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PDF operations are one of those recurring pain points that never fully go away. You need to fill a contract template, strip and rewrite document metadata before archiving, generate an invoice from an HTML template, and stamp every page with a branded header. The default answer is a SaaS API subscription that charges per document […]
Generating PDFs on a server is one of those tasks that sounds simple until you actually sit down to do it. HTML-to-PDF rendering drifts between browsers, LibreOffice headless mode is finicky to install, and most SaaS solutions charge per page once you hit volume. Gotenberg solves this cleanly: a single Docker container that bundles headless […]
FFmpeg is the swiss-army knife of media processing, but wiring it into a web application is rarely fun. You either install the binary on every worker, juggle temp directories, sanitise shell arguments, and hope nothing escapes your wrapper – or you reach for a heavy SaaS service and pay per minute of video. Aureum-Cloud/FFmpeg-API takes […]
If you have ever embedded an audio player on a podcast site, a music portfolio, or a media archive, you have probably noticed that pretty rendered waveform behind the playhead. Libraries like Wavesurfer.js and Peaks.js can draw those visuals on the client, but decoding a 60-minute MP3 in the browser is slow, memory-hungry, and unreliable […]
Managing multiple social media accounts is exhausting. Between juggling different platforms, scheduling posts at optimal times, and keeping up with analytics, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. Commercial tools like Buffer and Hootsuite work well but come with hefty subscription fees and feature limitations. Enter Postiz – an open-source, self-hosted social media scheduling platform that puts […]
AI-generated phishing campaigns, snowshoe spam, and compromised accounts blasting garbage have made 2026 a genuinely rough time for inboxes — and every production mail environment needs a solid filtering layer to survive it. In 2026, the best open source options all run in Docker. This guide covers every major open source anti-spam solution with a […]
So, you’ve got containers running on your server, and they’re churning out log files like crazy? Yeah, that’s pretty much every Docker setup ever. If you don’t manage those logs, they’ll eventually eat up all your disk space, and nobody wants that surprise at 2:00. Enter blacklabelops/logrotate – a super handy Docker container that sits […]
YOURLS is a free, open-source set of PHP scripts that lets you run your own URL shortening service. Released under the MIT license, it gives you complete control over your links, detailed analytics, and the freedom to customize everything. The latest version, YOURLS 1.10.2, was released in July 2025 and comes with improvements to the […]
Ever wondered if your website is actually working for your users right now? Like, not just “is the server responding” but “can someone actually log in, click through pages, and do the things they’re supposed to do?” That’s where synthetic monitoring comes in, and it’s pretty neat. What’s Synthetic Monitoring Anyway? Think of synthetic monitoring […]
So you’re running Docker containers and need to schedule some tasks? Let me introduce you to Ofelia – think of it as cron’s cooler, Docker-savvy cousin. Built with Go, it’s lightweight and specifically made for containerized environments. In this guide, we’re going to set up Ofelia using Docker Compose with config files (not labels – […]
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