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John Misczak

@misczak.com

I do cloud security stuff and write about it sometimes. https://www.misczak.com/

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Building Out The HomeLab: Photos with Immich A description about my new self-hosted photo service built on Immich

Finally wrote up how I moved my photos over to Immich after using Google Photos for years and briefly experimenting with Ente Photos www.misczak.com/posts/buildi...

24.02.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great post, love reading follow-ups several months later

11.02.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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audiobookshelf Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

Audiobookshelf www.audiobookshelf.org

10.02.2026 13:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The balls Discord has to introduce an age verification update after they already had a major data breach back in October.

09.02.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 1488 πŸ” 432 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 15
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Architecture Overview of Ente's end-to-end encrypted architectureβ€”learn how your data is encrypted on-device, securely shared, and safely stored using cryptography.

Ente is probably your best option if you don't want to self host (and they also offer a self hosted version). Their fundamentals are solid ente.io/architecture

09.02.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s fantastic especially if you pair it with Tailscale for remote access. Although it’s a little more difficult to fully replace Google Photos if you like to share albums with external users outside the house

01.02.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A backup QB playing with snow in the forecast for later in the game. Get the points while you can!

25.01.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I always view it as type of content vs. just screentime in general. A kid watching Cocomelon is different than them watching a full length Disney movie

21.01.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Building Out The HomeLab: Proxmox and Tailscale Talking about how I setup Proxmox and Tailscale to form the foundational pieces of my new homelab.

New blog post - starting to build out a home lab beyond a Synology NAS, starting with a mini PC, Proxmox, and Tailscale! I hope to turn this into a series as I continue adding more services I want to self host. www.misczak.com/posts/buildi...

19.01.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can install the Tailscale client on your phone and computers and use them to access your server even when you’re not at home. It even has an on-demand feature to toggle on when you leave the house.

There’s a ton of other useful features too - it can even be a reverse proxy with proper certs

18.01.2026 13:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why do they avoid it? It’s insane

11.01.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Emergency Sports! Podcast

11.01.2026 04:36 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Scene from Season 4 of Mad Men where they have their first partners meeting after the new year, asking if they're ready to begin work

Scene from Season 4 of Mad Men where they have their first partners meeting after the new year, asking if they're ready to begin work

05.01.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rethinking My Personal Tech Stack Going through what my personal computing stack looks like as we enter 2026.

My resolution this year is to simply write more posts on my blog about a wider variety of topics. With that, I have a new post about how I've rethought the services, apps, and subscriptions I use over the last year www.misczak.com/posts/rethin...

01.01.2026 12:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@patrickklepek.bsky.social emergency Sports podcast

21.12.2025 04:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

At what point do you decide to just drive

20.12.2025 01:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have been looking to get away from Spotify, but I feel like the current ecosystem of self-managed music libraries/players is...not great? If you're trying to keep a library in sync and accessible over a few devices (Macbook, iPhone, and a Windows computer) the options are basically Apple Music

19.12.2025 13:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great idea for a blog post, I feel like we all have these lists

18.12.2025 11:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe I'm missing something but I believe you can do this in Fastmail? In Settings under the "Set Up" category, go to "My email addresses" and you can create an alias that delivers to a specific/label/folder or has other rules attached

16.12.2025 16:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I just read your blog post about Ente. I have been running Immich myself since the summer, but looking to offload the sysadmin work. How do you find the facial recognition for your kids on Ente? When I experimented with it last year, I found it was confusing my two kids (and sometimes other kids)

15.12.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Immediately my most anticipated game.

12.12.2025 02:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Suspect Guilty GIF Alt: Suspect Guilty GIF
24.11.2025 13:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Screw it, I’m installing Linux It’s the year of Linux on my desktop.

Screw it, I’m installing Linux

19.11.2025 13:10 πŸ‘ 483 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 52

I’m sure there’s a good reason why this hasn’t been done (credit card processing fees for example), but I would like some form of micropayments system where I can buy access to a day’s worth of news and content like I used to with a paper. It’s the subscriptions that makes people hesitant

16.11.2025 16:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder if they realize how many people they are turning off their products forever at this point. It’s accelerating

15.11.2025 19:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wish the desktop software was still actively supported. Such a gorgeous app

02.11.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This segment was hilarious

29.10.2025 23:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did you intern under Jayson Stark

28.10.2025 10:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t see it ever having mainstream appeal until somebody figures out how to solve the problem of β€œyou could lose your best stuff!”

Hard balance to strike between the risk/reward side and the safety net that would keep most people playing even when losing

20.10.2025 22:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Loved it as well, very similar message to Blake Crouch’s Recursion (which is also excellent)

14.10.2025 21:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0