SumGuy's Ramblings

Nominatim is great until your users typo.

Three self-hosted geocoders, very different tradeoffs.

Imported OSM data goes stale fast.

Stop watching osm2pgsql crawl.

Don't download 88GB of planet.osm if you only need one country.

Stop paying the geocoding tax.

Three TUI wrappers that turn your terminal into a power tool.

direnv + asdf vs mise: language versioning and per-project environment management.

Task runners showdown: Make vs Just for home projects.

Helix vs Neovim: selection-first simplicity or plugin-powered customization?

Stop fighting Docker just to keep Python versions consistent.

Use devcontainers with any editor: DevPod CLI, neovim, tmux.

Aider offers interactive CLI-based pair programming with git awareness.

Stoat runs 16 containers and Fluxer runs 25.

An AI coding agent rebuilding the same tag all day fills a disk fast.

IDE-integrated AI coding with local LLMs.

Compare dotfile managers: chezmoi templating, GNU Stow symlinks, bare git repos.

A Neovim config you can read in one sitting. lazy.nvim, vim.lsp.config on Neovim 0.12, the defaults worth keeping, and the keymaps that quietly break LSP.

SimpleLogin vs addy.io compared on verified September 2026 pricing, free-tier limits, and what self-hosting each one actually costs you in moving parts.

Discord's age checks sent people looking for exits.

Run a Tor v3 onion service for your self-hosted apps.

Anubis puts a proof-of-work gate in front of your site.

GrapheneOS hardens Android on Pixels.

Brave, LibreWolf, and Mullvad Browser compared on fingerprinting, telemetry, and sync, plus the extension stack and about:config tweaks that matter.

Plausible and Umami both have funnels now.

Combine image scanning and runtime detection in k3s with Falco and Trivy Operator.

Auto-update Kubernetes images and Helm charts with Renovate: the built-in Helm managers, custom regex managers, cron scheduling, and PR grouping rules.

Pull secrets out of git with External Secrets Operator and Vault on k3s: real server mode, Kubernetes auth that actually works, rotation and audit trails.

A k3s cluster on Raspberry Pi 5 is real Kubernetes with real limits.

Skip Helm for home lab Kubernetes.

Migrate from Docker Compose to Helm without throwing away your Compose setup.

Traefik, ingress-nginx, or HAProxy on k3s?

etcd snapshots and Velero on k3s: the native S3 upload flags, the local-path hostPath trap that silently skips your PV data, and a restore drill that works.

Give your bare-metal Kubernetes cluster load-balanced services with MetalLB.

Battle of the distributed storage drivers: Longhorn's simplicity vs OpenEBS's flexibility for your 3-node k3s cluster.

Install ArgoCD on k3s, manage apps declaratively from Git.

Master Helm templating sanity.

Build a three node Kubernetes cluster on mini PCs with k3s: static IPs, firewall ports, local-path storage, and a first deployment that actually answers.

Compare DBeaver, pgAdmin, and DataGrip for PostgreSQL and MySQL management.

The SSPL only bites if you offer MongoDB itself as a service.

Why PgBouncer matters for home lab Postgres, connection pooling modes explained, config examples, and when prepared statements break.

Time-series database showdown.

Compare Litestream's continuous backup with rqlite's Raft replication for distributed SQLite.

Self-host map tiles with PostGIS.

Run embeddings on Postgres with pgvector.

Postgres replication at home: when you need read replicas, streaming vs logical replication explained, slot management, conflict handling.

Compare Liquibase, Flyway, and Atlas for schema migrations.

Fork futures: MariaDB's agile innovation vs MySQL's Oracle stewardship.

What is an AI harness?

Why SQLite is the secret weapon for self-hosted apps.