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Alexandrie: Free Open Source Markdown Notes App (Notion & Obsidian Alternative)

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Alexandrie: Free Open Source Markdown Notes App (Notion & Obsidian Alternative)

If you're looking for a free, open-source alternative to Notion or Obsidian that combines powerful Markdown editing, organized workspaces, and team collaboration, Alexandrie is worth exploring. Alexandrie is a modern, self-hostable note-taking and knowledge management platform designed to help individuals and teams create, organize, and

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 42, 2026. GitLab CVSS 10, Drupal RCE, Mattermost 12

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 42, 2026. GitLab CVSS 10, Drupal RCE, Mattermost 12

This was a patch-first week. GitLab fixed a CVSS 10 flaw that let unauthenticated users run code on the server, Drupal shipped a critical remote code execution fix, and Keycloak closed 18 CVEs in one release. Mattermost 12 landed with removals that can stop a server from starting, and

S3 Storage for AI Agents: Scoped Keys, Undo and Audit Log

S3 Storage for AI Agents: Scoped Keys, Undo and Audit Log

Here's the scenario that keeps me careful: you give a research agent S3 credentials so it can save its reports. A week later, it decides to "clean up old files" and works through the whole bucket, including the customer exports your billing job writes there. Nobody

Infinidisk: Turn an S3 Bucket Into a Linux Disk

Infinidisk: Turn an S3 Bucket Into a Linux Disk

Every disk I've ever provisioned was the wrong size. Too small, and you're resizing a volume at 2 a.m. while Postgres complains about free space. Too big, and you're paying every month for 400 GB of nothing. And when the machine dies, the

Elestio Object Storage: S3 Buckets With No Egress Fees

Elestio Object Storage: S3 Buckets With No Egress Fees

Most Elestio customers I talk to have the same awkward line in their architecture diagram. The apps run on Elestio. The backups, uploads, media files and exports go to a bucket somewhere else, on a different bill, with a different set of keys, and an egress charge that shows up

PrestaShop MCP Server: Connect Claude to Your Store

PrestaShop MCP Server: Connect Claude to Your Store

It's Monday morning, a supplier just raised prices on 40 products, and every one of them has descriptions in French, English and Spanish. You know exactly what needs to change. You just don't want to spend two hours clicking through the PrestaShop back office to do

New Elestio Documentation: What's Inside and Where to Start

New Elestio Documentation: What's Inside and Where to Start

I'll admit something slightly embarrassing for someone who writes about Elestio every day: I used to find answers in our old docs by Googling them. The content was there, but it was spread across "books" and "chapters", and unless you already knew that the

Fleetbase: Free Open Source Alternative to Onfleet for Fleet & Delivery Management

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Fleetbase: Free Open Source Alternative to Onfleet for Fleet & Delivery Management

Managing deliveries, tracking drivers, optimizing routes, and coordinating fleets can quickly become complicated as a business grows. While platforms like Onfleet offer powerful delivery management capabilities, businesses looking for more flexibility, customization, and control over their infrastructure may prefer an open-source solution. Fleetbase is a free, open-source logistics

Elestio Catalog Updates: 125 New Releases This Week (October 4-10, 2026)

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 125 New Releases This Week (October 4-10, 2026)

One hundred and twenty-five stable releases shipped across 51 services in the Elestio catalog between October 4 and October 10. A lot of this week's security work fixed the same kind of bug: a permission check that didn't hold. Vault, Portainer, Appwrite and ToolJet all

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 41, 2026. WordPress 7.1.3, Vaultwarden Fixes, Supabase Buys Turso

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 41, 2026. WordPress 7.1.3, Vaultwarden Fixes, Supabase Buys Turso

AI labs had a hand in four of the seven bugs fixed in this week's WordPress security release. Vaultwarden fixed seven advisories and changed how it reads client IPs behind a proxy. Supabase raised $150 million and bought Turso. Two LTS releases also arrived, Moodle 5.3 and

WooCommerce + MCP: Give AI Agents Read-Only Store Access

WooCommerce + MCP: Give AI Agents Read-Only Store Access

It's Monday morning and you run a small WooCommerce shop. Before coffee you want to know three things: which orders are stuck in "processing", which products have sold out, and whether that customer who emailed on Saturday actually placed an order. That's fifteen minutes

Jibri + Whisper: Record Jitsi Calls With Local Transcripts

Jibri + Whisper: Record Jitsi Calls With Local Transcripts

Every team I know wants the same thing out of meetings: a searchable transcript and a short summary, without anyone taking notes. The SaaS answer is a bot from a note-taking startup that joins your call and ships the audio to someone else's servers. That's

