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Henrique DiasNov 3, 2026

Over the years, I've considered self-hosting a Git service multiple times. At the moment, virtually all of my code lives on GitHub, both private and public repositories. However, I never ended up doing it, and always because of some half-arsed excuse. But maybe I'm closer to doing it now.

gitat protocol

Pablo MuradNov 3, 2026

The file server I didn't know I needed: copyparty

Every now and then a piece of software solves the problem I installed it for and then keeps showing me other problems it can solve. copyparty is one of those. I've been using it and I'm loving it. The pitch sounds almost too simple: run a program, point it at a folder, open a browser, and there are your files. That's only the entrance, though. Behind that browser window there's a very capable file server with resumable uploads, a searchable index, duplicate detection, user accounts, per-folder permissions,

self-hostingopen-source

Bryan AnthonioNov 3, 2026

Black October Made Me Switch From Ubuntu to Debian

Debian patched a critical kernel CVE in a day but Ubuntu still hasn't.

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Pablo MuradNov 2, 2026

Newt and OpenBSD

The plan was simple: spin up an OpenBSD VM on Proxmox to host a small static site generated with an SSG. No Docker and no panel full of abstractions in the middle, only httpd serving static files, the way OpenBSD likes it. On the public side I already had something running on a VPS: Pangolin, Traefik and Gerbil. Their job is to take traffic from the internet and send it to services inside my network, and inside the Pangolin world, the natural connector for that is Newt. In this post I'll call the OpenBSD VM

openbsdself-hosting

Ewan's Project DocumentationNov 2, 2026

MetalBear

An AT Protocol Personal Data Server written in C23 and built on Wolfram, with multi-account hosting, OAuth, moderation, federation, and a SvelteKit frontend.

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Pablo MuradNov 1, 2026

Getting started with Kitten, a kit for the Small Web

Kitten turns a folder of HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a website or web app, with HTTPS, a built-in database and peer-to-peer features for the Small Web. What it is, who it’s for, and how to go from install to a live app.

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brennan.dayNov 1, 2026

I Am Relentless and Undaunted

AO3 went dark after a security breach, and fanfiction.lol doubled overnight. On the blur of breaches and Sam Altman calling it 'terrible' that people have RAM in their PCs. On the end of affordable hardware and DDR4 prices quintupling, 2026 hard drive production sold out to hyperscalers, and what we surrender when we're compelled to rent and lease and borrow. On Repair Cafés, Buy Nothing groups, Snowflake proxies, ArchiveTeam Warriors, and two junk-bin computers joining the server farm.

personal essaySocial Commentary

Pablo MuradOct 31, 2026

Build your own tilde, part II: limits, backups and real people

Part II of building your own tilde: a safe script to create accounts, disk quotas, per-user memory and process limits with systemd, encrypted restic backups you actually restore, monitoring, suspending without deleting and a private preview.

tildepubnix

Pablo MuradOct 31, 2026

Build your own tilde, part I: from an empty server to ~you

A step-by-step guide to building your own tilde, a shared Unix server with ~user web pages. Part I goes from an empty Debian VPS to SSH with keys only, a firewall, /etc/skel, Apache userdir with HTTPS and two test members.

tildepubnix

Pablo MuradOct 31, 2026

murad.wtf: a night sky made of my servers

murad.wtf is a status page with no charts: it draws a night sky in plain text where stars are page visits, comets are my posts and an eclipse means a service is down. How it works, where to see it and why it knows nothing about you.

murad-wtfsmall-web

Pablo MuradOct 30, 2026

Why we brought runv.club back

runv.club almost died after a year and a half online. Instead, we rebuilt it from scratch: a small public Unix server from Brazil with web pages, Gemini, Gopher, a blog, IRC and more, no ads or trackers. Signups open soon, five people a week.

