Self-HostingHomelab28 September 2026
Oh, I Like Immich
A love letter to Immich, the open-source, self-hosted photo and video platform. Why it earned a permanent place in my homelab, and why I keep recommending it.
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Nairobi, KenyaWritten by Joseph Gitau Chege
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HomelabSelf-Hosting13 September 2026
Self-Hosting Is a Bad Idea, and I Keep Doing It Anyway
A confession about homelabs: 10 TB nobody asked for, RAID that isn't a backup, a laptop consumed by local AI, a Kubernetes cluster for three containers — and why I still do it anyway.
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