Essays & tutorials

Writing · & notes

Notes from the workbench. Control, robotics, and what I build at home. Written to be read, not archived.

June 4, 2026Self-Hosting

My homelab: a private cloud with no public ports

A stack of self-hosted services on one Linux PC, reachable only over a private Tailscale network, each serving a real Let's Encrypt certificate with nothing open to the internet. Here is the architecture that lets those two facts coexist, a tour of every service, and what it takes to run.

#Homelab#Docker#Tailscale
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June 3, 2026Self-Hosting

Self-hosting RustDesk: a remote-desktop server you run yourself

RustDesk's matchmaker and relay run in Docker on a home Linux PC. Reach your desktop from anywhere over the internet, or keep it fully private on Tailscale with no open ports. Free to run, and your screen never passes through a third-party server. This is what the server is, how a connection forms, and the two ways to expose it.

#RustDesk#Docker#Networking
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