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During my move, the microSD card that was driving my LED matrix to show Spotify covers broke. As I'm stupid and had nothing backed up or in source control, I'm now tasked with recreating it from scratch. I'll be using Docker sitting on top of a Ubuntu 22.04 server…
DNS is infuriating to me. It exists in the uncanny valley of technologies where on paper I know a decent amount about it, but in reality I just flounder aimlessly and ultimately end up in an IRC channel somewhere spilling my woes to any (seemingly mystically intelligent) kind soul who…
Unless you're a very particular kind of person, project management and system infrastructure are the last things on your mind when you undertake a new side project or startup. For a side project, the fun is in taking the motivation from having an idea, prototyping an MVP as quickly as…
Photoprism LogoPhotoprism [https://demo.photoprism.org/] is the self-hosted photo/video library that does it all for me. It has labeling of images so you can search by picture content, it has calendar and map features for more natural finding of the pictures you're trying to find and it lets…
I self-host as many services as I practically can. It's liberating on a number of fronts (which I will write about in a future post) while also providing a great way to learn new technologies. As a brief introduction, I host everything from one server using Traefik [https://traefik.io/…