I have been using AI coding assistants for a while now. They all do roughly the same thing: help you write and understand code faster. But the one I k[……]
Author: Andrea
Nothing Monitors Itself: Watch Your Services Before They Silently Break
I remember the exact moment I decided I needed proper monitoring. A service I had been running for years had stopped responding. Not sure exactly when[……]
Best Open Source Security Tools for 2026
A roundup of the best open-source security tools worth running in 2026 — from SIEM and vulnerability scanning to endpoint visibility and incident response.[……]
A roundup of the best open-source security tools worth running in 2026 — from SIEM and vulnerability scanning to endpoint visibility and incident response.[……]
Jellyfin vs Plex vs Emby — free vs paid media server
If you’ve got a collection of movies, TV shows, or music sitting on a hard drive, you’ve probably thought about setting up a media server. The big thr[……]
GIMP vs Krita — which image editor is right for you?
So you need a free image editor — you’ve heard of GIMP and Krita, both free and open source, both powerful, but you’re not sure which one to install.[……]
AI Hasn’t Torched Junior Dev Jobs — It Has Changed What The Job Looks Like
A post doing the rounds this week looks at employment data and concludes that AI has torched the market for junior programmers. The headline numbers[……]
Debian at 30: The Quiet Operating System That Keeps the Internet Running
I have been using Debian for more than fifteen years now. Not exclusively — I have used Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, even some BSDs here and there — but D[……]
How to upgrade Debian 12 (bookworm) to Debian 13 (trixie)
I’ve been upgrading my Debian 12 (bookworm) server fleet to Debian 13 (trixie).
Here is the successful process I ended up following for them all.
The[……]
Broadcom Torched VMware. Here’s the Open Source Lesson.
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware sent licensing costs through the roof. Here’s what it teaches us about open source, vendor lock-in, and why the safe choice isn’t always safe.[……]
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware sent licensing costs through the roof. Here’s what it teaches us about open source, vendor lock-in, and why the safe choice isn’t always safe.[……]
Testing Paperclip: What I Learned
Paperclip recently caught my attention as it allows you to orchestrate teams of specialised AI agents through a beautiful self-hosted web UI, so I had[……]