Harper: The Grammar Checker That Stays on Your Machine
Grammarly is a privacy nightmare. LanguageTool needs 16GB of data. Harper is the offline grammar checker nobody talks about enough — and it belongs in your editor.
just me and linux
Notes from running a two-machine homelab
Start here
Four ways in, depending on what you came for.
Linux From Scratch
A complete system built from source, one package at a time — with the real output, including the compiles that failed.
Internals & infrastructure
systemd, storage stacks, and the networking layer: ZFS against mdadm + LVM, WireGuard, iptables and what replaced it.
Break something safely
A simulated production outage with a clock running, and a lab of broken systems in throwaway containers.
Apps worth self-hosting
Shorter notes on software I tried on my own boxes — what it replaces, where it breaks, whether I kept it.
Latest
DocuSeal: Self-Host Your Document Signing
DocuSign charges $40/month. DocuSeal gives you the same core workflow in a Docker container that costs you nothing.
OfficeCLI: Read and Edit Office Documents Without Microsoft Office
A single binary that reads, writes, and creates Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on Linux — no Office, no LibreOffice, no conversion artifacts.
PhotoGIMP: Make GIMP Feel Like Home After Photoshop
You've spent years building Photoshop muscle memory. Every time you sit down in GIMP, your hands try to use it — and GIMP doesn't cooperate. PhotoGIMP fixes
Karakeep: a self-hosted replacement for Pocket
Mozilla killed Pocket. Your browser bookmarks are a graveyard. Karakeep is a self-hosted bookmark manager with AI tagging, full-page archiving, and video hoarding — and it runs entirely on your own hardware.
maigret: Find Every Account Tied to a Username Across 3,000+ Sites
You registered an account on a forum in 2011, used the same handle on six other platforms, and forgot about all of them. They're still out there. maigret finds them.
TREK: self-hosted trip planning after Google Trips
Google killed Google Trips. TripIt wants your credit card. And shared Google Sheets "trip planners" are just organized suffering. If you've been self-hosting everything else — photos,
Kage: Clone Any Website for Offline Reading, JavaScript-Free
Save As has been lying to you for decades. Kage clones websites the right way — renders with real Chrome, strips all JavaScript, and packs the result into files you can actually keep.
BentoPDF: a PDF toolkit that never uploads your documents
BentoPDF: The PDF Toolkit That Actually Gets Privacy Right I've watched the PDF toolkit space for years. Most tools either send your documents to mysterious servers or consume
OpenScreen: Screen Studio Without the Subscription
OpenScreen: Screen Studio Without the Subscription Screen recording tools charge like luxury software but deliver basic functionality. Screen Studio wants $29/month for what amounts to recording your screen with
TUI Studio: Visual Terminal UI Design Finally Gets the Figma Treatment
TUI Studio: Visual Terminal UI Design Finally Gets the Figma Treatment Terminal UIs are everywhere. htop, lazygit, k9s — every tool that makes the command line bearable lives in that text-only
Gabagool: A WebAssembly Interpreter That Remembers Everything
You pause a video game mid-level, shut down your computer, fly to another continent, boot up a different machine, and resume exactly where you left off — same health, same position,
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