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Syncthing for Dotfiles: Sync vs Manage
Syncthing mirrors your files in real time, but is that actually a good idea for dotfiles? An honest comparison against chezmoi and proper dotfile managers.
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Btrfs RAID 5/6: Still Don't
The kernel docs still warn about it. The Btrfs wiki still warns about it. People still build it and lose data. Here's the write hole, why RAID 1/10 are fine, and what to use instead.
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Dragonfly vs Redis: Single-Binary Performance
DragonflyDB vs Redis 8.x and Valkey 9.x: architecture deep dive, real performance benchmarks, honest gotchas, and when to swap your cache layer for a dragon.
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ntfy vs Gotify vs Apprise: Push Stacks
ntfy is curl-friendly push with iOS. Gotify is self-hosted with web UI. Apprise abstracts 70+ providers. Here's how to wire homelab notifications.
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Syncthing Through Untrusted VPS Relays
Sync files between machines that are never online together using Syncthing's untrusted encrypted devices, dual-VPS failover, and a Tailscale-only network path.
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SnapRAID: Parity Without Real-Time RAID
SnapRAID calculates parity on a schedule instead of in real time, so it mixes drive sizes and pairs with MergerFS. Best fit for media that rarely changes.
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KeyDB: A Redis Fork With Multi-Threading
KeyDB forked Redis and shipped multi-threaded I/O and active-active replication years before Redis itself did. Here is whether it is still worth using today.
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Mastodon vs Misskey vs Pleroma 2026
Three ActivityPub servers for your own fediverse instance. Mastodon polished, Misskey feature-rich, Pleroma/Akkoma lightweight. Here's how to pick.
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mdadm Day-2: Grow, Replace, Scrub
Creating a RAID array is the easy part. The drama starts six months later when one drive starts dying. Here's the survival guide for everything that happens after mdadm --create.
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Self-Hosted Email Gateways in 2026
Self-hosted secure email gateways compared: Proxmox Mail Gateway vs Hermes SEG vs DIY Rspamd, plus which classic appliances are now abandonware.
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pg_repack vs VACUUM FULL: Reclaim Bloat Live
Postgres table bloat killing your query performance? Compare VACUUM FULL vs pg_repack and learn how to reclaim disk space live without any scheduled downtime.
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Vikunja vs Focalboard vs Taiga
Vikunja is a todo+kanban all-rounder. Focalboard is Trello-ish (archived). Taiga is agile/scrum. Here's how to pick self-hosted project management.
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