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Pablo MuradOct 28, 2026

Backups you can trust: the 3-2-1 rule with restic and rclone

A quick note before we start: if you've been around here for a while, you know how I work. I disappear for months, and when I come back, I write compulsively. Well, to be honest, I mostly post the texts I had already left prepared. So if your feed suddenly fills up with my posts, that's what's going on. A few days ago I wrote about keeping KeePassXC as a backup for 1Password. Before that, I wrote about rclone, my favorite way to talk to almost any cloud from the terminal. This post is where the two ideas

backupsrestic

Pablo MuradOct 27, 2026

Twenty-nine years of things nobody asked for

The first program I ever wrote had one button. You clicked it and the whole window changed color. That was the entire feature list. I made it in Delphi, from a book I bought at Avalon, the old bookstore in my town, after a long fight with my mom. It was a very didactic book. That was 1997, and I have been writing code ever since. If you squint, most of it is still that button, only bigger and with a database behind it. By the end of the nineties I was living on IRC, holding ops in channels and working as

projectsretro

Pablo MuradOct 26, 2026

Neat Finds #02: Small Webs, Old Protocols and Other Oddities

Issue two of Neat Finds: twenty open source projects with an old soul. A search engine for the weird web, IRC servers and bouncers, BBS art on the web, feed aggregators, the code that ran Slashdot, a SimCity 2000 remake and a bird that lives in your browser.

neat-findsopen-source

Pablo MuradOct 25, 2026

Two ravens and a skull

Meet three small projects for a stranger web: theraven.email delivers contact forms to your inbox, theraven.my lets anyone publish by email, and Skull Bomb misleads AI crawlers and scanners that ignore the rules.

projectsindieweb

Michael’s JournalOct 24, 2026

The Day Caddy Stood Still

A couple of weeks ago, I went to update my VPS. Usually, I do this once a week, sometimes more frequently depending on any security news I see. I should probably have the AI agents I use do this, but I do it myself for now. I find...

caddyself-hosting

Pablo MuradOct 21, 2026

How I built 1208.sh, a Keybase-style identity page with Bitcoin as the notary

If you were online around 2016, you probably remember Keybase. You linked your Twitter, your GitHub and your website to one cryptographic key, and anyone could check that all those accounts belonged to the same person. Keybase made the idea popular, and other projects kept it alive: Keyoxide does it with plain OpenPGP, and Adam Newbold built proven.lol around the same concept. This one started at work. I wanted something like proven.lol for my company: a page where clients could confirm that a domain, a

projectssecurity

Pablo MuradOct 16, 2026

Goodbye Ghost...

It wasn’t long ago that I decided to leave Ghost CMS, after receiving a polite email asking me not to use the Ghost name or anything derived from it. It all stemmed from a GitHub page where, throughout 2024 and 2025, I’d collected various resources for Ghost. It was a nice little project. It kept itself updated, hunting things down, testing code, and so on. All automated. But the fun came to an end, and the whole thing stayed on my mind. In July, I decided to leave Ghost. I knew what I was getting into:

bloggingghost

Pablo MuradOct 10, 2026

Ghostbusted

A year ago the Ghost team asked me to take down Ghostbuster. Last week I finally moved this blog off Ghost and onto Statamic, keeping the posts, the feeds and pico, which still thinks it’s talking to Ghost.

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brennan.dayOct 8, 2026

Wintering: On Hiatus, Bill C-22, and Why I Don't Block People

Why I'm putting folk.zone's social services on hiatus? 500 spam users, my embarrassing WriteFreely database blunder, and the legal weight of self-hosting in a Canada without Section 230. On Bill C-22 and Psiphon's planned exodus, slowing down to a wintering and a beginner's mind, sharpening the axe in public on Cosmic Voyage, and why I reach out instead of blocking.

personal essaySocial Commentary

Guillaume MichelOct 6, 2026

Turning a Photo Frame into a Local Light Switch

A locked-down Android photo frame turned into a local-first light switch and family photo frame, with FreeKiosk, Immich Kiosk and Home Assistant.

home-assistantimmich

Michael’s JournalOct 4, 2026

Weather Stations Everywhere!

Back in August, I got a Tempest Weather Station. I had been wanting a weather station for some time. Why? Well, that is hard to put into words. I guess the answer is that I really like technology, I am fascinated with self-hosting as much...

communityself-hosting

Bryan AnthonioOct 4, 2026

Building a Better NAS for My Homelab

How I replaced my old home server with a compact, power-efficient NAS to handle my future storage needs.

homelabself-hosting

woza.inkSep 30, 2026

The *arr Stack: How Self-Hosted Media Automation Actually Works

Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Seerr and friends: what each piece does, how they talk to each other, why hardlinks matter, and where the whole thing breaks.

self-hostingopen-source