This poor twig is stunted but somehow despite the winter drought, it bloomed this year.

After getting burned by Pocket, I moved everything into a self-hosted setup.

Current stack:

• FreshRSS for feed ingestion
• Readeck for actual reading
• Linkwarden for long-term storage

Running on Docker Swarm behind Traefik, internal-only. Remote access via WireGuard.

A few gotchas that took longer than expected:

• Readeck container entrypoint pointing at /readeck (dir) instead of /bin/readeck
• Linkwarden auth issues due to build-time NEXT_PUBLIC_* vars
• Had to seed the first user manually in Postgres with bcrypt
• Internal SMTP relay quirks between services

It’s definitely more work than SaaS, but the upside is ownership.

Full write-up with configs + fixes: https://clifmo.com/blog/posts/saas-is-temporary-your-reading-list-doesnt-have-to-be

Curious what others are using for this now. I considered Wallabag but opted for Readeck, even tho the Readeck Android app has a crash loop right now (for me).

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https://lnk.clifmo.com/MB4oX

A self-hosted URL shortener: Shlink - Keep control over all your shortened URLs, by serving them under your own domains, using this simple yet powerful tool. https://shlink.io/

I was very surprised to find this mature, full-featured URL shortener. It's written in PHP and includes Geoblocking so your shortener isn't abused.

A Docker quick-start guide: https://lnk.clifmo.com/ljk13