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18 Oct 2025

Bit of tea with GITea!

I Self-Hosted My Own Gitea Instance on a Homelab - And Why You Should Too If you are a developer, tinkerer, or one who values having control of your data, well, you probably have thought about hosting your own version control system. It all started for me when I set up Gitea on my homelab....

03 Oct 2025

How I Got qwebirc Running in Docker

How I Got qwebirc Running in Docker (2025-proof, no Apache, works with Cloudflare Tunnel) qwebirc is awesome, but it's Python 2 + Twisted era software. On modern hosts that means: Here's exactly what I did to make it work, end-to-end. 1) Build a Python-2/Twisted image from the Debian archive Create ~/qwebirc-docker/Dockerfile: Build it: 2) First...