James Read's Code, Containers & Cloud blog

One of my favourite topics to talk about with anyone is self hosting. Some people refer to home automation, some people call it homelabs - I have both, and many other systems, in a fairly vast environment where everything is self hosted. I truly believe that self hosting is the best way to really understand lots of aspects of technology, privacy, and how to efficiently build and secure systems. “So, what do you self host?

This is a very quick blog post, intended as a note to look back on, or to share with with people quickly - a snapshot of my AI usage in November 2025. It’s likely that this will change rapidly over the next few months and years, so I want to capture a moment in time. 80% of my queries now land in AI, 20% in traditional search engines. It will be interesting to see how this changes over time!