My favorite thing to self host is my RSS feed reader. I’m a huge fan of feedbin but I wanted to self host. I tried the usual self hosted RSS feed readers but I just prefer the way feedbin is laid out and how it works. So, I used Claude to create a self hosted clone of feedbin but with my personal modification to fit my workflow.

• Customized keyboard shortcuts for next and previous.
• I added webmention support which allows me:
  • Determine if a site supports webmentions
  • Allows me to send a webmention like
  • Allows me to send a webmention comment
• I can share and sydicate a link from my feed reader to my website
• I can save a link as a blog idea, like if I want to respond or write about a topic for example.
• Custom filters so I can basically mute certain keywords from me feed.

Short version, and Deebster’s got the shape right: use a DNS-01 challenge. You prove domain control with a TXT record instead of serving a file over HTTP, so the hostname never has to be reachable from the internet. That’s what gets you a real Let’s Encrypt cert for a LAN-only name.

Mine’s acme.sh issuing a wildcard for *.lan.michaelharley.net via my registrar’s DNS API (Porkbun), with a deploy hook dropping it where Caddy reads it. Caddy’s own Cloudflare plugin is simpler, I just already had acme.sh. Local DNS is a wildcard rewrite on my router.