Obsidian LiveSync: Self-Hosted Sync Without Paying for the Privilege
Obsidian Sync costs $10 a month to move Markdown files you already own. Set up the free alternative instead: LiveSync, CouchDB, and Docker, encryption included.
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Obsidian Sync costs $10 a month to move Markdown files you already own. Set up the free alternative instead: LiveSync, CouchDB, and Docker, encryption included.
Semantic versioning promises v1.1.0 is safe and v2.0.0 breaks things. What MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH guarantees, where maintainers cheat, and how to pin deps.
Oh My Zsh had its moment. Here's the 2026 shell setup: Starship prompt, three killer plugins, and when to consider Fish or Nushell.
Stop leaking secrets, dependencies, and OS garbage into git. Here are the .gitignore patterns that save you from disaster.
System prompts are your secret weapon. How they work, why they matter more than you think, and 5 patterns that actually change model behavior.
Stop committing broken code. Git hooks catch mistakes before they hit CI, save hours of debugging, and make your team love you.
BookStack uses a strict book/chapter hierarchy; Wiki.js is a linked web of pages. Both run in Docker with LDAP/SSO, pick the right one for your homelab.
That filing cabinet won't sort itself. Set up Paperless-ngx in Docker with Tesseract OCR, auto-tagging, IMAP email ingestion, and PostgreSQL for a searchable archive.
Compare Continue.dev, Cody, and Tabby, three self-hosted AI code assistants that keep your code private, cost nothing per token, and work offline.
Master SSH ControlMaster, ControlPath, and ControlPersist. Reuse connections for lightning-fast SSH, SCP, and rsync operations.
Master ~/.ssh/config: Host aliases, HostName, User, Port, IdentityFile, ProxyJump. Stop typing long SSH commands. One-line setup.
Copy and paste from the Linux terminal without a mouse. Master xclip, xsel, wl-copy, and integrate clipboard with tmux and SSH.