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How to Install

What PegaProx adds over the Proxmox VE 9 GUI

PegaProx 0.9.x is an AGPL-3.0 panel that manages several Proxmox VE 8 and 9 clusters, plus XCP-ng, from a single screen. It adds live migration across clusters, OIDC with Entra ID, a CVE scanner and one-click hardening on top of the stock GUI, which only covers one cluster at a time.

How to Install

How to install Coolify on Docker (2026 step-by-step guide)

Coolify is an open source self-hosted deployment platform that replicates the Vercel or Heroku experience on your own Docker infrastructure. This guide installs Coolify 4.x step by step on Ubuntu 24.04, from the official script to the first Git deployment with automatic SSL and managed databases.

Software Development

AI tools for developers: the 2026 stack

The AI tool stack a developer uses in 2026 looks nothing like it did eighteen months ago. Agentic editors, review tools, terminal agents, and test assistants have settled into recognizable roles. A practical guide by category.

Technology

Observability tools I would recommend in 2026

After a decade of Prometheus, three years of consolidation around OpenTelemetry, and the open stack now mature with Grafana, Loki, and Tempo, concrete recommendations for teams starting or reviewing their observability layer: what fits, what is excess, and what to avoid.

Tools

Railway and Render: deployment platforms without surprises

Railway and Render have spent years filling the gap between Vercel and AWS. By the fall of 2025 their offering has matured enough for a seasoned assessment: where they beat Heroku, where they fall short of Fly, and what happens when a bill grows.

Tools

Spotify’s Backstage fork: what changes for users

Spotify announced Backstage Plus, its own commercial offering built on top of the open Backstage project. The result is a de facto fork that raises uncomfortable questions about governance of company-donated CNCF projects. A look at the practical implications and what teams already running Backstage in production can do.

Tools

Dokploy: lightweight deployment on top of Docker Swarm

Dokploy has become the most talked-about free alternative to Vercel and Render. It promises Docker Swarm simplicity without the weight of Kubernetes or dependence on a single vendor. We look at where it delivers and where the promise breaks down.

Technology

Mesh networks with WireGuard without losing your mind

WireGuard is simple over a single link, but hand-building a multi-node mesh quickly turns into a tangle of keys and routes. Patterns that work, when pure WireGuard earns its keep, and when it is worth leaning on Tailscale or Headscale instead.

Artificial Intelligence

Ollama in 2024: Running LLMs Locally Without Pain

Ollama became the standard for running large language models locally in 2024. It wraps llama.cpp in a single binary with Docker-style CLI and an OpenAI-compatible API. Phi-3 Mini runs in 4 GB; Llama 3.1 8B Q4 needs 6 GB. For production traffic at scale, vLLM remains the correct choice.

Tools

Figma Dev Mode: From Design to Code with Less Friction

Figma Dev Mode is the developer-facing view inside a Figma file: it generates ready CSS, exposes exact measurements, maps variables to tokens, and, with Code Connect, links each component to the real codebase snippet. It solves most of the design-to-code handoff friction, but it does not replace human judgment on accessibility, performance, or responsive behavior.