January 14, 2025
#Selfhosting
January 13, 2025
The Ultimate Guide to Setting Up Traefik
Master the art of deploying Traefik in your environment. This comprehensive guide covers everything from installation to advanced configuration for seamless traffic management in your homelab.
I’m a Caddy guy, but leaving this here for future reference. Maybe I’ll encounter a situation that I may need to deploy Traefik instead in the future.
January 12, 2025
ActualPy
Python API implementation for Actual server.
Actual Budget is a superfast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances.
Now that I’m learning python, and actually utilizing to deploy posts here, I think I should start learning this as well to get my data from Actual server and try to analyze them.
Make sure to read ActualPy documentation.
Monetr budgeting application
Monetr is a budgeting application that aims to make it easier for people to budget around recurring expenses. While making it absolutely clear how much you have left over to budget or use for other unplanned spending. It is based off of the now defunct Simple. It is also completely free to self-host.
I’m not sure if this is a direct competitor to Actual Budget, but looking at the sample compose file, you need to run 3 Docker images for this app, vs. Actual’s 1 only. So, I choose Actual.
Using Beszel to monitor Windows
Beszel is a new, lightweight monitoring app that natively supports Mac and Linux. I’ll cover how to set it up natively in Windows or WSL2 in today’s post.
This is one app I really wanted to get up and running to monitor my systems. Unfortunately, my first attempt didn’t go as planned.
January 11, 2025
Sink URL Shortener
A simple, speedy, and secure link shortener with analytics, 100% run on Cloudflare.
About 2 years ago, I’ve been looking for a good self-hosted URL shortener/Bitly alternative. YOURLS was the only one around. Nowadays, we’ll never run out of alternatives.
This one looks sleek though, and can be run on Cloudflare.
CaddyGen - Caddy Config Generator
CaddyGen is a user-friendly web interface for generating Caddy server configurations. Easily create and manage reverse proxy and file server configurations with support for SSL, compression, security headers, and more.
This is a Caddy config generator based on presets. No, the UI is not about managing your various Caddy configurations.
January 10, 2025
Pixelfed Auto Installer
This script is designed to automate the initial deployment of Pixelfed and its related components using Docker and bash scripting.
This is a free-to-use Bash script that allows you to easily install Pixelfed and enhance its security with a single command. You can utilize this script on a blank server or an existing server, making it suitable for both new and experienced Pixelfed server owners.
Not as seamless as a simple
compose.yml, but I hope you can get one going in an instant.
January 9, 2025
How to create a Hugo theme from scratch
Watch this 8 hour long stream of HugoConf in September 2023. Below are the timestamps:
- 1:30:25 Welcome to HugoConf 2023! - Mike Neumegen
- 1:40:42 Learn how to contribute effectively to the Hugo project (without code) (Interview) - Joe Mooring
- 2:11:03 Automated migration at cale: Migrate to Hugo from any existing site (Lightning Talk) - George Phillips
- 2:26:20 Hugobricks — stackable content blocks for Hugo (Lightning Talk) - Joost van der Schee
- 2:36:03 Manage your Hugo website with external content and assets (Lightning Talk) - Elio Struyf
- 2:44:54 How to create a Hugo theme from scratch (Workshop) - Berkay Çubuk
- 3:19:27 (Intermission?) Chat: Food Question: Sunday Brunch
- 3:29:21 Portfolio Power-Up: Elevate Your Technical Brand with Hugo (Workshop) - Liz Miller
- 4:24:30 (Intermission?) Chat: Culture
- 4:29:54 Improving Access to 4M U.S. Laws with Hugo (Tech Talk) - John Phamvan
- 4:54:21 Enhancing Website Search: A Practical Journey with PaperCut, Algolia, & Hugo (Lightning Talk) - Grayson Campbell and Alysha Nolan
- 5:08:38 From blog to small business with Hugo (Lightning Talk) - Kendra Little
- 5:22:21 Static Search on Hugo — The Journey to Pagefind v1.0 (Tech Talk) - Liam Bigelow
- 5:55:06 Using Markdown render hooks with Hugo (Lightning Talk) - Christian Oliff
- 6:09:17 How to Turn a Hugo Website into a PWA for better user engagement (Tech Talk) - Vishakha Sawra
- 6:39:40 Use of The Good Docs Project content Templates as Archetypes in Hugo (Lightning Talk) - Bryan Klein
- 6:54:22 Introducing HUGE, a Hugo framework (Tech Talk) - Régis Philibert
- 7:22:38 Chat
- 7:24:50 Collaborative Web Building: PaperCut’s Experience with Hugo, CloudCannon, and Bookshop (Lightning Talk) - Rachel Uberti and Sanjay Jayaprakash
- 7:31:29 Building your portfolio with Hugo (Tech Talk) - Haimantika Mitra
- 7:50:33 Wrapping up HugoConf 2023 (Final Thoughts) - Mike Neumegen and David Large
Creating the Hugo theme from scratch starts at 2:44:54. Maybe if I have the time to spare, I’ll watch the whole thing.
January 8, 2025
Installing Pixelfed with Docker Compose
Quick notes on installing Pixelfed using Docker Compose
I wish it were just so simple to selhost Pixelfed. This post actually refers to the zknt’s Docker image, which hope to make the process simpler. I still have to try this out, though.