> Notes and complaints about self-hosting, homelab software, and every tool that was good until it had a funding round.
> Source: https://zedensix.com/blog · Site index: https://zedensix.com/llms.txt

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# Things that annoyed me.

Write-ups on self-hosting and homelab software: what broke, why it broke, and what I built
instead, so the next person hitting the same wall skips the weekend I lost.

26 October 2026

## Homerun now puts your idle apps to sleep, catches their crashes, and finally works on a phone

Twenty-four Homerun releases since the release channels post. The ones that matter: services that sleep when nobody's using them, Sentry-compatible error tracking built in, browser IDEs on your own server, incremental backups, your whole setup in a file, and a dashboard that feels like an app on your phone.

[More →](/blog/homerun-idle-apps-sleep-catches-crashes-works-on-a-phone)

25 September 2026

## Homerun has release channels now, because I was tired of shipping broken builds

Every merge to main used to be a Homerun release, including the broken ones, and every fix cost fifteen minutes of CI. Now Releaser cuts nightly, canary and stable, and the updater refuses to install a build that can't boot.

[More →](/blog/homerun-nightly-canary-stable)

24 September 2026

## Penombre versioning: stop naming your files like a hostage note

Penombre now keeps versions of your files. For musicians and designers that means no more final-final-v3 exports, and switching between mixes mid-playback to hear what actually changed.

[More →](/blog/penombre-file-versioning-for-artists)

21 September 2026

## Why I rewrote semantic-release in Go

semantic-release does one job and buries it under a plugin registry, a .releaserc, and a node_modules folder heavier than the project it's releasing. I looked at GoReleaser too, wrong tool for a different job. Releaser is the same four steps and a single Go binary.

[More →](/blog/why-i-rewrote-semantic-release-in-go)

19 September 2026

## Why Penombre dropped S3 support

S3 support sounded like the "enterprise-ready" checkbox to tick. It was actually a bet against the entire premise of the project. It's gone now, here's why.

[More →](/blog/why-penombre-is-dropping-s3-support)

19 September 2026

## Homerun and Penombre are both getting a Go worker

Deploys dragged on Homerun, uploads dragged on Penombre, and Homerun's releases were pushing 800MB. Here's why the fix for both is the same worker, written in Go.

[More →](/blog/homerun-and-penombre-are-both-getting-a-go-worker)

9 September 2026

## This is where I rant

Why there is a blog on a site that exists to give software away, and what is going to end up on it.

[More →](/blog/this-is-where-i-rant)