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This Week in Self-Hosted (12 July 2024)

Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and a spotlight on Docmost - a self-hosted collaborative documentation platform

The latest in self-hosted news, software, and content
This Week in Self-Hosted

This (and Last) Week in Self-Hosted

Last week, I shared a link to a new project titled ButtonBox that allowed users to predefine shell commands to be run from the click of a button via web interface. A few days before publishing, the developer archived the project and instead transitioned efforts to collaborating on a similar existing project, OliveTin. A ButtonBox theme is now available if you had already grown attached to the look-and-feel of the short-lived project.

In other site-related news, I dropped some major quality-of-life updates to selfh.st/apps this week, including:

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

Substack rival Ghost federates its first newsletter | TechCrunch
Over the past few days, Ghost says it has achieved two major milestones in its move to become a federated service.
TechCrunchSarah Perez
Nine Years of BookStack · BookStack
Today the BookStack project becomes 9 years old! Like last year’s post, and the years before it, we’ll take this as an opportunity to provide an update on the status of the project including the financials, current development status, and the growth figures.
BookStack

Software Updates

New Software

Breaking Changes

Latest Directory Apps

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Community Content

Your data, your power: the Fediverse’s big advantage over the walled gardens of Big Tech
On mainstream social media platforms connection is the illusion; ad targeting is the real objective. The independent social networks of the Fediverse offer a revolutionary alternative - where users hold all the power. The future is: decentralized relationships
Elena RossiniElena Rossini
Outlook.com and self-hosted email-servers » andreas.heigl.org
How to remove a self hosted email-server from microsofts internal blocklists for outlook.de, outlook.com and hotmail.com
andreas.heigl.orgAndreas Heigl
Using S3 as a container registry
For the last four months I’ve been developing a custom container image builder, collaborating with Outerbounds1. The technical details of the builder itself might be the topic of a future article, but there’s something surprising I wanted to share already: you can use S3 as a container registry! You heard it right. All it takes is to expose an S3 bucket through HTTP and to upload the image’s files to specific paths.
Adolfo Ochagavía

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Self-Hosted Applications and Alternatives
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Content Spotlight: Docmost

Meet Docmost, a self-hosted collaboration and documentation platform. Serving as an open-source alternative to popular services like Notion and Confluence, Docmost provides workspaces for project management and documentation with support for real-time collaboration across teams. Features include real-time editing, spaces, permissions management, groups, comments, search, attachments, and basic authentication.

Docmost is currently in beta and only supports installation via Docker. Separate PostgreSQL and Redis services are also required.

A screenshot of a sample Docmost page, with a navigation menu on the left and editor in the center/right
Screenshot from the project's repository

Links: Website, GitHub, Documentation

What We're Watching

What We're Listening To

Can’t Fix What You Don’t Track
Chris gets serious about tracking maintenance and alerts, why Alex is impressed by the RISC-V-powered NanoKVM, how we might end up using Docmost, and a follow-up review of LubeLogger.
Self-HostedJupiter Broadcasting
Welcome Homepage
Martin create a homepage dashboard, Mark composes Bass with Tux Guitar, and Alan visualises source code with Gource
Linux Matters

Command Line Corner: Ctrl + r

Use Ctrl + r to search for a previously used command directly from the command line:

/$ (reverse-i-search): 'docker compo': docker compose up -d ghost

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

Related News and Content

Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning
In an interview Sony gave to AV Watch recently, the company admitted it’s going to “gradually end development and production” of recordable Blu-rays and other optical disc…
TechSpotZo Ahmed

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