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- Add Hermes (Nous Research LLM agent) with Telegram gateway, Ansible provisioning, and Makefile targets - Self-host JetBrains Mono and Spectral fonts (remove Google Fonts) - Add "An Experiment in Self-Hosting" blog post - Update CLAUDE.md with high-level server overview Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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title, date, draft
| title | date | draft |
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| An Experiment in Self-Hosting | 2026-04-10T00:00:00+10:00 | false |
One of the things I wanted to do with this site is to see how much tooling I could self-host on a small VPS, in particular with the acceleration afforded by AI coding through Claude Code.
So far I have:
- A Hugo static site
- Caddy webserver
- Self-hosted feed reader with Miniflux
- Analytics using Goatcounter
- Git server using Gitea (you can check out the source for the whole project, inception-style, at git.monotrope.au/louis/monotrope)
The only external dependency for the whole setup is the server itself (a DigitalOcean droplet), and I'm sure I'll come up with more tools I can add to the server over time.
All of this I would estimate took less than 4 hours to set up and deploy. I think previously even the small amount of effort required to deploy a static blog would have pushed me towards free platforms like Medium or GitHub Pages. This mode of production has the potential be a great thing for the Web if more tinkerers can build and host their own stuff instead of relying on centralised platforms where you are the product.