[{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/gyroflow-cli-video-stabilization/", "title": "Gyroflow CLI - Automating Video Stabilization with Code", "summary": "Gyroflow is an open-source Rust application for stabilizing video with camera or external gyroscope data. I inspected its CLI, JSON project format, reusable core crate, render pipeline, and automation boundaries to show what Python, Rust, presets, and shell scripts can control.", "date": "Sep 12, 2026", "tags": ["Media","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/lazydocker-terminal-ui-for-docker/", "title": "Lazydocker - Terminal UI for Docker", "summary": "Lazydocker is a Go-based terminal UI for Docker and Docker Compose. I inspected the source, mapped its Docker SDK and command-template architecture, built the binary locally, and ran the unit tests.", "date": "Sep 11, 2026", "tags": ["Docker","CLI","Terminal","Go","DevOps","Homelab"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/lazygit-terminal-ui-git/", "title": "Lazygit - Terminal UI for Git Workflows", "summary": "lazygit is a keyboard-driven terminal UI for Git. I inspected the current jesseduffield/lazygit source, mapped the Go architecture, checked the configuration and command layers, and smoke-tested the latest Linux release binary.", "date": "Sep 10, 2026", "tags": ["Git","CLI","Terminal","Go","TUI","Developer Tools"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/hyperswitch-open-source-payments/", "title": "Hyperswitch - Open Source Payments Orchestration", "summary": "Hyperswitch is an Apache-2.0 payments orchestration stack from Juspay. This guide explains what it does, how it differs from Lago and Zoneless, what runs under the hood, and how to start from its official Docker setup.", "date": "Sep 9, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/lago-open-source-billing/", "title": "Lago - Open Source Billing Infrastructure", "summary": "Lago is an open source billing infrastructure stack for usage-based SaaS and AI products. This guide explains how it differs from invoice generators, what runs under the hood, and how to start from a safer Docker Compose setup.", "date": "Sep 8, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-zoneless-stablecoin-payments/", "title": "Zoneless - Self-Hosted Stablecoin Payments with Docker", "summary": "Zoneless is an open-source payments stack for stablecoins. It brings checkout, subscriptions, marketplace accounts, and payouts into a Stripe-compatible API that you can self-host with Docker, MongoDB, an Angular dashboard, and an Express backend.", "date": "Sep 6, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Payments","Crypto","Angular","TypeScript","MongoDB"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/beso-topology-optimization-calculix/", "title": "beso - Topology Optimization for CalculiX FEM", "summary": "beso is a small Python codebase for topology optimization using the CalculiX FEM solver. It iteratively rewrites CalculiX input files, reads solver results, switches element states, and exports meshes and plots that can be inspected in FreeCAD or ParaView.", "date": "Sep 4, 2026", "tags": ["Engineering","CAD","FEM","Python","Open Source"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/chartbrew-dashboard-builder/", "title": "Self-Hosting Chartbrew - Dashboards from APIs, SQL, and NoSQL", "summary": "Chartbrew is a self-hostable reporting platform with a React dashboard builder, Express API, Redis queues, SQL/NoSQL/API connectors, and embeddable charts. This guide covers its architecture and a Docker-based local trial.", "date": "Sep 3, 2026", "tags": ["OSS for Business","Self-Hosting","Analytics"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-esphome/", "title": "Self-Hosting ESPHome Device Builder with Docker", "summary": "ESPHome turns YAML device definitions into firmware for home-automation microcontrollers. This updated guide shows the Docker setup, what the official image actually runs, and the security defaults to fix before using the dashboard on your LAN.", "date": "Sep 3, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","IoT","Home Assistant","ESP32"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/rybbit-web-analytics-selfhosted/", "title": "Rybbit Analytics: Self-Hosted Web \u0026 Product Analytics", "summary": "Rybbit is a modern self-hosted analytics stack built with Next.js, Fastify, ClickHouse, Postgres, Redis, and Better Auth. This updated guide covers the current v2.x architecture and a working Docker trial.", "date": "Sep 2, 2026", "tags": ["OSS for Business","Self-Hosting","Analytics","Docker"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-rallly/", "title": "Rallly - Self-Hosted Meeting Polls with Docker", "summary": "Rallly is an open-source alternative to Doodle-style scheduling polls. This guide looks at the current v4 self-hosted Docker stack, the required SMTP setup, PostgreSQL and Garage services, local testing notes, licensing caveats, and how to run it behind your own reverse proxy.", "date": "Sep 1, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Project Management"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-maildev/", "title": "MailDev - Local SMTP Inbox with Docker", "summary": "MailDev is a local SMTP catcher and web inbox for development email testing. This guide shows the Docker setup, the default 1025 and 1080 ports, how to connect apps to it, and when to choose MailDev or Mailpit.", "date": "Aug 31, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-inbucket/", "title": "Inbucket - Disposable Webmail with Docker", "summary": "Inbucket is a disposable webmail and email testing service with built-in SMTP, web UI, REST API, POP3, and file storage. This guide shows the Docker setup, local ports, testing flow, and how it compares with Mailpit and MailDev.", "date": "Aug 30, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-mailpit/", "title": "Mailpit - Local SMTP Testing with Docker", "summary": "Mailpit is a small local SMTP server and web inbox for testing application email. This guide shows the Docker setup, the default 1025 and 8025 ports, how to use it with Rallly magic links, and why it belongs in development and homelab test stacks.", "date": "Aug 29, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-growchief/", "title": "Self-Hosting GrowChief - Social Outreach Automation", "summary": "GrowChief is an AGPL social outreach automation project for self-hosters who want API-driven workflows, browser automation, scheduling, enrichment hooks, and n8n-friendly lead flows without handing the whole process to a closed SaaS.", "date": "Aug 27, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Automation","Marketing Automation","Outreach","Temporal"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-mautic-marketing-automation/", "title": "Self-Hosting Mautic with Docker", "summary": "Mautic is a large open source marketing automation platform built on PHP and Symfony. This guide covers the architecture, Docker deployment shape, required cron/worker roles, and what worked during local Docker testing.", "date": "Aug 26, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Marketing Automation","CRM","Email","PHP"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-listmonk-newsletter/", "title": "Self-Hosting listmonk - Newsletter and Mailing List Manager", "summary": "listmonk is a high-performance self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager written in Go. I inspected the source tree, PostgreSQL schema, Docker setup, campaign manager, API routes, and ran an isolated Docker smoke test.", "date": "Aug 25, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Newsletter","Email","PostgreSQL","Go"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-notifuse-email-platform/", "title": "Notifuse - Self-Hosted Email Marketing and Transactional Email", "summary": "Notifuse is a self-hosted email platform for newsletters, transactional notifications, contact lists, automations, provider integrations, and web analytics. It