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Subscribed live via Miniflux API; mirroring back to the canonical OPML so a fresh deploy elsewhere starts with the same feed set. All three land in the existing 'Subreddits — selfhosting' category (retitled to mention image-gen + LLM + homelab to reflect scope).
Miniflux
Minimal self-hosted RSS reader (miniflux.app, Apache 2.0, ~30 MB Go single-binary). One unified inbox for tech blogs, Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and selected subreddits.
Why this stack
The fleet doesn't have a feed reader yet. Reddit subreddits expose
clean RSS feeds at https://reddit.com/r/<sub>/.rss, so subscribing
to your relevant subs alongside HN / blogs gives you a single place
to scan recent activity — no Reddit account needed, no polling
multiple sites by hand.
Self-hosted on ana-docker (10.250.50.70). Postgres bundled in the
stack rather than sharing pfi-postgres — keeps the dependency graph
flat and the DB is tiny (single-user).
Deploy
scripts/elway ana-docker --playbook playbooks/deploy-miniflux.yaml
Cold deploy budget: ~250 MB image pull (postgres:16 + miniflux), ~10 s startup, ~1 s warmup.
After deploy, the .env on ana-docker still has placeholder passwords — edit those before first start succeeds:
ssh ana-docker '
cd /opt/docker/compose/miniflux
sed -i "s|^MINIFLUX_DB_PASSWORD=.*|MINIFLUX_DB_PASSWORD=$(openssl rand -base64 24)|" .env
sed -i "s|^MINIFLUX_ADMIN_PASSWORD=.*|MINIFLUX_ADMIN_PASSWORD=$(openssl rand -base64 18)|" .env
grep ^MINIFLUX_ADMIN_PASSWORD .env # one-time copy this for first login
docker compose up -d
'
Then login at http://10.250.50.70:8080 with the username from .env
(lkraven by default) and the printed admin password.
Initial feed setup — OPML import
A starter OPML at stacks/miniflux/starter-feeds.opml covers:
- Hacker News + Lobste.rs
- r/selfhosted, r/homelab, r/LocalLLaMA
- r/nba (with spoiler caveat — see below)
Import via Miniflux UI: Settings → Import → Choose File → select the OPML → Submit. All feeds appear in their categories; first refresh fetches the most recent posts within seconds.
r/nba spoiler block-list
Subreddit-RSS titles for game-day threads include final scores
(e.g. Lakers 108 - Warriors 102 [Final]). Miniflux supports
per-feed regex block rules to skip these.
After importing the OPML:
-
Go to Feeds → click r/nba → Edit Feed
-
In the Block Filter field, paste:
\b\d{2,3}\s*[-–]\s*\d{2,3}\b|\[Final|Final Score|Game Thread.*\d{2,3} -
Save. Past matching entries stay (they were already fetched); future fetches skip score-bearing headlines. Discussion threads, highlights, and meta-content still come through.
If a real post slips through with a score in the title, refine the regex.
Adding subreddits later
Reddit RSS URL patterns:
| URL | Returns |
|---|---|
https://reddit.com/r/<sub>/.rss |
Newest posts (firehose) |
https://reddit.com/r/<sub>/top/.rss?t=day |
Top-of-day (less spam) |
https://reddit.com/r/<sub>/top/.rss?t=week |
Top-of-week |
https://reddit.com/r/<sub>/hot/.rss |
Currently hot |
top/.rss?t=day is the lowest-noise option for high-volume subs
where you want highlights only.
In Miniflux: Feeds → New Feed → URL, paste, pick a category.
Backup
Miniflux state lives in the named volume miniflux-db-data. To
include in restic, add a pre-backup.sh step on ana-docker that
dumps the DB to a stage path:
docker exec miniflux-db pg_dump -U miniflux miniflux \
> /var/lib/restic/stage/miniflux.sql
Then restic's regular sweep picks up the SQL file. Subscriptions and read-state are tiny (~MB even with months of history); the dump is fast.
Updating
ssh ana-docker '
cd /opt/docker/compose/miniflux
sed -i "s|^MINIFLUX_VERSION=.*|MINIFLUX_VERSION=<new>|" .env
docker compose pull miniflux
docker compose up -d
'
Migrations run automatically on container start (RUN_MIGRATIONS=1
in compose.yaml).