Lots of good responses so far. I’ll add my favorite: https://github.com/johnwarne/upvote-rss which is the only sane way for me to discover posts on popular forum boards like reddit and Lemmy. I can set the number of posts I’m shown a day, and it adds friction to the process of interacting with the post, which means if I comment, I really wanted to :)

yeah it’s normal. llm slop has made people so distrusting lol

vibecoders have made us all so skeptical of any text that gets made fast. I don’t blame people for being skeptical but it’s sad when people jump to the negative conclusion. idk what it is exactly but you seem like the real deal. very cool project and you seem to be a good sport about everything

This is the way. Been running (basically) this for years and genuinely keep my eye out for any simpler suggestions, but nothing comes close.

I do it slightly different where I use an external DNS (bunny) and point the A records to the tailscale IP of the server running Caddy.

The benefits are:

• I don’t force the whole house to rely on my local DNS setup.
• Nothing breaks when I change routers and mess up IP mappings (which I was doing a lot, but I finally got some nice unifi equipment, so maybe I don’t have to worry about that anymore).
• I don’t “leak my LAN configuration” to public DNS but I don’t care about that anymore.
• I can use Tailscale DNS override if I want just my tailnet devices to go through some private/premium DNS resolver.
• Don’t need to set up subnet routing in Tailscale

The downside is it doesn’t work at all for devices not on Tailscale. Real bummer when, like, I want my smart TV to just be able to find jellyfin on my LAN with the same domain names. But everything else about it is very convenient.

yunohost is awesome. The only reason I don’t still use it is because I use command line and containers daily already, so I’m genuinely faster that way. I recommend yunohost to friends and I’d go back to it if I already didn’t have a clean, particular way to set up things in my homelab.

I wonder if Tailscale has ever really been a performance bottleneck for homelabbers

I’m switching off cloudflare for my domain/cdn services to Bunny soon :)

Tailscale just works too well for me and I don’t detect too many enshittification markers yet. But I check in on netbird like monthly now lol

It really stinks that nowadays whenever I find a cool project that achieves exactly what I’m looking for or a solves a problem I didn’t know I had, I have to temper my excitement and look for markers of heavy AI usage (commits, reading md files, the writing and graphical style). it’s really taking the wind out of the hobby, I think. Hopefully it’s mostly just a phase

Those last two bullets would be huge. I have a personal tailnet and another for my org. Switching between them is just annoying enough that I might even pay for that feature.

I always get so close to just setting up wireguard and being done with it. I barely ever change the devices on my tailnet, anyway.

I do have a couple friends on my tailnet to give access to some stuff, so that might be annoying to migrate. That and Tailscale handling all the other networking stuff I might not even know about like cgnat.

95% of my homelab lives on a single server, and everything I do is within containers. So, my documentation is just keeping all my compose files in a git repo and writing in comments when necessary. It’s fairly self-documenting, and I haven’t found the need to break out of just using containers for everything, besides a couple things like setting up mergerfs or cockpit, but that’s all plug and play nowadays with stuff like https://projectucore.io/

Of course, I don’t have any other things set up in my physical layout or network stack… but all that stuff would probably just go into an entry in my notes (obsidian/wiki.vim).