The third AI Shoulder Surf meeting on May 28, 2026, featured participants using Tailscale to securely access private home labs. Olaf built a triathlon training plan with Claude and hosted it on his Ta…
A Hacker News user has deployed an AI assistant named OpenClaw on a Hetzner VM to automate tasks including scanning government procurement websites, monitoring email inboxes for job descriptions, and …
A developer built a personal AI agent called Al after finding existing options like OpenClaw too expensive and unpredictable. The agent runs on a remote server using Pi, OpenCode Go, Telegram, and oth…
Crabbox has introduced Pond, a lightweight runtime grouping system that allows developers to organize related cloud leases under a shared label for AI agents and CI workflows. The system supports thre…
A French social housing AI agent called PIERRE eliminated its entire RAG stack—including vector databases, embedding models, rerankers, and multiple cloud GPU services—replacing them with a single SQL…
A newsletter called "Discover European Tech Alternatives" is now curating weekly European tech picks and positive news, highlighting tools like DeepL, Ecosia, and ElevenLabs as alternatives to major U…
This article describes a solution for securely managing application secrets when using Kamal for deployment. The author explains how to store secrets in AWS Secrets Manager as a single JSON blob and r…
The article describes an engineer's journey of building five Kubernetes clusters, each iteration addressing a specific lesson learned from the previous one. The clusters evolved from a basic highly-av…
Bruno Croci migrated his long-running blog from an outdated Ubuntu 16.04 server to a more affordable Hetzner virtual machine running FreeBSD. He chose FreeBSD primarily for its support of ZFS, which i…
After running on an outdated Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Digital Ocean VPS for over ten years, the author migrated their blog to a cheaper, more powerful Hetzner virtual machine running FreeBSD. The old server h…
A developer has published a step-by-step guide for running the open-source Hermes Agent AI assistant 24/7 on a virtual private server (VPS) for as little as $5 per month. The setup, which connects the…
A software engineer has developed a method to crawl and convert technical documentation pages into text-only representations for local AI processing, using Playwright for JavaScript rendering and LLMs…
This article summarizes how the author built a blog using Elixir and the Phoenix framework, with blog posts generated from Markdown files via NimblePublisher and compiled at build time for performance…