Weekly Highlights
My feed was swarming with self-hosting and adjacent articles this week, much of it prompted by Dropbox's discontinuation of its passwords platform, Proton's new open-source authentication app, and another wave of cheeky articles with clickbait titles that leave you wondering if self-hosting is or isn't the future (spoiler alert – it's both).
However, most of my attention was focused on select software updates across the ecosystem that brought highly anticipated functionality to existing projects, a few of which I'm covering in this week's lightning round intro:
- The Pangolin reverse proxy project released a prototype client platform that enables client tunneling and site-to-site access across peers
- Navidrome, a popular music streaming platform, quietly introduced support for multiple libraries
- Tandoor Recipes dropped v2, which includes a complete re-write of the platform's frontend (love the new look, still hate the beige theme ♥)
- Postiz, a social media management tool, also dropped a v2 design update (minus the beige)
- The new-ish (yet increasingly popular) book manager BookLore introduced magic shelves – smart, dynamic collections for those who can't be bothered to manually organize their libraries
- Immich released support for user-defined share URLs
Happy selfh.st/ing!
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Content Spotlight
Meet Tracktor, a recently released open-source vehicle management platform. With Tracktor, users can easily track and manage the various aspects of owning a vehicle from the comfort of a modern, minimal web interface. Features include fuel tracking, maintenance logs, support for multiple vehicles (not just tractors), document tracking, a dashboard with KPIs, and user authentication.
Tracktor can be easily installed via Docker and requires a separate database for storage.
Links: Website, Source Code
Videos and Podcasts
- FossFlow + Docker The Ultimate Combo for Stunning Network Diagrams | DB Tech
- Who's behind HortusFox | Meet the founder & developer | Daniel Brendel
- New Pangolin Feature: Self hosted VPN clients | Fossorial
- The BEST alternative to Docker and VMs! | Christian Lempa
- macOS vs Windows - Why Not Both? | Jim's Garage
Command Line Corner
Use for i in *; do test -d $i && du -sh $i; done to output a list of directories in the current folder and their sizes (skipping files and subdirectories):
$ for i in *; do test -d $i && du -sh $i; done
755M audiobookshelf
184K caddy
68k filebrowser
86M navidromeClick here for an archive of commands shared in past newsletters.
Note: Thanks to reader Alex W. for this week's command!
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