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UnbeholdenDigital sovereignty in practice

A shelf of hardware, a rented VPS, and no third parties in between.

I write about self-hosting, my homelab and network, Linux, agent tooling, and the small bits of config that make daily work less annoying. When the tool I need doesn't exist, I build it and put it here.

  • Getting my homelab into Git

    Two Proxmox hosts, a NAS and a small Kubernetes cluster, mostly described in two Git repositories. A dozen containers on one LXC aren't yet, so I'm moving them.

    31 October 2026 · 4 minutes

  • A Bitcoin wallet in a browser tab

    I'm building Unbeholden Wallet, a watch-only Bitcoin wallet that runs in a browser tab. There's nothing to install, it connects to a node of your choosing, and it never holds a key.

    22 October 2026 · 4 minutes

  • How much of your website is rented?

    I built Unbeholden Check as a small weekend project. Type a domain and it lists the services the site rents from other companies, shows the evidence for each, and names open source software that could take its place.

    16 October 2026 · 3 minutes

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