Codex, fix my home server. I want to watch a film.
Using Codex from my MacBook to repair storage imports, update a server endpoint and bring an SSD into Plex, with checked results and real limits.
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My desktop became a Proxmox home server
How an unused desktop became a Proxmox server, what broke during the move, and why two MacBooks now cover my everyday computing.
Free compute in September 2026: changed limits and corrections
September 2026 free-tier changes: Deno cuts, D1 hard limits, agent sandboxes and corrections to Freestyle, Browserless, Firebase and Axiom.
From Raspberry Pi to OpenMediaVault: a home server I actually use
How Raspberry Pi experiments became a useful home server, and why learning when not to self-host mattered as much as Docker and DNS.
Free compute in August 2026: GPU notebooks and agent tools
August 2026 free VPS, databases, GPU notebooks and agent sandboxes, with a dated catalogue of quotas and links to later corrections.
Free compute in July 2026: VPS limits, sandboxes and AI
July 2026 free-tier changes: Oracle VM limits, Deno migration, agent sandboxes and GPU options, with trials separated from recurring allowances.
Free compute for side projects: June 2026 free-tier guide
A June 2026 snapshot of free VPS hosting, databases, serverless platforms and AI compute, including the limits behind the offers.
A refurbished office chair stock tracker that saved me over £100
A self-hosted stock tracker watched 85 refurbished chair listings and searches, filtered noisy results, and helped me save over £100 on a Haworth Fern.