Next.js is not just for server-side rendering. Build a static sites that are fast, secure, and scalable. NextJS is great if you are a developers looking to enhance your web projects.
Lets SelfHost Tabby, a Free and Local Coding Assistant. Use Open Source LLMs, and interact with them locally, using regular CPUs to help you Code for Free. Say Goodbye to Copilot and the Cloud.
October 3
Trip Planner with Weather: a F/OSS App for Bikepacking
Unpredictable weather led to the creation of the Python Trip Planner app. This open source tool forecasts weather, ensuring a smoother trip planning. Discover the features, how to use it for Free.
Miro Alternative: Selfhosting ExcaliDraw with Docker
Using Local LLMs with koboldcpp . Guide to SelfHost LLMs (Run any GGML and GGUF models locally).
Cloudflare Pages: FREE Hosting for Any Static Site
September 3, 2023 路 7 min 路 1413 words 路 路 Web 路 Dev
Whether you are using HUGO, Jekyll, or plain HTML, Cloudflare Pages provides a robust, scalable, and free hosting solution. Learn how its seamless integration and powerful features can benefit your web projects.
GitHub Pages as FREE Web Hosting
September 1, 2023 路 5 min 路 1051 words 路 路 Web 路 Dev
Sharing your great ideas with the world is possible by using GitHub Pages for FREE. It provides a straightforward platform with a free domain, and you can also link your custom domain.
August 3
Firebase as FREE Web Hosting - 101 Guide
August 30, 2023 路 5 min 路 1065 words 路 路 Web 路 Dev
Benefit of free hosting with Google Firebase. Firebase has a free tier and you also get a free domain to start with. You can also link your custom domain.
Explore the capabilities of Generative text AI models. Dive into Open Source LLMs, and learn how to interact with them locally and for FREE. Text Generation Web UI with CPU.
July 2
GenAI and Prompts: The Learning Revolution (Updated Dec23)
July 9, 2023 路 7 min 路 1441 words 路 路 Outro 路 Gen-AI
Learning how to learn. How to get the most of LLMs to accelerate your learning.
Discovering the Open-Meteo Python API to have weather forecasts data insights. Installing the library and preparing plots to include them in the Python Trip Planner Dash App.
Improving Python DASH UI’s: Python Trip Planner with Weather
Self-hosting qBittorrent using Docker (and VPN: Gluetun with Mullvad). Learn how to maintain control, enhance privacy, and boost security in your torrenting activities.
Elevate Your Productivity: Use Webtops with this simple Docker Installation, enabling device flexibility for enhanced productivity across diverse platforms and locations.
Discovering the differences in the deployment process of a Python DASH App (Trip Planner with Weather): Google Cloud Run vs. using the Docker DASH image of the App together with Cloudflare to deploy it securely from home.
Trip Planner - Discovering Weather Data Patterns with Python
Are you planning your next adventure but not sure if the weather will be fine? This Python Dash App based on Meteostat API data allows you to explore historical weather data for any location you are planning to visit.
March 5
Discovering Meteostat: Historical Weather API in Python
Using Meteostat Python API to access and display historical weather data in our Apps. Building a Trip Planner App based on historical weather patterns of interesting locations.
Discovering the differences between building Docker images using the Cloud and Local Builds. Comparing the advantages and limitations, such as automation, resource usage, and build times. Example: Python DASH
Github Actions - Building and Pushing Containers with CI/CD
March 5, 2023 路 4 min 路 793 words 路 路 Docker 路 Dev
Guide - How to use Github Actions as your CI/CD tool to build and push Docker containers automatically.
As I plan to make a complete route by bike from Tallin to Athens, I need to see how my fitness level improves over the months, to be ready for the next challenge. Polar and Python are helping me with it.
Home Internet Monitoring: SpeedTrackers with Docker
Rootcausing slow home internet speeds with Docker and couple of free open souce solutions: OpenSpeedTest and SpeedTest-Tracker. Learn how to pinpoint the root cause of connectivity issues, optimize your network, and ensure a faster online experience.
Installing Grav CMS with Docker. A user-friendly CMS that offers speed, flexibility, and security advantages. Discover how to build websites that are easy to maintain.
