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s-n.me (Slightly Nerdy) is a personal tech blog focused on sharing the author's hands-on experience building self-hosted services at home. The content we pulled for this review is the author's December 2024 roundup of all their personal self-hosted services, covering scenarios ranging from network ad blocking, smart home, code hosting, monitoring and observability, and more. Everything included is real-world experience from the author's actual implementation, not just vague general theory.
The author uses NixOS to implement declarative self-hosted service management, and lays out a complete workflow from containers and micro-VMs to data persistence. This is extremely valuable reference material for anyone else building self-hosted services on NixOS. The content covers more than a dozen popular open-source self-hosted apps including AdGuard Home, Atuin, Emoncms, Forgejo, Grafana+Prometheus, Headscale, Home Assistant, and Jellyfin. The author shares the deployment method and real-world use case for each app, and also calls out the current issues they've encountered directly — for example, Headscale consumes more power than native Wireguard, and DNS queries often fail after idling. This kind of real gotcha experience is something you'll never find in official documentation.
Pros: All content comes straight from hands-on practice, it's packed with actionable information, it's extremely helpful guidance for self-hosting beginners, and all content is completely free to access.
Cons: As a personal blog, updates are inconsistent, there's no dedicated technical support, the content is focused entirely on personal home use cases, and cannot be reused directly for enterprise production environments.
This domain cannot be accessed directly from mainland China right now; you need a proxy to view the content normally. Overall, this blog is an excellent reference and learning resource for self-hosting enthusiasts, NixOS users, and home smart home hobbyists.
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