notabene
Review Markdown docs by commenting on the rendered page, then have an AI agent apply each note to the source and journal it, with git diffs to approve. No SaaS.
READ →Papyrus: tech watch, open-source tools and self-hostable gems
Digital Partner
Strategy • Organization • Execution
Papyrus is Z29K's tech watch on open-source tools: a directory of projects, most of them self-hostable, and long-form articles on building software with AI agents and on leading a team.
// RECENT LOGS
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BetterWispr
Dictate into any Mac app without your voice leaving the machine: Whisper, Parakeet or Apple's speech recognition transcribe locally, meetings included.
Dagu
Add schedules, retries and run history to existing scripts without running Airflow: YAML DAGs, a single Go binary, and no database or message broker to operate.
Diagram Design
Get your coding agent to draw diagrams in your brand's colors: one self-contained HTML and SVG file, 45 diagram types, and redraws of draw.io or Mermaid files.
OpenTRAP
Intercept, replay and audit web app traffic without a Burp licence: Repeater, Intruder and Collaborator on top of the OWASP ZAP scan engine, under the AGPL-3.0.
VoiceStudio
Clone a voice, dub a video or make an audiobook on your own machine: local speech synthesis, dictation and transcription, an open-source ElevenLabs alternative.
Cachety
Watermark ID copies and payslips without uploading them: PDFs and photos are processed in the browser, with real redaction, traceable copies and AES-256 PDFs.
BunkerWeb
Protect web apps behind an NGINX reverse proxy that enables ModSecurity, the OWASP Core Rule Set and automatic bans by default. AGPL core, SSO in the paid tier.
CISO Assistant
One control, many standards: a self-hosted GRC platform that assesses risk and compliance against 220+ frameworks, including ISO 27001, NIS2, SOC 2 and DORA.
Apache Guacamole
Remote desktop in a browser tab, with no client or agent: a self-hosted gateway to RDP, VNC and SSH servers, with SSO, MFA and session recording built in.
Mattermost
Slack-style team chat you host yourself, written in Go on PostgreSQL. What its two free editions keep, what the paid plans hold back, and how it is licensed.