Through the Tunnel(Ep-5 of The $0 cloud)
A developer successfully hosted a website from their own server behind CGNAT using Cloudflare Tunnel, achieving their goal of zero-cost hosting. The project involved learning Linux, Docker, networking…
A developer successfully hosted a website from their own server behind CGNAT using Cloudflare Tunnel, achieving their goal of zero-cost hosting. The project involved learning Linux, Docker, networking…
Sentry traces revealed a page load time of 4 seconds, with TTFB alone at 2,068ms, prompting a developer to optimize their Nginx cache and move API calls to the backend. Using Sentry's AI assistant See…
A developer has published a guide for deploying a GFPGAN-powered face-restoration demo using Gradio on Ubuntu 22.04. The setup includes running the app as a systemd service and exposing it through Ngi…
Nginx UI, an open-source web GUI for managing Nginx, can be installed on Ubuntu 24.04 either as a system service or via Docker, with features including real-time stats, automatic Let's Encrypt TLS, pe…
A developer building a personal server learned to use Nginx as a reverse proxy and SSH for authentication. Nginx sits between the browser and services, hiding them from direct exposure, while SSH key …
Sub2API is an open-source AI API gateway that lets developers self-host a unified endpoint for multiple AI providers, handling authentication, routing, usage accounting, and concurrency limits. The pr…
Ollama Scout, a tool from developer Ember2819, exposes a security risk where users bind Ollama to 0.0.0.0 without a reverse proxy or VPN, turning GPUs into free public APIs. The tool probes port 11434…
A developer built Isbar-Si AI, a Somali-language AI chatbot and online course platform using React 19, TypeScript, Node.js, and TiDB. The platform offers four courses, private tutoring, and an AI assi…
Laravel 13 shipped in March 2026 with first-party AI primitives, but deploying AI workloads on a Laravel VPS requires rethinking server configurations. A developer warns that LLM calls break default s…
A developer detailed a full-stack implementation of streaming LLM responses in Django and React, using Server-Sent Events (SSE) instead of WebSockets for one-directional communication. The approach in…
A developer built iamuu, a free online image and PDF processing platform using Vue 3, FastAPI, Celery, and MinIO, offering over 100 image format conversions, 40 PDF tools, AI background removal, OCR, …
A new specification proposes that documentation sites expose raw Markdown source at predictable URLs via a .md suffix or content negotiation, enabling AI agents and tools to fetch lossless, smaller pa…
A developer published a technical SEO audit checklist for modern web applications, focusing on what crawlers actually see. The guide covers robots.txt configuration, sitemap generation, canonical URLs…
A developer reflects on the trade-offs of using AI code assistants, noting a 15-20% speed increase in daily workflow but expressing concerns about dependency and code quality. The developer observed t…
A developer built a log monitoring Python script using DeepSeek, but the generated code hallucinated and required extensive manual fixes. The script, intended to tail Nginx error logs and send Slack a…
Nebula Security disclosed a new Nginx remote code execution 0-day affecting Fortune 500 companies. The vulnerability impacts Nginx Open Source versions 1.31.0 and 1.31.1 with HTTP/3 or QUIC enabled. U…
A developer with 20 years of experience warns that heavy reliance on AI tools leads to skill atrophy, where fundamental problem-solving abilities weaken over time. The article highlights how AI-genera…
A developer integrated live location updates into a two-sided marketplace app using Postbase, an open-source tool that combines Postgres pg_notify with WebSockets to enable real-time features like cha…
An AWS developer built a self-healing application on AWS that automatically detects a web server crash and restarts the service without human intervention. The solution uses Amazon CloudWatch Agent to…
A developer who self-hosted open-source AI models on rented A100 GPUs shut down the setup after two weeks and returned to using an API, finding that self-hosting cost at least $500 per month for GPU a…