is built with Go, React, and PostgreSQL, and can be tested safely with Docker before connecting a real email provider.", "date": "Aug 24, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Email","Marketing","Transactional Email","Go","React"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-inbucket-email-testing/", "title": "Inbucket - Self-Hosted Email Testing Server", "summary": "Inbucket is a self-hosted email testing service for developers and QA teams. It accepts SMTP messages for disposable mailboxes, then exposes them through a web UI, REST API, POP3, and monitor views without needing a separate database or mail server.", "date": "Aug 23, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Email","SMTP","DevOps","Go"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-owntracks-recorder/", "title": "Self-Hosting OwnTracks Recorder with Docker", "summary": "OwnTracks Recorder is a small C service that stores OwnTracks mobile location publishes without needing PostgreSQL or another external database. This guide covers the Docker setup, local test results, API, storage layout, and the security model you need before exposing it.", "date": "Aug 22, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","IoT","MQTT","Maps","Privacy"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-worldmonitor-osint-dashboard/", "title": "World Monitor - Self-Hosted OSINT Dashboard", "summary": "World Monitor is a self-hostable real-time global intelligence dashboard for OSINT-style monitoring, maps, markets, military, maritime, infrastructure, cyber, and news signals. The Docker stack is powerful, but it needs proper secrets, Redis seeders, source keys, and clear expectations around AGPL and exposure.", "date": "Aug 20, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Monitoring","Security"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/impala-tui-wifi-manager/", "title": "Impala - TUI Wi-Fi Manager for Linux", "summary": "Impala is a GPL-licensed Rust terminal UI for managing Wi-Fi on Linux through iwd. I inspected the source, tested the release binary help/version path, documented the Cargo edition 2024 build requirement, and mapped where it fits beside NetworkManager, nmtui, iwctl, and terminal-first Linux setups.", "date": "Aug 19, 2026", "tags": ["Dev","Security"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/turning-vague-work-into-clear-next-actions/", "title": "Turning Vague Work Into Clear Next Actions", "summary": "Vague work creates stress, delay, and rework. A simple operating pattern can turn ambiguous requests into clear next actions.", "date": "Aug 17, 2026", "tags": ["Productivity","Communication","Management","Data Analytics"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/no-hello-is-not-enough/", "title": "No-Hello Is Not Enough", "summary": "No-hello is a useful baseline for async communication. The next step is outcome-oriented messaging: writing in a way that creates the next useful state.", "date": "Aug 16, 2026", "tags": ["Productivity","Communication","Outro"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/nextcloud-native-client/", "title": "Nextcloud Native - A Real Native Client for Nextcloud", "summary": "Nextcloud Native is an independent open-source client that tries to make a whole Nextcloud account feel like one native workspace across Android and desktop platforms. It is alpha software, but the architecture is interesting for anyone who self-hosts Nextcloud and wants better native app integration.", "date": "Aug 15, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/hammer-editor-self-hosted-sync/", "title": "Hammer Editor - Offline-First Story Writing with Self-Hosted Sync", "summary": "Hammer is a Kotlin Multiplatform story editor that keeps writing work local first, then adds an optional Docker-based sync server for people who want their projects across desktop and mobile devices.", "date": "Aug 14, 2026", "tags": ["Notes"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-tradingagents/", "title": "TradingAgents - A Multi-Agent LLM Framework That Mirrors a Real Trading Firm", "summary": "TradingAgents is an open-source multi-agent LLM framework from Tauric Research that models a real trading firm\u0026rsquo;s structure — fundamentals + sentiment + news + technical analysts, a bullish-vs-bearish researcher debate, a trader, a risk team, and a portfolio manager — for collaborative market analysis. Built on LangGraph, supports 15+ LLM providers (incl. dual-region China endpoints + Ollama). Apache 2.0, research-only, not financial advice.", "date": "Aug 11, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Self-Hosting","Docker"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-claude-financial-services/", "title": "Claude for Financial Services - Anthropic's Reference Agents vs TradingAgents", "summary": "Anthropic\u0026rsquo;s official open-source reference for Claude in financial services. 10 named agents (Pitch, Earnings, GL Reconciler, KYC, …), 6 vertical skill packs (IB / Equity Research / PE / Wealth / Fund Admin / Ops), 11 commercial MCP connectors (Daloopa, Morningstar, FactSet, Moody\u0026rsquo;s, PitchBook…). Two deployment paths from one source — Cowork plugin OR Managed Agents API. Apache 2.0, markdown + JSON only, drafts work product for human sign-off (explicitly does not make decisions).", "date": "Aug 10, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Dev","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-conar/", "title": "Conar - AI-Powered Database Client You Can Self-Host", "summary": "Tired of clunky database GUIs that have not changed since 2005? Conar is an open-source, AI-powered database client that works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, and ClickHouse — and lets you ask your AI model of choice to write, explain, and optimise your SQL. Available as a web app, desktop app, and CLI, all from one TypeScript monorepo.", "date": "Aug 3, 2026", "tags": ["Dev","Self-Hosting","Docker","Gen-AI"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-corecontrol/", "title": "CoreControl - One Dashboard for All Your Self-Hosted Infrastructure", "summary": "Running ten self-hosted services across three servers and tracking them all in your head? CoreControl is the open-source dashboard that puts servers, self-hosted applications, uptime monitoring, and network topology into a single clean UI — three containers, one docker compose up, done.", "date": "Aug 2, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Monitoring"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/blendergis-geodata-in-blender/", "title": "BlenderGIS - Bring Geodata Into Blender", "summary": "BlenderGIS is a GPL-licensed Blender add-on that turns Blender into a practical geospatial visualization workspace. I inspected the source, installed the add-on from ZIP in Blender 5.1.2, and mapped the real workflows around shapefiles, rasters, OSM, basemaps, DEMs, and georeferenced scenes.", "date": "Jul 28, 2026", "tags": ["GIS","Maps"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-dawarich/", "title": "Dawarich - Self-Hosted Location History", "summary": "Dawarich is a self-hosted Google Timeline alternative for tracking GPS history, importing old location data, and visualizing trips on your own map. This guide covers the Docker stack, important environment variables, reverse proxy notes, and a validated Home-Lab compose snippet.", "date": "Jul 27, 2026", "tags": ["Travel with OSS","Self-Hosting","Docker"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-trek/", "title": "TREK - Self-Hosted Real-Time Collaborative Travel Planner", "summary": "TREK is a self-hosted travel planner with real-time WebSocket collaboration, 3D maps (Leaflet / Mapbox GL), budgets, packing lists, a magazine-style travel journal, and an OAuth 2.1 MCP server that lets AI assistants plan trips on your behalf. 