— Amazon cut off every Kindle made before 2013 in May, so I turned mine into a weekly newspaper instead. It builds itself from RSS every Saturday and copies across when I plug the cable in. Wrote it up: a weekly newspaper for a cut-off Kindle.
This is nevrast.xyz — named after a coastal realm from Tolkien's Silmarillion.
I administer this server myself. It runs this page, my email, and a private RSS reader, on my own domain, with no dependency on a single company. If the server disappears, I replace it and point the domain elsewhere. Nothing here relies on someone else staying in business.
The base setup was inspired by Derek Sivers' Tech Independence guide.
I write up the setup as I go: adding a private RSS reader, self-hosting push notifications, self-hosting email, and a weekly newspaper for a cut-off Kindle, each with the code to reproduce it.
Not much else here yet. This page grows over time.
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— Amazon cut off every Kindle made before 2013 in May, so I turned mine into a weekly newspaper instead. It builds itself from RSS every Saturday and copies across when I plug the cable in. Wrote it up: a weekly newspaper for a cut-off Kindle.
— Wrote up three self-hosting guides: email, push notifications, and a private RSS reader. Also automated weekly encrypted backups of server configs, with ntfy telling me directly whether the backup worked.
— Registered nevrast.xyz. Site launched.