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- Hello, Oriz The first post on blog.oriz.in — what Oriz is, why it exists, and what to expect from this blog. 2 min read
- The Best Platforms to Track Movies, TV Shows, Anime, and Manga in 2026 An honest, research-backed comparison of every serious tracker — Letterboxd, Serializd, Trakt, Simkl, MyAnimeList, AniList, Kitsu, MangaUpdates, Mihon, Ryot, Yamtrack — and which one (or which combination) actually fits how you watch and read. 17 min read
- Build Your Digital Twin in 2026: A Public Lifestream That Tracks Everything You Consume The fourth and final post in the trackers series — flip the architecture from private extension to a public digital twin website. Many extensions feeding one database, periodic exports from Google Takeout / Apple Health / YouTube history, real-time webhooks from Strava and Last.fm, displayed beautifully on web and mobile PWA. Free hosting, free database, your data, your face on the internet. 18 min read
- Track Everything for Free with No Ads and No Self-Hosting in 2026 A strict, research-backed shortlist of media trackers that are completely free, show no ads, and are fully managed in the cloud — no Docker, no servers, no paywalls. Plus the four-app combo that covers movies, TV, anime, manga, games, and books together. 12 min read
- Track Everything via APIs in 2026: A Free, No-Self-Hosting Browser-Extension Stack The honest 2026 map of free public WRITE APIs for every media type — movies, TV, anime, manga, books, audiobooks, podcasts, music, games, visual novels, fitness, and YouTube — so you can build one browser extension that scrobbles everything. Plus why Open Library is the right books pick, why Letterboxd was cut, and where the real coverage gaps are. 18 min read
- OneDrive vs Local Drive for Git Repos: The Definitive Answer (With 3 TB OneDrive and 150 GB Local) Should you clone your GitHub repositories into OneDrive or keep them on your local drive? If you have 150 GB local storage but 3 TB on OneDrive, the answer is not obvious — until you understand what OneDrive does to a Git repository. This post covers corruption risks, performance costs, the Dev Drive solution, and the exact workflow to use in 2026. 21 min read
- Part 6: The Exhaustive PKM Book Taxonomy — 33 Categories, 100+ Subcategories, and 300+ Sub-subcategories An exhaustive, three-level hierarchical taxonomy for book organization in personal knowledge management systems. Places learning how to learn first, merges philosophy and religion, and leaves no node of human knowledge unmapped. 18 min read
- envpact — The Complete Engineering Specification for a Centralized, Serverless Secrets Manager for Solo Developers A comprehensive engineering specification and vision document for envpact: a $0, serverless, Git-backed secrets management ecosystem with a Node.js CLI, Python module, MCP server, VS Code extension, GitHub Action, and web dashboard — all designed for solo developers managing 100+ public repositories. 29 min read
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