Weekly Highlights
Another week, another major release from the self-hosted project everyone loves to hate. The team behind the popular cloud storage platform Nextcloud introduced v31 and Hub 10 to the community this week, touting deeper integration across its ecosystem and performance improvements (including thousands of tweaks) to its UX. And say what you want about the project based on your own personal anecdotes, but their fight against big tech is undeniably a net positive for the self-hosted and open-source communities.
I also pushed some significant updates to selfh.st/apps this week, including bookmarks support (via local browser storage), new sort options, and a cool new way to easily share custom views using a vanity URL I recently acquired (I apparently hate vowels). To see it in action, click here --> slfh.st/fEaOs <– for a custom view of the apps added to the directory this past week.
Other activity from the week you might be interested in:
- Plex announced the discontinuation of its Watch Together feature (check out Jellyfin and Neko for similar alternatives)
- The Immich team released a new mascot and Rickrolled users in the release notes of their latest update
- An interesting Reddit post of useless automations from Home Assistant users
Happy selfh.st/ing!
In the News
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Community Content
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Content Spotlight: Upvote RSS
Meet Upvote RSS, a self-hosted RSS feed generator for popular social aggregation sites like Reddit, Hacker News, and Lemmy. With Upvote RSS, users can easily create their own curated feeds of subreddits, HN post types (Best, Top, New, Ask, etc.), and Lemmy communities based on configuration options that include post scores, thresholds, and number of posts per day. Users also have the ability to specify the content to be included in each feed item (score, article content, comments) as well as filters for NSFW or older posts.
Upvote RSS can be easily installed via Docker and does not require any additional services, although Reddit users will need to register their own app on the platform for API access.
Links: Source Code, Website
What I'm Watching
- Open Source Self Hosted Teamviewer Replacement | Lawrence Systems
- Get ready for the Nextcloud Hub 10 premiere! | Nextcloud
- FASTEST Way to Host Your Website with Linux and Docker! | Christian Lempa
- Replace Traefik? Caddy Proxy with SSL Certificates | Jim's Garage
Command Line Corner: ;
Use ; to run multiple commands in succession (unlike last week's && tip, the second command will run regardless of the first's success):
/$ mkdir test_folder; cd test_folder
/test_folder$ _Related News and Content
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