Who Sees Your DNS? DoH, DoT and What Encrypted DNS Actually Hides (2026)
DoT, DoH and DoQ encrypt your DNS queries, but destination IPs, the TLS SNI and your resolver still see plenty. What the...
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Self-Host LiteLLM with Docker: One OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint for Every Model (2026)
We ran LiteLLM v1.93.0 against a local Ollama model in Docker: pinned tags, a 4-line config, token metering, and the wro...
How to Transcribe Speech Offline with whisper.cpp in Docker (2026)
We ran whisper.cpp v1.9.1 in Docker: an amd64-only tag trap, a SIGILL crash, a gcc fp16 build fix — then 7.3 s of speech...
That 30-Second Code: How Authenticator Apps Actually Work (2026)
The six digits in your authenticator app come from two short public standards. We walk the algorithm step by step and un...
Passkeys Explained: What Actually Replaces Your Passwords (2026)
What a passkey is per the WebAuthn spec, NIST's synced vs device-bound line, recovery on Apple, Google and Windows, and...
How to Run Aider With a Local Ollama Model in Docker (2026)
We ran aider v0.86.2 in Docker against a 986 MB local Qwen model. Same prompt twice: one hallucinated diff, one clean au...
Sleep Cycles and the 90-Minute Rule: What the Science Actually Says (2026)
Two NIH institutes give two different sleep-cycle lengths, and neither is a fixed 90 minutes. What the primary sources r...
Qdrant vs Weaviate vs Milvus vs Pinecone: Vector Databases for RAG (2026)
Four vector databases compared for RAG in 2026: licenses, Docker self-host commands, embedded modes, managed pricing fro...
Heart-Rate Zones: What '220 Minus Age' Gets Wrong (2026)
The wall-poster formula for max heart rate has a thin research pedigree. We trace every number to its source and show wh...
BMI, BMR and TDEE: What the Numbers Mean — and Why Asia Uses Different Cut-offs (2026)
What BMI, BMR and TDEE actually measure, the equations behind them, and why Singapore and Malaysia flag risk from BMI 23...
Firecrawl vs Crawl4AI vs Jina Reader vs Browser Use — Getting Web Data Into Your LLM (2026)
Four open-source ways to feed web data to an LLM compared: licenses, self-host parity, pricing bases, robots.txt default...
How to Self-Host AnythingLLM with Docker and Ollama (2026)
We self-hosted AnythingLLM 1.15.0 with Docker and Ollama, embedded a document over the API, and got cited RAG answers fr...
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