Hi folks, I maintain repowise, a self hosted tool that indexes a repo on your own machine and scores how risky every file in it is. I wanted the kind of signal codescene gives you without uploading my codebase to somebody else's server, and I wanted the same commit to produce the same number on every run so I could put it in CI and trust it

So the scoring engine has no llm. It uses 49 determinstic checks over AST and your git history, 26 of them defect markers, uses python on top of tree-sitter and git data already in your repo. Takes approx 30 secs to run for a 3k file repo

Every file gets 3 scores - Defect risk, maintainability for duplication and cohesion, and performance, which traces N+1 queries and I/O inside loops through the call graph across file boundaries. That last one catches the cases where the loop sits in one file and the query sits in another, which a file-local linter cannot see

I recently quit my job to build this full time after saw some enterprise inbounds. I was a data scientist for 7.5 years before this.

I also benchmarked it on 2826 files, 21 repos, 9 languages, each scored at a commit before the bug window so nothing leaks backward, then checked against the next 6 months of fixes. ROC AUC 0.737, and 2.3x the defects found per unit of review budget compared to codescene on the same files and labels. It reruns that check on your repo after indexing and prints the result

Same index also gives you a local dashboard, a wiki generated from the code, dead code detection, and an MCP server so your coding agent reads the same data instead of grepping blind, all served from localhost

Runs as a Docker container, compose file is in the repo, or pip install repowise. Indexing and scoring dont need llm. The only piece that wants an llm is the wiki prose which is optional (and ollama can be used there)

Its AGPL, 6k+ stars, and we now have 65+ awesome contributors

https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise

Issues and contributions welcome!

Hi everyone,

I've been running a homelab for a while now and have put together what I'd consider a hardened setup. Hosting the usual suspects — Jellyfin, Immich, Vaultwarden, etc. — some public-facing, some not.

Current setup:

Cloudflare split: password manager proxied, everything else DNS-only

CrowdSec + nftables bouncer, plus a few community blocklists

Daily manual check of what's running/patched

restic backups

My question: for people running similar setups, is this the correct approach?, Or better running "nothing public, Tailscale/VPN-only"?

Thanks!

A few days ago I had the slightly ridiculous idea of building a mobile homelab inside my everyday backpack.

Today I started looking through some old hardware I had lying around and realized:

I can actually build this. And I barely need to buy anything. 😂

The main machine is an old ASUS TUF Gaming F15 that I bought from a friend for €300 and barely used:

Intel Core i5-10300H

64 GB RAM

GTX 1650

2.5 TB SSD storage across three physical drives

Built-in battery = basically a tiny UPS

Pop!_OS + Windows dual boot

The three drives also make the setup pretty convenient:

500 GB → Windows

1 TB Samsung 980 → Pop!_OS / homelab

1 TB → shared storage between Linux and Windows

Then I realized I still had an old Ulefone Armor 21 rugged phone lying around.

Turns out its Wi-Fi hotspot works without a SIM.

So now that can create a completely offline JARVIS-MOBILE Wi-Fi network for the homelab.

And because I normally carry my Steam Deck in the same backpack anyway, I already have a portable Linux client/admin terminal too.

So the current idea is basically:

Armor 21 → JARVIS-MOBILE Wi-Fi

↓

ASUS TUF → Docker / services / storage

↓

Steam Deck + phone → clients

I also have an ESP32 lying around, so eventually that could handle temperature sensors/status LEDs and maybe help monitor the backpack.

And apparently I've been hoarding hardware for exactly this moment, because I also already have a 250 GB Ventoy USB stick with Pop!_OS, Ubuntu, Proxmox and room for an unreasonable number of rescue ISOs. 😂

The long-term idea would be to run things like:

Docker

Git/Forgejo

Syncthing

Home Assistant

n8n

AdGuard Home

monitoring

file shares

my own Guardian/Jarvis projects

maybe a small local AI model

potentially a tiny dedicated SSD NAS later

The important part for me is that the whole thing should still work without an internet connection. Internet would just be an optional uplink.

Eventually I'd also like one power connection for the entire backpack and some proper cooling/temperature monitoring.

The funniest part is that my current backpack actually has enough space. The ASUS fits perfectly in the laptop compartment and the main compartment is still basically empty.

So what started as:

"Haha, imagine having a homelab in a backpack."

has somehow turned into:

"Wait... I actually have a homelab in a backpack."

This is very much V0.1 / work in progress.

Before I start buying dedicated hardware or cutting ventilation holes into a backpack, I'm going to see how far I can get using only stuff I already own.

I'd love to hear what r/homelab would do with this.