8 admin-toggleable addons, 15 languages, AGPL-3.0, Node.js 22 + React 18, single Docker container.", "date": "Jul 26, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Travel with OSS"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/geolibre-cloud-native-gis/", "title": "GeoLibre - Cloud-Native GIS in the Browser, Desktop, Docker, and Jupyter", "summary": "GeoLibre is an MIT-licensed GIS workspace built with Tauri, React, TypeScript, MapLibre GL JS, DuckDB-WASM Spatial, and deck.gl. I inspected the repo, smoked the published Docker image, added a Home-Lab compose snippet, and mapped where the browser, desktop, and Jupyter paths make sense.", "date": "Jul 25, 2026", "tags": ["GIS","Maps","Travel"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-geopulse/", "title": "GeoPulse - Self-Hosted Location Timeline", "summary": "GeoPulse is a self-hosted location timeline platform for OwnTracks, Overland, GPSLogger, Home Assistant, Traccar, Dawarich, imports, analytics, and Immich integration. This guide covers the Docker stack, first admin setup, licensing caveat, and a validated Home-Lab compose snippet.", "date": "Jul 24, 2026", "tags": ["Travel with OSS","Self-Hosting","Docker"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/edgetx-open-rc-radio-firmware/", "title": "EdgeTX - Open RC Radio Firmware for Modern Transmitters", "summary": "EdgeTX is GPL-licensed open-source firmware for RC radio transmitters. I inspected the source, build docs, target index, Companion and Web Simulator code, module protocol docs, Lua support, and local validation paths to understand where it fits beside ExpressLRS, Betaflight, and dRehmFlight.", "date": "Jul 23, 2026", "tags": ["Firmware","Drone","FPV","Embedded","Radio"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/drehmflight-arduino-vtol-flight-controller/", "title": "dRehmFlight - Arduino VTOL Flight Control You Can Actually Read", "summary": "dRehmFlight VTOL is a GPL Arduino/Teensy flight-controller project for custom VTOL experiments. I inspected the source, mapped the main loop, receiver options, IMU setup, PID controllers, mixer, safety gates, and checked what blocked a local Arduino CLI compile.", "date": "Jul 22, 2026", "tags": ["Firmware","Drone","Arduino","VTOL","Embedded"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/betaflight-blackbox-log-viewer/", "title": "Betaflight Blackbox Explorer - Flight Log Analysis in the Browser", "summary": "Betaflight Blackbox Explorer is the GPL-licensed PWA for inspecting Betaflight Blackbox flight logs in the browser. I inspected the source, built the Vite/Vue app locally, linted it, verified the PWA preview, and mapped how it fits after Betaflight firmware and Betaflight App.", "date": "Jul 21, 2026", "tags": ["PWA","Drone","FPV","Logs","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/betaflight-app-pwa-configurator/", "title": "Betaflight App - The PWA Configurator for Flight Controllers", "summary": "Betaflight App is the GPL-licensed PWA and standalone configurator for Betaflight flight controllers. I inspected the repo, built the Vite/Vue app locally, ran the test suite, and mapped how WebSerial, MSP, DFU, Capacitor, and Tauri fit together.", "date": "Jul 20, 2026", "tags": ["PWA","Drone","FPV","Firmware","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/betaflight-open-flight-controller-firmware/", "title": "Betaflight - Open Flight Controller Firmware You Can Actually Inspect", "summary": "Betaflight is GPL-licensed open flight-controller firmware for FPV drones and fixed-wing craft. I inspected the source, hydrated the board configs, built the SITL target locally, ran the CRSF unit test, and mapped how it connects to the previous ExpressLRS recovery story.", "date": "Jul 19, 2026", "tags": ["Firmware","Drone","FPV","Embedded","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/expresslrs-fcc-firmware-success-story/", "title": "ExpressLRS - Rebuilding an Old Receiver Target as FCC Firmware", "summary": "ExpressLRS is an open-source radio-control link for FPV and RC hardware. This post is a success story: a second-hand drone receiver had an old target name and the wrong regulatory profile, so I used the OSS repos, git history, PlatformIO, and a local compatibility patch to rebuild the exact 3.2.0 WiFi firmware as FCC/ISM and connect it to a RadioMaster Pocket.", "date": "Jul 17, 2026", "tags": ["Firmware","Drone","FPV","IoT","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/savvycan-canbus-reverse-engineering/", "title": "SavvyCAN - Visual CAN Bus Analysis for Vehicle Reverse Engineering", "summary": "SavvyCAN is an MIT-licensed Qt desktop tool for visual CAN bus analysis. I inspected the repo, checked the latest release assets, reviewed its example logs and DBC tooling, and mapped how it complements opendbc for CAN reverse engineering.", "date": "Jul 12, 2026", "tags": ["Automotive","CAN","Reverse Engineering","Qt","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/opendbc-python-api-for-your-car/", "title": "opendbc - Python API, CAN Databases, and Car Interfaces", "summary": "opendbc is comma.ai\u0026rsquo;s MIT-licensed Python API for vehicle CAN work. I inspected the repo, tested the PyPI and editable install paths, loaded a Toyota DBC, packed and parsed a CAN frame, and mapped where DBC files, car ports, and safety logic fit.", "date": "Jul 11, 2026", "tags": ["CAN","Automotive"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-wrenai/", "title": "Self-Hosting WrenAI - Open-Source GenBI Agent for SQL and Charts", "summary": "WrenAI is an open-source GenBI agent that lets non-technical users query their database in plain English. This post covers how to self-host WrenAI with Docker and how it compares to other LLM-on-database tools.", "date": "Jul 5, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Self-Hosting","Analytics","Docker"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/rill-selfhosting/", "title": "Self-Hosting Rill - Open-Source BI on Top of DuckDB", "summary": "Rill is an open-source BI tool that compiles a SQL model and a YAML metric definition into an interactive dashboard. This post covers what makes Rill different from Metabase or Superset, and how to run it locally.", "date": "Jul 4, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Self-Hosting","Analytics","Docker"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/graphify-code-knowledge-graph/", "title": "Graphify - Codebase Knowledge Graphs for AI Coding Agents", "summary": "Graphify turns a codebase or mixed project folder into a queryable knowledge graph. I tested the Python CLI locally with a small code-only corpus, generated graph artifacts, queried the graph, and exported call-flow HTML without needing an API key.", "date": "Jul 3, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Dev","Python","CLI","Knowledge Graphs"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/open-design-agentic-design-workspace/", "title": "Open Design - Local-First Agentic Design Workspace", "summary": "Open Design is a local-first open-source design workspace for the agent era. I inspected the 0.10.x monorepo, checked the 0.10.1 desktop release assets, validated the Docker Compose deployment config, and mapped where it fits beside Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Graphify, Paperclip, and Symphony.", "date": "Jul 2, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Agents","Design"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-symphony/", "title": "Symphony - OpenAI's Spec for Running Codex Against Your Linear Backlog", "summary": "Symphony is OpenAI\u0026rsquo;s open specification + Elixir reference for a service that turns project work into autonomous coding-agent runs. It polls Linear for tickets, creates per-issue workspaces, launches Codex in App Server mode inside each one, and keeps it working until the issue lands. Apache 2.0, RFC-2119-tight spec designed to be implemented by any coding agent in any language.", "date": "Jul 1, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Dev","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/paperclip-agent-control-plane/", "title": "Paperclip - Self-Hosted Control Plane for AI Agents", "summary": "Paperclip