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An assistant node reaching a search index through a guarded gate — as a glowing low-poly illustration.

Aug 23, 2026Self-HostingNextcloud

When a filter isn't enough

Some matters can't be clicked together — somebody has to read the hits. NextSearch now has an MCP server that lets an assistant do exactly that: search, read, tag, with its user's permissions.

Four stacked window frames offset step by step, the frontmost one glowing brightest — as a glowing low-poly illustration.

Aug 21, 2026Open SourceClaude Code

Claude Chappe

A JetBrains plugin colours each project window by the state of the Claude Code sessions running in it. Green is busy, red wants something from you.

Scattered document nodes whose light paths converge on a single tag — as a glowing low-poly illustration.

Series: NextSearch

Aug 13, 2026Self-HostingNextcloud

What full text doesn't know

A matter rarely lives in one folder. Tags record what no file says — and the API sets them by the hundred instead of one click at a time.

A server tower of glowing low-poly layers with light paths running out to two highlighted container nodes — as a glowing low-poly illustration.

Series: NextSearch

Jul 27, 2026Self-HostingUnraid

NextSearch on Unraid

Two containers for NextSearch; everything else comes from what the Unraid server already runs. One compose stack, and search is up.

A search beam lifting a single match out of a stack of cloud folders — as a glowing low-poly illustration.

Series: NextSearch

Jul 24, 2026Open SourceSelf-Hosting

NextSearch

Full-text search across the contents of your Nextcloud folders — self-hosted, strictly read-only, with OCR for scans. One docker compose up.

Glowing research cards whose light paths converge on the right into a central coach node — evidence becoming a coach, as a glowing low-poly illustration.

Jun 29, 2026AISpec-Driven

An app that doesn't guess

How I build coachframe.ai spec-first: concept before code, an evidence base of real studies, and a deterministic fact layer in front of the LLM. With Laravel, Nuxt and React Native as the output.

An email turning into structured tasks with check marks — as a glowing low-poly illustration.

Jun 12, 2026AIAutomation

Mail In, Task Out

How an internal tool summarizes incoming project mail with Claude, derives tasks and prepares them as Redmine tickets — without anyone having to learn a new tool.

A central routing node distributing light paths to several container nodes and a padlock — as a glowing low-poly illustration.

Mar 30, 2026Open SourceTooling

proxypark

A single Bash script replaces the infrastructure stack for local development — DNS, certificates, routing and Docker integration in one command.