I Read 50 Blogs a Day Without Opening a Browser. Here Is How.
I was subscribed to 50 blogs via email. My inbox was chaos. FreshRSS lets me read them all in one clean interface.
Productivity
10 articles tagged "productivity"
I Created My Own URL Shortener and Ditched Bitly
Bitly is fine until they want $40 a month for custom domains and analytics. Shlink does the same thing on my server for free.
Your Homelab Deserves a Dashboard. Here Is the Best One.
I had 15 services running and kept forgetting which port was which. Homarr gave me a single page to see everything.
I Digitized Every Recipe in My House and Now My Kitchen Talks to My Server
My grandmother's recipes were on handwritten cards. Now they are in a searchable, self-hosted recipe manager I can access from my phone while cooking.
Google Docs but Private: Why I Self-Host CryptPad
I stopped editing documents on Google Docs after realizing they train AI on my content. CryptPad is encrypted, collaborative, and self-hosted.
We Replaced Slack with Mattermost and Saved $500 a Year
Slack wanted $12/user/month for the privilege of searching our own messages. Mattermost does everything Slack does on our server.
I Left GitHub and Hosted My Own Git Server. Here Is How.
GitHub is great until you want to own your code. Gogs is the lightest Git server ever written and it runs on a Raspberry Pi with 64MB RAM.
I Stopped Paying Calendly $16 a Month and Hosted My Own Scheduler
Calendly is convenient. But $16 a month for letting people book time on my calendar? I built the same thing with Cal.com for free.
We Stopped Losing Knowledge and Started Using BookStack
Our team had documentation scattered everywhere. Google Docs, Notion, Slack messages. BookStack gave us one place to keep everything.
I Replaced Zapier with n8n and Saved $600 a Year
Zapier wanted $74 a month for the plan I needed. n8n does the same thing on my server for free. The math was simple.