This Week in Self-Hosted (7 March 2025)

Weekly Highlights

The past few months have been great for self-hosters looking to organize their personal finances (it is tax season, after all). Established platforms like Firefly III and Actual Budget (note the recent repository move) continue to evolve, while a surge of new and innovative apps like Maybe, Monetr, Investbrain, Subscription Manager, DumbBudget, and Thrifty have entered the scene.

This week, three new apps joined the mix – the hilariously named DollarDollar Bill Y'all (second only to a GitHub handle I recently stumbled across, beans-are-gross), Envelofy, and Personal Accountant.

On another note, I received some flack last week for poking fun at the Immich devs for prioritizing the platform's new mascot over a feature I've personally been looking forward to (yes, they were in on it). I had planned to make a formal apology this week until I noticed they dropped another release that again left me feeling neglected as they instead celebrated 60k GitHub stars (is that a lot?).

If you need me before next Friday, I'll be busy making the transition back to Google Photos while enjoying this custom CSS for styling a Flame dashboard to look like the Lumon MDR terminals from Severance.

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

Warp factor 5, Mr. Sulu

Things are speeding up around here

Building ActivityPubGhost

Music Assistant’s next big hit

Spotify Connect, Assist streaming, podcasts, audiobooks, Apple Music, a full EQ, and more!

Home AssistantMarcel van der Veldt

End of Deployarr with v5.7 - I was short-sighted! | SimpleHomelab

First, the big bad news.

SimpleHomelabAnand

Community Content

Making Unraid usable on mobile

Making Unraid just a tiny bit more useful on your mobile device

Jason Tucker Blog | Tech, IT Insights & DIY ProjectsJason Tucker

PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 1: first impressions)

A walk-through of PeerTube, an open-source, federated alternative to YouTube

Elena RossiniElena Rossini

Paperless-ngx — Self-hosted document management that actually makes sense

Paperless-ngx is a powerful document management system that helps you go paperless by automatically organizing and making your documents searchable. Perfect for managing bills, receipts, and important documents in your homelab.

Akash RajpurohitAkash Rajpurohit

Build your own Google Docs + Drive with your Raspberry Pi

Learn how to degoogle your documents and free them from the tech giants by hosting the open source cryptpad on your raspberry pi.

Pi SourceRic

Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

After switching from Firefox to LibreWolf, I became interested in the idea of self-hosting my own Firefox Sync server. Although I had seen this was possible before, I had never really looked into it—until now. I embarked on a journey to set this up, and while it wasn’t completely smooth sailing, I eventually got it working. Here’s how it went. Finding the Right Sync Server Initial Search: Mozilla’s Sync Server Repo I started by searching for “firefox sync server github” and quickly found Mozilla’s syncserver repo.

Diego SiqueiraDiego Siqueira

Supercharging Your Ghost Blog with Meilisearch: A Powerful Search Integration

Transform your Ghost blog with lightning-fast search using the Ghost-Meilisearch integration. Deliver sub-50ms results, enjoy typo tolerance, and customize your search experience. Boost reader engagement with real-time indexing and seamless theme integration.

Fanyang Meng's BlogFanyang Meng

Content Spotlight: SimpleHomelab

Meet SimpleHomelab, a website dedicated to homelab guides, content, and software deployment. Recently re-branded from SmartHomeBeginner, SimpleHomelab is known for its extensive multi-part guides covering beginner and advanced topics, as well as Deployarr – a custom-built platform for easily deploying 125+ popular self-hosted apps. The site also has an accompanying YouTube channel with a suite of videos covering Docker, Traefik, Proxmox, and more.

SimpleHomelab.com

Leading technology site focussed on Smart Home, Home Server, HTPC, Media Players, Linux and Other Homelab topics with over 150k followers.

SimpleHomelabAnand

Disclaimer: SimpleHomelab is an occasional affiliate and sponsor of selfh.st. No affiliate links were used in the writing of this feature.

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What I'm Watching

• The Making of a Data Center (Timelapse) | Hetzner
• This Saved Me SO Much Time – Ripping Movies Automatically With ARM | Hardware Haven
• Everything New In Home Assistant 2025.3! | Everything Smart Home
• Deploy A Full Homelab in Minutes | Jim's Garage

Command Line Corner: curl wttr.in

Use curl wttr.in to view a three-day weather forecast directly from the command line (see repo here for additional details on how this works):

$ curl wttr.in
Weather for City: Paris, France

     \   /     Clear
      .-.      10 – 11 °C
   ― (   ) ―   ↑ 11 km/h
      `-’      10 km
     /   \     0.0 mm

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Funkwhale, the federated music-sharing platform, is building a new mechanism for filtering out music related to Nazis, Fascism, and White Power.

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Mozilla rewrites Firefox’s Terms of Use after user backlash | TechCrunch

Critics said the new terms implied Mozilla was asking users for the rights to whatever data they input or upload through Firefox.

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I struggled with Git, so I’m making a game to spare others the pain

I struggled with Git, so I’m making a game to spare others the pain

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