This Week in Self-Hosted (11 April 2025)
Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, April 11, 2025
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This Week in Self-Hosted
It's no surprise to regular readers of my content that I'm a big fan of Hoarder, a bookmark-slash-read-later platform launched in 2024. This week – two months after announcing the project was being threatened with legal action for copyright infringement – it was officially rebranded to Karakeep. (According to the dev, the name was inspired by a similar Arabic word that means clutter or odds and ends that hold personal value or hidden usefulness.)
If you've deployed Hoarder, note the repo's org and name change and monitor upcoming updates closely for any impacts this might have on you.
A few other things that piqued my interest this week:
- I discovered Cloudflare and Bitwarden both have very useful tools for managing SSH keys
- Tailscale announced it recently raised $160 million in
tote bag salesa new round of funding (cue the onslaught of dialogue concerning its eventual enshittification) - Plex released a somewhat tone-deaf response to the many criticisms of its new mobile app (by the way, whatever happened to Plex Photos?)
- I finally noticed the Homepage icon isn't just a bookmark – the bottom forms the shape of a house
Happy selfh.st/ing!
In the News
Key insights from the 2025 State of Open Source Report
Each year, the State of Open Source Report offers a valuable pulse check on the global Open Source ecosystem—and the 2025 edition is no exception. Produced by Perforce OpenLogic, in partnership with the Eclipse Foundation and the Open Source Initiative, this report uncovers the latest trends, tensions, and transformations shaping how Open Source is adopted, managed, and scaled in organizations of all sizes.
Nick Vidal
It’s Been One Week With the New Experience on Mobile—And We’re Just Getting Started
What a week! We kicked off the rollout to a small percentage of our newly updated Plex mobile app for iOS and Android, and we want to start by saying a huge thank you to everyone who’s jumped in—explored, shared feedback, and helped shape the future of Plex mobile. We’ve heard from so many of you across the forums, Reddit, and beyond. Your passion is loud and clear—and that’s exactly what we love about this community. Let’s Talk About What’s Happening We’ve been building this new mobile exper…
PlexInfo
MAS migration unleashes Element X on Matrix.org
With MAS having landed on the matrix.org server, Element X is now by far the best way to manage your matrix.org account on mobile.
Steve Loynes
Tailscale raises $160 Million (USD) Series C to build the New Internet
Tailscale has raised $160 million USD ($230 million CAD) in our Series C, led by Accel with participation from CRV, Insight Partners, Heavybit, Uncork Capital — and new investment from Anthony Casalena - CEO of Squarespace.
Software Updates
New configuration system (JSON) and admin panel, notifications, meta info for blocks, web clipper
New import wizard, streamlined UI for usernames/passwords, improved vault search functionality
Simplified user management, new asset statuses, improved file handling, mobile app enhancements, Docker improvements
Container volume and environment variables updates
Added table of contents, ability to delete user accounts, move pages between spaces
Cluster instances behind a reverse proxy, configuration for replacing Nginx as desired
Support for GPS visualization, fetch BMI and weight data, upgraded heart rate data visual, new last sync time and battery level visuals
Display a person's age when a photo was taken based on Immich birthday, display only known named people, history, new webhooks
Rebranded from 'Hoarder', store assets in separate directory via environment variable, store and index author/publisher link attributes
Text highlighting, search improvements, tag-based preservation, external AI provider tagging, worker management
Access token in shares for authentication, shortened share links, resource visibility toggle
Create teams, manager users and permissions, scroll depth and engagement time on page metrics, group filters into persistent named presets
New script: OpenProject
Speaker diarization, improved authentication, UI enhancements, optimized container deployment
Resend functionality replaced with generic SMTP (new environment variables)
License update, improved plugins system, theme upgrade, Scratchpad updates
OAuth and OIDC support, redesigned settings
New Software
Generate, animate, and schedule AI characters
AI-powered application for generating story relationships between book characters
User-friendly Python tool for synchronizing subtitles
Publish Sonarr and Radarr release calendars to Discord
Honeypot and threat feed server
Execute sets of commands in project directories
Fully native Android and iOS mobile client for Home Assistant
Search Lidarr libraries for missing music and trigger searches
Simple search wrapper with customizable bangs
Simple terminal-based tool for renaming and organizing TV show files
Python-based application for monitoring the health of Tailscale devices
Simple dashboard with a consolidated view of container update statuses
Multi-feature website monitor
Latest Directory Apps
Simple expense tracking system
Modern streaming video on demand platform
Drop-in replacement REST API for OpenAI
Docker container log monitoring and notifications
Web-based project management software
Statistics and analytics service for Jellyfin
XR-friendly shells in the browser
Project Updates
Repository:
arpanghosh8453/public-fitbit-projects --> arpanghosh8453/fitbit-grafana
Name:
Hoarder --> Karakeep
Repository:
hoarder-app/hoarder --> karakeep-app/karakeep
License:
GPL-3.0 --> Apache-2.0
Website:
https://whodb.clidey.com --> https://whodb.com
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Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
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Miniflux Is the Last RSS Reader I’ll Ever Need
A self-hosted feed reader that doesn’t try to be clever. Just fast, quiet, and functional.
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Replacing Maps Timeline With Owntracks
Why move? Where to go? Setting it all up MQTT Owntracks Recorder Importing Timeline Data Using Home Assistant as location tracer Timeline is (sort of) shutting down Does this look familiar?
Maps has been nagging me about Timeline going device-only for quite a few months now. That means that it will no longer be accesible in a browser, only on the local device Google Maps app. And while I’ve been phasing out Google services for a while now it’s finally the push I needed to seriously look into alternatives for this particular use case.
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Content Spotlight: Streamystats
Meet Streamystats, a self-hosted platform for tracking and viewing Jellyfin watch and listen data. Similar to tools like Tautulli for Plex, Streamystats tracks a variety of statistics that can be used to visualize and analyze users trends, library statistics, and media consumption over time. Features include live sessions, user-specific watch histories, popular item tracking, watch time graphs, support for multiple servers and users, and sync options.
(The application's developer is also the lead developer behind Streamyfin, a popular mobile iOS and Android Jellyfin client!)
Streamystats can be easily installed via Docker and requires a separate PostgreSQL database for external data storage.
Links: Source Code
Videos and Podcasts
- Leaving Linux | Linux Prepper Podcast
- Improving Security with Hardware Keys - Authentik & Pocket-ID | Jim's Garage
- DNS Failover designs for Home Lab | VirtualizationHowTo
- I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud | Jeff Geerling
- What hardware runs in my HomeLab in 2025? | Christian Lempa
Command Line Corner: curl wttr.in
Use curl wttr.in to view a formatted forecast of the local weather directly from the terminal:
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