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  • EyeCanSee: a viewer and manager for photos, videos, 3D models and CAD drawings, with an image editor

    Folders, disks, a server and a phone side by side in the left panel

    Why I wrote it

    I am not a programmer any more, and have not been for years. My job is technical documentation, and a documentation is full of images: for every one of them I used three or four programs, one to look at it, one to crop it and put an arrow on it, one to rename it, one to convert it. And my photos were everywhere: some on the computer, some on external disks, some on a NAS, the newest ones always on the phone. Every program I tried wanted me to import them first, build a catalogue, or go through the file manager, which with an Android phone over USB means waiting minutes for a folder to appear.

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  • Goodbye OneDrive: Building a Self Hosted Personal Cloud With Nextcloud, Collabora and Docker

    Goodbye, Microsoft

    After years of paying a yearly subscription to keep my files in someone else’s cloud, I finally did it. Every personal document, every photo, every contact and calendar entry now lives on hardware I own, in my own home, under my own administration. No more OneDrive. No more renting space on machines I never see, run by a company that ultimately holds the keys to it.

    This is the story of how I replaced Microsoft 365 with a self-hosted stack built on Docker, and the technical problems I had to solve along the way. My setup is far from perfect, and I know it well. But it works, it is mine, and that is the whole point.

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  • Deploy Your Own MiroTalk P2P Server with Docker in 5 Minutes

    Why Self-Host Your Video Conferencing?

    We all know Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and countless other video conferencing platforms. They work great, but they come with a catch: your data flows through their servers, you’re subject to their terms, and for businesses, costs can add up quickly.

    What if you could have your own video conferencing platform, fully under your control, running on your infrastructure, with end-to-end encryption, and without paying per-user fees?

    Enter MiroTalk P2P.

    The best part? You can have it up and running in about 5 minutes with this tutorial (ehm, it’s more like “copy-paste these commands and you’re done”.) LOL

    No, seriously.

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