i am super impressed by codecomic.

Good blog post, thanks for sharing.

I fully agree with your points about real openness, I think this “file over app philosophy” is the way to go for every self hosted app – make it possible get the data out of there.

What I did not quite understand is why using XML is slower? Why is that – are parsers just slower in general? I do not have a lot of experience with XML, but I always thought it pretty much doesn’t matter whether you send your data via JSON or XML. And how does your JSON structure solve the problem of “content heavyness”?

Great job, thanks for sharing.

I tried to get my head around this too and wrote this a while ago: https://lemmy.world/post/34986579 – I called it localhosting, and it’s about some ideas that could bring more people into the boat.

I haven’t made much progress unfortunately, but I do believe that selfhosting needs to become more accessible for non techies. It’s a pity how many great open-source selfhostable alternatives are out there, and how little people can actually install and maintain them. This gap is wild to me.

Thanks a lot for bringing yunohost up, this looks very very interesting. I will bring it up there.

When it comes to docker, I think at least Mac would be close to Linux (at least from my experience in my previous job – there are some integration issues, but managable I think). Windows I have no idea to be honest, could be a nightmare. For me the benefits of docker seem to be: isolation from the rest of the machine, and that pretty much every selfhostable app has a docker compose file.

I also love the “files over app” approach, I am doing it more and more for simple stuff like (habit-) tracking. With the tempo that applications become outdated or even obsolete, I think this is something very powerful.

I think your radicale/caldav approach is interesting. Would you then also run radicale on your phone? Or simply not have the calendar on your phone? Would syncthing only sync in your home network too?

Thanks, I’ll check languagetool. stirling pdf already has a desktop client, although I don’t know if it offers the same functionality (but I would expect it).

Nice, thanks for the syncthing use case.

Thanks, I thought about backups/snapshots too, especially snapshots before version updates, such that users can always jump back if something goes wrong.

Thanks for that input, I have to look deeper into it. It seems to me that their idea is an approach you choose during software development, while localhosting is about hosting somebody else’s software that’s already out and probably does not include these local-first principles.