2025-03-14 19:50:43
Happy almost-Saturday! I spent most of the week making various upgrades to my smart home infrastructure and dashboard (hello, ratgdo disco and HA Voice Preview), which likely means my weekend will be spent troubleshooting why most of it isn't working (I'm looking at you, Frigate presence detection...).
For readers that aren't masochists, here are a few other things worth checking out this weekend:
Happy selfh.st/ing!
Marcel van der Veldt
Mahavir Jain
Andy Walker
Jordan Maris
Ethan Sholly
Ethan Sholly
Daniel Gerdesmann
Dhruv Bhutani
Meet Cup, a lightweight platform for monitoring container image updates. Built for speed and minimal resource requirements, Cup allows users to easily check for container updates from its minimal web interface and/or CLI tool (which displays a neat table of results directly in the terminal). Features include extensibility via JSON output (ideal for webhooks and dashboards), agent deployments for monitoring updates from a single machine, authenticated endpoints, and a lack of rate limits when checking for updates.
Cup can be easily deployed via Docker or as a binary, with configuration options for running via CLI, web interface, or agent mode.
Links: Website, Source Code
Use echo *.<filetype> to list of all files of a specified filetype from the command line:
$ echo *.txt
this.txt week.txt in.txt self.txt hosted.txt
Jeff Raymakers and Gabor Szarnyas
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2025-03-07 20:48:49
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The past few months have been great for self-hosters looking to organize their personal finances (it is tax season, after all). Established platforms like Firefly III and Actual Budget (note the recent repository move) continue to evolve, while a surge of new and innovative apps like Maybe, Monetr, Investbrain, Subscription Manager, DumbBudget, and Thrifty have entered the scene.
This week, three new apps joined the mix – the hilariously named DollarDollar Bill Y'all (second only to a GitHub handle I recently stumbled across, beans-are-gross), Envelofy, and Personal Accountant.
On another note, I received some flack last week for poking fun at the Immich devs for prioritizing the platform's new mascot over a feature I've personally been looking forward to (yes, they were in on it). I had planned to make a formal apology this week until I noticed they dropped another release that again left me feeling neglected as they instead celebrated 60k GitHub stars (is that a lot?).
If you need me before next Friday, I'll be busy making the transition back to Google Photos while enjoying this custom CSS for styling a Flame dashboard to look like the Lumon MDR terminals from Severance.
Happy selfh.st/ing!
Ghost
Marcel van der Veldt
Anand
Jason Tucker
Elena Rossini
Akash Rajpurohit
Ric
Diego Siqueira
Fanyang Meng
Meet SimpleHomelab, a website dedicated to homelab guides, content, and software deployment. Recently re-branded from SmartHomeBeginner, SimpleHomelab is known for its extensive multi-part guides covering beginner and advanced topics, as well as Deployarr – a custom-built platform for easily deploying 125+ popular self-hosted apps. The site also has an accompanying YouTube channel with a suite of videos covering Docker, Traefik, Proxmox, and more.
Anand
Disclaimer: SimpleHomelab is an occasional affiliate and sponsor of selfh.st. No affiliate links were used in the writing of this feature.
Links: Website
Use curl wttr.in to view a three-day weather forecast directly from the command line (see repo here for additional details on how this works):
$ curl wttr.in
Weather for City: Paris, France
\ / Clear
.-. 10 – 11 °C
― ( ) ― ↑ 11 km/h
`-’ 10 km
/ \ 0.0 mm
Sean Tilley
Sarah Perez
Jacob Stopak
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2025-02-28 20:45:43
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Novu
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Another week, another major release from the self-hosted project everyone loves to hate. The team behind the popular cloud storage platform Nextcloud introduced v31 and Hub 10 to the community this week, touting deeper integration across its ecosystem and performance improvements (including thousands of tweaks) to its UX. And say what you want about the project based on your own personal anecdotes, but their fight against big tech is undeniably a net positive for the self-hosted and open-source communities.
I also pushed some significant updates to selfh.st/apps this week, including bookmarks support (via local browser storage), new sort options, and a cool new way to easily share custom views using a vanity URL I recently acquired (I apparently hate vowels). To see it in action, click here --> slfh.st/fEaOs <– for a custom view of the apps added to the directory this past week.
Other activity from the week you might be interested in:
Happy selfh.st/ing!
Mikhail Korotaev
MongoDB, Inc.
