Applications and things that I use
This is going to be a continuous work in progress.
Stuff that I use
A lot of smol web people out there have multiple slash pages and amongst those would be the old school uses page.
I don't know that I would be included in the smol web world, but I have this desire to continue to document the things that are in my small world (see what I did there…) and that has included having my very own uses page.
That's what this is.
Selfhosted applications
While I don't think it's necessarily "fair" to say that all of these are self-hosted, seeing as they don't all reside within the four walls that I consider my abode, I think it's still okay to say that services I've installed on a remote system and use daily still count as the ubiquitous "self-hosted".
Forgejo
I think most people probably know what this is, at least the majority of people that are going to read this. I don't know why I run my own forge, but for some silly reason I do. I keep my emacs config out there, my yadm dotfiles, my pass safe and other stuff. Honestly, I also have mainly started to use it to keep mirrors of other repos that I don't want to lose track of or have them vanish on me. I also keep clones of my blog and some personal notes. I do wish that there was an inbuilt gist service, but I've been able to work around that by creating an organization for gists and saving them all there. Not that I've got a lot of them, either.
Goto Social
I keep a personal Gotosocial instance running because, well, I don't really know. I don't use it all that much, but it's just fun to have I guess. I do have a couple of accounts on it, one is a "normal" account and another is a "gallery" account. I like the idea of the separation, but I don't really want to have to invest in a lot of remote storage for the image hosting. All this said, most of my social stuff is on social.lol.
FreshRSS
I've run FreshRSS multiple times over the years and this last time is the one that has stuck around the longest. Like a lot users, I really, really liked Google's Reader (RIP), but when it went away I was kind of in a lurch for something else to use. Eventually I found this app and really liked it. I use the web reader for basically everything, and the mobile PWA on my phone. I do have elfeed (and elfeed-org) configured in my emacs setup to read from FreshRSS as a source, but don't really use it that much.
NextCloud
I'll admit that I don't actually "self host" this one, but I do use a provider for it - I just don't trust that I wouldn't have some kind of disaster occur should I lose stuff. Not that I've actually got a real backup or recovery plan in place. But then, I don't really have anything of uber importance out there, either. I use this for my "sync everything" system, it works for me and I'm the sole user.
Hardware
Phone: Samsung S25 Ultra SM-938U 512GB
My current device that gets the most use, with the exception of a work laptop, is my phone. I've been an Android user since we've been able to run Donut (I think it was Donut…) from the memory card slot of an HTC Kaiser TyTN II. I miss those days and I miss that device. I've still got it in a box somewhere. My previous phone was the Pixel 8 Pro, but that thing had some issues that were hampering usability for me to the point that I just don't think I could recommend people to use Pixel devices any more. Which, is sad, I'd been a Pixel fanboy since the OG - which is still on my night stand. Unlimited Google Photo storage FTW.
Laptop: Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 2
I think we'll call this one laptop 1, since I've got a fair number of them laying around, but it is my current favorite so it gets the main entry. Bought this second hand from ebay, it has a 4K non-touch screen, 32GB of ram, 500 GB storage, i7 intel cpu. It's currently running some version of Arch Linux (…btw), in the form of a base install with Arch Riot dotfiles/scripts added on. Who knows what it'll run next week, but it'll still be Arch.