gives AI agents a company-shaped control plane: org charts, issues, goals, heartbeats, budgets, approvals, workspaces, secrets, and audit trails. I inspected the TypeScript monorepo, checked the CLI surface, validated the Docker Compose configuration, and prepared a Home-Lab Compose snippet.", "date": "Jun 30, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/hermes-agent-self-improving-ai-agent/", "title": "Hermes Agent - Self-Improving AI Agent", "summary": "Hermes Agent is a self-hostable AI agent from Nous Research with CLI, TUI, skills, memory, cron, messaging gateway, Docker support, and an OpenAI-compatible API server. I inspected the current repo, validated Docker Compose configuration, and documented the setup caveats.", "date": "Jun 29, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/openclaw-personal-ai-assistant-gateway/", "title": "OpenClaw - Local-First Personal AI Assistant Gateway", "summary": "OpenClaw is a local-first personal AI assistant gateway. I inspected the current source, validated the published CLI help/status/doctor paths, rendered the Docker Compose config, prepared a reusable Home-Lab compose, and documented the setup/security caveats.", "date": "Jun 28, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Agents","CLI","Self-Hosting","Docker"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/nanoclaw-agentic-cli-containers/", "title": "NanoClaw - Agentic CLI and Container-Isolated Personal AI Assistants", "summary": "NanoClaw is a small, self-hostable personal AI assistant runtime. It runs agent sessions in containers, exposes admin and terminal CLI paths, uses OneCLI for credential routing, and is designed to be customized by editing the code with Claude Code.", "date": "Jun 27, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Self-Hosting","Docker","CLI","Agents"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/flue-agent-harness-framework/", "title": "Flue - The Agent Harness Framework from Astro", "summary": "Flue is a TypeScript agent harness framework. I inspected the current source, validated the published CLI metadata/help path, scaffolded a local config with flue init, and documented where it fits relative to Codex, OpenCode, Pi, T3 Code, and OpenClaw.", "date": "Jun 25, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Agents","TypeScript","Dev","Framework"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/t3code-web-gui-coding-agents/", "title": "T3 Code - Minimal Web GUI for Coding Agents", "summary": "T3 Code is a minimal GUI for coding agents. I inspected the current PNPM workspace, validated the published t3 CLI help, started the local server, captured the pairing flow, and documented the keybindings and provider caveats.", "date": "Jun 24, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","CLI","Agents","Dev","Web UI"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/herdr-terminal-agent-multiplexer/", "title": "Herdr - Terminal Workspace Manager for AI Coding Agents", "summary": "Herdr is a terminal-native workspace manager for AI coding agents. It keeps agents in real terminal panes, adds workspaces, tabs, mouse-native splits, detach and reattach, status detection, remote SSH attach, official agent integrations, and a local socket API for automation.", "date": "Jun 23, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Dev","Terminal","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/pi-agentic-coding-cli/", "title": "Pi - Open Source Agentic Coding CLI and AI Agent Toolkit", "summary": "Pi is an open-source agentic coding CLI and TypeScript toolkit. I tested the current source checkout locally, built the monorepo, ran the upstream test script without API keys, and checked the source-run CLI behavior before writing this guide.", "date": "Jun 22, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","CLI","Agents","Dev","TypeScript"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/opencode-ai-coding-agent-cli/", "title": "OpenCode - Open Source AI Coding Agent CLI", "summary": "OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent CLI. I inspected the current Bun/TypeScript monorepo, validated an installed local CLI, started the local server UI, checked provider/model support, and documented the source-build caveat on this machine.", "date": "Jun 21, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","CLI","Agents","Dev","Open Source"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/openai-codex-cli-local-agent/", "title": "OpenAI Codex CLI - Local Coding Agent, Rust Workspace, and SDKs", "summary": "OpenAI Codex CLI is the open-source local coding agent from OpenAI. I inspected the current source checkout, validated the npm workspace install, checked the installed CLI surface, built the TypeScript SDK, and documented the source-build blockers on this machine.", "date": "Jun 20, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","CLI","Agents","Dev","OpenAI","Rust"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-simplex-chat/", "title": "SimpleX Chat Docker: Self-Host a Private Messenger Server", "summary": "SimpleX Chat is the only messaging platform where no user identifier exists — no phone number, no username, no public key. Messages route through per-contact unidirectional queues on relay servers you can self-host. End-to-end encrypted with Double Ratchet + post-quantum Kyber-1024, audited twice by Trail of Bits.", "date": "Jun 19, 2026", "tags": ["Security","Self-Hosting","Docker"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-komodo/", "title": "Komodo - Self-Hosted Deployment Across Many Servers", "summary": "Komodo is a GPL-3.0 self-hosted deployment platform with a central Core service and Periphery agents that manage Docker hosts, stacks, builds, repositories, procedures, syncs, and server monitoring.", "date": "Jun 18, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","DevOps","Homelab","Deployment","Rust"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-forgejo/", "title": "Forgejo Docker: Self-Hosted GitHub and Gitea Alternative", "summary": "Tired of depending on centralized platforms for your source code? Forgejo is a lightweight, community-owned, self-hosted Git forge that runs on nearly any hardware — including a Raspberry Pi. Get issues, pull requests, CI, a package registry, and even Fediverse federation, all under your control.", "date": "Jun 16, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-matrix-conduit-server-with-docker/", "title": "Matrix Conduit - Lightweight Matrix Server with Docker", "summary": "Matrix Conduit is a lightweight Matrix homeserver written in Rust. This guide uses Docker Compose, RocksDB persistence, a local Element test workflow, and the Home-Lab compose config to run a private Matrix server before deciding whether to expose it publicly.", "date": "Jun 15, 2026", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting","Privacy","Matrix"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/pyspice-python-circuit-simulation/", "title": "PySpice - Python Circuit Simulation with Ngspice and Xyce", "summary": "PySpice brings SPICE circuit simulation into Python. It wraps Ngspice and Xyce, provides an object-oriented circuit API, handles units, parses useful netlist patterns, and converts simulator output into NumPy-friendly waveform objects.", "date": "Jun 13, 2026", "tags": ["Python","Electronics","Simulation"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/malloy-semantic-modeling-language/", "title": "Malloy - Semantic Modeling for SQL", "summary": "Malloy is an open-source semantic modeling and query language for relational data. I inspected the TypeScript monorepo, its compiler/runtime architecture, DuckDB-first local path, renderer packages, and the practical limits of trying it from source on a constrained machine.", "date": "Jun 11, 2026", "tags": ["Dev","Analytics","SQL","Data"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/pcb-zener-kicad/", "title": "pcb - Zener Workflows for KiCad Boards", "summary": "pcb brings a compiler-like workflow