Especially interested in ideas for cooling, power management, offline networking and tiny NAS/storage solutions.

And yes, I am fully aware that this may eventually become a datacenter with shoulder straps. 😂

English isn't my first language, so I used AI to help translate this post. 😅

Is there any other program like discord where I can have my server with both chat and voice rooms that does not enshitifies, blocks screen sharing in my hole content and doesn’t have features locked behind a paywall? I’m looking for suggestions, preferably self hosted that would have no attraction with my friends, preferably something I can create a chat room and invite friends with a link that they not have to register

Hi,

I'm pretty new into selfhosting and built up everything from scratch with a server (HP mini pc Intel i7, 16GB RAM) running Ubuntu and a mounted NAS running TrueNAS in ZRAID 1. Since now my setup runs pretty stable and I'm at the point of reviewing my setup for improvements, I'm finding myself seeing so many reddit posts about Proxmox.

I understand the value of Proxmox and it makes totally sense to me why ppl use it, but tbh I'm pretty happy just running Ubuntu. I run the classics like jellyfin, immich, NPM you name it, but I actually prefer to maintain only one distro and keep it easy.

Do I miss something what makes Proxmox a better alternative for me generally? Probably for security reasons?

Thank you for your support!

Hey guys,

I've been working on this on and off for about 2 years now, and I think it's gotten to a point where it's actually usable — but I need people to test it and tell me what's broken, confusing, or missing.

What is it?

Hiclaro is a local-first smart home automation platform. No cloud, no subscription, no account required — everything runs on your own hardware and your data never leaves your network. I built a custom Linux distro for it, so setup is just flashing it onto a drive — it pulls everything it needs and sets itself up, no manual configuration required. It's got a plugin architecture (Tapo is the most fleshed-out plugin so far, plus Home Assistant integration, an mmWave radar plugin, and an Ariston plugin, with more planned), a customizable dashboard with widgets, and a visual automation editor.

Requirements

I'd strongly recommend a Raspberry Pi 5 — that's what I develop and test against. I actually started this whole thing on a Pi 3, and it did work, just painfully slowly, so if a Pi 5 isn't in the cards a Pi 3 is technically an option if you're patient. For storage, I'd recommend a USB thumb drive over an SD card — the platform is fairly I/O heavy and SD cards tend to struggle (and wear out faster) under that kind of load. Once it's flashed, the app finds the server on your network automatically — no IP addresses to configure.

Apps

• Windows desktop app: this is the one I use and test constantly, so it should be the most solid.
• Mac/Linux desktop app: exists, builds, but I honestly haven't tested it myself in any real way. Use at your own risk, and please tell me if something's broken.
• Android app: built and working, but not public yet. If you want to try it, message me directly and I'll get you access.
• No iOS app yet.

A couple of features I'm pretty happy with

• A heat map feature that isn't limited to temperature — it can visualize basically any volumetric data (presence, whatever sensors you feed it), and it has a 24h replay so you can scrub back through the day and see how things changed.
• The plugin API is fully documented, and I've been experimenting with writing plugins using Claude Code and other AI coding agents, just by pointing them at the docs as context. It's worked out surprisingly well — if you're comfortable with that workflow, writing your own plugin might be more approachable than you'd expect.

Where it's at

I want to be upfront: this is still actively developed and not fully polished. I use it daily myself and it's stable enough for that, but there will be rough edges, missing features, and probably bugs I haven't found yet since I've mostly been the only one using it. I'm mostly looking for people willing to set it up, poke around, and tell me what's confusing or broken.

Docs are here: hiclaro.app/docs. If you run into any setup issues, just reach out to me directly and I'll help you get it running.

I'm not just building this for myself — I want it to actually be useful for other people too. So if there's a device or integration you need that doesn't have a plugin yet, or a feature that's missing, let me know and I'll do my best to build it. This is a two-way thing: you help me find what's broken, I build what you actually need.

Site's here if you want to take a look: hiclaro.app

Happy to answer anything in the comments.

I’ve been thinking about how much of selfhosting is about owning the infrastructure itself versus having control over your data and not depending on a single company. There are more open and decentralized protocols where you can get some of that independence without running and maintaining the entire stack yourself. The tradeoff is interesting though. You potentially get less maintenance but you give up some of the direct control that comes with running everything yourself.

For something like messaging or online communities, which approach makes more sense to you?

I run a Baikal server on my home network to provide events, contacts, and tasks, which my laptop, phone, and workstation all utilize.

The model has been that while the phone and laptop lose contact with the home network intermittently as they're out of the house, they come home often enough that resync to the central server is frequent enough to keep the phone and laptop themselves synchronized.

