…Now that the core setup was dialed in, I can copy my Hyprland config, keep related dotfiles for tools like Waybar, Wofi, my terminal, and notifications in one place, and bring most…
…Uptime Kuma, Beszel, and Speedtest Tracker covered monitoring and observability. The tools existed, and the data existed; the problem was getting answers from a single place. The Claude Code setup took a…
…Dependencies broke, Python environments conflicted, and updating one tool often meant fixing three others. I spent more time debugging than actually using my setup. If I were starting today, I’d go…
…Related I thought AI and LLMs were dumb and useless until I self-hosted one from home I finally get it. Those aren’t the only integrations in my Home Assistant setup…
…Related I added one tool to my local LLM setup, and it finally stopped making things up It finally knows what it's talking about
…Related I replaced Cursor and Antigravity with a completely local VS Code setup, and I missed less than I expected My self-hosted setup holds up pretty well for my coding tasks…
…That side of the tool is real, and it’s part of what makes it exciting. I can see why the flashier setup gets most of the attention. Watching Claude Code generate…
…Pairdrop was the first tool I spun up, and after confirming it was accessible from a web browser, I began executing the commands to run BentoPDF, Vert, IT-Tools, and a bunch…
…Once deployed, I opened http://local-server-ip:3333 in my browser to start the one-time setup wizard. It was a basic five-step setup, and I was done in a…
…You get more RAM, a better processor, and most importantly, the flexibility to upgrade storage and components over time. It’s easily the most complete media center setup I’ve used so…