Retric's thoughts

Swimming in my own thoughts

I wrote about tech, daily life and other stuff. Below are some collections.

Why Self-Host Is Supposed to Be Broken

0.1 CKB

People are scared of self-hosting. They worry about uptime, about security, about what happens when the server crashes at 3 AM. And I get it — those are real concerns if you're running a bank or a...

selfhost, ai, philosophy

Make Self-Host Great Again: How I Use Fiber and OpenClaw to Run a Podcast Payment Service

0.1 CKB

An experiment about running a streaming micropayment business on a home-built PC, without public IP, and managing it through Discord (with a little help from AI agent). TL;DR I built Fiber Audio...

selfhost, fiber, openclaw

What Web5 Means to Me

0.1 CKB

While building Pocket Wallet — an experimental nostr-based wallet on CKB blockchain — I found myself thinking a lot about what Web5 actually means in practice. Here are some thoughts from the...

web5, selfhost, decentralization