[{"title":"Selfhosted Tools (Almost) Nobody Knows About","permalink":"/en/selfhosted-tools-nobody-knows/","summary":"Over the past few years I\u0026rsquo;ve written the occasional post about my top 10 apps for my homelab . This time I wanted to write a slightly different post. After all, the top 10 always end up looking pretty similar, especially once you look at what other homelab folks are posting. So I figured I\u0026rsquo;d introduce you to a few tools that not everyone has running on their home network. Maybe it\u0026rsquo;s some inspiration for you.\n","content":"Over the past few years I\u0026amp;rsquo;ve written the occasional post about my top 10 apps for my homelab . This time I wanted to write a slightly different post. After all, the top 10 always end up looking pretty similar, especially once you look at what other homelab folks are posting. So I figured …","tags":["selfhosted","homelab"],"date":"2026-07-23"},{"title":"Teslamate Setup: Docker, Fleet API \u0026 Grafana","permalink":"/en/teslamate-setup-docker-fleet-api-grafana/","summary":"Update, December 2025: This article has been revised to reflect the recent changes to the Tesla Fleet API and current Teslamate versions.\nModern vehicles now offer API interfaces that let you pull all kinds of data. Tesla was one of the first manufacturers to expose this comprehensively, and software like Teslamate grew out of that. Teslamate is a self-hosted, open-source data logger that continuously captures your Tesla\u0026rsquo;s data, stores it, and visualizes it with Grafana.\n","content":"Update, December 2025: This article has been revised to reflect the recent changes to the Tesla Fleet API and current Teslamate versions.\nModern vehicles now offer API interfaces that let you pull all kinds of data. Tesla was one of the first manufacturers to expose this comprehensively, and …","tags":["selfhosted","tesla","docker","grafana","homelab"],"date":"2026-07-18"},{"title":"GitOps without Komodo: Webhook-based Auto-Deployment for Docker Compose","permalink":"/en/gitops-without-komodo/","summary":"If you\u0026rsquo;ve read my previous post on my 2025 homelab setup , you know I\u0026rsquo;ve been using Komodo (external link) as my GitOps tool for Docker Compose stacks. The concept is solid: Git as a single source of truth, Renovate for automated version updates, and Komodo deploying changes to the target system on every new commit. It mostly works – but Komodo has been driving me up the wall with one thing: file permissions. It simply doesn\u0026rsquo;t work consistently. Either the permissions on the host are off, or Komodo complains during deployment, or something in between. After the nth time dealing with it, I\u0026rsquo;d had enough and wanted something leaner.\n","content":"If you\u0026amp;rsquo;ve read my previous post on my 2025 homelab setup , you know I\u0026amp;rsquo;ve been using Komodo (external link) as my GitOps tool for Docker Compose stacks. The concept is solid: Git as a single source of truth, Renovate for automated version updates, and Komodo deploying changes to the …","tags":["selfhosted","gitops","docker","gitea","renovate","homelab"],"date":"2026-06-03"},{"title":"My Top 10 Selfhosted \u0026 Homelab Software 2025 – Favorite Tools for the New Year","permalink":"/en/my-top-10-selfhosted-and-homelab-software-2025-favorite-tools-for-the-new-year/","summary":"Just like in 2021 and 2024, I’m once again sharing a list of my favorite software products of the year. I always enjoy reading posts like this because you can often discover a few hidden gems. Usually – let’s be honest – these lists are filled with the usual suspects. Nevertheless, this year’s list includes three selfhosted projects that you might not have heard of before.\n#10: Wanderer Let’s start with Wanderer (external link) , an app for collecting your hiking routes – basically a selfhosted Komoot. The app itself doesn’t record routes, but you can easily import GPX files or data from Strava or Komoot and enrich them with additional details.\n","content":"Just like in 2021 and 2024, I’m once again sharing a list of my favorite software products of the year. I always enjoy reading posts like this because you can often discover a few hidden gems. Usually – let’s be honest – these lists are filled with the usual suspects. Nevertheless, this year’s list …","tags":["selfhosted","homelab","proxmox","mastodon","nextcloud","jellyfin"],"date":"2025-10-13"},{"title":"GoToSocial as an ActivityPub Server — My Experiences","permalink":"/en/gotosocial-as-an-activitypub-server-my-experiences/","summary":"I’ve been on Mastodon (external link) and in the ActivityPub universe ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter. The concept that there are many distributed servers in a social network really appeals to me. It’s, if you will, social networking rethought — decentralized, open, and community-driven. Most importantly, we avoid many of the built-in problems of the big mainstream networks, no matter which political direction one might lean toward.