Nice! I don’t know what it is but there is something really satisfying about hosting your website at home.
You can have some fun as well, like getting an LED to blink on every hit to the site.
I do want to do something hardware related because right now I’m under utilising the pi’s hardware abilities, but I feel like I’d have trouble distinguishing real traffic from bot traffic.
I have an interactive pixel grid that syncs to an ePaper in my home on my website: https://www.svenknebel.de/posts/2023/12/2/ (picture, grid it self at the top of the homepage feed)
Very intentionally very low-res so I don’t have to worry about people writing/drawing bad stuff, and its an entirely separate small program, so if someone ever manages to crash it only that part is gone.
I just moved my blog off of EC2 to my Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster at home just today. The whole idea behind running it on EC2 was that I figured I would have fewer reliability issues than on my homelab Kubernetes cluster, but the Kubernetes cluster has been remarkably stable (especially for stateless apps) and my EC2 setup was remarkably flaky[^1]. It’s definitely rewarding to run my own services, and it saves me a bunch of time/money to boot.
[^1]: not because of EC2, but because I would misconfigure Linux things, or not properly put my certificates in an EBS volume, or not set the spot instance termination policy properly, or any of a dozen other things–my k8s cluster runs behind cloudflare which takes care of the https stuff for me
Working on my synth/groovebox project. I’ve made a little simulator for it using Raylib (great library!) which should speed up development a lot, don’t need to constantly flash the microcontroller now.
This looks like a well fleshed out project. Look at the libraries available - postgres, sqlite, an http server and even a GUI library that uses GTK3.
Nice! I don’t know what it is but there is something really satisfying about hosting your website at home. You can have some fun as well, like getting an LED to blink on every hit to the site.
I do want to do something hardware related because right now I’m under utilising the pi’s hardware abilities, but I feel like I’d have trouble distinguishing real traffic from bot traffic.
I have an interactive pixel grid that syncs to an ePaper in my home on my website: https://www.svenknebel.de/posts/2023/12/2/ (picture, grid it self at the top of the homepage feed)
Very intentionally very low-res so I don’t have to worry about people writing/drawing bad stuff, and its an entirely separate small program, so if someone ever manages to crash it only that part is gone.
there is a neat little project at https://lights.climagic.com/ where you can switch the lights on and off remotely…
I just moved my blog off of EC2 to my Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster at home just today. The whole idea behind running it on EC2 was that I figured I would have fewer reliability issues than on my homelab Kubernetes cluster, but the Kubernetes cluster has been remarkably stable (especially for stateless apps) and my EC2 setup was remarkably flaky[^1]. It’s definitely rewarding to run my own services, and it saves me a bunch of time/money to boot.
[^1]: not because of EC2, but because I would misconfigure Linux things, or not properly put my certificates in an EBS volume, or not set the spot instance termination policy properly, or any of a dozen other things–my k8s cluster runs behind cloudflare which takes care of the https stuff for me
Working on my synth/groovebox project. I’ve made a little simulator for it using Raylib (great library!) which should speed up development a lot, don’t need to constantly flash the microcontroller now.