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This Week in Self-Hosted (30 August 2024)

Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and a spotlight on Calibre-Web Automated - a consolidated web app for Calibre and Calibre-Web

This Week in Self-Hosted (30 August 2024)
This Week in Self-Hosted

This Week in Self-Hosted

Tides of Change

Plex announced they'll be dropping Tidal integration in late October this week. Their third-party offerings/integrations have personally never come off as incredibly appealing – but some of the Reddit reactions to this news lead me to believe more will be impacted than previously thought.

I Think I'm Having an Asterism

Meet the asterism (⁂) – the proposed new symbol for the fediverse that has been gaining traction this past week. It's supposed to represent the various networks that come together to create the decentralized web, but the jury is still out on whether the community will be willing to accept it with open arms. Regardless, it isn't the worst social rebrand we've witnessed in the recent past.

In the News

Plan Less, Do More: Introducing Appointment By Thunderbird - The Thunderbird Blog
Thunderbird has a new project under its wing: Appointment. Learn all about our approach to appointment scheduling, and try it yourself.
The Thunderbird BlogRyan Sipes
New 2GB Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings | Jeff Geerling
Jeff Geerling
Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again
Elastic is adding AGPL as an open source license option to Elasticsearch alongside ELv2 and SSPL.…
ElasticShay Banon

Software Updates

New Software

Latest Directory Apps

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Community Content

Why I still self host my servers (and what I’ve recently learned)
A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently.
Christian Hollinger
Home Assistant Chore Tracker 2.0: Part 1 Chore Tracker Setup - Smart Home Sysadmin
This guide will show you how to create a Chore Tracker (with optional Points system) in Home Assistant. Some of you may remember my “Chore Tracker with Points System” guide I created a couple years ago. I STILL see that guide being shared in almost every Reddit post or Home Assistant Community Forum post where…
Smart Home SysadminDanny
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin)
An exploration of Fediverse content aggregators as an alternative to Reddit, with a twist: the magic of ActivityPub, allowing communication with other Fediverse projects
Elena RossiniElena Rossini

More From selfh.st

Self-Hosting Guide to Alternatives: Airtable
Self-hosted alternatives for the popular relational database platform
selfh.stEthan Sholly
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selfh.stEthan Sholly

Content Spotlight: Calibre-Web Automated

Meet Calibre-Web Automated, a consolidated Calibre and Calibre-Web application for eBook library management. Calibre-Web Automated aims to replace the need for separate applications and clunky VNC interfaces by merging all the features required for managing new and existing Calibre libraries into a single container. Functionality includes imports, conversions, metadata and cover management, CLI commands, change tracking, batch editing, and more to come as the platform is currently under very active development.

Calibre-Web Automated can be installed via Docker and comes with some required reading to get up-and-running.

Links: GitHub

What I'm Watching

What I'm Listening To

The Self-Host Cast, Episode 5: Dan Brown (BookStack, RSS)
Join me as I sit down for a casual discussion with Dan Brown, the developer of BookStack and RSS
selfh.stEthan Sholly

Command Line Corner: Ctrl + w

Use Ctrl + w to easily delete the previous word from the command line:

/$ locate example_
<Ctrl + w>
/$ locate _

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

Related News and Content

More of the fediverse is showing up on Threads.
You’ll now start seeing replies from other parts of the fediverse under posts that aren’t yours, as shared by Threads’ Peter Cottle. Nice way to see more posts from other ActivityPub-based platforms.
The Verge
Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress | TechCrunch
Tumblr is making the move to WordPress. After its 2019 acquisition by WordPress.com parent company Automattic in a $3 million fire sale, the new owner has
TechCrunchSarah Perez

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