https://fossengineer.com/docs/ Recent content in Documentation on FOSS Engineer Hugo en-US https://fossengineer.com/business-intelligence-tools/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://fossengineer.com/business-intelligence-tools/ A reference guide for choosing between Chartbrew, Rill, WrenAI, Malloy, and adjacent product analytics tools. https://fossengineer.com/privacy-web-analytics/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://fossengineer.com/privacy-web-analytics/ A reference guide for choosing between Umami, Tianji, Medama, Swetrix, Vince, Rybbit, and Liwan. https://fossengineer.com/dns-domain-ops/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200 https://fossengineer.com/dns-domain-ops/ A practical guide for choosing the right DNS and domain path: home DNS filtering, reverse proxies, tunnels, static-site domain setup, certificate challenges, and interface-level DNS troubleshooting. https://fossengineer.com/email-smtp-deliverability/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200 https://fossengineer.com/email-smtp-deliverability/ A practical guide to email infrastructure in self-hosted apps: SMTP providers, app notifications, newsletters, MX records, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, bounce handling, and when not to self-host mail. https://fossengineer.com/marketing-newsletter-lead-ops/ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200 https://fossengineer.com/marketing-newsletter-lead-ops/ A chooser guide for self-hosted marketing operations: listmonk for newsletters, Mautic for marketing automation, GrowChief for outreach experiments, Chatwoot for customer conversations, and analytics for feedback loops. https://fossengineer.com/linux-setup-101/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:30:00 +0200 https://fossengineer.com/linux-setup-101/ A practical Ubuntu setup checklist covering updates, drivers, package sources, Helium, Zen Browser, Bitwarden, Proton VPN, Nextcloud sync, Gram, Ghostty, tmux, Herdr, backups, and everyday shell tools. https://fossengineer.com/2-4ghz-radio-protocols/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200 https://fossengineer.com/2-4ghz-radio-protocols/ A short guide to the crowded 2.4 GHz band: what the frequency band is, how protocols differ, and why Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Thread, and ExpressLRS can coexist but not understand each other. https://fossengineer.com/fpv-drone-stack/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:20:00 +0200 https://fossengineer.com/fpv-drone-stack/ A chooser guide for Betaflight, Betaflight App, Betaflight Blackbox Explorer, ExpressLRS, and dRehmFlight. https://fossengineer.com/iot-tools/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 https://fossengineer.com/iot-tools/ A chooser guide for Velxio, ESPHome, Zigbee2MQTT, PySpice, and Zener-based PCB workflows. https://fossengineer.com/accountability-communication-playbook/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:10:00 +0200 https://fossengineer.com/accountability-communication-playbook/ A practical response playbook for turning vague requests, unclear ownership, repeated low-context help, and meeting drift into written next actions. 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13:40:00 +0200 https://fossengineer.com/private-downloads-guide/ A practical map for running private download clients with Docker, qBittorrent or Transmission, and Gluetun as a VPN network container. https://fossengineer.com/privacy-communication-tools/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:35:00 +0200 https://fossengineer.com/privacy-communication-tools/ A reusable reference for privacy-oriented communication tools: Matrix, Conduit, Synapse, Signal TLS Proxy, IRC clients, Cabal, Mastodon, and alternative frontends. https://fossengineer.com/docs/note-taking-comparison/ Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://fossengineer.com/docs/note-taking-comparison/ A practical map of self-hosted and local-first note-taking tools: Files.md, Joplin, Logseq, SilverBullet, Memos, Many Notes, Trilium, and Obsidian. https://fossengineer.com/web-guide-Hugo/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 23:20:21 +0100 https://fossengineer.com/web-guide-Hugo/ 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. https://fossengineer.com/docker-first-steps-guide-for-data-analytics/ Fri, 20 Aug 2021 23:20:21 +0100 https://fossengineer.com/docker-first-steps-guide-for-data-analytics/ Enhancing portability across various environments with Docker. Deploy applications efficiently: Learn to create Dockerfiles, build images, run containers, and push images to registries.