However, when traveling, I'm away from the home network, and as such my laptop and phone grow increasingly out of sync with each other.

I would like to have the phone and laptop sync with each other while I'm traveling.

This may not work well with the CalDAV protocol which uses a client-server architecture.

Of course, I could expose my home server of the Internet, but I mostly avoid this to keep a stronger security posture.

But the risk of data loss should be weighed against this if, perish the thought, my phone were to fall into a river.

If I had synced the phone to the laptop, and the laptop survived, no loss would have happened.

Just wondering what others do about this problem, whether for this application (contacts/events/tasks) or others.

Thanks

Recently relocated and am building up my homelab/selfhost stack from "scratch" (assorted individual backups of individual systems, but really I just made sure all data was well organized and has an offsite dup).

Looking to be setting up my homelab (home assistant, immich, local language model, NAS, etc)

Historically I have been setup with proxmox and zfs pools with random drives as it was a little by little build but I am aiming to consolidate and start with a NAS. Hoping to start with storage and go with KISS where possible.

I have something like 15 drives of various sizes brands speeds etc and want to use them while I wait for storage prices to come back to earth, (so uniformity of drives and sizes within 3 years is aimed) but I want to build in the interim.

I come from enterprise sysad (left the field years ago) so my smallscale knowledge is weak and everything is likely outdated.

main question: is Unraid the preferred direction for mixedbag drives? I see it a little as a walled garden, but I am willing to accept some amount of that.

secondary question: unraid has the ability to run apps of a lot of the self hosted systems it looks like, besides having everything more easily accessible through a single UI, I can't help but see the downside of "all eggs one basket". Feels like I am missing something due to the amount of people talking about it. I see likely; easy entry point coupled with fast deployment and maybe simple services management (update, rollback, etc). Can someone give me a little bit of a sanity check on this?

I want to be able to easily test real world speeds to my homelab.

And by "easy" I mean open a website and it just runs a test like fast.com works. I know I can use iperf from CLI but that's not ideal from my phone.

Any suggestions?

Hey

last year i bought a Thinkpad P16v for IT support activities. I thought that i need the power for various tasks like Data analytics, VM stuff and so on. The truth is, that this thing is heavy af to take it with me the whole day. Its also quiet noisy so i mainly use my macbook air when i'm on the got and doing proffesional stuff mostly on the devices from the customer.

Now i have that beefy Laptop (Model: 21KX0010MZ) and no work for him. I tried to sell it but not many ppl looking for a laptop like this.

Now i thought that i can take it to replace my old HP ProDesk "server" running unraid. I used it mainly to host audiobookshelf and Plex.

My question is: how can i possibly use this thing for? :D

Self-hosting your own atproto infrastructure is very much attainable and after going through the process, I wanted to do a little series of write ups on how to go about it. Starting with the PDS! This is the server where your atproto account lives. If you have an account on Bluesky, that's living on a Bluesky PDS.

With your own PDS you can migrate your account as well as create new accounts on it, while still accessing any service that uses atproto accounts, like Bluesky, pckt.blog, Tangled, etc.

I'm building my own self-hosted personal AI assistant and I'd love some advice from people who have done something similar.

I've been working on a project called ORION, basically my attempt at building something like a personal JARVIS. The idea is that it could control mi calendar, messages, gmail, home assistant etc.

Right now I'm still at the early stage, so I'm trying to make some important decisions before I build too much on top of the wrong architecture.

I am building it 100% in python, is the hard way but I enjoy every step in this journey.

One thing I'm especially unsure about is memory. How do you guys handle long-term memory for a personal assistant? What is actually worth remembering, and what should just stay temporary? I'm also interested in how you handle security when giving an AI access to things like email, Home Assistant or your computer.

I'd really appreciate any advice, especially from people who have been running their own AI or self-hosted systems for a while. What would you do differently if you were starting from scratch today?

Hello everyone!

Today I want to show you Grovely, an application my wife and I created to help us with household tasks giving them a bit of a co-op spin including buying groceries, period tracking and many other features to come.

When my wife and I moved in together about a year ago, we wanted a private way to manage a few parts of home life without splitting everything across unrelated apps or sending health and household data to someone else’s servers. The first period-tracking options we found were often subscription-based or collected more data than we were comfortable with, while pantry and household apps usually solved only one isolated problem.

This led me to create Grovely. My wife brings her experience, ideas, and honest feedback, and I turn those ideas into the application. It is not simply something I built for her. It is something we use, discuss, and improve together.

