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Blog Comments: Self-Host or SaaS?
Disqus is a tracker farm wearing a comment box costume. Here's every real alternative, self-hosted and SaaS, and which one actually fits your blog.
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CrowdSec Collections & Bouncers: fail2ban for 2026
CrowdSec is fail2ban with community threat intel: scenario collections plus pluggable bouncers for Caddy or Traefik. Block millions of bad IPs from day one.
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mergerfs + SnapRAID: The Poor Man's Unraid
Skip the paid Unraid license. mergerfs + SnapRAID give you flexible JBOD pooling with parity protection on mismatched drives you already own, for free.
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Headscale: Self-Host Your Own Tailscale Control Plane
Headscale gives you all the magic of Tailscale's zero-config WireGuard mesh, without trusting a SaaS control plane. Deploy it end-to-end with Docker Compose, ACLs, MagicDNS, and exit nodes.
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Object Storage on a Pi: SeaweedFS Cluster Walkthrough
Run a real S3-compatible object storage cluster on Raspberry Pi 4s with SeaweedFS, low RAM overhead, fast filer, no Ceph drama or surprise cloud bills.
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eBPF for the Curious: Kernel Tracing Without the PhD
eBPF traces what Linux is actually doing, syscalls, TCP events, slow functions, without rebooting. A hands-on intro to bpftrace, BCC, and libbpf with copy-paste one-liners.
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Bind Mounts vs NFS for Container Storage
Bind mounts are fast and simple; NFS is shared and flexible for containers. Pick wrong and your database corrupts at 2 AM. Here is how to choose wisely.
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NixOS First Impressions for Pragmatists
An honest take on migrating a home lab box to NixOS with flakes: the steep learning cliff, the weird Nix language, and why atomic rollbacks win.
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tmux vs Zellij vs Screen: Pick Your Multiplexer
Screen is on every server, tmux is the sysadmin workhorse, and Zellij is the modern newcomer with sane defaults. Here's how all three compare, and which one you should actually use.
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The Modern Unix Toolkit: fzf, ripgrep, fd, bat, eza
GNU coreutils are 50 years old and it shows. ripgrep, fd, bat, eza, fzf, and zoxide replace grep/find/cat/ls with faster, friendlier Rust-powered tools. Here's what each one wins at, and when the original still holds.
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Frigate + Coral TPU: AI Cameras Without the Subscription
Frigate NVR + a $60 Google Coral TPU gives you real-time AI object detection on your own cameras, integrates with Home Assistant, and costs nothing per month. Here's how to set it up.
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GPU Passthrough on Proxmox: Run LLMs in a VM
GPU passthrough on Proxmox is the best way to isolate LLM workloads, but it's a minefield of IOMMU groups, vfio-pci binding, and Code 43 errors. This post walks through the whole thing end-to-end.
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