Hands-on guides, protocol deep dives, and field notes on tunnels, SSH, reverse proxies, self-hosting, self-hosted LLMs, and AI - from the people building Pinggy.
Set up an OpenAI dot as a proactive chief of staff: connect Gmail, Calendar and Codex, hand it a whole to-do list on one call, write custom rules, and cut the noise. Plans, limits and regions as of October 2026.
My pick for best overall AI image-to-video generator is FLUX 3 Max on fal: #1-tier 1,139 Elo, ~22x faster than Seedance 2.5. Plus picks for speed and budget.
SocketXP's $20 and $99 plans only allow SSH from its browser terminal. Five SocketXP alternatives for SSH into Raspberry Pis and IoT devices behind NAT: Pinggy, Tailscale, RemoteIoT, qbee.io and Cloudflare Tunnel, with October 2026 pricing.
Run Claude Code or Codex on a cloud VM or a home devbox and drive it from your phone or laptop: Claude Code Remote Control, Codex remote control and SSH hosts, SSH with tmux, and a Pinggy TCP tunnel for machines behind NAT.
Compare 10 AI documentation tools for READMEs, API docs and tutorials, with pricing, limitations and a workflow that keeps developer docs accurate.
Jev, Liquid d1-ultra, pplx-decider, Microsoft-Decision-1, OpenAI Decisions, Cloudflare Clef and Strands Decider 2B compared on price, inputs and three independent leaderboards, with one run locally on an M3 Pro.
Profound dropped its $99 and $399 plans in September 2026. Lumirank, Promptwatch, Peec AI, Otterly.AI and Scrunch compared on price, engines, how they collect AI answers, and crawler logs.
Design characters from musical instruments: read personality from shape and sound, choose how far to anthropomorphize, map tone to visual style, then generate and refine the character in Dreamina with Seedream 5.0 Pro.
Connect IoT devices to remote monitoring securely: size the link first, use unique credentials and mutual TLS, reach devices over a VPN or an outbound-only tunnel instead of open ports, segment the network, and keep monitoring and patching.
The best open-weight speech-to-text models you can self-host in October 2026, ranked on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard: Qwen3-ASR, Cohere Transcribe, Granite Speech, Parakeet, Voxtral, Whisper and more, with licenses, speed and serving.
