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This Week in Self-Hosted (15 November 2024)

Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and content for the week ending Friday, November 15, 2024

This Week in Self-Hosted (15 November 2024)
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This Week in Self-Hosted

Happy Friday, self-hosters! It was another busy week with a ton of great content, which can be found below. In lieu of the usual recap, below are some particularly interesting threads posted to Reddit's r/selfhosted this week that I thought might be worth sharing for those who may have missed them.

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

Update · community-scripts ProxmoxVE · Discussion #237
Good afternoon! I am tteckster’s wife. I don’t have a clue if anyone will even see this because I’m not the computer savvy person that my husband was, but I wanted to try. I know that he posted an…
GitHubcommunity-scripts
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2024
Read the latest annualized failure rates for the Backblaze drive fleet.
Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud BackupAndy Klein
Free, open-source Photoshop alternative finally enters release candidate testing after 20 years — the transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades
The slow and steady climb to 3.0 culminates in the most modernized version of GIMP yet.
Tom's HardwareChristopher Harper

Software Updates

Breaking Changes

New Software

Latest Directory Apps

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Community Content

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Surveys and Feedback

Content Spotlight: ByteStash

Meet ByteStash, a self-hosted solution for storing and managing code snippets. With ByteStash, users can easily add and track snippets of code for future reference via an intuitive web interface that supports a number of programming languages. For larger collections, the app supports filtering by language and keywords to easily find previously stored snippets.

Bytestash can be installed via Docker and utilizes a SQLite database for storage.

A screenshot of ByteStash's dashboard, with various coding exampels displaying snippets of code, the languages they were captured in, and keywords to be used for later searching.

Links: Source Code

What I'm Watching

Command Line Corner: history

Use the history command to easily view a numbered list of commands previously entered into the terminal:

/$ history
  1 docker compose up
  2 cat compose
  3 ls -l
  4 python3 customScript.py

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

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