Self-Host Weekly (11 July 2025)

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Weekly Highlights

I'm on vacation this week, so enjoy a short list of projects I've been tinkering with in lieu of the usual commentary:

• Navbar Card, a new custom navigation bar for Home Assistant created by a member of the community
• Formbricks, the platform driving the new newsletter feedback form and upcoming 2025 user survey
• Phylum, a sleek new file storage platform that feels very similar to Google Drive
• BookLore, an app for organizing and managing personal ebook libraries (with very active development)
• Invoicerr, an invoicing app for freelancers (no affiliation with the *arr suite that I'm aware of)

Happy selfh.st/ing!

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Feedback

Community Content

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Content Spotlight

Meet Kan, an open-source kanban board application. Kan touts itself as a viable Trello alternative and gives users a modern, minimal interface to add, update, and manage tasks via kanban-style boards. Features include access controls, workspaces and members, Trello imports, labels, filters, comments, activity logs, and templates.

Kan can be easily installed via Docker and requires a separate PostgreSQL database for data storage.

Links: Website, Source Code

Command Line Corner

Use wc -m file to count the number of characters in a file from the command line:

$ wc -m example.txt
  25 example.txt

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