Weekly Highlights
Happy Friday! I've spent the past several weeks redesigning the newsletter's software listings to improve the reading experience on both mobile and desktop devices. Starting today, the following changes have been implemented:
- Individual projects are displayed via tiles instead of bulleted lists
- Tags have been redesigned to stand out from names, versions, and the various listing categories
- Tags are now clickable and redirect to the relevant categories in selfh.st/apps (for readers looking to explore similar options)
- Source websites are now identified via icon next to their tags to inform readers of where they can expect to be redirected
- Breaking changes no longer have their own section and are now identified on the software update tiles with an exclamation point (see the Docmost update below for an example)
Major design changes can be difficult to implement given newsletters are digested across a number of mediums (various e-mail clients and browsers, RSS readers, etc.). I'm also not a professional UI/graphic designer. So as usual, please feel free to reach out if you discover any bugs or readability issues with the new layouts.
In self-hosted news, it was a bit of a slow week. Pi-hole's v6 release was arguably the biggest event on my radar, although I think Obsidian's decision to make their commercial license optional for professional use will also be of great interest to the large number of readers using it to document their infrastructure.
Lastly, there was a bit of a panic on Reddit this week over a recent decision by the popular music streaming platform Navidrome to implement anonymous data collection. While I'll leave the ethicality of enabling it by default to individual readers, I also think it's fair to call out that the project is transparent about the data it collects and that it can be easily disabled with a configuration option.
Happy selfh.st/ing!
In the News
Arduino Team
Paul Sawers
Community Content
Akash Rajpurohit
Elena Rossini
Ric
Content Spotlight: Eigenfocus
Meet Eigenfocus, an all-in-one project management app for individuals and teams. With Eigenfocus, users can easily track the various aspects and lifecycles of a project with features including issue tracking, workflows, labels, Kanban boards, and time tracking. Still in the early stages of development, the team also plans to release a pro version that includes additional features surrounding user management and custom views/reports.
Links: Source Code, Website
What I'm Watching
- Erugo: A Better Alternative to WeTransfer | DB Tech
- Building My Ultimate CCTV Setup | Cameron Gray
- Proxmox Swap and Memory Hack for Home Labs! | VirtualizationHowTo
- Only 2 WEEKS To Build The ULTIMATE Home Lab! | Hardware Haven
- Put Any Container Behind A VPN With HTTPS | Jim's Garage
- Self-Hosted SSL Simplified: Nginx Proxy Manager | Lawrence Systems
- Get Started with Kubernetes: MicroK8s & Portainer Setup Sandbox | Techdox
Command Line Corner: &&
Use && to execute a second command only if the first succeeds:
/$ mkdir test_folder && cd test_folder
/test_folder$ _Related News and Content
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