self-hosting

Never met an app I didn't want to deploy.

Emergency Chatmail Relay Migration

["2026-03-15"]

The chat.vim.wtf chatmail relay was impacted by outbound SMTP rate-limiting imposed by the hosting provider, resulting in significant delays in message delivery. Once I realized the issue (and had the free time to do something about it), I migrated the service to another provider which doesn't throttle outbound email delivery. The new server will cost me about an extra dollar per month but should ensure long-term reliability of the service.

Pocket ID: Easy Passkey Authentication

["2026-02-24", "2026-04-01"]

Self-hosting a passkey-based OpenID Connect provider may be easier than you think.

Self-Hosting Mermaid Live Editor on Bunny

["2026-02-14"]

Using a Forgejo Actions workflow to deploy the Mermaid Live Editor web app to Bunny CDN.

Use tsidp for effortless SSO in your Tailnet

["2025-06-01", "2026-02-15"]

Deploying the world's smallest OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider, tsidp, and configuring it for easy single-sign on (SSO) to Proxmox and Portainer.

Self Hosted Chatmail Relay for Delta Chat

["2025-04-12", "2026-03-15"]

I've got a fever and the only prescription is more self-hosting. This time, it's a light-but-seriously-hardened email server optimized for end-to-end encrypted chats.

Forget GitHub, Git Forgejo

["2025-04-05"]

I've moved all of my personal code (and automated workflows) from GitHub to a new self-hosted Forgejo instance.

What's in an Instance Name?

["2025-01-18"]

I deployed and moved to a new GoToSocial instance for a very important reason

Moving GoToSocial from Raspi to VM

["2025-01-05"]

I just moved my GoToSocial instance from a Raspberry Pi 4 to a VM in my homelab.

My Little Swarmy

["2024-12-15"]

After a lot of tinkering over the last week or so, this weekend I migrated most of my on-prem container-based workloads to a new 3-node Docker Swarm cluster.

My Homelab Power Supply Is Uninterruptible Once More

["2024-12-11"]

Great news!

Post mortem on the srsbsns / runtimeterror data center outage

["2024-12-03"]

On December 3, 2024, from 1530 to 1655 CST (1 hour and 25 minutes), multiple homelab services experienced a complete outage due to a UPS failure.

Opening Up Opengist

["2024-11-27"]

Deploying Opengist, a self-hosted open-source Gist-style pastebin.

Going to GoToSocial

["2024-10-20"]

I just learned that you can run an ActivityPub server on a Raspberry Pi so now I'm running an ActivityPub server on a Raspberry Pi.

Publishing (Selected) SilverBullet Notes with Quartz and GitHub Actions

["2024-09-29", "2025-06-16"]

A long note about how I publish short notes from SilverBullet using Quartz, Tailscale, Caddy, and GitHub Actions.

Caddy + Tailscale as an Alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel

["2024-09-22"]

Combining the magic of Caddy and Tailscale to serve web content from my homelab - and declaring independence from Cloudflare in the process.