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I came to the same conclusion when I built my NAS. Just Nix for the system, zfs for raid and docker compose for any service I might want to run. https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/202…

> it’s giving a lecture about the problems you’re pondering in the shower; it’s thinking out loud about the ways in which your project doesn’t work at all. I'd love to do this. But…

Is that available somewhere? Maybe as a blog post on how you set this up?

I would like to find a good way to use coding agents like claude or codex to code from my (Android) phone. But I can't find any tools that work. What I tried: An ssh terminal app o…

A password hasher PWA (JavaScript) https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2026-01/02-password_hasher_p... A GUI for the notmuch email indexer (PHP) https://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2026-01…

Learn how it works. -> This page is incomplete A pity. It's obvious what the "latest" would be, but what is the best? How is that decided? Shameless plug: for randomly discovering …

All kinds of personal blogs are welcome at https://indieblog.page no matter your fame on Hackernews.

I needed a simple way to block a whole bunch of AI bots running amok on my site without having to introduce a reverse proxy setup. This solution uses mod_rewrite and a small go too…

Shameless plug as always when the topic comes up: submit your blog to https://indieblog.page to be discovered. subscribe to its RSS feed or mastodon account to discover indie blogs…

Shameless plug: Submit your blog to https://indieblog.page and you'll get the occasional random reader who might even become a RSS subscriber.

Offtopic: several of the embedded Bluesky posts at the end of the article show "The author of the quoted post has requested their posts not be displayed on external sites." Seems n…

I wish there were any SBCs under 10 bucks. Remember the promise of the RPi Zero being 5$? That promise never came true.

Unfortunately it seems not to have any wireless connectivity.

I was in the same boat and built my own commenting system. It has an importer for disqus (so you don't lose your old comments) and also imports Mastodon replies. https://www.splitb…

A few years ago there was an Ask HN thread asking people here to show off their personal sites ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30934529 ). Reading that thread gave me the id…

The indie blog directory born from an idea here at Hackernews now also has it's own search engine. Unlike other engines it does not run crawlers, but simply indexes the blogs' RSS …

I am using the original RM1 nearly daily for the last 8 years or so as my primary note taking device. I bought it used because it was ridiculously expensive new. I was grandfathere…

No, the traffic is not caused by client requests (like when your chat gpt session does a search and checks some sources). They are caused by training runs. The difference is that A…

I built a NAS off them. They're in a ZFS mirror and important stuff is backed up offsite.

I recently bought two SSDs from Chinese brands I had never heard before. My thinking being that they were reasonably priced (a bit cheaper than name brands but not by much) and tha…

No Guybrush Threepwood joke in here yet?

> Embedding was a nightmare - any inherited CSS from parent pages (margin, padding, line-height) would shift alignment. This seems to be the perfect use case for a web component an…

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