Programming

Over the past few years, I’ve embarked on a journey into the world of self-hosting, starting with a single instance of Home Assistant and gradually expanding my services to include a variety of applications. This journey has been both exciting and challenging, filled with valuable lessons learned along the way. Inspiration: The Self Hosted Podcast I’ve been self-hosting for a number of years now, starting with one or two core programs and gradually expanding to host more than a dozen different services. A lot of my inspiration came from the Self Hosted podcast, which I discovered a few years ago. Every fortnight Chris and Alex would cover news in the open source and self-hosting world, as well as interviewing maintainers and covering new services that they had discovered. The podcast was a great way to learn about new tools whilst commuting and then arriving home to try them out. A lot of the services I run today were discovered through the podcast and I’ve learnt more than a few lessons from the hosts’ experiences. ...

Being nearly done with my university degree and looking for work I’ve begun to notice how many companies allow for a website or portfolio link on job applications. Before now I hadn’t really upgraded my personal website since this time of year in 2022 when I decided to invest a lot of time into building a full stack website using Remix, Postgres and the Slate rich text editor, paired with oAuth through Github and Discord for authentication. Admittedly though I did sometimes post new content to that blog I never really made a habit of it, and after I lost interest in the project I let it sit dormant for a long time. ...