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Dev.toOctober 20, 20269 min read

Self-Hosted Vercel Alternative: Git Push to HTTPS on a VPS | Levelrail

Self-Hosted Vercel Alternative: Git Push to HTTPS on a VPS Levelrail is an open-source,...

selfhosteddevopswebdevtutorial

Dev.toOctober 20, 20267 min read

Top 5 Self-Hosted Deployment Platforms in 2026: Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover, Dokku and Levelrail

Top 5 Self-Hosted Deployment Platforms in 2026: Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover, Dokku and...

selfhosteddockerdevopsopensource

Dev.toOctober 15, 20265 min read

Simple Icons alternative with full-color brand logos | theSVG

Full-color brand SVGs for React: thesvg.org · Docs · Library comparison · Star on GitHub If you...

reactsvgwebdevtypescript

Dev.toOctober 15, 20266 min read

Best free SVG logo library for developers in 2026

thesvg is a free, open source SVG brand logo library. Browse 7,600+ icons · Compare libraries · Star...

webdevsvgopensourcejavascript

Dev.totheAuth guides · Part 1 of 8October 10, 202619 min read

theAuth: Add Login to an Existing Next.js App

theAuth is open-source auth for AI agents and humans. Star the repo on GitHub · Read the docs · Run...

typescriptwebdevsecuritytutorial

Dev.totheAuth guides · Part 2 of 8October 10, 202618 min read

theAuth Guide: Cap Agent Spend and Require Human Approval

theAuth is open-source auth for AI agents and humans. Star the repo on GitHub · Read the docs · Run...

aisecuritytypescripttutorial

Dev.totheAuth guides · Part 3 of 8October 10, 202618 min read

theAuth Passwordless Login: Passkeys, Magic Links, OTP

theAuth is open-source auth for AI agents and humans. Star the repo on GitHub · Read the docs · Run...

webdevsecurityauthenticationtutorial

Dev.totheAuth guides · Part 4 of 8October 10, 202621 min read

Migrate from Auth0 or Clerk to theAuth, Step by Step

theAuth is open-source auth for AI agents and humans. Star the repo on GitHub · Read the docs · Run...

authenticationmigrationtypescripttutorial

Dev.totheAuth guides · Part 5 of 8October 10, 202617 min read

theAuth for AI Agents: Identity and Scoped Permissions

theAuth is open-source auth for AI agents and humans. Star the repo on GitHub · Read the docs · Run...

aiwebdevprogrammingsecurity

Dev.totheAuth guides · Part 6 of 8October 10, 202616 min read

theAuth Multi-Tenant SaaS Auth: Orgs, RBAC, SSO, SCIM

theAuth is open-source auth for AI agents and humans. Star the repo on GitHub · Read the docs · Run...

saassecuritytypescripttutorial

Dev.totheAuth guides · Part 7 of 8October 10, 202621 min read

Secure an MCP Server for Production with theAuth

theAuth is open-source auth for AI agents and humans. Star the repo on GitHub · Read the docs · Run...

mcpaisecuritytypescript

Dev.totheAuth guides · Part 8 of 8October 10, 202619 min read

theAuth Audit Trails: Compliance Logging for AI Agent Actions

theAuth is open-source auth for AI agents and humans. Star the repo on GitHub · Read the docs · Run...

securityaicompliancewebdev

Dev.toOctober 10, 20265 min read

Leave Vercel for Your Own Server: A Self-Hosted Vercel Alternative Runbook

A self-hosted Vercel alternative for Next.js: an inventory, a concept map, a DNS cutover with a rollback, and the Vercel features a self-hosted platform lacks.

nextjsvercelselfhosteddevops

Dev.toOctober 10, 20266 min read

Let an AI Agent Deploy Safely: A Scoped MCP Server With an Audit Trail

Let an AI Agent Deploy Safely: A Scoped MCP Server With an Audit Trail Handing an AI agent...

aimcpdevopsselfhosted

Dev.toOctober 10, 20266 min read

Switch from Coolify, Dokploy or CapRover Without Touching the Old Server

How to migrate from Coolify, Dokploy or CapRover to Levelrail with a read-only importer, a dry run first and an honest list of what does not move.

selfhosteddockerdevopstutorial

Dev.toOctober 10, 20266 min read

Add Google, GitHub or OIDC Sign-In to Your Self-Hosted Dashboard, and Keep It Safe

Add Google, GitHub or OIDC Sign-In to Your Self-Hosted Dashboard, and Keep It Safe Single...

oauthssoselfhostedsecurity

On this siteOctober 7, 20262 min read

theauth-go: auth for AI agents and humans in Go

theauth-go is the Go library in the theAuth family. Install it, see what it covers, and pick between the Go library and the TypeScript SDK.

On this siteOctober 7, 20262 min read

theAuth joins GLINR Studios

theAuth, the open source auth for AI agents and humans, has joined GLINR Studios. A new site, a Go library, and a hosted platform on the way.

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Dev.toOctober 5, 20267 min read

Coolify, Dokploy and CapRover Alternative: Levelrail Compared Honestly (2026)

Looking for a Coolify, Dokploy or CapRover alternative? How Levelrail differs on architecture, SSO, audit logs and backups, plus where it still falls short.

selfhosteddockerdevopsopensource

Dev.toOctober 4, 20266 min read

Install a Self-Hosted PaaS on a $5 VPS in Five Minutes (Levelrail)

Install a Self-Hosted PaaS on a $5 VPS in Five Minutes (Levelrail) You have a fresh Linux...

selfhosteddockerdevopstutorial

On this siteSeptember 30, 20263 min read

Assay: Claims That Decay With the Code

Our new paper on arXiv binds every claim an AI coding agent makes to the Merkle hash of the code it covers, so the claim goes stale exactly when that code changes.

ResearchAI AgentsStacklitMCP

Dev.totheSVG Icons · Part 1 of 2March 9, 20264 min read

I Got Tired of Hunting for SVG Logos. So I Open-Sourced 4,000 of Them

theSVG hit 4,007 icons with dedicated dark/light variants, React components, an MCP server, and a free API. Here's what changed since launch.

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Dev.totheSVG Icons · Part 2 of 2September 24, 20265 min read

Free AWS, Azure and GCP architecture icons as SVG

I queried the registry and counted. Amazon publishes 739 architecture icons, Microsoft 626, and...

awsazuredevopsopensource

On this siteSeptember 21, 20262 min read

Introducing Levelrail

Levelrail is a self-hosted deployment platform: push to git, get a running app with TLS, logs, metrics, and rollback.

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