Installing Matrix Server - Synapse with Docker (and Cloudflare).
Installing Matrix Server with Docker (and Cloudflare) - A decentralized messaging platform that provides a secure and privacy-focused alternative to centralized messaging services like Facebook/Whatsapp/Telegram.
Installing Timelite with Docker - Boost your productivity with this time tracking open source tool. Learn how tracking your tasks can improve your focus, planning, and provide actionable insights.
Accessing Your Self Hosted Services WITHOUT Port Forwarding with Cloudflare. Discover the benefits of Cloudflare Zero Tunnel deployed with Docker for securing connections and expose services securely on a global scale.
An interactive R Shiny App that revolutionizes the way public financial information is displayed. Built on top of well-known R packages for financial analysis: yfR, QuantMod, PriceR and Quandl.
Exploring the integration of Docker and R Shiny, focusing on reproducibility in software development. Creating a Shiny Docker image for the R Stocks project to simplify deployment and sharing of our interactive data applications.
SelfHosting a Free and Open PDF editor - StirlingPDF with Docker
October 1
Getting started with PySpark
October 17, 2022 路 10 min 路 2005 words 路 路 Dev 路 Python
If you have been using SQL and Pandas with Python for a while, you might want to leverage that knowledge by learning PySpark - Using Python for Big Data Analytics with distributed computing.
September 2
Financial data in R - Fundamentals - QuanDL
September 18, 2022 路 2 min 路 215 words 路 路 R-Stocks 路 R
You might be curious about getting historical fundamental data on companies, for some project that you want to accomplish - QuanDL is an open source library that helps us with this task (provided the API).
Financial data in R - Dividend and Splits - QuantMod
September 14, 2022 路 2 min 路 219 words 路 路 R-Stocks 路 R
You might be curious about getting historical dividends and stock splits for some project that you want to accomplish - QuantMod is an open source library that helps us with this task.
August 2
Financial data in R - FOREX and Inflation - PriceR
August 14, 2022 路 2 min 路 336 words 路 路 R-Stocks 路 R
You might be curious about getting historical exchange rates between currencies or check historical inflation data for some project that you want to accomplish - PriceR is an open source library that helps us with this task.
Financial data in R - Stocks Price - yfR
August 7, 2022 路 1 min 路 212 words 路 路 R-Stocks 路 R
You might be curious about getting historical stock price on companies, for some project that you want to accomplish - yfR is an open source library that helps us with this task.
Installin Uptime Kuma - the free and open-source monitoring tool that allows you to monitor the health and performance of your web applications and infrastructure.
Another option to make your HUGO site available to the internet, is to use Github and Github Actions as CI/CD tool that will look for changes in our repository and build and deploy the changes to a free domain.
May 2
Free Hosting for your Web - Hugo with Google Firebase
You got a HUGO website ready locally. Now you want to Host it. Sharing your great static site with the world is possible by using Google Firebase for FREE. It has a free tier and you also get a free domain to start with. You can also link your custom domain.
Embracing Product Vision: Delivering Data Products
How you can shape data products and address requirements. The essential questions to collaborate with the product team for successful data-driven projects and maximizing impact.
Getting familiar with Astro SSG and its themes. Showing you how to Find Themes for Astro and doing further customization to make your Websites look even better.
Deploying WordPress with Docker.A simple way to get your website up and running. Easily install and manage WordPress - An user-friendly platform for creating your website.
February 2
How to check devices connected at Home Internet - WatchYourLAN
You might be looking for some open source monitoring tool for your LAN. In this post I will cover how to install WatchYourLAN in Docker for that purpose.
Chevereto: The Image Hosting Platform You Need to Know About
Everyone talks about Web3. I was wondering if I could use some knowledge that I got while creating static sites with HUGO and its actually pretty simple. Follow this post and you will get your Web3 ready.
Drawio - A FOSS Flowchart Maker (or network diagram software, to create UML online, as an ER diagram tool, to design database schema…) that I will show you how to selfhost with Docker.
November 2
Create a FREE Blog - Websites with HUGO
November 17, 2021 路 10 min 路 2087 words 路 路 Web 路 Dev
You might have heard about Wordpress. Today, you will learn how to create your website with another Free Open Source alternative, HUGO. Which offer a much faster response.