to PCB design: write Zener, validate the circuit, generate BOMs, produce KiCad layout files, and export manufacturing artifacts with kicad-cli.", "date": "Jun 10, 2026", "tags": ["Dev","OSS Electronics"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/grida-open-source-canvas/", "title": "Grida - Open Source Canvas and Rendering Engine", "summary": "Grida is an ambitious open-source design platform that combines a Rust and Skia powered canvas engine, Figma interoperability, headless rendering, forms, and Supabase-backed database workflows.", "date": "Jun 9, 2026", "tags": ["Open Source","Design","Canvas","Figma","Rust","WASM","React","Supabase"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/kittentts-local-cpu-tts/", "title": "KittenTTS - Tiny Local Text-to-Speech on CPU", "summary": "KittenTTS is a lightweight Python text-to-speech library from KittenML. It uses ONNX Runtime, eSpeak/phonemizer, Hugging Face model downloads, and small 15M-80M parameter models. I tested it locally on CPU and generated a short WAV with the nano model.", "date": "Jun 7, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Self-Hosting","Python","Audio","TTS"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/zigbee2mqtt-self-hosted-zigbee-bridge/", "title": "Zigbee2MQTT - Self-Hosted Zigbee Bridge", "summary": "Zigbee2MQTT bridges Zigbee devices to MQTT so your smart home is not locked to vendor hubs. I inspected the TypeScript codebase, validated a Docker Compose stack with Mosquitto, then field-tested it with a SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus V2 and an SNZB-02D sensor.", "date": "Jun 6, 2026", "tags": ["MQTT","IoT"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/voicebox-local-ai-voice-studio/", "title": "Voicebox - Local AI Voice Studio for Speech, Dictation, and Agents", "summary": "Voicebox is a local AI voice studio for cloning voices, generating speech, dictating into apps, transcribing captures, adding effects, composing stories, and giving AI agents voices through REST and MCP. It ships a Tauri desktop app, FastAPI backend, web UI, Docker setup, and multiple local TTS/STT engines.", "date": "Jun 6, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Self-Hosting","Docker","Audio","TTS","STT"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/chatterbox-local-open-source-tts/", "title": "Chatterbox - Local Open-Source Text-to-Speech by Resemble AI", "summary": "Chatterbox is Resemble AI\u0026rsquo;s MIT-licensed open-source text-to-speech toolkit. It ships Python APIs, Gradio demos, English and multilingual models, voice conversion, Turbo inference, paralinguistic tags, and built-in Perth watermarking. It is not a Docker-first self-hosted app; it is a local ML package where GPU access matters.", "date": "Jun 5, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Self-Hosting","Python","Audio","TTS","STT"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/comfyui-qwen-tts/", "title": "ComfyUI-Qwen-TTS - Qwen3 Voice Nodes for ComfyUI", "summary": "ComfyUI-Qwen-TTS is a custom-node pack for running Qwen3-TTS workflows inside ComfyUI: text-to-speech, zero-shot voice cloning, designed voices, saved speakers, multi-role dialogue, and experimental fine-tuning.", "date": "Jun 4, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Dev","TTS","STT"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/playwright-rendered-browser-automation/", "title": "Playwright - Browser Automation That Saves the Rendered Page", "summary": "Playwright is more than an end-to-end testing framework. For self-hosters and developers, it is a reliable way to automate a real browser, keep an authenticated profile, wait for hydrated content, and save the DOM the user actually sees.", "date": "Jun 3, 2026", "tags": ["Open Source","Browser Automation","Python","Web Scraping","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/cloakbrowser-stealth-chromium/", "title": "CloakBrowser - Stealth Chromium for Automation", "summary": "CloakBrowser wraps a custom Chromium build with Python and JavaScript APIs for browser automation, testing, and controlled fingerprint research. This post reviews its architecture, Docker path, humanized interaction layer, and important licensing caveats.", "date": "Jun 2, 2026", "tags": ["Dev","Docker","Security","Browser Automation"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/bitchat-mesh-messaging/", "title": "Bitchat - Decentralized Mesh Messaging", "summary": "Bitchat is a native iOS and macOS messaging app built around local Bluetooth mesh, Nostr fallback, and privacy-first design. This review looks at its architecture, protocol choices, build workflow, and why decentralized messaging projects like this matter.", "date": "Jun 1, 2026", "tags": ["Security","Communication"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/files-md-local-first-markdown-notes/", "title": "Files.md - Local-First Markdown Notes You Can Self-Host", "summary": "Files.md is a lightweight open-source notes app built around ordinary Markdown files. It gives you a browser-based writing space, chat-style capture, optional Telegram input, and a Go sync server when you want your notes across devices without giving up file ownership.", "date": "May 31, 2026", "tags": ["PWA","Notes"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-gonic/", "title": "Self-Hosting Gonic - Music Streaming Server with Docker", "summary": "Gonic is a lightweight self-hosted music streaming server with Subsonic API compatibility, letting you stream your own music library from any compatible client. This post covers how to deploy it with Docker Compose.", "date": "May 23, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Media"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-gotify/", "title": "Self-Hosting Gotify - Push Notifications with Docker", "summary": "Gotify is a lightweight self-hosted push notification server that lets you send alerts from scripts, cron jobs, or IoT devices to any connected client. This post covers deploying Gotify with Docker Compose and a PostgreSQL backend.", "date": "May 22, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Notifications"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-home-assistant/", "title": "Self-Hosting Home Assistant with Docker", "summary": "Home Assistant is the leading open-source home automation platform, supporting thousands of devices and keeping all your data local. This post covers the Docker Compose deployment using the LinuxServer image.", "date": "May 21, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","IoT"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-hoppscotch/", "title": "Self-Hosting Hoppscotch - Open-Source API Testing with Docker", "summary": "Hoppscotch is a lightweight, browser-based API client that supports REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, and MQTT testing. This post shows how to run it locally with Docker in minutes.", "date": "May 20, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-n8n/", "title": "Self-Hosting n8n - Workflow Automation with Docker", "summary": "n8n is an open-source workflow automation tool that lets you connect apps, build pipelines, and automate tasks with a visual editor. This post covers how to deploy n8n with Docker Compose using a PostgreSQL backend.", "date": "May 15, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Automation"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-immich/", "title": "Self-Hosting Immich - Google Photos Alternative with Docker", "summary": "Immich is a feature-rich, self-hosted alternative to Google Photos with mobile apps, facial recognition, and automatic backup. This post walks through deploying Immich using the official Docker Compose setup.", "date": "May 14, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Media"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-ekuiper/", "title": "Self-Hosting eKuiper - Edge Stream Processing with Docker", "summary": "eKuiper is an open-source edge stream processing engine from the LF Edge project