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October 16, 2026

Botmonster Tech Weekly - October 16, 2026

Coding

FluentCleaner reads the old CCleaner rules and is faster

Rusted abandoned machine feeding a long punched rule tape into a small fast modern reader while an engineer inspects it

Open source CCleaner alternative FluentCleaner reads the community winapp2.ini rule file, and it ships without ads, scareware, or fake registry fixes.

Self-hosting

Vaultwarden runs Bitwarden on a box you already own

A miniature bank vault door bolted onto a small circuit board, with cables running to a laptop, phone, browser, and terminal

Self-hosted Bitwarden server Vaultwarden reimplements the client API, runs on a Raspberry Pi, and works with the official Bitwarden apps unchanged.

LocalSend moves files between phones with no internet

An Android phone and a laptop connected by a direct amber beam carrying files, with a cloud and server rack crossed out above them

AirDrop alternative LocalSend sends files between phones and computers over your own network, with HTTPS encryption and no server in the middle.

Coolify gives you Vercel on servers you already own

Glowing control console lifted away from a field of lit shipping containers that keep running on circuit-board foundations

Self-hosted PaaS Coolify deploys apps, databases, and 280 one-click services to your own servers over SSH, and leaves the config behind if you quit.

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