How to deploy your Shiny app publically to ShinyApps
November 3, 2021 路 2 min 路 276 words 路 路 R 路 Dashboards
Providing that we have a working Shiny Dashboard, we can be interested to expose it to a wider audience instead of just locally. One simple option is to use ShinyApps.io as I cover in this post.
Google Photos is no longer free. Fortunately there are some open alternatives to have a self-hosted and local Google Photos. Lets deploy with Docker Photoview.
Create a Website to Improve your online Presence. Make your Github Projects visible and better documented by using Jekyll SSG together with Github Pages.
Docker is not the only one. How to use Podman to Streamline your workflows, improve security, and enable better resource management in your data-driven applications.
The Container Registry Landscape
August 21, 2021 路 4 min 路 786 words 路 路 Docker 路 Dev
A Comprehensive Guide for Discovering the world of container registries - one pilar to optimize our development workflow. Comparing popular options like Docker Hub, Quay, GitLab, GitHub, and Google Cloud. Learn their unique features, strengths, and weaknesses.
Docker: A Guide to Mastering Containerization
August 20, 2021 路 6 min 路 1182 words 路 路 Docker 路 Dev
Enhancing portability across various environments with Docker. Deploy applications efficiently: Learn to create Dockerfiles, build images, run containers, and push images to registries.
You might be looking for some alternative to Github or Bitbucket to track your code changes on some project. In this post we will selfhost Gitea with docker for that purpose.
How to setup your MS Project Alternative - Leantime
Whether you are creating the roadmap for some personal project or checking critical path for a team task, you will be in need of a Project Management tool. Leantime is a free open source tool for that purpose.
In search to improve the efficiency of your team and your projects, you will might need to have a kanbar board to optimize the workflow. Focalboard is an Open Source tool that we can self-host with Docker for this task.
You might be looking for an open source tool that enables Linux/ machines to communicate with Windows machines in a Network. This guide will help you by installing Samba with Docker.
February 2
SelfHosting Whoogle: how to use Google without Trackers
Lets Selfhost Whoogle with Docker step by step. An alternative to Google Search that respects privacy, but at the same time provides with relevant search results.
Setting up and configuring Nginx for use in your own projects. Exposing services easily and securely with NGINX and get automatic https certificates with letsencrypt.
January 1
Deploying Containers without the Terminal - Portainer
When starting your self-hosting journey you might be not 100% confident with the terminal. By installing Portainer - you will have a tool to manage containers with a graphical interface.
2020 7
November 3
A/B Testing: Revolutionize Your Optimization Strategy
Explore A/B testing. Learn how to integrate advanced data analysis techniques, uncover insights, and make informed decisions that drive conversions.
ROC Curves 101: How Good is your ML Classifier?
November 26, 2020 路 3 min 路 553 words 路 路 Python 路 Dev
Discover the secrets of ROC curves and learn how to evaluate and optimize binary classification models in machine learning. Gain insights into true positive rates, false positive rates, and the ideal balance for your specific problem, ultimately enhancing your classifier performance.
First Steps in ML for Data Analytics
November 25, 2020 路 8 min 路 1549 words 路 路 Python 路 Dev
I wanted to summarize the most important ML concepts to work as a data analyst.Even if you will not be performing Data Science tasks, this knowledge will be of great help when collaborating with them. Understand their language.
PiHole is a free open source tool that we can selfhost with docker to block ad domains, so that they wont appear in any device connected to our router. Here is the guide.
September 1
Generating Webs with R - Knit Package
September 25, 2020 路 1 min 路 108 words 路 路 R 路 Web 路 Dev
In this post I show you how to use the Knit package in R to build a simple website.
August 1
Getting Started with Python
August 30, 2020 路 9 min 路 1708 words 路 路 Dev 路 Python
As part of your Data Analytics journey, you will have to build knowledge of Python. In this post I am collecting some of the must know tricks to start your projects.
I have been compiling the most recurrent SQL queries that you will require in your first job as a data analyst. Master these and you will make a great progress with your analytical skills.