Self-Host Weekly (25 April 2025)

Weekly Highlights

If you missed yesterday's announcement, this newsletter has officially been rebranded to Self-Host Weekly. I explain the rationale behind the name change in the post below, but the important bit is that nothing else is changing – the content, timing, and delivery methods will remain the same.

‘This Week in Self-Hosted’ is now ‘Self-Host Weekly’

New title, same great newsletter

selfh.stEthan Sholly

I've also been slowly releasing updates and features to my icon collection over at selfh.st/icons, which I've outlined in a post I made on Reddit earlier this week. As usual, I'd encourage everyone to check them out and submit requests for any I might be missing!

In actual self-hosted news, there was a ton of activity in software to keep everyone busy this weekend (I've captured 22 launches, 18 updates, and 20 directory additions below). Otherwise, there were a few projects updated to open source licenses this week that are worth checking out, and Redditor u/Stolkie is looking for feedback from existing Caddy users regarding a project they're working on to bring a configuration interface to the platform.

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

NLnet; 42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet

Register today for Community Day 2025

On May 24th join in on meetups happening around the world.

Home AssistantMissy Quarry

Device verification & email 2FA

Security improvements for staff user authentication

ChangelogTeam Ghost

Discourse and the Fediverse!

The Fediverse offers ways to expand the reach of Discourse communities and help them build bridges with people active in other spaces, all while keeping the conversation civil, meaningful and focused.

DiscoursePenar Musaraj

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

selfh.stEthan Sholly

Self-Hosting Guide to Alternatives: Google Analytics

Self-hosted alternatives for the popular web analytics platform

selfh.stEthan Sholly

Community Content

LAN-Only DNS with failover

How to use Technitium and keepalived for high-availability homelab DNS

FoxxMD BlogFoxxMD

Installing Stirling-PDF for a suite of useful self-hosted, PDF-related tools

I wrote this in November 2024 but, for some reason, I didn’t publish it.

How I write my blogs in Obsidian and publish instantly

I’ve been using Obsidian for all my writing lately, and it’s been a game changer. The local-first model means everything lives as plain text on my machine, and with the Minimal theme, the interface stays clean and distraction-free. My vault lives in iCloud (Dropbox or Google Drive work too), so notes sync seamlessly across devices - I often start drafts on my phone and finish them later on my laptop.

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This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii

Content Spotlight

Meet Warracker, a self-hosted warranty tracking platform. Built for centralization, Warracker allows users to effortlessly keep track of product warranties, expiration dates, and related documentation in a single place. Features include detailed records, document storage, alerts, search, authentication, exports/imports, and tagging.

Warracker can be easily installed via Docker and requires a separate PostgreSQL container for external storage.

Links: Source Code

Videos and Podcasts

• SilverBullet Intro & Demo (v2 edition) | Zef Hemel
• DITCH PASSWORDS: Self-Host PassKeys with Pocket ID | Techdox
• Checkmate - Simpler Than Grafana, More Features Than Uptime-Kuma | Jim's Garage
• NEW ZimaBoard 2, super fast, tiny Home Server | Christian Lempa

Command Line Corner: curl -I

Use curl -I (i) to fetch only the HTTP headers of a request rather than the entire body:

$ curl -I https://news.ycombinator.com/
  HTTP/2 403
  date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 07:00:00 GMT
  content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
  etc...

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It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too. On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant

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