Meteroid: Free Open Source Alternative to Stripe Billing & Chargebee

Managing subscriptions, usage-based pricing, invoices, and payments can quickly become one of the most complex parts of running a SaaS business. Platforms like Stripe Billing and Chargebee provide powerful solutions, but businesses looking for more control over their billing infrastructure may prefer an open-source alternative. Meteroid is an

Bitbucket + Elestio: Auto-Deploy Your Repo on Every Push

Bitbucket + Elestio: Auto-Deploy Your Repo on Every Push

If your team lives in Bitbucket, you know how deployment usually goes. Someone writes a bitbucket-pipelines.yml that builds the app, then SSHes into a server and runs a deploy script that only one person fully understands. It works until that person goes on vacation, the SSH key gets

Apache NiFi Data Provenance: Trace RAG Chunks to the Source

Apache NiFi Data Provenance: Trace RAG Chunks to the Source

Someone on the support team pastes a screenshot into Slack. The company chatbot told a customer the refund window is 60 days. It's 30, and it has been 30 since March. The question lands on your desk: which document did that answer come from, and why is it

Elestio Catalog Updates: 113 New Releases This Week (September 27 - October 3, 2026)

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 113 New Releases This Week (September 27 - October 3, 2026)

One hundred and thirteen stable releases shipped across 47 services in the Elestio catalog between September 27 and October 3. Most of the urgent work this week is in identity: Keycloak fixed 14 CVEs in one patch release, and Zitadel closed two account takeover bugs. If a project shipped one

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 40, 2026. Gitea 28, Keycloak Agent Tokens, Weekly Ubuntu Kernels

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 40, 2026. Gitea 28, Keycloak Agent Tokens, Weekly Ubuntu Kernels

Week 40: Gitea 28 routes Git traffic through an egress proxy, Keycloak 26.8 adds delegated tokens for AI agents, Ubuntu goes to weekly kernels.

Elestio Joins the MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor

Elestio is now a MariaDB Foundation Silver Sponsor. What the Foundation does, why we back it, and how to upgrade off end-of-life MariaDB 10.6.

Synaplan: Free Open Source ChatGPT Alternative You Can Self-Host

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Synaplan: Free Open Source ChatGPT Alternative You Can Self-Host

ChatGPT has become one of the most popular ways to interact with AI, but relying on a hosted platform isn't always ideal—especially when you want more control over your data, models, integrations, and infrastructure. Synaplan is a free and open-source AI platform that you can self-

HAProxy Rate Limiting for AI Crawlers and Runaway Agents

HAProxy Rate Limiting for AI Crawlers and Runaway Agents

Rate-limit AI crawlers, runaway agents and API keys with HAProxy stick tables. A tested config with tarpits, 429s and Retry-After headers.

Apache Answer + MCP: Give AI Agents Your Team's Answers

Apache Answer + MCP: Give AI Agents Your Team's Answers

Your coding agent is confident. It will tell you exactly how your team deploys to staging, which Postgres flags you use, and why the billing service retries three times. It will be wrong about all three, because the real answers live in your team's heads and in a

Elestio Catalog Updates: 106 New Releases This Week (September 20-26, 2026)

Catalog Updates

Elestio Catalog Updates: 106 New Releases This Week (September 20-26, 2026)

One hundred and six stable releases shipped across 47 services in the Elestio catalog between September 20 and 26. The headline is security again: GitLab pushed a critical patch for two flaws in its regular expression engine, and WordPress 7.1.2 was being exploited the day it came out.

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 39, 2026. WordPress Exploited, Portainer CE Frozen, Ubuntu Escape

Self-Hosted Weekly

Self-Hosted Weekly: Week 39, 2026. WordPress Exploited, Portainer CE Frozen, Ubuntu Escape

WordPress shipped two security releases in five days, and attackers were probing the second fix within hours. Ubuntu has a container escape with a public exploit and no kernel patch. Portainer confirmed that its free edition stops at 2.x. Here's what mattered this week. 1. WordPress patches

Weblate: Free Open Source Alternative to Crowdin & Lokalise

Open source softwares

Weblate: Free Open Source Alternative to Crowdin & Lokalise

Managing translations becomes increasingly complex as an application grows. What starts with a couple of JSON or PO files can quickly turn into dozens of languages, thousands of strings, multiple contributors, and a workflow that needs to stay synchronized with your codebase. Platforms like Crowdin and Lokalise are popular solutions

Self-Host Solidtime: An Open-Source Toggl Alternative

Self-Host Solidtime: An Open-Source Toggl Alternative

An open-source time tracker for agencies that bill by the hour. What's free, what costs extra, and the billable-rate setting that can rewrite last month.