Open Source Guides & Tutorials

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Couchside: A Fast, Self-Hosted Media Server with Live TV and DVR

Couchside is a free, open-source media server for movies, shows and live TV: one small program with a built-in DVR, your own channels and no cloud account.

Valheim

Nearby Chests: Crafting and Storage QoL for Valheim 1.0

Nearby Chests is a Valheim 1.0 mod that lets you craft, build and feed smelters from nearby chests, and makes Stack sort your items into the right chests.

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K3s

Back Up a k3s Node and Restore It 1:1 on New Hardware

How I back up my single-node k3s cluster on Ubuntu and restore it 1:1 onto new hardware — same IP, SSH identity, volumes, and Kubernetes secrets intact.

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Kubernetes

Portside: The Agentless Kubernetes Dashboard That Replaced LogMk

Portside is an agentless, self-hosted Kubernetes dashboard that streams pod logs live from the K8s API — and why I retired LogMk's MySQL log pipeline for it.

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WAF

Thorngate: A Tiny Go WAF That Guards Your Cloudflare Tunnel

Thorngate is a zero-dependency Go WAF for Cloudflare Tunnels: honeypots, IPv6 /64 bans, weeks of searchable request history and an admin portal to manage it.

Web Development

Building a Static Blog to Replace Ghost

I replaced my self-hosted Ghost blog with a static site — cheaper, faster, and with almost no attack surface. Here's the stack and how you can do the same.

Text Editor

NoteMode: An Open-Source Notepad++ Alternative

NoteMode is a free, open-source Notepad++ alternative that restores every tab and unsaved edit after a restart, plus notes, tab search and Markdown preview.