non-binary human bean
I enjoy self-hosting my little homelab, privacy and online sovereignty.
Political intensity has tempered with age, but still love horizontality, decentralisation and anarchist-adjacent direct action above all else, ideologically.
On face value it doesn’t look too different to dockcheck. What you’ve described (CLI, read-only, no auto updates, sends notifications via channel of your choosing) sounds exactly like how my dockcheck is set up. Were you aware of dockcheck and if so, how would you say your project differs?
A lot of the non-article content on the site read a lot more corporate/generic/AI-vibes than I think you’d like given what you wrote in your AI-usage disclosure article. You might want to go through the non-article copy and see if it can be edited more heavily to actually make it sound like your voice saying it.
Some examples include:
“No accounts. No “Premium” tiers. No metadata harvesting.” on your wallpapers page
“Whether you’re a Linux veteran or just looking for an alternative to the Windows/Google ecosystem, I aim to provide direct, no-fluff content based on real-world testing.” in the about me section
They stick out really hard when contrasted against your articles, because you can see that your articles actually have your own voice in them. I know you’ve got the line “I’m a sysadmin not a copywriter” in a few places, but really, if you have a blog, you’ll be alienating your readers by not atleast trying to be both.
Also your ‘tools’ page is probably the coolest part of your site so I think it really deserves a section pointing to it on the homepage, since most people don’t go straight for the nav menu.
To end on a sweeter note, I really like the visual styling you did for the archive it’s really cute and it pleasantly surprised me.
My pleasure! Good luck with development, seems like a cool project.
This would probably get crazy popular if there was a supported integration for Stash
nice one, always good to have a little reminder to update my outdated services pop up in my feed lol. Had a little peruse through the rest of your website after reading, did a little snoop on the services you’re hosting on your homelab atm hehe. Would you be open to a little feedback on the site from a random stranger’s perspective?
Maybe you’ll find dockcheck is a more mature and rounded version of what you wanted, and you can fork it to tinker with the other features you want for your own personal use if it doesn’t do everything you wanted! Or maybe you’ll find you like yours better anyway. Hope you find something interesting in it, regardless!
I personally find dockcheck on each host + a simple systemd service is more or less perfect for my needs. I hook it up to a grafana dashboard so it can give me a running tally of what’s out of date and what’s not alongside the rest of my monitoring stack.