Self-Host Weekly (2026-02-06)

#Jellyfin <3 #Samsung, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Inkheart - a lightweight PDF library, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-02-06/

#selfhost #selfhosting #newsletter #foss #opensource #homelab #security #privacy #devops #sysadmin #smarthome #homeautomation #development #ai #fediverse #plex #notepad

Something I recently learned about, and have been amazed by: VS Code Multi-root Workspaces.

This is probably basic knowledge for some people, but I only learned about it a few weeks ago.

Basically you can add multiple Git repositories as part of your workspace. It's great because you don't need to clone anything as a sub-repo, or create symlinks to different directories.

I've been using it for projects that depend on other projects that depend on other projects (etc), and I need to traverse the entire chain of functions/modules dependencies to figure out who's dropping the ball.

It's been very very helpful for me. I hope others find it too.

#VSCode #Terraform #Python #Kubernetes #SRE #DevOps #HomeLab @homelab

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/workspaces/multi-root-workspaces

Migrated my self-hosted apps to use encrypted secrets with sops + age. Worked like a charm! #homelab #selfhosting

Here is a bit of data that I haven't figured out a solid use case for

This is a one day graph of power usage of every container in the cluster

Any guesses what the big spikes are?

@homelab@fedigroups.social #HomeLab #Observability

I’m bringing back community‑driven 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗯 livestreams, and I’d love to feature your setup on an upcoming episode!

More info: https://dbte.ch/checkoutmyhomelab

#homelab #selfhosting

I’m bringing back community‑driven 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗯 livestreams, and I’d love to feature your setup on an upcoming episode!

More info: https://dbte.ch/checkoutmyhomelab

#homelab #selfhosting

New blog post: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/self-hosting-meta/

This one is a bit "meta", first about my inability to write a proper "Self-hosting for beginners" guide, and then about a number of posts from summer last year, which discussed how individual self-hosting isn't the solution to anything.

#HomeLab #SelfHosted #Selfhosting #Blog

New blog post: https://blog.mei-home.net/posts/self-hosting-meta/

This one is a bit "meta", first about my inability to write a proper "Self-hosting for beginners" guide, and then about a number of posts from summer last year, which discussed how individual self-hosting isn't the solution to anything.

#HomeLab #SelfHosted #Selfhosting #Blog

I was doing some preparation to migrate my InfluxDB data to a different host, and I realized that I've been storing metrics since 2020.

* From sensors I no longer have
* From hosts that have been long decommissioned
* From a house that I no longer live

And yet, it hurts me to think of all the data I *should* be cleaning up. Not even corporate infrastructure metrics live that long.

I need to seriously reflect on how to let that go...

#HomeLab @homelab

MiniPC has arrived! The beginning of my #homelab!

New blog post! I'm preparing some topology changes in my home lab, so I had to spin up a new Talos Linux control plane node on my Proxmox Cluster. As it already happened before, enabling secure boot required some manual setup. This blog post might help if want to do the same.
#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Proxmox #Blog @homelab
https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/booting-talos-on-a-proxmox-vm/

And down the rabbit hole we go... New (to me) things!

My first 19" rack at home, planning to use in the Office to mount my Desktop/Workstation and various accessories.

HP DL350 to play with at some point too...

First job, a good clean.

#homelab #homerack #selfhosting

Just a friendly reminder to clean your keyboard!! It's grosser than you think!

#tech #keyboard #homelab #selfhosting

So, die Tests zum MacMini von 2014 als Homeserver habe ich jetzt abgeschlossen - demnächst wird ein Artikel dazu erscheinen.

Meinen HP ThinClient, den ich für die 25-Euro-NAS-Serie gekauft hatte, verschenke ich gegen Übernahme der Versandkosten.

Spezifikation:
https://digital-cleaning.de/index.php/das-25-euro-nas-teil-1-hardware/

Bei mehreren Anfragen picke einfach jemanden per Zufall raus.

#homeserver #homelab #thinclient

happy digital independence day!

Kein Bock mehr auf spotify oder Apple podcast?

Dann scheiß mal auf bigtech und baue dir am #diday deinen eigenen podcatcher und Hörbuch server.

Wie gut das geht, beschreibe ich hier:

https://2tap2.be/podcatcher-hosten

#diday #didit #digitalindependenceday #podcast #opensource #selfhosted #homelab

happy digital independence day!

Kein Bock mehr auf spotify oder Apple podcast?

Dann scheiß mal auf bigtech und baue dir am #diday deinen eigenen podcatcher und Hörbuch server.

Wie gut das geht, beschreibe ich hier:

https://2tap2.be/podcatcher-hosten

#diday #didit #digitalindependenceday #podcast #opensource #selfhosted #homelab

𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗯 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸-𝗜𝗻!
What’s the most exciting project you’re working on in your homelab right now? Share your setups, experiments, or future plans below!
#homelab #selfhosting

Adventures in PKI:

Ok so here is the story so far as a recap....

• The starting point was Crowdsec. Crowdsec has three components: agents which parse logs/events, remediation engines, which act on decisions, and a local API (lapi) which the first two connect to, and tracks the decisions and pulls from public block lists
• I realized I could also get external hosts involved, and also wait Crowdsec can parse logs from an aggregator, in this case Loki
• Awesome, step one, get logs into Loki. This lead to a whole chain of events that caused me to deploy Grafana/Alloy to collect those logs
• At this point I realized that shit, the remote nodes need auth and I'd need to copy around tokens everywhere
• Right, tokens everywhere, on remote nodes, etc. but wait, both alloy and Crowdsec support mTLS, all I need is client certs

record scratch

• Right so this would be easy if it wasn't for the pesky external nodes
• This lead me to setting up smallstep's step-ca with an ACME provider
• I got rsyslog setting logs to a central log server via mTLS! Even without the rest of this the log collection is a win.
• (Aside, I also got ssh certs working)
• And I got the Traefik bouncer plus agent to lapi connections working over mTLS but there was a little bit of strangeness there
• Crowdsec's components do not understand cert lifespans,and will not reload certs if they're renewed, hilarious. Fine they get certs with a lifespan measured in "eh, I'll probably reboot a node before then"

Ok and here we are caught up with current day. The very last part is getting the various non cluster nodes connected so their ssh is covered by the block lists. I go to edit the config, and...

nothing

In the logs of the lapi there is a bad cert error. After some browsing of the issue tracker I see mention of and allowed OU setting. Huh. Yeah. The certs created by the helm chart have an OU setting.

Ok but can I ask for a specific OU via ACME?

Whelp.

@homelab@fedigroups.social
#Homelab #Suffering #PKI #Grafana #Crowdsec

So I've got my #Mikrotik cAP ax mounted and the #UniFi equipment removed from my #Homelab successfully. I've also integrated it into #HomeAssistant just because with it's own user and group using the api. So far so good and yes there are a lot of settings in the MikroTik and it takes some understanding but I got there in the end. Even upgraded it and made backups. 😁

The Abiverse (Bobiverse but self-cloning LLM Abes) open-sourcing is coming along fairly well. I've made redacted version of my own profile as "example," Next to create an .env config for anything hardcoded, provide mandatory/optional args, and then the "spawn first abe" script.

Although I probably should test a docker version too. They did clone themselves into docker as well once but I haven't tested it since. They've mostly been just doing LXC -> LXC clones for abes, but I don't think a lot of people have proxmox set up in their labs. Docker? More likely.

There's always this feeling in back of my mind that I'm missing something...
#homelab #selfhosted #llm #ai #sysadmin