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I wanted a simple Nextcloud setup.

It was a Tuesday.

People occasionally ask me what my setup looks like, so here it is: the hardware, the self-hosted services, and the apps I actually open every day.

I run a self-hosted FreshRSS instance to keep my RSS feeds under my own control.

I have been journaling for more than 4 years now, it started at first for me as a form of self therapy after going to actual therapy didn’t work.

Why I Moved to Self-Hosting # Before going the self-hosted route, I hosted my blog on GitHub Pages.

I have tried enough AI tools at this point to know the pattern.

Why systemd-native containers are one of the cleanest ways to run services on Linux.

DNS as a Network Control Plane # Most homelabs treat DNS as a background utility, something that just works and gets forgotten.

The Control Plane You Already Run # For years, we treated containers on single hosts as a runtime problem, something to wrangle rather than orchestrate.

I love self-hosting.

In our hyper-connected world, social media platforms are designed to capture and hold our attention.

Usually on Windows when you want to install something you simply run winget install Neovim.Neovim But since this is a Windows Server another path is going to be taken.

For as long as I remember, I always wanted to have a blog for me where I would be sharing my thoughts, knowledge, and discoverings with the world.

Why am I doing this?

I keep looking at videos every now and then about how other people are using Obsidian, and while their setup looks amazing, I don’t think that it would work for me.

Over the last few months, I was trying Notion as my daily driver for note-taking, and while the ease of use in it was really appealing and how things are fast there sometimes, of course depending on your internet connection speed, there were some stuff th…

in order to practice me working on Golang, I decided to start writing some small scripts that would I would probably be using every once in a while.

I usually do my local development with docker containers and especially docker-compose.