that lets you filter, transform, and route IoT data using SQL-like rules. This post covers deploying eKuiper with Docker and connecting it to an MQTT broker.", "date": "May 10, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","IoT"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-atria/", "title": "Atria - Self-Hosted Event Management Platform with Real-Time Networking", "summary": "Running a conference and tired of paying per-attendee for Hopin or Eventbrite? Atria is the open-source, self-hosted alternative that handles multi-day event scheduling, real-time multi-level chat, professional attendee networking, sponsor management, and hybrid video streaming — all in a single Docker Compose stack with full data ownership.", "date": "May 9, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Project Management"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-emqx/", "title": "Self-Hosting EMQX - MQTT Broker with Docker", "summary": "EMQX is a high-performance open-source MQTT broker designed to connect IoT devices, microcontrollers, and sensors at any scale. This post shows how to get EMQX running with Docker in minutes.", "date": "May 1, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","IoT"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-tailscale-docker/", "title": "Tailscale VPN with Docker - Zero-Config Mesh VPN for Your HomeLab", "summary": "If you are starting a HomeLab, having a quick VPN to access your services safely is a must. Tailscale makes that easy. This post covers Tailscale with Docker, exit nodes, subnet routing, and how Headscale lets you self-host the control plane.", "date": "Apr 28, 2026", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting","VPN","Networking"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/cq-editor-cadquery-gui/", "title": "CQ-editor - CadQuery GUI for Parametric CAD", "summary": "CQ-editor gives CadQuery users a desktop GUI with a Python editor, OCCT 3D viewer, graphical debugger, object tree, stack inspector, console, and export tools. It is not a self-hosted web app; it is a local CAD scripting environment for people who want a visual CadQuery workflow.", "date": "Apr 8, 2026", "tags": ["Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/cadquery-python-parametric-cad/", "title": "CadQuery - Python Parametric CAD as Code", "summary": "CadQuery is an open-source Python library for parametric 3D CAD. It gives developers a code-first way to build reusable models, preserve design intent, export manufacturing formats, automate geometry generation, and use optional visualization tools without depending on a traditional CAD GUI.", "date": "Apr 7, 2026", "tags": ["Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-velxio-arduino/", "title": "Velxio - Arduino Emulator That Runs Entirely in Your Browser", "summary": "Velxio is a browser-based Arduino and embedded systems emulator supporting 19 microcontroller boards and 5 CPU architectures. Write code in Monaco Editor, compile in-browser, simulate components visually, and test everything without hardware—no local installation required.", "date": "Apr 5, 2026", "tags": ["Embedded Systems","Arduino","IoT","Emulation"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-velomate/", "title": "VeloMate - Self-Hosted Cycling Analytics Without Strava Premium", "summary": "VeloMate is a self-hosted cycling analytics platform that brings TeslaMate-style tracking to your training data. Automatically ingest activities from Strava, compute advanced fitness metrics locally (no premium required), visualize with Grafana dashboards, and plan intelligent routes using real OpenStreetMap data.", "date": "Apr 4, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Analytics","Cycling","Fitness","Open Source"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-tapmap/", "title": "TapMap - Watch Your Computer's Network Connections on a Live World Map", "summary": "TapMap is a local network-connection visualizer. It scans your computer\u0026rsquo;s active sockets, geolocates each IP with local GeoIP databases, and plots the connections on an interactive Dash + Plotly world map. 30-day Insights, Daily Activity Reports, open ports, LAN services, and GeoIP database management make it a practical awareness tool. Native binaries for Windows, Linux, and macOS; Docker on Linux. MIT, runs locally, no telemetry.", "date": "Mar 10, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Security"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-blender/", "title": "Blender - The FOSS 3D Suite That Runs Headless on Your Server", "summary": "Blender is not just a 3D tool — it is a complete GPL-licensed production pipeline that covers modelling, sculpting, animation, simulation, compositing, and video editing in one application. For self-hosters: it runs completely headless on a Linux server, renders via the command line, and can be containerised in Docker for automated render farms.", "date": "Mar 9, 2026", "tags": ["CAD","Design"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-vito/", "title": "Vito - Self-Hosted Laravel Forge Alternative for PHP Deployments", "summary": "If you run PHP or Laravel applications on VPS servers and are tired of paying for Forge or doing everything manually, Vito is the self-hosted answer. It provisions servers, deploys apps, manages databases, handles SSL, controls the firewall, and runs cron jobs — all from a clean web UI. One Docker command to install, zero ongoing subscription fees.", "date": "Mar 6, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-agent-os/", "title": "Agent OS - The Standards Layer for Claude Code and Cursor", "summary": "Agent OS is the standards-injection layer for AI coding tools. It captures your codebase\u0026rsquo;s conventions into markdown standards files, then injects the relevant ones into Claude Code, Cursor, or Antigravity context whenever you\u0026rsquo;re writing code or shaping a spec. MIT licensed, pure markdown + bash, works with any language and any AI tool.", "date": "Mar 5, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Dev","Coding"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-openscad/", "title": "OpenSCAD - The 3D CAD Tool Where the Code Is the Model", "summary": "OpenSCAD is a 3D CAD modeller with no mouse-based modelling — every shape is described in code. That makes designs perfectly reproducible, Git-diffable, and trivially automatable: run openscad -o part.stl design.scad from a CI pipeline and get a watertight mesh out. It is the tool the maker and engineering communities reach for when they need parametric, version-controlled 3D parts.", "date": "Mar 3, 2026", "tags": ["Dev","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-freecad/", "title": "FreeCAD - The FOSS Parametric CAD That Runs Headless on a Server", "summary": "FreeCAD is not just a 3D modeller — it is a LGPL-licensed parametric CAD suite with a professional geometry kernel (OpenCASCADE), a full Python scripting API, workbenches for FEM, CNC/CAM, BIM, and technical drawings, and a headless CLI mode that runs on any Linux server for automated design pipelines. Free. Forever.", "date": "Mar 2, 2026", "tags": ["Design","3D Printing","CAD"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-paperclip/", "title": "Paperclip - Run a Company of AI Agents from One Dashboard", "summary": "Paperclip is the company layer above your AI agents. Bring your own agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw), assign roles + goals + budgets, and let them run autonomously on heartbeats. Built-in cost hard-stops, board approvals, org charts, multi-company isolation, and a mobile-ready dashboard. MIT, Node 20+, Postgres-backed.", "date": "Mar 1, 2026", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Self-Hosting","Docker"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-pequeroku/", "title": "PequeRoku - Self-Hosted Replit Alternative with Real QEMU VMs", "summary": "Tired of Replit sandboxes and GitHub Codespaces bills? PequeRoku is the open-source, self-hosted cloud