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Data Center Part 8: The cheat sheet Linux
Data Center Part 7: Directing remote hands Linux
Data Center Part 6: Leaving the cage Linux
Data Center Part 5: Where the switches live Linux
Data Center Part 4: Out-of-band access Linux
Data Center Part 3: Cables, optics and transceivers Linux
Data Center Part 2: Power, A-side and B-side Linux
Data Center Part 1: Anatomy of a rack Linux
Data Center Part 0: The vocabulary Linux
Linux Networking Part 7: The Cheat Sheet Linux
Linux Networking Part 6: Routing, ARP, Firewalls and Containers Linux
Linux Networking Part 5: Latency, Queues, and a Real nginx Hunt Linux
Linux Networking Part 4: Reading tcpdump Linux
Linux Networking Part 3: Proving Packet Loss Linux
Linux Networking Part 2: Reading Sockets with ss Linux
Linux Networking Part 1: The Mental Model Linux
Linux Networking Part 0: The Fundamentals Linux
nginx under load: workers, connections, and the kernel underneath Linux
witr: Trace Any Process Back to Why It's Running Apps
Harper: The Grammar Checker That Stays on Your Machine Apps
croc: file transfer through NAT without SSH or open ports Apps
Openship: Deploy to Your Own Server Without the YAML Self-Hosted
DocuSeal: Self-Host Your Document Signing Self-Hosted
dcg: The Shell Safety Net Your AI Coding Agent Needs Apps
OfficeCLI: Read and Edit Office Documents Without Microsoft Office Apps
PhotoGIMP: Make GIMP Feel Like Home After Photoshop Apps
Karakeep: a self-hosted replacement for Pocket Self-Hosted
herdr: tmux, Rebuilt for the Age of Coding Agents Apps
maigret: Find Every Account Tied to a Username Across 3,000+ Sites Apps
TREK: self-hosted trip planning after Google Trips Self-Hosted
no-mistakes: A Git Proxy That Validates Your Code Before It Leaves Your Machine Apps
codebase-memory-mcp: A Knowledge Graph for Your Codebase in a Single Binary Apps
Headroom: Strip the Noise Before It Hits the LLM Apps
xan: a Rust CSV processor for the terminal Apps
Kage: Clone Any Website for Offline Reading, JavaScript-Free Apps
GitHub Copilot CLI: The Terminal Finally Got Smart Apps
zoxide: a cd command that learns your directories Apps
Claude Code: Anthropic's agentic coding assistant in the terminal Apps
BentoPDF: a PDF toolkit that never uploads your documents Apps
OpenScreen: Screen Studio Without the Subscription Apps
fastfetch: Neofetch's Worthy Successor Apps
uv: a Rust-based pip replacement, benchmarked Apps
Project N.O.M.A.D.: a Docker-based offline knowledge archive Self-Hosted
browser-use: letting an LLM agent drive a real browser Apps
Atuin: shell history in SQLite, searchable and synced Apps
Unsloth Studio: a web UI for local model fine-tuning Self-Hosted
Lightpanda: a headless browser written in Zig Apps
TUI Studio: Visual Terminal UI Design Finally Gets the Figma Treatment Apps
Gabagool: A WebAssembly Interpreter That Remembers Everything Apps
Firemark: Document Watermarking Done Right Apps
Ply: a native UI engine for Rust apps Apps
jj: version control without the staging area Apps
sig: Interactive grep for streaming data Apps
BookLore 2.0: one library for ebooks, PDFs, and audiobooks Self-Hosted
Self-hosted AI for software engineers: the stack that replaces cloud tools AI
tortuise: 3D Gaussian Splats in Your Terminal Apps
Free AI APIs in 2026: Every Developer Should Know These AI
nftables: What Replaced iptables and Why You Should Care Linux
iptables: the commands you need Linux
WireGuard from scratch: linking a VPS and a home lab Linux
systemd: units, targets, and what systemctl is really doing Linux
Every AI dev buzzword you're seeing right now, explained AI
GitNexus: zero-server code intelligence for AI coding tools Apps
FossFLOW: Better Infrastructure Diagrams Apps
Database Storage in Kubernetes: What Your Colleague Got Wrong and Everything Else You Need to Know DevOps
Storage performance testing: what to run and how to read it Linux
mdadm, LVM, and the Storage Stack Nobody Fully Explains Linux
ZFS vs Traditional Stack: What Nobody Explains Until You're Recovering at 2AM Linux
Tool Spotlight: Montscan - Your Scanned Documents Finally Have Names That Make Sense Self-Hosted
AI Models Decoded: What Every Self-Hoster Needs to Know AI
Nomad + Consul from Zero to Hero DevOps
TeamCity from Zero to Hero: Architecture, Concepts, and Your First Pipeline DevOps
Structuring Claude Code Projects: The Guide Nobody Gave You DevOps
ArrMatey: a native mobile client for your *arr stack Self-Hosted
The Finish Line — A Complete Linux From Scratch lfs
Compiling the Kernel — The Heart of Your System lfs
Bootscripts and System Configuration lfs
The Final Packages — Init, Filesystems, and Cleanup lfs
System Plumbing — From Shells to Security lfs
Building the Core — GCC, Glibc, and the Foundation lfs
The Best Self-Hosted AI Tools for Your Home Lab in 2025 AI
LFS Part 6: Into the Chroot — Your System’s First Breath lfs
LFS Part 5: Temporary Tools — 17 Packages in 28 Minutes lfs
LFS Part 4: Building the Cross-Toolchain — Your First Compile lfs
Your Own Private AI: Setting Up Ollama + Open WebUI on Linux AI
OpenClaw: Running Your Own AI Agent the Right Way Self-Hosted
Meet ntfy: Push Notifications With a Single curl Command Self-Hosted
LFS Part 1: Why Build Linux From Scratch? lfs
LFS Part 2: how Linux works, from ls to syscall lfs
LFS Part 3: Preparing the Build — Host System & Partitions lfs
n8n + Claude Code via SSH: Give Your Automations a Brain DevOps
Meet MonoSketch: Draw ASCII Diagrams Like a Human Being Apps
Setting Up a Kali Linux VM on Debian Using QEMU/KVM Linux
Linux Networking: A Hands-On Journey Through Bridges, Tools, and Troubleshooting Linux

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