CLI agents like Claude Code make self-hosting dramatically easier and actually fun. This is the first time I would recommend it to normal software-literate people.

Would work well on a Homelab to deploy container-based workloads.

Would work well on a Homelab to deploy container-based workloads.

Replicates a subset of Cloudflare’s workers with just a postgres DB and a container runtime as requirements.

via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490938

compost.party is a repurposed smartphone running on solar power. It’s a web server pieced together from scraps, humming in the attic of an apartment building.

via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44612151

via: https://lobste.rs/s/ubpr2o/migrating_my_nas_from_coreos_flatcar

via: https://lobste.rs/s/ccyux0/building_simple_router_with_openbsd

Curated list of useful software for self-hosting.

Curated list of useful software for self-hosting.

Homelab monitoring

Interesting and detailed write up on finding and exploiting a vulnerability in the OpenWrt firmware upgrade feature.

Great story about debugging a problem with a line-of-sight bridge that would only work when raining.

Tdarr is a conditional based transcoding application for automating media library transcode/remux management. Some common use cases:

• Transcode your videos from h264 to h265, saving 50% in file size
• Remove unwanted audio or subtitle streams in your videos
• Remove messy title metadata
• Rename files based on codec and resolution
• Health check your media files for corruption

How insom hosts Mastodon from his basement

Self-hosted open-source web gallery to browse personal photos and videos featuring tagging, mobile-friendly, and AI powered image discovery

Explains how to setup fetchmail and CUPS in order to automatically print e-mail attachments.