development environment that spins up real QEMU/KVM virtual machines per user — full root access, persistent storage, Monaco editor, multiplexed terminals, and an AI assistant, all in the browser. Five Docker containers, one compose up.", "date": "Mar 1, 2026", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-pangolin-cloudflared-tunnel-alternative/", "title": "Exposing Services with no Port Forwarding: Pangolin with Docker", "summary": "How to expose home services running on a Raspberry Pi or any home server to the internet without forwarding any router port and without publishing your home IP — using Pangolin (server on a cheap VPS) + Newt (client at home) + a Cloudflare-managed domain.", "date": "Jul 17, 2025", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting","Home-Lab","Security","Networking"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/understanding-open-source-licenses/", "title": "Understanding Open Source Licenses", "summary": "Understand the differences between permissive and copyleft licenses, learn which ones are best for commercial use, and discover how to stay compliant.", "date": "Jun 13, 2025", "tags": ["Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-traefik/", "title": "Self-Hosting and HTTPs with Traefik", "summary": "How to use Traefik and Setup Cloudflare DNS Challenge to get HTTPs on all your HomeLab Applications.", "date": "May 31, 2025", "tags": ["Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/posts/selfhost-commento-docker/", "title": "Self-Host Commento with Docker: A Privacy-Focused Commenting System", "summary": "Introduction to Commento Commento is an open-source, lightweight, and privacy-focused commenting system that you can self-host.\nUnlike traditional commenting systems, Commento doesn\u0026rsquo;t track your users, respects their privacy, and is fully compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations.\nWhy Choose Commento? Privacy-focused: No tracking, no ads, no analytics Lightweight: Fast-loading with minimal JavaScript Open Source: Full control over your data, with MIT license Markdown Support: Format your comments easily Email Notifications: Get notified of new comments Moderation Tools: Full control over comments And\u0026hellip;anonymous comments!\nPrerequisites Before we begin, make sure you have the following:\nA server with Docker and Docker Compose installed A domain name pointing to your server (recommended) Basic knowledge of Docker and the command line Installation with Docker Compose First, create a new directory for your Commento setup: mkdir commento \u0026amp;\u0026amp; cd commento Create a docker-compose.yml file with the following content: version: \u0026#39;3\u0026#39; services: commento: image: registry.gitlab.com/commento/commento container_name: commento restart: always environment: - COMMENTO_ORIGIN=https://yourdomain.com - COMMENTO_PORT=8080 - COMMENTO_POSTGRES=postgres://commento:yourpassword@postgres:5432/commento?sslmode=disable - COMMENTO_GZIP_STATIC=true depends_on: - postgres ports: - \u0026#34;8080:8080\u0026#34; postgres: image: postgres:13-alpine container_name: commento_postgres restart: always environment: - POSTGRES_USER=commento - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=yourpassword - POSTGRES_DB=commento volumes: - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data volumes: postgres_data: Replace the following values in the docker-compose.yml:\n", "date": "May 29, 2025", "tags": ["selfhosting","docker","commenting","privacy","blogging"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhostable-note-taking-tools/", "title": "Self-Hostable F/OSS Note-Taking Tools", "summary": "Dive into Memos, Many Notes, and SilverBullet – three powerful F/OSS note-taking tools that prioritize data ownership and privacy through easy self-hosting with Docker.", "date": "May 25, 2025", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Notes"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-many-notes-docker/", "title": "Self-Hosting Many Notes: Your Markdown Files, Your Control", "summary": "Many Notes offers a powerful web-based Markdown note-taking experience with the ultimate control of direct filesystem access for your data, easily deployable with Docker.", "date": "May 24, 2025", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Markdown","Docker","Flat-File"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-memos-docker/", "title": "Memos: Self-Hostable Feed of Thoughts \u0026 Notes", "summary": "Memos offers a simple, fast, and self-hostable way to manage your notes and personal knowledge. Take full control of your personal knowledge", "date": "May 24, 2025", "tags": ["Self-Host","Docker"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-eigenfocus-docker/", "title": "Eigenfocus: Self-Host Your Project, Time, and Focus Hub", "summary": "Learn to deploy Eigenfocus on your own server using Docker, bringing robust project and time management under your complete control.", "date": "May 24, 2025", "tags": ["Eigenfocus","Self-Host","Docker","Docker Compose","Project Management Software","Time Management","Personal Cloud"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/raneto-markdown-knowledgebase-selfhosting/", "title": "Self-Host Raneto: OSS Markdown Knowledge Base", "summary": "An in-depth guide to self-hosting Raneto, a lightweight, file-based knowledge base system powered by Markdown and Node.js. Learn deployment options, configuration settings, and best practices for managing your own documentation hub.", "date": "May 24, 2025", "tags": ["OSS for Business"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/joplin-docker-selfhosting/", "title": "Self-Host a Joplin Server: Open Source Note-Taking", "summary": "A step-by-step guide to deploying Joplin Server with Docker Compose, exploring its features, modules, and best practices for a secure, self-hosted note-taking solution.", "date": "May 23, 2025", "tags": ["OSS for Business"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-silverbullet/", "title": "Self-Hosting SilverBullet with Docker: Your Local-First PKM", "summary": "Local-first, markdown-based personal knowledge management system with SilverBullet on Docker.", "date": "May 22, 2025", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","OSS for Business"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/open-source-selfhostable-web-analytics-alternatives-ga/", "title": "F/OSS Web Analytics Tools for a Better Internet", "summary": "Discover F/OSS alternatives to Google Analytics, giving you control over your data and respecting user privacy.", "date": "May 21, 2025", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Web Analytics","Gen-AI","Google Analytics","Privacy-Focused","OWA"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/setup-watchtower-with-docker/", "title": "Keeping Your Self-Hosted Services Up-to-Date with Watchtower", "summary": "Setting up watchtower.", "date": "May 18, 2025", "tags": ["Security"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-vince-webanalytics/", "title": "Self-Hosting Vince: Open Source Web Analytics", "summary": "Learn to deploy and manage Vince, a zero-dependency self-hosted web analytics platform. Explore its architecture, modules, key algorithms and Docker deployment.", "date": "May 17, 2025", "tags": ["OSS for Business"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/liwan-selfhosting/", "title": "Liwan: Easy \u0026 Privacy-First Web Analytics", "summary": "Liwan is a self-hosted, privacy-first web analytics platform written in Rust, featuring real-time dashboards, lightweight tracking, and customizable deployments. This guide covers features, architecture and deployment with Docker.", "date": "May 17, 2025", "tags": ["OSS for Business"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-checkmate-container-monitoring/", "title": "Checkmate: Self-Hosted Uptime \u0026 Infrastructure Monitoring", "summary": "SelfHosting Checkmate for monitoring application providing real-time uptime, performance, and infrastructure metrics. It features customizable dashboards, email alerts, and status pages. You get full control of your data, scale to thousands of monitors, and deploy easily with Docker Compose.", "date": "May 16, 2025", "tags": ["OSS for Business"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-lumenone/", "title": "LumenOne: Open-Source Effortless Self-Hosted Web Management", "summary": "Explore LumenOne, the free and open-source alternative to Plesk, built for self-reliant webmasters. 