~/blog·13 entries
Field notes on shipping things — infra, security, and the occasional agent. Mostly things I wish I’d known six months ago.
20 July 2026 · 6 min read
LingoMacBar is a Mac menu bar translator for Google Translate and DeepL that lets you translate selected text without switching apps.
20 July 2026 · 7 min read
BoringNotch+ is a free open-source Mac app that turns your MacBook notch into a productivity hub for music, clipboard history, Pomodoro, reminders, and widgets.
20 July 2026 · 6 min read
Why I built a focused Mac menu bar app for tracking stocks, crypto, ETFs, forex, commodities, and portfolio P/L without keeping charts open.
15 Mar 2026 · 3 min read
FinMCP is a financial data MCP server for ChatGPT, Codex, Claude, and Cursor, with Yahoo Finance market, company, options, crypto, and forex data.
18 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
I ran OpenClaw on a $5 Hetzner VPS: the real setup, swap and memory fixes, browser modes, and the trade-offs versus a Mac Mini.
15 June 2025 · 6 min read
Install Fail2Ban on a Coolify server, enable SSH protection, watch Traefik access logs, and propagate bans to your websites with the official Traefik plugin.
14 June 2025 · 6 min read
Set up Cloudflare Tunnel for a local Coolify server using cloudflared—share apps publicly without port forwarding, even behind CG-NAT or ISP port blocking.
14 June 2025 · 2 min read
Install n8n on Coolify in one click — choose the SQLite-ready service for quick tests, or the PostgreSQL-backed service for production-grade workflows.
14 June 2025 · 4 min read
Run Coolify on a local Ubuntu VM for staging or home-server testing. Open the dashboard on port 8000, expose apps with ports 80/443 and sslip.io, or use Cloudflare Tunnel.
6 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Install and configure CrowdSec on Coolify with Traefik v3 and the CrowdSec bouncer plugin — the easy way to protect every site on the server from bad bots and common web attacks.
6 Apr 2025 · 6 min read
Install CrowdSec on the Coolify host, add the nftables firewall bouncer, and wire the Traefik bouncer plugin so every website on the server is protected from bad bots, SSH attacks, and common web exploits.
15 Mar 2025 · 6 min read
Configure the Coolify dashboard, connect an instance domain, set firewall access, and deploy a first Docker Compose project on your own server.
15 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
A practical guide to installing Coolify on Ubuntu and using a VPS as a lower-cost, self-hosted alternative to Vercel, Netlify, Render, and Heroku.
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