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I built my own uptime monitor because nothing out there fit

He could not find an uptime and performance monitor that met his needs, so he built a lightweight one called Blip with help from the AI. He put the code on GitLab and wrote a blog post about it.

How it works

  1. Looks for an uptime and performance monitor and finds nothing that fits
  2. Builds Blip with help from the AI
  3. Posts the code on GitLab and writes a blog post about it

Why it’s worth knowing

Instead of settling for a monitor that did not fit, he had one built to his own list of needs.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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