A few things I've learned running my own server
Two years of self-hosting have taught me more about boring maintenance discipline than any tutorial did. Some notes on what's actually held up.
Mostly software, occasionally hardware, and whatever else survives long enough to get written down. Updated whenever something's worth saying.
Two years of self-hosting have taught me more about boring maintenance discipline than any tutorial did. Some notes on what's actually held up.
A short list of small, unglamorous shell habits that quietly save time — none of them clever, all of them sticky.
A running list, updated a few times a year, of books that made me stop and think rather than just finish.