Part 5 — The Day nginx Refused to Move
There is a special kind of confusion that only reverse proxies can produce. The symptoms were deceptively simple and eventually the culprit revealed itself.
Read more →From Music Player to Personal Infrastructure
A Blog Series About Building a Self-Hosted Media and Cloud Ecosystem
Part 4 — The Battle Against CGNAT
There are moments in self-hosting where everything suddenly becomes very real. For me, that moment was realising my ISP had quietly placed me behind CGNAT.
Read more →Part 3 — Docker, Homeservers, and the Slow Descent Into Infrastructure
Every self-hosting journey begins with optimism. And eventually arrives at: “Why is localhost refusing to localhost?” For me, the infrastructure side began innocently enough.
Read more →Part 2 — The Moment a Desktop App Needed a Backend
At first, I tried to avoid it. Like many developers building personal tools, I instinctively resisted introducing unnecessary complexity. And infrastructure, as every developer eventually discovers, is where things start becoming delightfully absurd.
Read more →Part 1 — I Just Wanted a Better Music Player
There is a very specific kind of frustration that slowly builds over years of using software that almost does what you want.
Read more →Series Overview
This series documents the very real journey of building a personal, self-hosted media ecosystem around Needle — a local-first music player that slowly evolved into something much bigger.
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