This Week in Self-Hosted (4 April 2025)

Weekly Highlights

It's somehow already April, which – along with the perfect date – brings rainy weekends that make the perfect excuse to stay inside and tinker with the homelab...

This weekend, I'll be digging into two of the whopping 24 new software launches in this week's newsletter, Docker Compose Maker and Palmr – both of which look incredibly promising. (As usual, don't just trust my bias – they're all worth checking out!)

Other self-hosted activity that caught my eye this week:

• Plex publicly released their mobile app's redesign and users aren't happy. Coincidentally, the Streamyfin team dropped a development progress update just a few days earlier...
• The LunaSea project (mobile controller for self-hosted media stacks) is officially shut down and archived. nzb360 (Android), Astrysk (iOS), and Ruddar (iOS) may fill the void for those who have yet to make the switch.
• This Redditor learned it isn't wise to blindly trust AI-generated code...
• Jeff Geerling shared the perfect LAMP stack for April Fool's Day

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse | TechCrunch

A new security fund aims to help apps in the fediverse — like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed — to pay researchers for disclosing security bugs.

TechCrunchSarah Perez

It’s Go Time: The New Plex Experience Is Here

The Fellowship of the App Todayyyyy’s the day. In preview since last fall, and starting to roll out today for…

Plexmeghann

Social web (beta)

Increase your reach by connecting your publication to the Fediverse

ChangelogJohn O’Nolan

2025.4 Time to continue the dashboards!

Enjoy ready-to-use Area dashboards, have continuous conversations with an LLM, or let your voice assistant start a conversation! Energy device hierarchies, new template functions, and many more exc…

Home AssistantFranck Nijhof

More From selfh.st

Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users

Update these settings to limit the data Plex collects about your account, content, and streaming habits

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A collection of self-hosted dashboard icons and logos

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Community Content

Self-Hosting like it’s 2025

In recent years, self-hosting has emerged as a popular alternative to data-collecting, big-brother services. For a time, I must admit, I was almost addicted to trying out new software, building dashboards, and adding applications I didn’t really need. Now that my setup has remained largely the same for over a

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Running the LAMP Stack in a Lamp Rack | Jeff Geerling

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Stirling PDF — Self-hosted PDF manipulation powerhouse

Stirling PDF is a powerful, locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files. Learn how to set it up and automate PDF processing in your homelab.

Akash RajpurohitAkash Rajpurohit

Release v11.0.0 · jagandeepbrar/lunasea

This is the final release of LunaSea. This release’s intention is for a final clean-up before archival and does not add any new functionality. Toolchain-Related flutter: support for building usin…

GitHubjagandeepbrar

Content Spotlight: BookLore

Meet BookLore, a self-hosted web application for organizing, sharing, and consuming personal book collections. A relatively new alternative to existing tools like Calibre and Kavita, BookLore comes packaged with a modern, minimal web interface that makes it easy to assign and manage metadata while also categorizing books into libraries and shelves. Other features include smart metadata retrieval from various sources, multi-user support, in-browser eBook and PDF reading, and downloads.

BookLore can be easily installed via Docker and requires a separate MySQL-compatible database for storage.

Links: Source Code

What I'm Watching

• Ditch Your VPN! Twingate: The EASY Way to Access Your Home Server | DB Tech
• Better Than Cloudflare Tunnels? - Pangolin Guide | Jim's Garage
• New Docker Hub pull rate limits? What you have to do… | Christian Lempa
• Our Favorite Start Pages | Lawrence Systems

Command Line Corner: pkill

Use pkill to kill a running process by name instead of the PID required for the kill command:

$ kill 5952
$ pkill syncthing

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