2024, what’s cooking?

Slowly getting into the 2024 spirit. 3 projects coming to a close this month and looking forward to a couple of new smaller projects in between.

Redoing my whole website this year, so will slowly transition and move content …

A couple of docker projects …

… im currently testdriving or expanding upon!

• MinIO / Amazon s3 replacement . using it for BOT storage right now
• Meilisearch . mostly for doing large geo radius searches
• Vikunja . self hosted To-Do app, always looking for ways to replace Asana in the future.
• Leantime . self hosted project management. This is getting close to covering all I need :)
• Bookstack . still my favorite, when it comes to documentation
• Dockge . a Portainer alternative … not really, but provides easy simple stack management :)
• Typebot . easy flexible bot builder, with a bunch of integrations. Did a quick WhatsApp bot last year, not perfect yet but really close. They iterate fast. Botpress would be an alternative, but the community edition lacks updates and regular support.
• Rocket.Chat . has been my goto chat solution for years now, still going strong!
• TimeTagger . time tracker for projects
• N8N . workflow automation, just love it. NodeRed is the solution for me locally ;)

Still doing WordPress ?

Yes I do, either via a standard / multisite installation or headless. Not reinventing the wheel for everything ;) Have done some amazing integrations using just the Rest API layer last year.

Also still enjoying creating multi-lingual websites using WPML.

When it comes to templating, I am doing pure custom layouts using Timber, Gutenberg or Elementor. The client decides what he wants and I deliver ;)

Technology Stack / Programming languages of choice?

• PHP . still my core and favorite language / Python . mostly just for fun
• Javascript / NodeJS / HTMX / hyperscript . for the fun frontend integrations, still not a TypeScript fan ;)
• G/O and Realbasic . for commandline, mobile and desktop
• Pure CSS / SaSS . for all the pure style glory, still no fan of Tailwind
• MariaDB / PostgresSQL / MongoDB / Redis / InfluxDB . and a couple of others ;)
• NGINX all the way

AI Solutions!

Love my local open source stack. Tried paid solutions, but rather not spend money and enjoy the rapid fire of new open source models ;)

• InvokeAI / ComfyUI . Image creation / processing
• LM Studio . text based models

Have a good start into 2024 and enjoy coding.
Alex