I vibecoded a Rust alternative to Dawarich. It uses 30x less RAM.

A few months ago I wrote that Claude Code on FreeBSD is a game changer for self-hosters. I thought I had seen everything. I was wrong. 😅 Dawarich : a great app # Dawarich is a self-hosted alternative to Google Timeline. Your smartphone (via OwnTracks or Overland) sends its position to your server, and Dawarich shows you where you went : a map of your trips, a heatmap, the countries and cities you visited, distances, transport modes, statistics per year... It can even import your old Google Timeline history and plug into Immich to show the photos you took along the way. I love it. Opening the map in the evening and seeing my day drawn on it is satisfying. And having this data on my server rather than at Google's is the whole point of self-hosting. ... but a pain to install on FreeBSD # As usual, the official installation is a docker-compose.yml and good luck with the rest. Dawarich is a Ruby on Rails application, with a Puma web server, Sidekiq workers for background jobs, Redis for…