What I Self Host

Summary

I’ve always liked reading blogs, and have used several feed readers in the past (Feedly, for example). For a long time I was thinking it would be fun to write my own RSS reader, but instead of diving into the challenge, I did the next best thing, which was finding a decent one, and learning how to self host it. In this post I will tell about the self hosting I do, and end by sketching the setup. Miniflux is a “minimalist and opinionated feed reader”. I host my own instance at https://rss.fredrikmeyer.net/ It is very easy to set up using Docker, see the documentation. I do have lots of unread blog posts 🤨. Grafana, Strava Integration I host a Grafana instance, also using Docker. What first triggered me to make this instance was an old project (that I want to revive one day): I had a Raspberry Pi with some sensors measuring gas and dust at my previous apartment, and a Grafana dashboard showing the data. It was interesting seeing how making food at home had a measurable impact on volatile gas levels. Later I discovered the Strava datasource plugin for Grafana. It is a plugin that lets Grafana connect to the Strava API, and gives you summaries of your Strava activities. Below is an example of how it looks for me: One gets several other dashboards included in the plugin. Spotify One day YourSpotify was mentioned on HackerNews. It is an application that connects to the Spotify API, and gives you aggregated statistics of artists and albums you’ve listened to over time (why they chose to store the data in MongoDB I have no idea of!). It is interesting to note that I have listened to less and less music over the years (I have noticed that the more experience I have at work, the less actual programming I do). Because I didn’t bother setting up DNS, this one is only exposed locally, so I use Tailscale to be able to access YourSpotify. This works by having Tailscale installed on the host, and connecting to the Tailnet. It lets me access the application by writing http://forgott...