Finally Self-Hosting My RSS Reader
After years of half-hearted attempts, I finally self-hosted FreshRSS on my Synology, ditched Inoreader, and discovered a third of my old feeds were dead anyway.
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Finally Ditching Google Photos for Immich
How I finally migrated 41,000 family photos off Google Photos onto a self-hosted Immich server, including the metadata mistake that cost me a full re-import.
Deploying With Nothing But Git Push (Finally)
A weekend spent rebuilding my side project's deploy setup around plain git push, why the bare-repo trick still works, and where it fell apart.
Finally Automated the Backups (Only Took Fourteen Years)
After a near-miss deleting my only backup folder by hand, I finally set up real automated backups for this blog — restic, nightly cron, and a weekly restore test.
The Status Page I Built Instead of Paying For One
I got tired of paying for uptime monitoring SaaS, so I built a stupidly simple one myself with a cron job, curl, and one plain HTML file.
Quitting the Doomscroll: FreshRSS Instead of Twitter
How I set up FreshRSS on a home server to replace my Twitter doomscrolling habit, with the docker-compose config and the one trick that actually made it stick.
Getting a Local Coding Assistant Working for the Train
A practical writeup on setting up a local AI coding assistant with Ollama and Continue for VS Code, why it beats dead train wifi, and where it still falls short of cloud models.
Finally Automating My Backups With Restic and B2
How I finally set up automated, encrypted, off-site backups for my home server using restic and Backblaze B2, after a scary drive noise pushed me to stop procrastinating.
Ditching iCloud Sync for Obsidian and Syncthing
I moved my Obsidian vault off iCloud sync and onto Syncthing instead, running between my own devices with no cloud company in the middle. Setup notes, a router mess I had to untangle, and why I'd still hesitate to recommend it to everyone.
Fixing My Embarrassing Backup Situation
After years of half-assed manual backups, I finally set up automated, encrypted, off-site backups for this blog using restic and a cron job. Here's exactly how.
Switching My Homelab From Cloudflare Tunnel to Tailscale Funnel
Swapping Cloudflare Tunnel for Tailscale Funnel on my homelab after one too many dashboard-induced 11pm outages, with the actual commands and the gotchas nobody mentions.
Fixing My RSS Reader Problem for the Third Time in a Decade
After years of bouncing between dead RSS services and half-abandoned apps, I finally self-hosted Miniflux on a $6 VPS. Here's the setup, the gotchas, and why it stuck this time.