Vibe Coding on your own Hardware

Vibe coding is crazy fun. However, it's even more crazy fun if you're using open source vibe coding platforms, running on your own hardware, out of your own living room.

Yesterday I spent about 30 minutes configuring a newly acquired Mac Mini. Today you can literally visit my Mac Mini by clicking this link.Total price? $1,100, and 30 minutes of configuration!

The point being that if somebody wants to censor me, and/or spy on my private information, they'll literally have to smash in my door and physically seize the machine. And if I wanted to, I could have installed Linux on it, hardened it beyond absurdity, at which point even physical access to the box would not be able to extract PII. You can see my box below.

For the record, I wouldn't create WikiLeaks with the above configuration. The data is still passing through Cloudflare because of their tunnel technology. But no more "Zuckerberg didn't like my post, so he censored it". Simply because on your own hardware, you're your own Zucker, and your apps are your own Facebook!

And yes, it would be easy to vibe code your own social media website with Magic Cloud if you tried. Below is a video where I'm showing my setup, and talking a bit about it.

The easiest way to get started is to download Docker, and fire up this Docker Compose file.

version: "3.8"

services:
  backend:
    image: servergardens/magic-backend:latest
    platform: linux/amd64
    container_name: magic_backend
    restart: unless-stopped

    ports:
      - "4444:4444"

    volumes:
      - magic_files_etc:/magic/files/etc
      - magic_files_data:/magic/files/data
      - magic_files_config:/magic/files/config
      - magic_files_modules:/magic/files/modules

  frontend:
    image: servergardens/magic-frontend:latest
    container_name: magic_frontend
    restart: unless-stopped

    depends_on:
      - backend

    ports:
      - "5555:80"

volumes:
  magic_files_etc:
  magic_files_data:
  magic_files_config:
  magic_files_modules:

When you've got Docker working on localhost, just copy and paste the above file into ChatGPT, tell it what operating system you're on, and have it help you to create a Cloudflare tunnel - At which point you'll have your own privately served "Magic DIY Home Cloud".

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