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Reviews, setup guides and practical notes for developer tools, including IDEs, APIs, command-line utilities, GitHub workflows, testing tools and automation systems.
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Self-Hosted LLMs with Docker, Ollama, and Open WebUI
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linux • 12 min read
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Self-Hosted LLMs with Docker, Ollama, and Open WebUI

# Self-Hosted LLMs with Docker, Ollama, and Open WebUI Cloud AI is convenient. Open a browser, type a prompt, get an answer. But it comes with three things that bug me: API bills that surprise you at the end of the month, rate limits that kick in when you're in the middle of something, and the know…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
High School to Homelab — A Student's Linux Journey
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linux • 7 min read
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High School to Homelab — A Student's Linux Journey

# High School to Homelab — A Student's Linux Journey Last week, a high school student posted on [r/homelab](https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/). i5-6500T. 40TB NAS. ThinkPad X13 running Proxmox. Looking for advice on his setup. The best way to learn is to try and fail.…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
Learning Docker by Building a Container Engine from Scratch
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linux • 13 min read
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Learning Docker by Building a Container Engine from Scratch

# Learning Docker by Building a Container Engine from Scratch If you've used Docker for any length of time, you've probably internalized the vocabulary. Images. Containers. Dockerfiles. `docker run -d --name my-app nginx`. It works. You ship code. Everyone's happy. But here's a question: what actu…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
The Minimal Homelab That Actually Works
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hardware • 7 min read
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The Minimal Homelab That Actually Works

# Am I Overcomplicating This? — The Minimal Homelab That Actually Works Scroll through r/homelab for ten minutes and you'll see server racks that look like data center colocations. 42U cabinets. Enterprise switches with SFP+ cages blinking amber. Dual Xeon boxes drawing 400 watts.…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
1-Click GitHub Token Theft via VSCode Bug — Security Alert
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Code • 7 min read
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1-Click GitHub Token Theft via VSCode Bug — Security Alert

Just by clicking a link, it's possible for an attacker to steal a GitHub token that can read **and write** to your repos — including private ones. This isn't a hypothetical vulnerability or a "theoretical risk" scenario. Security researcher [Ammar Askar](https://blog.ammaraskar.com/github-token-ste…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
Switch from pip to uv — Python's New Package Manager Guide
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Python • 8 min read
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Switch from pip to uv — Python's New Package Manager Guide

# Switch from pip to uv — Python's New Package Manager Guide If you've ever sat waiting for `pip install` to finish building wheels in a Docker build, you know the pain. Five minutes. Ten minutes. Sometimes longer, depending on how many native extensions your project pulls in. There's a better way…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
Self-Host Redis 8.8 with Docker Compose — Homelab Guide
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developer tools • 10 min read
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Self-Host Redis 8.8 with Docker Compose — Homelab Guide

# Self-Host Redis 8.8 with Docker Compose — And Why It's Useful for Your Homelab Most homelabs start with storage. A NAS here, a media server there. But at some point you realize your services need to talk to each other — and that's when you discover you need something faster than your Postgres ins…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •
Running AI Models on Old Hardware — A 10-Year-Old Xeon
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hardware • 8 min read
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Running AI Models on Old Hardware — A 10-Year-Old Xeon

A post hit the front page of [Hacker News yesterday](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353348) with a title that made a lot of people stop and stare: *"[A 10 year old Xeon is all you need.](https://point.free/blog/gemma-4-on-a-2016-xeon/)"* It racked up 685 points. The author ran **Gemma 4 (26B…
Techie Mike
Techie Mike •