I hate these huge ass blobs called "libraries" with a passion. They are big, more often than not impossible to cut out just what you need, and depend on other libraries. It's an evil that needs to die in a fire.

Unless they are small and well written, which most aren't.

Hydrogen powered personal transport pods?

Can totally see your frustration. Making stuff work in all browsers without looking like regurgitated nonsense is also a right down pain.

Yeah, that's the next thing I would be butting my head against. I'd love to bring everything in-house, but the world fights me in this case. :/

Self hosted turnkey e-mail solutions that don't look like crap, aren't full of bloat, or don't depend on shit I don't want to touch with a 3 meter pole is harder to come by than a hen's teeth.

I'm not surprised, really.

That actually looks decent. By far the best I've stumbled across so far.

Exactly! Fifty-eleven different "solutions" that'll send me to dependency hell faster than I can say "omotenashi".

Open Source web mail looks like ass, more often than not. Not a good kind of ass either, mind you.

There really isn't a single good solution to do just what I want and need from any "personal cloud" service I can self host.