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How to pinpoint the root cause of connectivity issues, optimize your network, and ensure a faster online experience.", "date": "Feb 18, 2023", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting","Home-Lab"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-netdata/", "title": "Monitoring AI Servers: Netdata", "summary": "Installing Netdata with Docker, the free open-source monitoring tool to check how your AI server is doing with a realtime Dashboard.", "date": "Jan 22, 2023", "tags": ["Gen-AI","Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-grav-docker/", "title": "Installing Grav CMS: A Powerful Flat File CMS", "summary": "Installing Grav CMS with Docker. A user-friendly CMS that offers speed, flexibility, and security advantages. 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I will show you how to selfhost Gogs with Docker.", "date": "Dec 2, 2022", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/airflow-docker/", "title": "Airflow: The Hero of Data Workflows with Docker", "summary": "SelfHosting Airflow with Docker", "date": "Nov 21, 2022", "tags": ["Docker","Python","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-stirling-pdf/", "title": "Stirling-PDF: Free \u0026 Open Source PDF Editor", "summary": "SelfHosting a Free and Open PDF editor - StirlingPDF with Docker", "date": "Nov 15, 2022", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-umami-with-docker/", "title": "Alternative to Google Analytics - Umami", "summary": "SelfHosting Umami with Docker. Forget about cookies pop-up, be GDPR compliant out of the box and learn how to use Umami together with HUGO SSG.", "date": "Jun 18, 2022", "tags": ["Web","Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-uptime-Kuma-docker/", "title": "Monitor Websites Status - Uptime Kuma", "summary": "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.", "date": "Jun 12, 2022", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Web"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/web-hugo-github-pages/", "title": "Deploying a Hugo Website with GH Actions", "summary": "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.", "date": "Jun 5, 2022", "tags": ["Web"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/web-hugo-firebase/", "title": "Free Hosting for your Web - Hugo with Google Firebase", "summary": "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.", "date": "May 30, 2022", "tags": ["Web"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/astro-ssg/", "title": "ASTRO - SSG: Awsome Websites for FREE", "summary": "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.", "date": "Apr 17, 2022", "tags": ["Web"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/how-to-customize-a-hugo-website/", "title": "How to IMPROVE a HUGO Website - Hugo Tips", "summary": "How to make a HUGO Theme look even better. Tips to enhance your HUGO site and the F/OSS tools that you can use.", "date": "Apr 17, 2022", "tags": ["Web"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-wordpress-docker/", "title": "Creating a Website with Wordpress", "summary": "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.", "date": "Mar 5, 2022", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting","Web"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-WatchYourLAN-docker/", "title": "How to check devices connected at Home Internet - WatchYourLAN", "summary": "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.", "date": "Feb 25, 2022", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-chevereto-docker/", "title": "Chevereto: The Image Hosting Platform You Need to Know About", "summary": "What Chevereto is, how it works, and why you might want to consider using it for your own image hosting needs.", "date": "Feb 20, 2022", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-drawio-with-docker/", "title": "Self-Hosting your Diagram Tools - Drawio", "summary": "Drawio - A FOSS Flowchart Maker (or network diagram software, to create UML online, as an ER diagram tool, to design database schema\u0026hellip;) that I will show you how to selfhost with Docker.", "date": "Dec 2, 2021", "tags": ["Self-Hosting","Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-Photoview-docker/", "title": "Google Photos FREE Alternative - Photoview", "summary": "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.", "date": "Sep 17, 2021", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/jekyll-ssg/", "title": "Your Static Web Sites with Jekyll", "summary": "Create a Website to Improve your online Presence. Make your Github Projects visible and better documented by using Jekyll SSG together with Github Pages.", "date": "Sep 5, 2021", "tags": ["Web"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/docker-alternatives-for-data-analytics/", "title": "Docker Alternatives: Hello Podman", "summary": "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.", "date": "Aug 22, 2021", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/docker-container-registries/", "title": "The Container Registry Landscape", "summary": "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.", "date": "Aug 21, 2021", "tags": ["Docker","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-Gitea-docker/", "title": "Self-Hosting your GIT - Gitea", "summary": "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.", "date": "Jun 12, 2021", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting","Dev"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-Leantime-docker/", "title": "How to setup your MS Project Alternative - Leantime", "summary": "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.", "date": "Jun 5, 2021", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-Trilium-docker/", "title": "Reasons to have your own notes app - Trilium", "summary": "You might be looking for some alternative to OneNotes. Lets SelfHost Trilium with dockerto have our local and private knowledge base.", "date": "May 9, 2021", "tags": ["OSS for Business","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/focalboard-docker/", "title": "How to Setup your Kanban Board - FocalBoard", "summary": "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.", "date": "Apr 15, 2021", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-samba/", "title": "How to Setup your Local SMB Server - Samba", "summary": "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.", "date": "Mar 15, 2021", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-whoogle-docker/", "title": "SelfHosting Whoogle: how to use Google without Trackers", "summary": "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.", "date": "Feb 17, 2021", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-nginx-proxy-manager-docker/", "title": "Exposing multiple Docker Services with NGINX with HTTPs", "summary": "Setting up and Nginx Proxy Manager. Exposing services securely with NGINX and get Automatic https certificates with letsencrypt.", "date": "Feb 2, 2021", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-portainer-docker/", "title": "Deploying Containers without the Terminal - Portainer", "summary": "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.", "date": "Jan 15, 2021", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting"] },{ "permalink": "https://fossengineer.com/selfhosting-PiHole-docker/", "title": "How to Block adds in all home devices - PiHole", "summary": "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.", "date": "Oct 25, 2020", "tags": ["Docker","Self-Hosting"] }]