Migrating infrastructure off Coolify 🔗
I've spent a while recently migrating my personal infrastructure off Coolify. Coolify's an excellent tool and one that helped manage the initial learn [...]
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Building a Navidrome scrobbling plugin 🔗
Navidrome released plugin support a few weeks ago and I've been working on implementing a plugin that scrobbles my listens to my own API endpoint. Thi [...]
Owning your data 🔗
Owning your own data is hard. I've been trying to own as much as I can, and my site has become a reflection of that process, both in what I display an [...]
Pinning homebrew dependencies 🔗
You learn something new every day. I've been using Homebrew for over a decade and, up until a few weeks ago, hadn't hit a case where I would not want [...]
The conditionally open web 🔗
I spend a lot of time thinking about the open web. We talk about it a lot. But I'm not sure it exists, at least not in the way it's often described. E [...]
Getting cited as a source on Wikipedia 🔗
I use analytics on this site primarily to see where referral traffic comes from. It's not necessary, but it satisfies my curiosity. One of the most in [...]
Blocking entire countries because of scrapers 🔗
I use Goatcounter for analytics primarily to see where things I post might get mentioned. I don't get a ton of traffic, nor should I expect to. [...]
2025 in review 🔗
This year has, to be frank, been exhausting. At least in a macro sense. It feels quite like the United States is collapsing as fascism and kleptocracy [...]
Using Calibri on .gov sites 🔗
The US government is run by petty morons that are threatened by a font. But because the web is the web, you can at least force .gov sites to render al [...]
App selection criteria 🔗
The last app I bought through Apple's app store was a client for my Audiobookshelf instance and this reminded me why I'd built a Navidrome client. I w [...]
Building my Myspace 🔗
I mentioned on Mastodon that my wife lovingly (and jokingly) refers to my site as my Myspace. She's always right and this is no exception. I have seve [...]
Turning my reading list into podcasts 🔗
linkding is one of my favorite applications that I self-host and the place where I save everything I want to read later. The catch being that what lit [...]
Deploy on push with Forgejo and Coolify 🔗
All of my projects are now stored on my Forgejo instance rather than GitHub as the latter continues to speed run the enshittification curve. I've impl [...]
My default apps, 2025 edition 🔗
An update on my 2024 post. Some fairly major changes this time around. I've been making a concerted effort to move to more self-hosted applications an [...]
Automating my reading progress updates 🔗
I've tracked my reading progress on my site for a bit now. I'd originally done this by fetching my progress from external APIs and sources on platform [...]
Updating forgejo's robots.txt 🔗
I've moved all of my personal, private projects over to my own forgejo instance. It's been reliable and an altogether simple transition — I even have [...]
No JavaScript necessary 🔗
One of my ongoing efforts in building this site has been to embrace progressive enhancement and make it every bit as functional without JavaScript as [...]
AI browsers are straight out of the enshittification playbook 🔗
Enshittification isn't cliché, it's simply pervasive. Browsers being launched by AI companies will, undoubtedly, follow the same playbook we've seen o [...]
A Flock of prying eyes 🔗
The city of Camarillo (where I live) is planning to install 15 new Flock ALPR cameras, bringing the city's total installed base up to 20. The city is [...]
Evolving my personal music scrobbler 🔗
I've nearly entirely rewritten my site over the past few months. First, I refactored the frontend into a Laravel application that leveraged the same p [...]