08 Jul, 2026

Logs, Metrics, and Traces for Self-Hosters: What Each One Really Does | by Field Notes by Thomas Byern | July 2026

More like this: Self-Hosting Playbooks: Checklists, Configurations, Troubleshooting Most writing on observability assumes a world with platform teams, telemetry budgets, and enough services to justify a dedicated observability program. This is not where most self-hosters live. A more typical setup is a small VPS, a home server, a few containers, a reverse proxy, maybe a […]

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How I used Python to build a personal knowledge base from my notes | By codrift | October 2025

I wanted a system that worked like my own personal wikipedia: all my notes available, classified and connected. This is where I decided to use Python to build my own Personal knowledge base. Why not just use the concept or the obsidian? I tried both. They are fantastic, but here is the problem: The notes […]

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