\n","content":"I’ve been on Mastodon (external link) and in the ActivityPub universe ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter. The concept that there are many distributed servers in a social network really appeals to me. It’s, if you will, social networking rethought — decentralized, open, and community-driven. Most …","tags":["selfhosted","fediverse","mastodon"],"date":"2025-10-05"},{"title":"Save Power with Proxmox: 4 Practical Tips for Lower Energy Consumption","permalink":"/en/save-power-with-proxmox-4-tips/","summary":"Proxmox: Reducing Power Consumption with 4 Practical Tips In times of rising energy costs and increasing environmental awareness, many of us are looking for ways to reduce electricity usage in our IT infrastructure. Especially in home networks and small servers that run around the clock, energy demands can quickly become a non-negligible cost factor.\n","content":"Proxmox: Reducing Power Consumption with 4 Practical Tips In times of rising energy costs and increasing environmental awareness, many of us are looking for ways to reduce electricity usage in our IT infrastructure. Especially in home networks and small servers that run around the clock, energy …","tags":["proxmox","hardware","homelab"],"date":"2023-03-14"},{"title":"3 DNS Blocklists for PiHole, AdGuard or blocky","permalink":"/en/3-dns-blocklists-for-pihole-adguard-or-blocky/","summary":"3 DNS Blocklists for PiHole, AdGuard or blocky A DNS ad blocker has become part of the standard setup in every homelab. Of course, these ad blockers require DNS blocklists that should be maintained. In this post, I’ll show you my lists and explain why I recommend them.\n","content":"3 DNS Blocklists for PiHole, AdGuard or blocky A DNS ad blocker has become part of the standard setup in every homelab. Of course, these ad blockers require DNS blocklists that should be maintained. In this post, I’ll show you my lists and explain why I recommend them.\nOf course, you can maintain …","tags":["selfhosted","dns","homelab"],"date":"2022-03-02"},{"title":"Imprint","permalink":"/en/imprint/","summary":"This is a German-run website, and the legally authoritative imprint (Impressum) required under German law (§ 5 DDG) is maintained in German only.\nYou can find it here: Impressum ","content":"This is a German-run website, and the legally authoritative imprint (Impressum) required under German law (§ 5 DDG) is maintained in German only.\nYou can find it here: Impressum ","tags":[],"date":"0001-01-01"},{"title":"Privacy Policy","permalink":"/en/privacy-policy/","summary":"This is a German-run website, and the legally authoritative privacy policy (Datenschutzerklärung) required under the GDPR is maintained in German only.\nYou can find it here: Datenschutzerklärung ","content":"This is a German-run website, and the legally authoritative privacy policy (Datenschutzerklärung) required under the GDPR is maintained in German only.\nYou can find it here: Datenschutzerklärung ","tags":[],"date":"0001-01-01"},{"title":"Search","permalink":"/en/search/","summary":"","content":"","tags":[],"date":"0001-01-01"},{"title":"Start Here","permalink":"/en/start/","summary":"I unfortunately post here far too rarely — if you\u0026rsquo;re new here, it\u0026rsquo;s worth checking out a few of my best posts rather than scrolling through the archive. Here\u0026rsquo;s a selection, sorted by topic.\nMy Current Stack GitOps without Komodo – how I replaced Komodo for my Docker stack with a simple webhook-based setup. My Top 10 Selfhosted \u0026amp; Homelab Software 2025 – the tools I actually use every day. Proxmox \u0026amp; Homelab Save Power with Proxmox: 4 Practical Tips Networking \u0026amp; DNS 3 DNS Blocklists for PiHole, AdGuard or blocky Tesla Teslamate Setup: Docker, Fleet API \u0026amp; Grafana Fediverse GoToSocial as an ActivityPub Server — My Experiences ","content":"I unfortunately post here far too rarely — if you\u0026amp;rsquo;re new here, it\u0026amp;rsquo;s worth checking out a few of my best posts rather than scrolling through the archive. Here\u0026amp;rsquo;s a selection, sorted by topic.\nMy Current Stack GitOps without Komodo – how I replaced Komodo for my Docker stack with a …","tags":[],"date":"0001-01-01"}]