selfhost on Lucas Freeman

Think I'm finally done with my post cards on my #ghostblog

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:54:39 -0500

Mastodon logo shows if post was xposted and hyperlinks (also shows an embed on the post page of the mastodon post with stats)
Likes work and are counted
Comment links to the comments section powered by a self hosted isso instance. Counts also work
Photo is the total photo count on the post
View Post is always there, but changed to Read more if truncated by total photos being more than 3
Share provides a copy link or email

Stoked about how my self hosted ghost blog is turning out

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:12:46 -0500

A few of my favorite things:

Posts are truncated by character limit and photo count, 3. Also shows a number of photos on the post
Has a like button via https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/applause-button that shows on the home page and direct posts
A very slick /tags page
All colors are in line with https://catppuccin.com/palette/

Looking to add web mentions support and better integration with my mastodon

Base theme is here: https://www.priority.vision/themes/feed/

Really enjoying Umami

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:42:00 -0500

Why I use this opensource tool for my analytics

I've dabbled in self hosting my blog on and off for years.

Something that i never really felt was where I wanted it was light site stats. I had no interest in paying for this functionality, or giving big brother Google any of my data.

When I landed on Ghost, they did not have the partnership with Tinybird yet, so I started to dig.

I finally found Umami

Out the gate i was really impressed on how easy it is to get going.

Once I set up my site, it gave me a simple script to add to the site. Once done, I could see all the goodies I was after.

Today I've dug into UTMs and campaigns to get some more insights on linking.

I'm just a stats nerd and don't really have any reason to do this other than that, but it sure is fun to watch the funnels and journeys people take.

Having this data self hosted and the data housed on my own homelab feels so much more satisfying. We already give so much information to big tech, anything i can pull in house feels like a tiny victory.

We have LLMs at home

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:41:00 -0500

A quick post on how and why i use self hosted LLMs

While I have strong feelings about the overarching "AI" umbrella, open-source models and tools are neat.

Powered my home lab, with unraid, the ollama docker, and the open-webui docker.

Right now, these are my favorite opensource models:

Llama 3.1 - Fast, solid all-rounder; tool-calling support
Qwen 2.5 - Stronger multilingual, math, code
OLMo 2 7 B - 100 % open training pipeline
Mistral 7 B Instruct v0.3 - Fast, creative writing
StarCoder2 7 B - Code-generation specialist, 600+ langs.

I have a few more at the ready when needed

What about internet access and search?

When needed, I can easily feed this to the net via my cloudflared container and custom domain.
I much prefer keeping it offline and use the strength of the model vs just having it be an internet gopher. However, i have searx self hosted and can easily tap the API when needed

A neat resource for self hosted alternatives to popular software

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:55:00 -0500

https://openalternative.co/self-hosted

Well that’s not good

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 10:39:00 -0500

My unraid server just might have a run away docker image 🏚️🔥