Run your own tailnet with Headscale and skip Tailscale’s cloud
I did not get the Tailscale pitch until I installed it. The client goes on a device, you log in once, and the rest of the tailnet shows up like it was…
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Five self-hosting stories worth following this week
A useful self-hosting roundup should do more than list releases. It should tell me which change deserves an evening, which one deserves caution, and which one can wait until somebody else finds…
Edit photos on your NAS and keep them off someone else’s server
I have a simple rule about photo editing tools. If the app needs an internet connection to remove a background or resize an image, I am already suspicious. My photos are my…
A self-hosted personal wiki that does not need babysitting
I have tried a lot of wiki software over the years. Most of it feels like I am adopting a pet that needs constant feeding. Node.js updates, Redis configuration, database migrations, and…
Move your team wiki off Notion, onto a Synology you own
I have watched too many teams pay monthly subscription fees for tools that lock their documentation behind someone else’s servers. Notion is the canonical example: a polished, fast editor that is great…
I ditched Alexa for a bedside briefing box, fully offline
I have been trying to replace my Alexa morning briefing for two years. The Alexa one was fine for weather and the BBC, but the headline mix was wrong. Too many stories…
Run SuperGrok inside Hermes without an xAPI key
I have been paying for SuperGrok for eight months. I also use Hermes Agent (an open-source AI agent runtime that you can self-host or run on your laptop) for most of my…
Three containers that took my homelab from hobby to legit
I run a homelab with a Proxmox cluster (a setup where Proxmox, an open-source virtualization platform, lets one physical machine run many virtual machines and containers as if they were separate servers),…
Bitwarden self-host lands on AWS and Azure Marketplaces
Bitwarden is now listed in the AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace, which means a working Bitwarden self-host server is about fifteen minutes away from a single marketplace listing click. The deployment is…
Pick a Linux backup tool in 2026 without burning another weekend
I have spent the better part of a decade running backup strategies for production servers and personal workstations. If there is one thing I have learned the hard way, it is this:…