Self-Hosting like it's 2025

If any self hosters are burnt out by the state of config management tools and YAML, consider giving Etcha a shot (https://etcha.dev).

It's stateful (cleans up things when they're no longer in your config), procedural (you control the flow and can trigger things as needed), and supports flexible deployment models (push or pull). Full disclosure, I created it and use it across my business and personal devices.

> It's started (cleans up things when they're no longer in your config)...

Would you please call this something else?

"It automatically reconciles", perhaps? I know that a multi-word phrase isn't nearly as snappy, but not only are "it's started" and "started" overloaded with a bunch of meanings, approximately zero of them mean what you want them to mean in this new context.

Sorry, autocorrect changed stateful to started.

Ye olde autodefect makes fools of us all, eventually.

(As does the ever-present HN urge to downvote things for no comprehensible reason. Seriously, why the fuck would someone downvote an honest explanation for a typo? Animals, I guess.)