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Why I Built Garrul
I looked at a lot of self-hosted comment systems. None of the ones I wanted ran on Cloudflare Workers. So I wrote one. Here's the story and the deploy.
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Glance vs Homepage vs Dashy: Home Lab Dashboards Compared
Glance, Homepage, and Dashy compared: speed, setup overhead, widget depth, and which self-hosted dashboard actually holds up after a year of homelab use.
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Backblaze B2 + rclone: Tiered Backup at Real-World Costs
Backblaze B2 plus rclone builds a tiered home lab backup that survives AWS egress fees. Bucket layout, lifecycle rules, and the restore test people skip.
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Trivy vs Grype vs Docker Scout
Trivy, Grype, and Docker Scout go head-to-head on speed, CVE coverage, CI integration, and cost. Pick the right scanner for your home lab or pipeline.
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Kdenlive vs DaVinci Resolve on Linux
Both are free, both run on Linux, both edit video. So which do you pick? An honest decision guide to choosing between Kdenlive and DaVinci Resolve on Linux.
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Beyond Akismet: Spam Protection for 2026
Akismet's licensing terms are increasingly hostile to small sites. Here are 11 spam-protection options, hosted APIs, CAPTCHA widgets, and DIY honeypots, that actually work in 2026.
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Self-Hosted Email 2026: Mailcow vs Mailu vs Stalwart
Mailcow vs Mailu vs Stalwart compared on RAM, features, and deliverability, plus the DNS you cannot skip and when paying Migadu is the smarter call.
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Ceph for a 3-Node Home Lab: When It Actually Pays Off
Ceph on 3 nodes: real hardware requirements, honest performance tradeoffs, and exactly when distributed storage beats a plain NFS share for your home lab.
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Kdenlive Proxy Editing on Weak Hardware
Edit 4K (or chunky 1080p60) on a mini PC without the timeline turning into a slideshow. Kdenlive proxies plus VAAPI/NVENC for cheap homelab editing.
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Cosmos vs CasaOS vs Umbrel: All-in-One Home Server OSes Compared
Cosmos, CasaOS, and Umbrel each try to make self-hosting one-click. Here's how they actually compare on UI, security, app catalogs, and the all-important escape hatch when you outgrow them.
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Snapper for Btrfs Snapshots on Root Filesystems
Set up Snapper on Btrfs to auto-snapshot before every system update, roll back broken machines in minutes, and never lose a working root filesystem again.
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Kdenlive + OBS Studio: Screencast Pipeline
Open-source screencast pipeline: record with OBS using the right settings, edit in Kdenlive, ship 1080p MP4. The combo that replaces Camtasia.
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