Restic + MinIO for OpenClaw: What It Is, What It Solves, and the Quick Reference I Wanted Yesterday
Yesterday I spent part of the day optimizing my OpenClaw setup and cleaning up the way I protect its operational state.
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Cloud-Powered Dictation: Fast STT for Old Linux Hardware with Copilot & Claude
I work daily with GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, and like many developers, I often think faster than I type. Speech‑to‑Text (STT) is an obvious productivity multiplier — but there’s a catch:
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Six Practical Ways to Install Apps on Ubuntu (Beginner-Friendly Guide)
Ubuntu offers several ways to install applications. Understanding each method helps you pick the right tool, avoid duplicates, and maintain a clean system. This guide covers six installation methods, includes Windows, iOS App Store, and Android Play Store analogies, plus...
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Installing Coolify on an Oracle ARM Ubuntu server
Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)—think “Heroku/Vercel, but free on your own server”. Deploy applications, databases, and services with one click, automatic SSL, and Git integration, with zero monthly fees.
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PM2: Complete Reference Guide
PM2 is a production-grade process manager that helps you keep applications running continuously. While it was originally designed for Node.js applications, PM2 can manage any type of application or script including Python, Ruby, PHP, Bash scripts, and binary executables.
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Exposing Local Projects to the Web with Cloudflared: A Quick Guide
Ever needed to quickly share a local project with someone without deploying it? Cloudflared makes it incredibly easy to expose your local development server to the web temporarily. Whether you’re showing off a new feature, getting feedback on a design, or testing an API,...
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A SysAdmin’s Complete Guide: From Crisis to Clean Server – The Ultimate Disk Space Recovery Playbook
Updated with advanced techniques and lessons learned from multiple real-world storage crises
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How to Set Up a Powerful, Free Forever Server on Oracle Cloud (Caddy Edition)
Earlier in 2025, I signed up for Oracle’s “Free Forever” cloud offer. It was, and still is, one of the most generous free tiers available, especially for developers and hobbyists. I wrote a blog post to document my setup, and today I’m updating it with a more modern,...
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Installing Portainer with Docker and Caddy on an ARM Server
Managing a server with multiple Docker applications can quickly become a juggling act of docker ps, docker logs, and docker-compose commands. While powerful, the command line isn’t always the most efficient way to get a high-level view of your services.
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Supercharging Your Cloud Server Management: Mountain Duck + Tailscale + ARM Ubuntu Done Right!
Managing files on a remote server can sometimes feel like navigating a maze. Public IPs, firewalls, SSH keys – it’s a lot to keep track of. But what if I told you there’s a “super cool” way to get seamless, secure file access, even to your Oracle ARM Ubuntu server, all...
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Conquering “Permission Denied”: A Quick Guide to Ubuntu File Permissions
Ever been in the middle of setting up a new project, run a command, and then BAM! You’re hit with the dreaded Permission denied (os error 13)? It’s a common stumbling block, especially when dealing with directories that might have been created by root or another user.
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Setting Up SSH Keys for GitLab and GitHub: A Complete Guide
As a developer, I prefer to use GitLab for my private projects and repositories due to its generous free tier for private repos, while using GitHub for public open-source projects where the community and visibility are unmatched. This dual-platform approach means I need...
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Installing Mautic 6 on Oracle ARM Ubuntu 24.04 with Caddy & Docker
Marketing automation is a powerful tool for businesses looking to nurture leads, engage customers, and streamline marketing efforts. Mautic stands out as a leading open-source marketing automation platform, offering a robust alternative to expensive proprietary solutions.
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My Journey: Taming VPN Conflicts and Securing Server Access with Tailscale
Ever found yourself constantly connecting and disconnecting your regular VPN just to SSH into your own server? I certainly did. It was a daily annoyance: fire up the privacy VPN (like ProtonVPN in my case) for general browsing, then disconnect it because my server,...
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Installing RedPanda Streaming Data Platform on Oracle ARM Ubuntu 24.04 with Docker and Caddy
Environment: Oracle Cloud ARM VM, Ubuntu 24.04, Docker, Caddy (non-Docker), Cloudflare
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Installing Apache Airflow with Docker and Caddy on Oracle ARM (Ubuntu 24.04)
Running data pipelines often requires a robust orchestrator like Apache Airflow. Setting it up on modern ARM-based cloud infrastructure, such as Oracle Cloud’s Ampere A1 instances, can be efficient and cost-effective. This guide walks you through installing Apache...
