This Week in Self-Hosted (7 February 2025)

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This Week in Self-Hosted

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:

• Uptime Kuma's native support for certificate expiration notifications (relevant for anyone looking to fill the Let's Encrypt-sized hole in their heart homelab)
• The unfortunate passing of Don from Novaspirit Tech – a popular self-hosted YouTube content creator (see the video description for donation links)
• A new (satirical) manifesto/copypasta for the self-hosted community (archived on selfh.st as the original post has been removed)
• An alternate UI for the Awesome-Selfhosted software list recently released by a member of the community
• Recent accusations that Meta allegedly torrented ~80TB of pirated books to train its AI models (and even worse – they're bad seeders)
• A Redditor using a smart window sensor in Home Assistant to detect and track toilet flushes

Happy selfh.st/ing!

Software Updates

• Actual Budget v25.2.0 | Finances: Upcoming schedule length, interface language switching, disable category learning, combined accounts view on mobile
• Bar Assistant v4.4.0 | Bar Recipes: New calculator functionality, Prometheus metrics, recipe scrape support for Crafted Pour
• Baserow v1.31.0 | No-Code Database: Periodic data sync, shared view export, enhanced filtering capabilities
• ClipCascade v3.0.0 | Clipboard Sync: New peer-to-peer sync modes, new environment variables, signup options, brute-force protection, redesigned GUI
• Comic Library Utilities v1.0.0 | Comic Management: Redesigned interface, missing issues check, folder monitor renaming, enhanced logging
• Dokploy v0.18.0 | Deployment: Added Shlink URL shortener, Formbricks template, .env support for Dokploy stack compose
• Firefly III v6.2.0 | Personal Budgeting: Multi-currency support, notification support (Ntfy, Pushover, Slack, and Discord), additional security notifications
• Ghostboard v3.4.0 | Text Sync: Added REST API
• Git-Sync v0.17.0 | Repository Syncing: Support for Gitea platform
• Hoarder v0.22.0 | Read Later: Webhook and SingleFile support, summarization prompt customization, bookmark sorting
• Home Assistant v2025.2.0 | Home Automation: Unencrypted backups, new backup locations, voice improvements, new integrations
• HortusFox v4.0 | Plant Management: Inventory exports, inventory item tagging, API endpoint for adding plants, purified HTML code in chat
• LinkAce v2.0.0 | Bookmarks: Multi-user support, revamped user interface, SQLite and PostgreSQL support
• Many Notes v0.5.0 | Note-Taking: Authelia and Zitadel OAuth support, default view set to tree view panel, sort vaults by last open date
• Marreta v2.0.0 | Paywall Bypass: Redesigned homepage, removed Tailwind, additional AI blocks in robots.txt
• Memos v0.24.0 | Note-Taking: New shortcuts functionality for easy filtering
• nzb360 v20 | Media Manager: Dashboard 2.0 release including rewritten and new integrations, disable blurred backgrounds in Tautulli
• Papermark v0.18.0 | Document Sharing: Support for video files, custom access screen fields, screen shield protection, UI updates
• PeaNUT v5.0.0 | UPS Tools: Rewritten UI, direct config editing from settings page, new action menu for running commands
• PG Back Web v0.4.0 | Database Backups: PostgreSQL 17 support, custom listen host and port, UI improvements
• PinePods v0.7.3 | Podcasts: Full YouTube channel subscription support, seamless episode tracking, Nextcloud sync refinements, refined episode metadata
• Polaris v0.15.0 | Music Streaming: Browse collection by metadata, multi-value metadata, structure search query syntax, extract audio waveform data, configuration updates
• Proxmox Helper-Scripts: New scripts – Apache Tika, Baikal, Crafty Controller, Duplicati, Element Synapse, Koillection, Paperless-AI, Paymenter, Privatebin, Radicale, seelf, ZeroTier
• ShellHub v0.18.0 | Remote Access: Enhanced UI and terminal experience, Docker container access, HTTP tunnel support
• Stirling PDF v0.40.0 | PDF Editor: Redesigned dashboard interface
• Teable v1.6.0 | No-Code Database: Table trash, duplicate views, personal and locked views, AI integration, search engine optimization
• Tinyauth v2.1.0 | Authentication: Access controls for protected apps, Tailscale OAuth provider

New Software

• Actual Prometheus Exporter: Simple Prometheus exporter for Actual Budget
• BackHub: Simple GitHub repository backup tool
• CLIX: Plex terminal media player
• FluentFin: Native Windows client for Jellyfin
• Hercules: Open-source testing agent for web apps
• Immich-Go GUI: Graphical interface for Immich-Go
• Imply: Prediction markets with DeepSeek integration
• Kindly RSS Reader: RSS aggregator designed for e-ink devices
• Lume: Lightweight CLI and API for managing macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon
• Personal Finance Dashboard: Track financial accounts in a single place using the Plaid API
• QuickStack: Build, run, and monitor apps with an easy-to-use UI
• Samba Monitor: Web UI for smbstatus
• Seafile Custom Colors: Generate custom CSS themes for Seafile
• sm²: Syncthing multi-server monitor
• social-to-mealie: Import social media posts to Mealie
• SSH Commander: Command-line tool for executing commands across multiple SSH servers simultaneously
• TapNote: Minimal publishing platform based on Markdown
• Usertour: User onboarding platform

Latest Directory Apps

• BBYEN: YouTube subscription e-mail notifications
• Coral: Open-source commenting platform
• CWA Book Downloader: Interface for searching and requesting book downloads
• DumbWhoIs: Stupid simple WHOIS, IP, and ASN lookups
• ezBookkeeping: Lightweight personal bookkeeping app
• Live Blog: Live blogging platform for professionals
• LocalSend: Cross-platform local network file sharing
• Meelo: Music streaming server for collectors and music maniacs
• Music Service: Monitor, download, and sync online music with cloud storage providers
• Obico: Smart 3D printing platform
• OTS: One-time secret sharing platform
• Polaris: Self-hosted music streaming server
• Thrifty: Simple monthly income and expense tracker

Community Content

Non-Microblogging Software Design on ActivityPub (FOSDEM 2025)

The personal blog of Casey Kolderup

Authelia — Self-hosted Single Sign-On (SSO) for your homelab services

Authelia is a powerful authentication and authorization server that provides secure Single Sign-On (SSO) for all your self-hosted services. Perfect for adding an extra layer of security to your homelab.

Akash RajpurohitAkash Rajpurohit

A self-hosted Wikipedia (and other bits) clone, using kiwix on a Raspberry Pi 4

I thought that it might be a good idea to have a local (well, on my local network) copy of Wikipedia, and some other bits.

Securing SWAG

How to secure SWAG and prevent malicious activity

linuxserver.io

Content Spotlight: Ghostboard

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

What I'm Watching

• Sync Your Files With SyncThing Over LAN or WAN | Novaspirit Tech
• Water Cooled Raspberry Pi 3 | Novaspirit Tech
• ZimaCube Pro Is Great But Something Is Holding It Back... | Novaspirit Tech
• Moving My Dockers to Proxmox LXC Containers | Novaspirit Tech
• Install This Dashboard on Your Homelab now! | Novaspirit Tech
• Self Host Your Own Git Repository With Gitea!! | Novaspirit Tech

Command Line Corner: >

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-Hosted

Click here to view an archive of commands shared in previous newsletters.

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