Self-Hosting

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

Wayland screen sharing: XDG portal, PipeWire fix

Fix Wayland screen sharing: configure XDG Desktop Portal backends, verify PipeWire runs, and move apps from X11 capture to portal ScreenCast.

Set up Prometheus, node_exporter, and Grafana to monitor 10+ Linux servers from a single Raspberry Pi 4. Scrape config, PromQL, and dashboards.

Thunderbolt 5 brings 80 Gbps, PCIe Gen 4 tunneling for eGPUs, and triple 4K@144Hz displays over USB-C. Linux kernel 6.12+ gives the smoothest run.

Build a real systems project in Zig: comptime, error unions, defer, and one-command cross-compilation with zig build-exe and a static musl binary.

Deploy a self-healing Ceph cluster across three Linux nodes with cephadm: architecture, hardware planning, OSD provisioning, RBD, and CephFS.

$Tested budget 4K monitors: Dell S2722QC ($330), LG 27UL500-W ($250), ASUS ProArt PA279CRV ($420). All do 150% Wayland fractional scaling.$

Tested budget 4K monitors: Dell S2722QC ($330), LG 27UL500-W ($250), ASUS ProArt PA279CRV ($420). All do 150% Wayland fractional scaling.