Asides

January 12, 2025

21:01

Monetr budgeting application

Monetr is a budgeting application that aims to make it easier for people to budget around recurring expenses. While making it absolutely clear how much you have left over to budget or use for other unplanned spending. It is based off of the now defunct Simple. It is also completely free to self-host.

I’m not sure if this is a direct competitor to Actual Budget, but looking at the sample compose file, you need to run 3 Docker images for this app, vs. Actual’s 1 only. So, I choose Actual.

20:27

#PaperlessAI vs. #PaperlessGPT:

Paperless-AI leans toward doc-based AI chat, letting you converse with your documents.
Paperless-GPT focuses on LLM-based OCR (for more accurate scanning of messy or low-quality docs) and a robust pipeline for auto-generating titles/tags.

www.reddit.com/∞

#Paperless #PaperlessNGX

00:37

Using Beszel to monitor Windows

Beszel is a new, lightweight monitoring app that natively supports Mac and Linux. I’ll cover how to set it up natively in Windows or WSL2 in today’s post.

This is one app I really wanted to get up and running to monitor my systems. Unfortunately, my first attempt didn’t go as planned.

00:32

@stefan Thanks! the fediwall.social looks interesting. Gotta try that out soon!

00:27

@aakashweb Whoa! This is interesting. Didn’t know this #WordPress plugin exists before. Would have given it a spin had I learned sooner.

00:20

Git it Write – Write posts from GitHub – WordPress plugin

Publish markdown files present in a GitHub repository as posts to WordPress automatically

Git it Write allows to publish the markdown files present in a GitHub repository to your WordPress site. So with this plugin, whenever the files are added, updated in the repository the WordPress post will be added, updated accordingly.

Interesting. I just discovered this today. Would have already taken it to a spin had I learned it sooner.

January 11, 2025

17:09

I think I’m done with #WordPress. The drama never stops. Besides, I’m really starting to loving Hugo, and if coupled with #Python and some bash scripts, I think they are perfect #GoHugo

13:49

I’ve been passionate about photography for over 20 years now. Back in 2006, I invested in my first (and only) #DSLR, the #Canon EOS 30D, and went all-in, eventually spending over half a million pesos on lenses and gear. Fast forward to today, and that once-prized collection is now gathering dust in my closet. The rise of smartphone photography and the flood of enthusiasts in the field have slowly pushed my DSLR into early retirement. Half a million pesos, just sitting there—talk about an expensive display of nostalgia!

00:55

Sink URL Shortener

A simple, speedy, and secure link shortener with analytics, 100% run on Cloudflare.

About 2 years ago, I’ve been looking for a good self-hosted URL shortener/Bitly alternative. YOURLS was the only one around. Nowadays, we’ll never run out of alternatives.

This one looks sleek though, and can be run on Cloudflare.

00:21

#CaddyGen is a user-friendly web interface for generating #Caddy server configurations. github.com/∞

I thought the UI makes you manage various caddy configurations for different domains/subdomains in your server. I thought I can retire now my little #UpCaddy project: github.com/∞

No, the UI is for generating caddy configurations based on presets.