FAFO: Homelab Edition #7
today was a big one.
i set up sure on my homelab, and this is the first service that actually made me think "okay, i'm going to use this every single day."
it's basically a finance app, but running on my own server. i connected it through plaid, added my cards and accounts, and now everything lives in one place. the part i didn't expect to like as much is that it also supports connecting to ai through a token, which makes it way more useful than i thought it'd be. and it just works.
i also finally sorted out my domain today. instead of memorizing ip addresses and ports, i can reach my services through clean subdomains like:
service.black-pantha.com
this took way more work than i planned for, but it was 100% worth it. proper subdomains make the whole homelab feel cleaner, and honestly more real.
day 7 progress: sure is up and running, finance tracking is set up, the ai connection works, and my services are now reachable through subdomains.
this was probably the most useful homelab day so far. not just something i spun up to learn, but something i'm actually going to use in daily life.
FAFO: Homelab Edition #6
Today, I set up Uptime Kuma on the homelab.
And honestly, I realized pretty quickly that I probably did this a little too early.
Uptime Kuma is basically a self-hosted monitoring tool. In simple terms, it helps you keep track of whether your services are running or down. You can add services to it, and it will keep checking them in the background.
The funny part is, I do not even have that many services running yet.
So right now, Uptime Kuma is mostly monitoring the small things I have already set up, but this probably would have made more sense later, once the homelab had more apps and services running.
Still, it was useful to understand how monitoring works.
Now I can see the status of my homelab services from one dashboard instead of manually checking each one.
Day 5 progress: Uptime Kuma is up.