Open-source software, licensing, communities and maintainers, and the projects worth running yourself.
A growing list of open-core self-hosted projects, from Grafana to Planka, gate single sign-on behind an Enterprise tier. Here's which protocol actually gets paywalled, and what to check before you deploy.
Forum Archaeology #2. Three free PHP forum platforms started from the same premise a generation ago. One got hit with a CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass this June. One had eleven CVEs last year. One has stayed almost quiet. Same premise, three completely different fates.
Codeberg's members voted to prohibit vibe-coded repos over hosting costs, not code quality. Here's the actual vote, the reasoning, and the self-hosting community's reaction.
Building a local AI server is more than installing Ollama. This guide builds a full production AI stack with Open WebUI, LiteLLM, Qdrant, Traefik, and Langfuse — what each component does, why it's needed, and three complete Docker Compose configurations for beginners, power users, and small teams.
CoderOasis runs Teleport internally for everything — admin panel access, secure database connections, Kubernetes, and zero-trust philosophy across our entire team. This is the complete technical guide to installing, configuring, and running your own self-hosted Teleport cluster from scratch.
Linus built Git in 10 days. GitHub became where open source lives. Then Microsoft paid $7.5B, killed Atom, trained Copilot on your code, corrupted main branches with a merge queue bug, and folded the whole thing into CoreAI. Here's the full story.
How to Self-Host Your Own Email Server With Mailcow in 2026 — Complete Setup Guide Meta Description: Stop letting Google and Microsoft read your email. This guide sets up a complete private email server with Mailcow on a NetCup VPS — DNS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, TLS, webmail, and mobile clients.
Replace Google Drive, Google Photos, 1Password, Plex, and your document scanner with a self-hosted stack that runs on your hardware. Complete Docker Compose setup with Traefik, Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Immich, Jellyfin, and Paperless-ngx.
In February, Anthropic's Frontier Red Team used Claude Opus 4.6 to find 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox in two weeks — more than were reported in any single month in all of 2025. Then Mythos arrived. Firefox 150, released today, patches 271 vulnerabilities found by Claude.
There is a fifteen-year fork tree underneath every Minecraft server, and most admins copy a jar without knowing what's in it. Here's the whole chain, with the code — including the config key most DAB guides get wrong.
Anthropic's $1.5M donation seeds a $10M Responsible AI Initiative at the Apache Software Foundation. That's more than half of ASF's entire annual budget in one shot — which tells you everything about how badly the open source infrastructure powering AI has been underfunded.
A local LLM is three layers: weights on disk, a runtime that loads them, an interface that talks to it. Once you see the stack that way, the hardware question answers itself and the tuning stops being guesswork.
