> Notes and complaints about self-hosting, homelab software, and every tool that was good until it had a funding round.
> Source: https://orochibraru.com/blog · Site index: https://orochibraru.com/llms.txt

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# Things that annoyed me.

Write-ups on self-hosting and homelab software: what broke, why it broke, and what I built
instead, so the next person hitting the same wall skips the weekend I lost.

21 September 2026

## Why I rewrote semantic-release in Go

semantic-release does one job and buries it under a plugin registry, a .releaserc, and a node_modules folder heavier than the project it's releasing. I looked at GoReleaser too, wrong tool for a different job. Releaser is the same four steps and a single Go binary.

[More →](/blog/why-i-rewrote-semantic-release-in-go)

19 September 2026

## Why Penombre dropped S3 support

S3 support sounded like the "enterprise-ready" checkbox to tick. It was actually a bet against the entire premise of the project. It's gone now, here's why.

[More →](/blog/why-penombre-is-dropping-s3-support)

19 September 2026

## Homerun and Penombre are both getting a Go worker

Deploys dragged on Homerun, uploads dragged on Penombre, and Homerun's releases were pushing 800MB. Here's why the fix for both is the same worker, written in Go.

[More →](/blog/homerun-and-penombre-are-both-getting-a-go-worker)

9 September 2026

## This is where I rant

Why there is a blog on a site that exists to give software away, and what is going to end up on it.

[More →](/blog/this-is-where-i-rant)