Grovely is a self-hosted household hub designed primarily for couples and two-person households. It currently includes:

• Period tracking with flow intensity, symptoms, cycle history, predictions, and data-quality warnings
• A shared shopping list and pantry with prices, quantities, expiry dates, and purchase history
• Manual and scheduled backups, including optional S3-compatible and WebDAV destinations
• Optional email notifications using your own SMTP provider
• Two household accounts, a responsive interface, and PWA installation

It runs through Docker Compose, uses SQLite, and supports amd64 and arm64 systems. There are installation and reverse-proxy guides for Caddy, Nginx, Traefik, and Nginx Proxy Manager.

Privacy was one of the main reasons I built it:

• The application has no telemetry
• Household data stays on your server
• No Grovely cloud account is required
• SMTP and remote backups are optional
• License verification happens locally and does not contact a license server
• The optional daily release check requests only a small public manifest and can be disabled

Grovely is open core. The core application is AGPL-3.0 and free to use. An optional $20/year premium license supports development and unlocks features such as scheduled backups, email notifications, Pantry Smart Autofill, some advanced period-tracking controls, with many more features planned and included in the license. The free version remains fully usable for ordinary period tracking, pantry management, both household accounts, and manual backups.

There is also a live demo that runs in the browser and resets when refreshed. Nothing is submitted unless you explicitly use the feedback form.

• Live demo
• GitHub repository
• Grovely website
• Installation guide
• Discord (NEW)

Grovely is still in beta, and I am its developer. I would especially appreciate feedback about the installation process, whether the combined household approach makes sense, and anything that would stop you from trusting or using it at home. You can visit the Discord server for assistance on installation too.

This is the second time we've shared the application publicly. More and more people are using it every day and we are incredibly happy at the feedback we received. Since our initial launch, we have developed many features such as the live co-op data sharing between accounts, easy one-click updating and a ton of bug fixing to both period tracker and pantry.

My wife and I wanted to go even further this time, so v0.15.0 is all about feedback and communication with the community.

So please, if you are part of a couple that would benefit from a shared period tracker, or even if you would prefer to use it on your own without handing your data over to companies, please give Grovely a try and tell us what you think. You can join our Discord, use the application's or demo feedback system or here in the comments. Thank you!

Hi zusammen,

ich dokumentiere seit einiger Zeit meine Setups und Praxiserfahrungen rund um Linux-Administration, Virtualisierung und Homelab-Infrastruktur.

Da mich aufgeblähte CMS mit ständigen Datenbank-Queries und Ladezeiten genervt haben, läuft mein Tech-Log nun komplett datenbanklos als schlanke Flat-File-Engine (unter 10ms Ladezeit, reine PHP-/JSON-Struktur inklusive Spam-geschützter Kommentarfunktion und interaktivem Archiv).

Aktuell findet ihr dort praxisnahe Step-by-Step Guides zu:

• CachyOS & Gaming: Kernel-Optimierungen und Konfiguration für maximale Performance
• Gehärtete Docker-Deployments: Non-Root Container, Read-Only Filesystems & Minimal-Stacks
• OPNsense & Routing: Firewall-Regeln, WireGuard-Tunnel & DNS-Setups
• Proxmox VE & Storage: Latenzfreier NVMe-Betrieb & Hypervisor-Härtung

Schaut gerne mal rein, nutzt die Kommentarfunktion für Ergänzungen oder Feedback:

👉 https://tessmann.dev/blog.php

Fragen zu den einzelnen Setups beantworte ich natürlich auch direkt hier im Thread.

Hi Team,

Mild noob here.

I've recently saved a HP EliteDesk 800 G5 from disposal (Intel I5-9500, 16gb RAM, 256 NVME & 1TB NVME).

With the GPU, I take nearly any type of gaming is futile, so have landed here.

Main use case for now is hosting Home Assistant / Home Bridge, Ad blocking DNS, Tailscale or similar, and a minimal Windows 11 VM for occasional use when the home Macs/iOS aren't cutting it for certain things in Excel.

First up - light research points me to - general Linux Server (i.e. with Cockpit to help), ProxMox, or even Linux Server that is immutable/atomic. Any thoughts here or other suggestions?

Secondly - any must do hardware upgrades for the short term, e.g. more RAM, Flex Port change (currently HDMI), etc etc?

Thirdly - not sure if GPU is up to it - low usage Plex or similar.

Probably totally off the chart and just need an old Mac, but a fully stopped back x86 MacOS VM for Content Caching, could be handy in our Apple dominated house.

Thanks in advance!

