Forgot to post yesterday 😭 but I realized the topic I wanted to talk about needed some sitting down on a proper keyboard.

What I’ve been keeping busy about outside of work recently was moving away from subscriptions.

Here’s what I’ve cut so far and what I’ve replaced it with:

• Notes/Workspace: Obsidian Sync -> Syncthing across 5 devices that I regularly use
• Music: Spotify -> Jellyfin w/ Feishin (Desktop & Web), Finamp (Android), and Manet (iOS)
• Photos: iCloud - Jellyfin (although I only do photo backups after travelling anyway)
• Git Server: GitHub - Forgejo
• Password manager : Bitwarden - VaultWarden
• Agentic Coding¹: Cursor -> OpenCode free tier with DeepSeek v4 Flash when I run out of requests (I very rarely do, and most of the time I just go back to coding by hand)

I used to have my self-hosted stuff on a Raspberry Pi, but putting all of your files in a 32 GB SD card wasn’t really the best idea. It eventually failed and I slipped back to relying on third-party services. I now got tired of paying for it, though, and with some tweaks in my homelab infrastructure, it became easy again to spin up services.

I could more into detail with specific services, but I don’t think I have anything to add except for links to the projects 😂.

*This is post #2 for my first 100 Days To Offload challenge.