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Installing Self-Hosted Airbyte on Oracle ARM Ubuntu 24.04 with Caddy & Cloudflare
Airbyte is a powerful open-source data integration platform, allowing you to sync data between various sources and destinations. Self-hosting Airbyte gives you full control over your data pipelines. This guide walks through installing Airbyte on an Oracle Cloud ARM...
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Self-Hosting ChromaDB on Oracle ARM Ubuntu with Docker, Caddy & Cloudflare
ChromaDB is a powerful open-source embedding database, essential for building AI applications involving semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and more. While Chroma offers a managed service, self-hosting provides greater control, privacy, and potentially...
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Self-Hosting Open Web UI on Oracle ARM with Docker and Caddy (Private Setup)
Running your own Large Language Model (LLM) interface offers fantastic benefits like privacy, customization, and potentially lower costs compared to hosted services. Open Web UI is a popular, user-friendly interface for interacting with local LLMs managed by Ollama.
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Installing Matomo Analytics with Docker, Caddy, and Cloudflare on ARM Ubuntu
Matomo is a powerful, open-source alternative to Google Analytics that gives you full ownership of your website’s traffic data. This guide walks through installing Matomo on its own subdomain using Docker Compose, Caddy as a reverse proxy, storing data on a separate...
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Install and Configure Docker on Oracle ARM (Ubuntu 24.04) – Optimize Storage!
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers powerful and cost-effective ARM Ampere A1 instances. Running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (“Noble Numbat”) on these instances is a popular choice. If you’re planning to use Docker, this guide will walk you through the official installation...
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Install WordPress with Caddy & Auto-SSL on Oracle ARM Ubuntu 24.04 (Multi-Site Ready!)
Setting up a WordPress blog or website on an efficient Oracle Cloud ARM instance is a great way to get performance on a budget. Combining it with the modern Caddy web server provides automatic HTTPS, simple configuration, and an excellent foundation for hosting multiple...
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Installing Qdrant Vector Database on Oracle ARM Ubuntu with Docker, Caddy & Cloudflare
This guide details how to install the Qdrant vector database on an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) ARM Ampere VM running Ubuntu 24.04. We’ll use Docker Compose for easy management, Caddy as a secure reverse proxy with automatic SSL, and store Qdrant’s data on a...
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Avoiding the Pitfalls: A Smoother Guide to Restoring OCI Instances
Restoring a virtual machine instance from a custom image or backup in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) should be straightforward. You click a few buttons, and presto, your server is back, right? Well, as many of us discover, the reality can involve frustrating SSH...
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Running Your Own AI: Installing Ollama on Ubuntu 24.04 ARM with Docker and Caddy
Self-hosting Large Language Models (LLMs) is becoming increasingly accessible, offering benefits like privacy, cost savings, and customization. Ollama makes it incredibly simple to run open-source models like Llama 3, Phi-3, Mistral, and more, right on your own hardware.
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Adding and Mounting a Block Volume in Ubuntu (with systemd)
This guide explains how to add a new block storage volume (like an additional hard drive or a cloud-provided block storage device) to an Ubuntu system, format it, and mount it permanently. We’ll cover the steps for modern Ubuntu systems that use systemd, including the...
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Installing n8n with Docker Compose and Caddy on Ubuntu
Workflow automation tools are incredibly powerful, and n8n is a fantastic open-source, self-hostable option. It allows you to connect various apps and services to automate tasks visually.
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Free Forever Oracle Virtual Private Server
I recently discovered a super cool offer from Oracle, to setup a free-forever Virtual Machine instance with an ARM processor, 4 OCPUs, 24 GB of RAM memory and 200 GB of storage. So this guide is to remind myself what settings I have to use to create a virtual machine...
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NetStat Cheat Sheet
Here is a quick cheat sheet about NetStat that I gathered from the video I share at the bottom of this post. NetStat is a very useful tool for managing system network connection ports among other things.
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How to Install Linux Ubuntu on Windows
I recently learned how to install Ubuntu on my Windows 10 laptop, not as a virtual machine, but as part of my normal Windows installation, so I have the advantage of not wasting resources dedicated to Ubuntu on a virtual machine.
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