Today, I was trying simply setup a local installation of Plausible on my mac. I read through the self-hosting guide, and exclaimed: “How hard can it be?”. Famous last words, huh?

Everything started fine according to docker and the logs, but I could not access the Plausible web portal at the designated port. I think I wasted a few hours tweaking the docker-compose file, reinstalling docker-desktop, and then finally I gave up. I caved. I thought, probably I was not cut out to do use this fancy new cool analytic software.

But then I remembered the wise words from The IT Crowd.

… and of course it started working after a reboot. And this is why programmers drink.