Selfhosting

January 12, 2025

21:01

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.

00:37

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

00:55

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.

00:15

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

20:47

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

10:54

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

18:15

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.

00:23

Elk: A nimble Mastodon web client

In order to host Elk yourself you can use the provided Dockerfile to build a container with elk. Be aware, that Elk only loads properly if the connection is done via SSL/TLS. The Docker container itself does not provide any SSL/TLS handling. You’ll have to add this bit yourself. One could put Elk behind popular reverse proxies with SSL Handling like Traefik, NGINX etc.

An alternative to Phanpy, which also works with GoToSocial instances. At least this looks more robust than Phanpy. Gotta deploy one soon.

Edit: Wasn’t able to deploy successfully. Sad.

January 7, 2025

22:54

Fediverse Explorer

Browse most recent public posts across the fediverse by hashtag.

This is a great project. Lots of posts I’ve discovered from using this hashtag search. I know the source is on Github, but I wish this is easily selfhostable complete with Docker and compose documentation.

See Github page and blog post.

22:34

Media Caching - GoToSocial Documentation

GoToSocial uses the configured storage backend in order to store media (images, videos, etc) uploaded to the instance by local users, as well as to cache media attached to posts and profiles federated in from remote instances.

GoToSocial total storage space usage currently stands at 3.9GB. If this gets out of hand, I may need to add in the environment variable of the compose.yml file:

GTS_MEDIA_REMOTE_CACHE_DAYS: 2