[…] the path back to feeling like you have some control is to un-spin yourself from the Five Apps of the Apocalypse and reclaim the Internet as a set of tools you use to build something you can own & be proud of

paultibbetts/terraform-provider-mythicbeasts is a Terraform provider that lets you declare infrastructure from the company Mythic Beasts as code. I use it to provision the infrastructure for my personal website. This is why I built it, what it does, and how to use it.

My RSS feeds now contain content:encoded and source:markdown. These are used by some feed readers to show the full content, which means my posts are now fully readable through RSS.

In my last post I recommended starting with RSS to make your site followable. This is how to do that.

You’ve got 3 posts on your site and you want people to be notified about new ones. Here’s all the ways I can think of doing that.

paultibbetts/ansible-role-caddy is an Ansible role for Caddy web server that lets you install Caddy with plugins. I use it for my personal site and in my homelab. This is what it does and how to use it.

My site was hosted on GitHub Pages. It was simple and free, but it didn’t really feel like it was mine. I’ve fixed that with a Raspberry Pi.

Launched: infra.paultibbetts.uk A documentation site for the infrastructure that runs paultibbetts.uk.

Published: paultibbetts/terraform-provider-mythicbeasts A Terraform provider for Mythic Beasts.

Published: paultibbetts/mythic-beasts-client-go A client for the Mythic Beasts APIs, written in Go.

Published: paultibbetts/ansible-role-caddy An Ansible role to install and operate Caddy web server.

Last year I wrote my own take on the Steam Awards , and in 2025 I played less games, so instead of pretending otherwise, this is a list of my favourites from this year.

This post is not a step-by-step guide. It’s a record of what I tried and what I learned getting Pangolin to run on a Raspberry Pi with NFS storage in an IPv6-only environment. TLDR: if you want to run Pangolin hassle-free, use a VPS with local SSD storage on an IPv4 network.

The worst pains in tech are self-inflicted. Then it’s bad Wi-Fi. I’ve just fixed a very niche problem that was both.

We live in strange times, with strange social networks doing strange things. So why, on the same day I said I was team IndieWeb, did I enter the Fediverse?

The second step to getting on the IndieWeb is to have your own site. This is easier said than done, and there are lots of different ways of doing it. This is what I did.

The first step to getting on the IndieWeb is to have your own domain. I’ve already got one, so I thought I’d explain how I got it.

The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”. I’ve been a believer for over a decade. Here’s why.

I’ve pushed my developer environment setup scripts up to GitHub, and now they have their own little website to go with them.

June’s IndieWeb Carnival prompt is “Take Two” and there’s a hundred different ways I could join in on this. So here’s my first post joining in with an IndieWeb Carnival; Take Two.

My Homelab has hit its first milestone 🚀

Terraform and Ansible are complementary tools with which you can do Infrastructure as Code. You would use Terraform to request machines from providers and then Ansible to configure them. Using both of them together, with a dynamic inventory to link them, has been technically possible for years but never obvious enough for me to work out. Until I found the Terraform provider.

As my homelab is about to reach a milestone I thought I’d look back on where it started.

I don’t like starting sentences with I.

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