Services
Authelia is my auth provider for services that I want just a little extra
protection on, it integrates well with Caddy (my web server) and prevents access
completely if authentication fails.
My webserver. Caddy is amazing, as someone who had been (until early 2026)
nursing an ancient Apache2 isntance as a webserver and reverse proxy, Caddy
feels like magic to me. The ease with which you can set up revers proxies and
TLS is unreal. I also very much like having tls on my internal sites as well,
which Caddy supports out of the box.
It’s useful to be able to share secrets sometimes and I feel self hosting is
best for this. This of this as a privately hosted Privnote alternative.
In my migration from GitLab to Gitea I was looking for a CI/CD integration and
came across drone. It works like a charm for my use case, albeit less fully
featured that GitLab CI, that was sort of the point.
Self hosted budget management. Simple as that.
Microsoft purchased Github and I migrated to GitLab, which I happily used for
some years. However, in migrating my homelab to a more supportable containerised
setup, I realised that I didn’t need the full enterprise featureset that GitLab
provides, so I migrated to something a little lighter, Gitea. I couldn’t be
happier.
For some time I’d been using my nextcloud instance to backup the photos on my
phone. But I was often frustrated by how bloated and messy everything seemed
with my random screenshots and photos of food so I decided to move the backup
feature out of nextcloud and into something else, that something else was
Immich. My setup is much cleaner now with a clearer separation of concerns
across my hosted services.
I don’t sail the high seas, I don’t condone sailing the high seas, however, if
you do sail the high seas and want a way to manage that which you pillage,
JellyFin is pretty useful. I like it’s ability to parse my extensive collection
of photos that I have received or taken over the years.
Thought this looked cool, wanna try it out :D
It’s a recipe/shopping-list/meal planning tool.
A very user friendly place to record your thoughts, trying it out for a while.
We’ll see if it lasts.
I host a nextcloud instance, for those curious
here is some information on why. I’m the
only one that uses and it works like a charm. Mostly I use it for file and
contact synchronisation.
Home automation, while stupid, dangerous, and a waste of time, is convenient
from time to time.
Basically open source Trello, good for life admin, planning, projects, etc.
I use proxmox to run my homelab, it’s nice and this is a link to it, no you
can’t access it.
Mail client for my domain (inkletblot.com).
A very rich note taking/knowledge management environment. I haven’t explored it
much yet but it looks like the sort of thing that benefits from dedicated long
term use. I guess I’ll find out?
I host my own instance of vaultwarden on my homelab which I and my girlfriend
use, I had nothing against the free teir of bitwarden it just seemed like fun
to set up.
Wireguard VPN service and simple web UI. Very useful.