I have been searching online for alternatives to Google Analytics. The result would mean analytics for all my applications and websites, but FREE. I wanted the ability to track the people to access my...

Recently, I spent several weeks searching for a suitable open-source helpdesk platform to use for Closyt. There are several options you could use to accomplish this task, ITFlow, FreeScout, FrappeDesk...

Mastodon is a neat microblogging platform similar to Twitter and Threads. I came across it online, reading other people's blogs and seeing links to some Mastodon servers they were on. After conduc...

Authentication can be a tricky thing to get right. We probably all have gone the route of rolling our own auth once or twice, but doing so forces you to spend time writing an auth application instead...

GitHub, while great, is not due to their data practices. I am not too fond of my code in my private repo potentially showing up in someone's Copilot suggestion. While that may be far from happenin...

A couple weeks ago I was working on something at work and decided to "watch" some YouTube while I was working. I happened to see a video about something that was crossing my mind recently, a...

Ghost is a really cool blogging platform I discovered several years ago. I have been toying with the platform for a while, but only in the past couple years have I really started to take it seriously....

Minecraft is one of the games from my childhood that I spent weeks playing and daydreaming about. Being the more "technically savvy" of my friends, I was always the one set to host the Minec...

Caddy is a great reverse proxy tool that has been very useful in my lab. Nginx served me well for some time, but Caddy had me sold over its simplicity and the automatic HTTPS. Since then it has been a...