Well Hello There
Hello World
So I recently decided to blog again. Knowing me I may do this for a bit then fall off for a while, but wanted to give it a shot!
I've recently been playing around a bunch both with homelab projects & some side coding projects that I thought would be worth occasionally blogging about how things are going. May help me retain anything interesting. Maybe others will be curious, we'll see.
This is currently a self-hosted blog using Zola on my homelab k3s cluster. A home cluster is totally overkill but I really enjoyed setting it up & like the idea that it can shuffle things around if a node goes down, not that I have anything setup for high availability yet, but it will at least recover after a few.
Self Hosting Obsession
I've been on a self-hosted kick in general lately, so thought I'd share some favorite services I got running so far:
- LinkWarden - A really nice bookmarking app with shared collections, url snapshotting and more.
- Audiobookshelf - A fantastic audiobook server with many great mobile apps that can talk to it. I love Prologue on my iPhone the most so far.
- Pocket ID - A OIDC authentication provider that only deals in Passkeys to keep things easy & secure.
- Forgejo - A really nice self hostable git forge, been really liking it so far.
I also subscribe to selfh.st newsletter so I'm always looking forward to that & seeing what interesting new self hostable services are out there, or promising updates to ones I use. Great newsletter if you're also interested in self hosting.
Projects
I also have some projects I periodically work on when the ADHD isn't making me hyperfocus on something else. These are a few recent ones though I have more, not counting the homelab which is a constant project 😅.
- FuzzyCatalog - Attempt at book cataloging, specially support for physical books with barcode scanning.
- BookDownloader - An app to help download or automatically download ebooks & audiobooks to my NAS from Audible/Kobo/LibroFM.
- The Lodge - Nostalgia fueled attempt at making something like The Palace chat software, though maybe not limited to only graphical chat. No AI coding involved in this as well.
That's probably plenty of an intro for now, I may setup indieweb powered support on this blog in the future but meanwhile can always say hi on Mastodon.