Tag: self-hosting

Ditch Alexa and Google Home. Build a fully local voice assistant with Whisper STT, Piper TTS, and Home Assistant using the Wyoming protocol.

Sandstorm gives every app instance its own capability-gated sandbox. Different threat model than a Compose stack, here's what that actually means.

Llamafile bundles llama.cpp + Cosmopolitan libc into one portable binary that runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and BSD with zero install.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 hits 50 on the independent intelligence index at $0.14/$0.28 per million tokens. Same weights as the preview, redone post-training.

Stream your own gaming PC with Sunshine + Moonlight. Low-latency NVIDIA NVENC, AMD VAAPI, Intel QSV, Tailscale remote play, and no monthly bill.

Replace Perplexity with SearXNG + a local LLM for private, cited web search. Full Perplexica/Morphic deploy walkthrough, Ollama, latency tradeoffs.

NUT (Network UPS Tools) monitors APC, CyberPower, and Eaton UPSes and triggers graceful shutdowns before your home lab eats a corrupt ZFS pool.

Firefox Sync still works self-hosted in 2026, but the setup is more involved than it looks. Here's the real story, plus whether it's actually worth it.

Memos is a lightweight self-hosted microblog and scratchpad. One Compose container, SQLite, Markdown hashtags, and zero Twitter brain rot.

Route specific Docker containers through Mullvad VPN via Gluetun, keeping Plex and everything else on your home WAN. No iptables nightmares, no tunneling drama.

Convoy is a self-hosted webhook gateway with retries, dead-letter queues, HMAC signing, and fan-out. Deploy it with Docker Compose in minutes.

Put Authelia forward auth in front of Vaultwarden without breaking the Bitwarden apps. The correct bypass list, and an honest account of what it protects.