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Realm

Technology, AI, self-hosting, and the attempt to build digital systems that serve a real life.

"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." — Richard Hamming

The Terminal

RSS

The Terminal is where the digital side of life lives.

It gathers code, systems, self-hosting, AI workflows, and the craft of building technical infrastructure that actually serves a human life. The aim here is not technology for its own sake, but technology made answerable to human judgment, independence, and use.

How to use this realm

You are inside one room of the archive. Read the featured pieces below if you want the fastest feel for this section, follow Trails if you want a cross-realm path, or go back to Start Here if you want the archive-wide overview first.

Featured in The Terminal

SearXNG

·2 mins
Search Self-Hosting Privacy Searxng
Originally published on 2022-07-10. Drew’s Private Search Engine # Now hosted locally as a service. I have created an instance of SearXNG that is up and running, fully self hosted on my server.

RSS-Bridge

·1 min
Rss Self-Hosting Feeds Rss-Bridge
Originally published on 2021-09-12. Generate Atom or RSS feeds # In the spirit of building my own platform I created an instance of RSS-Bridge and wrote about it here as part of the archive’s record.

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2022

SearXNG

·2 mins
Search Self-Hosting Privacy Searxng
Originally published on 2022-07-10. Drew’s Private Search Engine # Now hosted locally as a service. I have created an instance of SearXNG that is up and running, fully self hosted on my server.

Yarr

·2 mins
Rss Self-Hosting Feeds Yarr
Originally published on 2022-07-10. Drew’s Web-Based Feed Aggregator # I created an instance of Yarr and wrote about it here as part of the archive’s record. RSS aggregators are the tool you should be using if you want to stay up to date with many different websites. Rather than visiting the web page directly you can follow a site’s RSS feed and be notified when a new article is published. RSS aggregators make news-aggregating applications and websites largely unnecessary, and they are better because they are not curated to push agendas or targeted news articles.

2021

Jitsi

·1 min
Jitsi Video Self-Hosting Communications
Originally published on 2021-10-01. Drew’s Video Conferencing Server # Now hosted locally as a service. I created an instance of Jitsi and wrote about it here as part of the archive’s record.

RSS-Bridge

·1 min
Rss Self-Hosting Feeds Rss-Bridge
Originally published on 2021-09-12. Generate Atom or RSS feeds # In the spirit of building my own platform I created an instance of RSS-Bridge and wrote about it here as part of the archive’s record.
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Related in The Library

Drew's Personal Library

A living catalog of the books in Drew's personal library, arranged as a chronological shelf of what he owns and hopes to read.
Related in The Watchtower

DuckDuckGo to Begin Censoring "Disinformation"

A warning about DuckDuckGo's shift toward curated search results, and what it reveals about trust, censorship, and dependence on centralized platforms.
Related in The Workshop

Shopsmith

A look at the Shopsmith as a multi-purpose workshop tool and what makes it appealing for a home shop.