Tag: selfhosting
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2026 August 22
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Remember Me: The Case of the Vanishing Feeds
My self-hosted feed reading stack quietly shrank from hundreds of feeds down to 33 over the course of a year, and I didn't notice until my reading list got eerily quiet. The culprit: an unpaginated API call that turned "the 1000 most recent bookmarks" into a silent ceiling on my subscription list. I had been unsubscribing myself, one bookmark at a time. [ ... 1304 words ... ]
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2026 July 17
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The tiger is out (Week 29)
Last week I said Minnaloushe was inching toward parole from cat jail. This week he simply escaped — repeatedly, by jumping onto my office door and vaulting the five-foot gate — which earned him the household title of "the tiger." Meanwhile the byom/mixtapes rabbit hole kept swallowing me whole (cover art, mosaic hero images, virtualizing an 8000-track playlist, npm releases, Navidrome and Plex playback), starnet sprouted a Quality-Based Narrative epic, and I fell down a gacha-game reorientation hole and an Oxford-comma nerdsnipe hole in the same week. [ ... 1629 words ... ]
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2026 July 10
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Somewhere to stash my mixtapes (Week 28)
I built mixtapes.lmorchard.com to publish playlists on my own domain instead of leaving them trapped in Spotify, which spun off two new repos (byom-sync and byom-player). Plus more starnet gamedev (an exploit-barrage mini-game with a Butterchurn "brain damage" overlay), I finally ditched Disqus for remark42 after almost 20 years, and Minnaloushe is inching toward parole from cat jail. [ ... 1578 words ... ]