Dragonish

If you have a reverse proxy running on the mini pc and handling jellyfin.y.com then there is this plugin which will send the WoL packet to the jellyfin server when a request is sent.

https://github.com/dulli/caddy-wol

I use obsidian, forgejo, renovate bot and some hugo websites as part of my knowledge garden. I am very happy with my setup, but i think “overkill” probably would describe what i have built. it has organically grown, and some less technical folks in my life follow a slimmed down version of this. I keep a note called _focus that i go to when i am overwhelmed. It contains my “seven W’s”, which are links to separate notes which are purposefully kept simple

Who am I?
What do I want?
Why do I want the things I want?
When am I going to do these?
What are the things I will consistently do to accomplish these?
With Whom I'm going to surround myself for leverage
Where will I do this; which tools will I use?

Whenever i am overwhelmed or feeling like my process is not working, this focus note helps keep me on track. It seems like you may benefit from a similar process.

Forgejo is great! it helps me keep track of different software i use and follow. It is where i store my obsidian vault (i only use 1). Git lets me sync across devices, keeps history (which gives me confidence to press delete which is very important), and i can use pre-commit hooks to run vale to enforce some limited linking behavior. ie some terms i want to ensure i also setup as a back link any time i write them down. It is also somewhat trivial to have bots interact with the markdown files and commit.

My main hugo site contains recipes. it is a submodule now, but was just part of the same repo at first. Another is a manual for how to build my home lab from scratch. I consider these sites part if my “Express” in Tiego Forte’s CODE method. CI builds and deploys them, and then i scan a qr code i put on my fridge to jump to the recipes website quickly. I can also (manually) print the sites to keep a meat space copy of this crucial and well structured info.

Renovate keeps some stuff up to date. Specifically it keeps hugo/its dockerfile and the standalone python/go apps i have written for myself and others (and stored in separate repos) up to date. I do keep codesnippets in my obsidian vault, which renovate does not help with because those are small one/two liners.

What else… imo a monorepo is better for retrieving information than if you split it out. Forgejo search does not work across repos, and imo even if you used a provider that does, it is always more complex to have to look in many places vs 1. I would advise you try putting all your personal scripts in one place rather than spread them around. I only give my apps a seperate repo when i am ready to share them with others and i need that clear boundary for access.

I also recommend writing down things in your daily note first, and only moving or putting structure around it after you need to retrieve it. Basically reduce the friction with entering info in (also remember to summarize info, dont dump whole articles and such in) and allow yourself grace and time to retrieve it.

Hosting my own git server on my NAS made my life easier and better due to the new freedoms it offers. Backups are centralized, and I have all the space i need to keep any interesting code safe. I am using forgjeo now and highly recommend it. You can also use other front ends (or none and just ssh/filesystem) but forgjeo gives me artifacts (ie docker registry), code search, LFS, and more. With my own git server, my local filesystem only has what I am working on recently (or as my workstation space allows). My home folder has a folder for each version control system (git, pijul, svn). Inside of these i have 2 sub folders: <domain>/<repo name>

Some examples of different domains are: open, work, personal, dragonish. I do not separate what forge or remote service in the filesystem, this is a persona boundary.

I use git remote names and branches in each repo to handle what software forge and any upstream/maintainers i need to work with. As an example my work repos only get pushed to my work server (ie, only 1 git remote named origin set to my work’s server), but my open ones will go to forgjeo and github (i setup 2 git remotes, origin and github. origin in this domain goes to my forgjeo). If i have a need i go into some more git branching strategy which I do find has helped me over my life, but I think I am overthinking this post now! keep it all simple enough for what your needs are.

my understanding is that terms of service would be helpful but not needed if someone trued to sue because you blocked access to the site. I would not expect ToS for a site like you are explaining, but if it did it would say “the web admin will ban you if you are naughty, you have been warned”

For privacy policy i think what you wrote to give us context is near perfect. Explain how your app stores data, be specific about encryption at rest and in motion. If your app is designed to hold name, email address, billing info you should highlight that in your policy. including a (monitored) contact email for questions would be nice, but not needed imo unless you are storing PII

It looks like there is one here:

https://kevroletin.github.io/feed.xml

Well you know if only they were wealthy enough to become a vegan in the first place they could buy the good looking carcasses the mean Vegans are making them eat! /s

To expand with my personal experience, I self host a synapse server partly for the reason that i want my children (aged 8-14 now) to have a communication platform they can access to get ahold of me with out requireing a sim card. I do not federate, and i do not allow account sign ups. That keeps a pretty isolated instance while still allowing everyone on that homeserver to be able to talk to each other.

I help them get Element setup on each device. I dont think this is overly complicated, but i am sure i am a horrible judge of complexity… They have to enter the url of the server, then their password, then they need to scan a qr code/verify from an existing device. Or, they need to enter a second passcode to verify their identity. I help them keep those secrets in bitwarden, so imo, that complexity is an opportunity to explain some opsec and encryption!

For keeping track of tasks on my projects i use todo txt. For each of my projects will drop a file named todo.txt in the root. each line is a task, and i order them based on priority. I can walk away from it and when i start working on the project again, i have an simple way to see the list of tasks i have laid out for this project.

http://todotxt.org/

I personally find it less useful to see the “big picture” of all tasks, and this lets me focus on the details of my projects without forcing a bunch of structure.

VS Code’s extension system makes it pretty easy to build your own code snippet extension. I use my own private extension to easily “generate” different types of markdown files (ie readme vs a troubleshooting guide) from my personalized snippets.

I agree that data staleness is a limiting factor. Depending on your needs and technical proficiency you could use use their zimit service (limited in the number of links it follows). The zimit tool is oss and on github, so you can run the it yourself to keep the sites you are interested in up to date in your local kiwix

While not a solution right now, I just want to add that the general transit feed spec aims to solve the data interoperability of different transit systems. The transit system keeps a publicly accessible zip file up to date, and then anyone can pull/parse the schedule/prediction data in a consistent way across transit systems. I know in the us adoption is slow, with vendors prefering to build their own walled gardens and transit agencies lacking the vocabulary or skills to advocate for more open data/tools