3 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"

I have a perfectly good Ricoh SP 112 laser printer. The hardware still works, but it is USB-only and getting it to print from a modern Apple Silicon Mac was far more difficult than it should have been.

A community driver existed, but installing it involved old dependencies and manual configuration. I wanted something simpler: open a normal macOS package, add the printer in System Settings and print.

I also wanted to connect the printer to my Unraid server so that every computer on the network could use it without moving a USB cable around.

I used Codex with GPT-5.6 Sol on high to do most of the work. I gave it the old driver and asked it to turn it into something I could install normally on my Mac, then added the Unraid setup. After a few rounds of testing and cleanup, I had a much smaller driver, a macOS installer and a Docker container.

I've always wanted to have my own domain and be able to send and receive emails using it. What I don't like are monthly subscriptions.

This guide explains how I managed to set up a custom domain with my existing Gmail inbox, all without a monthly cost. The only cost is a domain if you don't already have one.

The goals:

• use your existing inbox with a custom domain,
• send and receive emails with the custom domain,
• be completely free (besides for the domain cost)

I recently wanted to access a service on my local computer remotely. The problem was that I generally use a VPN, which means there is no straightforward way to set up port forwarding (at least with my provider).