Miranda Bishop
262588213843476
Radosław Skupnik
Ric
Meet Upvote RSS, a self-hosted RSS feed generator for popular social aggregation sites like Reddit, Hacker News, and Lemmy. With Upvote RSS, users can easily create their own curated feeds of subreddits, HN post types (Best, Top, New, Ask, etc.), and Lemmy communities based on configuration options that include post scores, thresholds, and number of posts per day. Users also have the ability to specify the content to be included in each feed item (score, article content, comments) as well as filters for NSFW or older posts.
Upvote RSS can be easily installed via Docker and does not require any additional services, although Reddit users will need to register their own app on the platform for API access.
Links: Source Code, Website
Use ; to run multiple commands in succession (unlike last week's && tip, the second command will run regardless of the first's success):
/$ mkdir test_folder; cd test_folder
/test_folder$ _
Kari Rivas
Abhishek
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2025-02-21 20:49:19
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UI Bakery
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Happy Friday! I've spent the past several weeks redesigning the newsletter's software listings to improve the reading experience on both mobile and desktop devices. Starting today, the following changes have been implemented:
Major design changes can be difficult to implement given newsletters are digested across a number of mediums (various e-mail clients and browsers, RSS readers, etc.). I'm also not a professional UI/graphic designer. So as usual, please feel free to reach out if you discover any bugs or readability issues with the new layouts.
In self-hosted news, it was a bit of a slow week. Pi-hole's v6 release was arguably the biggest event on my radar, although I think Obsidian's decision to make their commercial license optional for professional use will also be of great interest to the large number of readers using it to document their infrastructure.
Lastly, there was a bit of a panic on Reddit this week over a recent decision by the popular music streaming platform Navidrome to implement anonymous data collection. While I'll leave the ethicality of enabling it by default to individual readers, I also think it's fair to call out that the project is transparent about the data it collects and that it can be easily disabled with a configuration option.
Happy selfh.st/ing!
Arduino Team
Paul Sawers
Akash Rajpurohit
Elena Rossini
Ric
Meet Eigenfocus, an all-in-one project management app for individuals and teams. With Eigenfocus, users can easily track the various aspects and lifecycles of a project with features including issue tracking, workflows, labels, Kanban boards, and time tracking. Still in the early stages of development, the team also plans to release a pro version that includes additional features surrounding user management and custom views/reports.
Links: Source Code, Website
Use && to execute a second command only if the first succeeds:
/$ mkdir test_folder && cd test_folder
/test_folder$ _
Richard Speed
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2025-02-14 20:53:27
Happy I Love Free Software Day! It was yet another busy week for both new and existing projects – perfect timing given we're not celebrating any other major holidays that will require us to spend time with loved ones this weekend...
A few specific happenings that caught my eye:
I've also added a new section to the newsletter this week (Project Updates) to assist users in tracking various project updates that aren't software-specific (licenses, websites, images, etc.). For the keen-eyed observers, the new section also includes an easier-to-read format that I'll be transitioning the other sections to in the coming weeks.
Happy selfh.st/ing!
Navaneeth Padanna Kalathil
Mike Hansen
Megan Ellis
Ric
XtremeOwnage
Meet WeddingShare, a self-hosted photo sharing platform for bride-and-grooms-to-be. With WeddingShare, wedding guests can easily upload and share their own photos from the big day directly from a drag-and-drop web interface. Features include multiple galleries, QR code generation for easy sharing, private galleries, various display modes, notifications, and themes.
WeddingShare can be easily installed via Docker and doesn't require any additional containers to deploy. As usual, users should exercise caution and consider adequate backup strategies before self-hosting precious data.
Links: Source Code, Docs
Use >> to append characters to the end of an existing file:
/$ cat example.txt
This Week in
/$ echo "Self-Hosted" >> example.txt
/$ cat example.txt
This Week in
Self-HostedClick here to view an archive of commands shared in previous newsletters.
Paul Sawers
Sarah Perez
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2025-02-07 20:51:36
Happy it's-somehow-already-February, self-hosters! Enjoy the unusually high number of notable software updates this week and a few other things that caught my eye:
Happy selfh.st/ing!
Akash Rajpurohit
Meet Ghostboard, a lightweight application built for real-time text sharing and synchronization. An alternative to clipboard sync programs, Ghostboard allows users to easily share text between clients via a minimal web interface. Features include real-time sync, multiple boards, Markdown support, dark mode, and a command line tool for accessing the text.
Ghostboard can be easily installed via bare metal or Docker. Users should also note the project's security warning before exposing the application to external users.
Links: Source Code
Use > to write the output of a command to a specified file:
/$ echo "This Week in Self-Hosted" > example.txt
/$ cat example.txt
This Week in Self-HostedClick here to view an archive of commands shared in previous newsletters.
Hayden James
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