Self-Hosting
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- For years, a Docker container was a good enough box to run code in, because getting out of one usually needed a hard-to-find bug in the Linux kernel. Now AI models are good at finding those bugs, and AI agents write the code running inside the containers. This post explains what the kernel does, how containers use it to fake a separate computer, why that is a problem now, and how six lines of code let MindRoom give its agents a stronger wall.
- Whenever I say that self-hosting AI is not economical, people hear that I am against self-hosting. I am not: I run Qwen3.8 27B at home and think open-weight models are great. This post compares it with GPT-6 Luna on the same benchmark, and explains why batching makes datacenters win.
- Friends keep asking how my homelab works, so I wrote it all down, starting from zero. Four NixOS machines run about 150 containers behind one Traefik front door, and with WireGuard and my own Headscale server I reach my self-hosted services from anywhere over encrypted HTTPS connections, while strangers on the internet get nothing. The part I think is the coolest is the balance: everything is declarative and lives in git, but with as little machinery as possible.
- A small Docker recipe for running Diction’s streaming gateway against Qwen3-ASR through Agent CLI, plus a test from a bar in the Netherlands, an ocean away from the GPU.
- MindRoom is an open-source system I built that creates AI agents living in Matrix. Because Matrix bridges to Slack, Telegram, Discord, and more, your agents follow you everywhere—with persistent memory, multi-agent collaboration, and 100+ built-in tool integrations.
- How I leverage LibreChat, OpenWebUI, and various AI APIs to enhance my development workflow without subscriptions
- 🎄🎁 Advent of Open Source – Day 22/24: Visualizing personal finances with Tiller and Streamlit for better financial independence tracking.
- An overview of my journey from using a Raspberry Pi for Home Assistant to creating a Proxmox cluster and dedicated NAS for running various services efficiently.