Self-Hosting

How to run your own servers, Docker stacks, and self-hosted services without losing weekends to config files.

Three Btrfs jobs that keep your data from rotting away

Schedule Btrfs maintenance: monthly scrubs detect silent corruption, filtered balance prevents ENOSPC, and snapshot retention enables cheap rollbacks.

Crowd of glowing smartphones passing a sealed envelope across seven hops at night while an antenna array records each phone's fixed ID tag

Chat with no internet, but bitchat still knows your phone

bitchat runs a Bluetooth mesh chat up to 7 hops with no accounts and no servers, but a persistent per device ID stays visible to any nearby radio.

bcachefs left the kernel, is it still worth switching?

A practical 2026 comparison of bcachefs, Btrfs, and ZFS for homelab deployments, with a tiered SSD/HDD setup walkthrough and a recommendation matrix.

systemd-sysupdate can replace your package manager

systemd-sysupdate: block-level A/B image updater with cryptographic verification, automatic rollback, and atomic reboot for unattended fleets.

Glowing wireframe globe on a home study desk with news feed filaments streaming in, wired to a small local server tower

Watch 500 news feeds on your own PC with World Monitor

World Monitor puts 500 news feeds on a 3D globe you self host on your own PC. It runs on local Ollama with no API keys, and has an MCP server for agents.

Humans and robot agents seated together along a glowing chat channel, each stamping a unique key seal into a linked event chain

Buzz is a team chat you host and your AI agents work in it

Buzz team chat is Block's self hosted Slack alternative where AI agents join channels with their own keys. Nostr relay, Rust crates, full audit trail.