Some applications run better with a hosting provider than on your own server. Especially when it comes to speed and availability, you’re usually better off in the cloud than behind a home internet connection. If you’re looking for an affordable provider for open-source software, you should check out “PikaPods”. My FreshRSS instance is still hosted on fly.io. If they cut my free tier, I’ll probably move to PikaPods or Uberspace. ...
Pinkary is an interesting alternative to Linktree — a kind of mini‑Twitter. This open-source solution is built with PHP and JavaScript. The source code and an active community can be found at GitHub. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.
If you don’t have your own web presence and need a place to quickly jot something down and share it, it’s worth taking a look at the tool »itty.bitty«. It lets you easily write up text and share it with others. If needed, the page can also be password‑protected, and you can set additional metadata. A very useful service. What’s technically interesting is that the entire content is contained in the URL. ...
Jess Weatherbed writes in “Google’s shortened links will stop working next year” for theverge.com If you ever used Google’s URL shortening service goo.gl before it was shut down in 2019, be warned — those links will stop working on August 25th, 2025 It’s well known that Google occasionally discontinues services that were fairly popular. This time it’s the URL shortener goo.gl, which was widely used. With its disappearance, another part of the internet will become inaccessible. Thanks, Google. ...
The Raspberry Pi developers will soon offer a free web-based remote desktop feature. Gordon Hollingworth writes in »Raspberry Pi Connect« for raspberrypi.com Our intention is that Raspberry Pi Connect will remain free (as in beer) for individual users with non-relayed connections, with no limit on the number of devices. We don’t yet know how many people will need to relay their traffic through our TURN servers; we’ll keep an eye on the use of bandwidth and decide how to treat these connections in future. ...