Added to my Glance page. :-)

it’s not like I have thousands of containers running

I feel you. I have ~20 container files (some are multiple containers in one file, e.g. db and web server) and I seldom have to do changes to them. Once properly configured, I don’t really have to do anything.

Do you want to expose port 80/443 and set up a reverse proxy or do you want to use a VPN tunnel? You could just use SSH to port 80 and 443 like so: ssh -L 80:<local-server-ip>:80 -L 443:<local-server-ip>:443 <username>@<domain>

I expose port 80/443 and use Caddy as a reverse proxy together with Authelia to protect anything that I deem needs an extra layer of security. I followed this guide: https://caddy.community/t/securing-web-apps-with-caddy-and-authelia-in-docker-compose-an-opinionated-practical-and-minimal-production-ready-login-portal-guide/20465

Once setup, it is easy to remove or add a backend to Caddy and Authelia. This way does mean that you sometimes need to log in twice, but that is a small price to pay if your backend app does not support SSO (like n8n community edition).

A very simple way to set up file access is to use SSHFS, mounting the drive via SFTP. It may not be as fast as other protocols but it is simple and requires minimal setup on your server.

https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win
https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs

Everything was .md files on the backend, which was nice. Should make automation simple (but time consuming since you most likley have to create it yourself). The only reason I stopped using it was because I didn’t really need it.

Have a look at Tasks.md. I’ve used it before and I liked it. You can customize the CSS as well.

probably also selfhosted.

Here is a link do selfhosting it: https://github.com/TeamHypersomnia/Hypersomnia/blob/master/README_SERVER.md#docker-setup

Have you considered replace the name with input from stdin? So instead of name=synapse you could do name=$1 and have one script to use for all containers.

Never heard about The Story Graph before, but it looked cool so I created an account to check it out. I could not find any way to create custom integrations (or make any integration at all).

One option would be to pull your data from ABS via its API and then use JavaScript to navigate The Story Graph’s website to “manually” update your progress.

Edit: If you want to work with Python, someone has created a library to work against their website as if it was an API: https://github.com/ym496/storygraph-api/tree/main
It uses an HTML parser to map the response from the website.

Is it possible to view files in the root of the vault?
Also, is it possible to show non .md files?

My use case for the second question is that I have .pdf and .xml that acompanies my notes. Having HelixEditor showing them as well (or opening them in system default editor) would be nice.

How do you manage your containers?

Would a self signed certificate be an option? Not sure if the hassel is worth with the applications on the phone.

If you like compose files: https://www.composerize.com/

docker run -it --rm -v <your-data-path>:/data -e SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME=<your-public-address-subdomain> -e SYNAPSE_REPORT_STATS=no matrixdotorg/synapse:v1.136.0 generate:

name: <your project name>
services:
    synapse:
        stdin_open: true
        tty: true
        volumes:
            - <your-data-path>:/data
        environment:
            - SYNAPSE_SERVER_NAME=<your-public-address-subdomain>
            - SYNAPSE_REPORT_STATS=no
        image: matrixdotorg/synapse:v1.136.0
        command: generate

docker run -d --restart=always --name synapse -e SYNAPSE_REPORT_STATS=no -v <your-data-path>:/data -p 8008:8008 matrixdotorg/synapse:v1.136.0:

name: <your project name>
services:
    synapse:
        restart: always
        container_name: synapse
        environment:
            - SYNAPSE_REPORT_STATS=no
        volumes:
            - <your-data-path>:/data
        ports:
            - 8008:8008
        image: matrixdotorg/synapse:v1.136.0

Caddy makes HTTPS a breeze. I’ve tried nginx before but I never understood when and why I would need which setting.

What’s bad about hairpin NAT?

Do you need one app for syncing caldav and another app for using the calendar?

https://www.loopia.com/ - ~10 euro/year for only DNS and ~100 euro/year for DNS, e-mail and web hosting.

A snapshot is like copying a the files in the snapshot to another location, while the original files remain as is and can be written to or read from.

As an example, if you have a folder, let’s say /important/secret/stuff, and you want to take a backup of it. You have to make sure that nothing is writing to those files while the backup is running, otherwise the backup risk being corrupted. (This is because if the backup starts to read the file, and halfway through the first part of the file changes, you now have a backuped file that half the old and half the new file).

With a snapshop, you can “copy” /important/secret/stuff to some other location, run a backup reading from this other location and then remove it. Any changes to the original files will not affect the backup since the backup is reading from the “copied” files (snapshot).

So what you do is take a snapshot before running the backup, have the backup read from the snapshot and when it is complete, remove the snapshot.