How to Self-Host Home Assistant with Docker
Running the container instead of a supervised install gives up the add-on store, which is a real trade. And bridge netwo...
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How to Self-Host Gitea or Forgejo with Docker
The environment variable that closes public registration was renamed, so copying an older tutorial leaves your git host...
How to Self-Host Nextcloud with Docker
The first decision is not a setting: there are two official deployment routes and they are not variations on each other....
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How to Back Up a Docker Stack
Every self-hosting guide ends by telling you to back it up and none of them say how. Three things live in different plac...
How to Set Up Caddy as a Reverse Proxy with Docker
Caddy gets certificates without being asked, which is why it is the right first reverse proxy. The confusion starts with...
How to Self-Host Immich with Docker
Serving photographs is easy. Recognising the faces in them is what decides whether the installation is comfortable or mi...
How to Self-Host Jellyfin with Docker
The decisions that are awkward to undo are all made in the first ten minutes: mount media read-only, choose paths you ca...
How to Self-Host Paperless-ngx with Docker
Three of its requirements are about the host rather than the application. The user IDs have to match or nothing gets con...
How to Self-Host Uptime Kuma with Docker
Two things break this after it is working. Its data directory cannot live on NFS, and behind a reverse proxy without Web...
How to Self-Host Vaultwarden with Docker
The compose file is trivial. The admin token is not: it wants an Argon2 hash rather than a password, and the hash then b...
How to Write an MCP Server Without a Framework
MCP is JSON-RPC over a pipe. Sixty-two lines of dependency-free code, driven directly with the protocol — the handshake,...
Where a ComfyUI Node Keeps Its Licence
The registry names a licence for only 15.5% of nodes and puts a bare filename in the field for 59.1% more. We opened 60...
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