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Toby Kurien
Personal blog · tobykurien.comsystemsprogramming
Toby Kurien's personal blog at tobykurien.com covers systems and programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Simpler Linux self-hosting with tmux and bubblewrap”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as a description of self-hosting Linux services outside Docker, running them in tmux loops and sandboxing them with bubblewrap, plus a script to list, start and stop them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Simpler Linux self-hosting with tmux and bubblewrap3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-10-16
What Hacker News says?
Main disadvantages: restart services if they crash (so run them in a loop); security and isolation of services from each other and the OS; restart services on reboot. I've solved these problems: https://tobykurien.com/simpler-linux-selfhosting/
Comment linking /simpler-linux-selfhosting/
on “Getting Started with Tmux”Submitted Simpler Linux self-hosting with tmux and bubblewrap as a story · 16 points
HN discussionhaha, exactly what I've been doing (yes, sleep 10 as well!) I also added bubblewrap for security and wrapped it all up in a nice script to list/stop/start services, see https://tobykurien.com/simpler-linux-selfhosting/
Comment linking /simpler-linux-selfhosting/
on “Getting Started with Tmux”Submitted Simpler Linux self-hosting with tmux and bubblewrap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've only recently started running my servers this way, and I've taken this to the next level with bubblewrap: https://tobykurien.com/simpler-linux-selfhosting/
Comment linking /simpler-linux-selfhosting/
on “Getting Started with Tmux”Submitted Bubblewrapped User Services on Linux as a story · 1 points
HN discussion