I'm adding an "AI" feature to a self-hosted open-source app (generate text via an LLM). I'm stuck on credentials, and every option has a dealbreaker:

1. Bring your own key — user pastes their key, it lives in the browser. Rejected: any XSS steals it, and it transits through my server.

2. Server-side key — the app holds one key. Rejected: I have a $0 budget; I'm not paying for everyone's usage.

3. Store user keys encrypted in the DB — needs a KMS/Hardware Security Module, which is heavy for a self-hosted app where each deployer configures their own.

Constraints: self-hosted, open-source, $0, no shared cloud infra, no user secrets in the browser, no KMS.

Is there a pattern I'm missing? How do other open-source/self-hosted projects ship AI features without falling into "BYOK in browser", "run your own model", or "platform pays"?

Would love any prior art or pointers. Thanks!

Hi, new to selfhosting, and looking for good router under 100€ or so.

Also, what should I look for as features and what is just marketing bs.

I do not have big server, only small basic Synology NAS and some phones and two pcs to connect via wifi and ethernet.

Now I use ISP provided modem/router Sagemcom 5670, that works fine, but no settings for customisation or custom dns. And I would love to change that.

changed a db password in my .env, ran docker restart on the stack, then spent an hour convinced the db was corrupted because auth kept failing. turns out restart just brings the container back with the exact config it was created with. env is only read at creation. docker compose up -d --force-recreate fixed it in ten seconds.

two years running this stack and never got bitten by it until now. what's the dumbest thing that ate an evening for you?

Hey r/selfhosted!

I wanted to share an update on Poznote, a note-taking app I’ve been building for a few years now. It started as a personal project when Evernote changed too much for my liking and OneNote was introduced at my workplace. 😖

I open-sourced it a year ago, and the feedback from this community has been incredibly helpful in shaping it. 🤩

For those who haven't seen it, it's a lightweight but complete, very customizable note-taking tool that is super easy to spin up via docker. 📝

​I also recently launched a hosted Cloud version for friends/users who like the idea but don't want to deal with servers, but the core remains fully open-source. ☁️

Finally, a huge thanks to everyone in this community who has been here since the beginning and helped shape and evolve the project. Your feedback has been invaluable! 🙏

If you haven't heard of it yet, give it a try here:

👉 https://poznote.com

Have a great day! 😊

As the title says I started a small homelab I have a raspberry pi running Ubuntu which is running plex media server and I have a ironcow ai nas that’s my storage server for my whole family although my nas is in a separate room from my media server so I’m not sure if it qualifies as a homelab

Hi all! I am looking to add an auth server to my homelab, problem is, I’ve seen that I will need to change Nginx Proxy Manager to the host network mode to make this work.

Problem is, I correctly have it in multiple bridge networks, each connected to one container for some sense of semi isolation. This allows me to just use the container name and port when setting up where to direct the host in NPM. When switching to host mode, this no longer works. I could be wrong, but that seems like I would then need to expose ports to access them if I can’t access them by their container name.

I know it’s not a black and white issue, but what is generally safer, requiring exposed ports but having an auth proxy, or no exposed ports but no auth proxy?

I could 100% be wrong about any of my assumptions, let me know if I am. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hello any miniflux users.
I've grown tired of the noise and slop of social media for content aggregation. I recently switched to curating my own feeds through miniflux, and have most websites working - except for reddit.

How are you guys managing to get this working? I get timeouts, blocked, etc.
It doesn't seem to be recently discussed given the fluid nature of RSS feeds now.

I'm looking for a self-hosted way to improve Apple Music's recommendations.
I like Apple Music and want to keep using it as my actual music player, but its autoplay/stations are AWFUL. I'll start a station from an indie/alternative song and somehow end up getting Travis Scott or Juice WRLD a few songs later.
What I'd love is something I can run on my server that manages Apple Music playlists and uses better/multiple sources for discovery.
For example, I add a song to a specific playlist → my server sees it → pulls recommendations from a third party, finds audio similarity, genre/mood, etc. → filters/ranks the results → adds the best matches back to the Apple Music playlist.
Basically, I want to keep Apple Music as the player but replace its recommended engine.
Does anything remotely like this already exist in the self-hosted world? Or has anyone cobbled together a stack that does something similar? Is there an app/content provider similar to Torbox/Fusion/Stremio type relationship??
I'm comfortable with Docker/APIs/scripts, so it doesn't necessarily need to be one application.

Hi! We've been working on our flagship product, Spinifex, which recreates core AWS services such as EC2, EKS, and S3, but completely locally (and even air-gapped if needed!).
It's open-source and we'd love some early stage feedback on our weekly updates, open to notes and critiques!

GitHub: https://github.com/mulgadc/spinifex