I ended up prototyping self hosted https://woodpecker-ci.org/ on my k8s cluster. Ended up taking just a few hours of AI time (Claude Code). Woodpecker has a helm chart, can connect to Github and post status checks to commits.
Open to feedback or tips and tricks on this, but so far it's looking promising. Curious how other folks experience has been.
This is one of the reasons I picked a small, dedicated email provider [1] over Google Workspace for my corporate emails. If Google flips out and ban hammers us for no reason, my company will still be able to reach clients and work on projects. Apple, Google and Facebook are way too trigger happy with automated bans and no recourse.
I'm a night owl C-suite (CTO), but with all of my peers as you describe.
It's possible to make it work, you have to be very firm on your boundaries. One option that worked for me was to explain that I can effectively do more timezone coverage despite being in the same Geo-zone.
It also helped to showcase the work I do while they are offline, so when they wake up they see a column of work that has been bounced back across to their plate.
It is definitely hard though, and takes the right crowd who respects you enough to make it work.
It's probably impossible to do this as a CEO though.
The challenge that I face is Calibre absolutely craters after 20,000+ ebooks.
I understand that most folks probably have 10-300 books, but in my case I have some large libraries I tried to use with Calibre, and it just absolutely DIES.
The steadfast decision to exclusively use SQLite doesn't help. I opened a PR back in 2016 or so, but the maintainer was quite enthusiastically opposed to changing the DB layer or making it pluggable.
I was able to set up fiber link aggregation with triple NICs and a custom VLAN and MTU with no issues. It supports bridges and child interfaces just fine.
I have been a long time customer of the enterprise version of Streamdal, and I can confidently say Daniel and Ustin are absolutely KILLER engineers. Any time we spoke I always was impressed by their super deep experience and understanding of modern challenges!
So good to see you getting some love on HN. Excited to implement this in some personal projects as well!
This looks amazing! Do you have a sample kubernetes deployment or helm chart we could use? I'd love to deploy the metrics collector on my k3s and have all my servers stream in data.
Open to feedback or tips and tricks on this, but so far it's looking promising. Curious how other folks experience has been.