted *arr stack (Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr) with durable Docker Compose. Hardlinks, folder layout, no breakage.
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Synthetic Browser Monitoring with Playwright + Grafana
Set up Playwright synthetic monitoring: scheduled headless browser checks, login flow validation, and pass/fail metrics piped into Grafana dashboards.
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VictoriaMetrics vs Prometheus
VictoriaMetrics as a Prometheus drop-in replacement: lower RAM footprint, longer retention, better compression. When the switch actually pays off.
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Node Exporter Internals That Actually Matter
Which 30 Node Exporter metrics matter for Prometheus monitoring. Skip the 200 noisy ones. Textfile collector trick included.
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