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Weekly Highlights
The moment has finally arrived. Many claimed it would never happen, while others sacrificed priceless family photos to defend online developers they'd never met. But through the collective effort of three full-time devs, a tech billionaire, Louis Rossmann, and an oddly-framed video cutting off the 'O' in FUTO – Immich has officially gone stable.
The popular Google Photos alternative (pronounced image) dropped their first ever stable release this week after almost four years of whacky versioning and breaking changes that have left users electronically and emotionally scarred. And while there's still no tag support for mobile (they're just messing with me at this point), they also released a fun CD demo version for those willing to shell out a few bucks.
Unrelatedly, I officially kicked off my annual self-host user survey this week. This year's survey consists of ~40 questions across five categories, takes about five minutes to complete, and will remain open for responses until the end of October (2,100+ responses so far!):
Ethan Sholly
Other notable activity for the week:
- Raspberry Pi announced price increases across their product lines
- The Nextcloud team went ham with their Autumn release, which brought significant updates across several major projects
- Home Assistant finally has a Portainer integration
- Tailscale released a beta windowed app for macOS
Happy selfh.st/ing!
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Content Spotlight
Meet Cially, an open-source dashboard with in-depth insights and analytics for Discord servers. With Cially, Discord server admins can quickly and easily monitor server/member activity, engagement trends, and activity from the comfort of a modern, minimal web interface. Features include message analytics, growth metrics, activity insights, user search, a customizable interface, and more.
Cially can be easily deployed via Docker and requires a Discord developer application for functionality.
Links: Website, Source Code
Videos and Podcasts
- HomeHub - Your Family's Private, Self-Hosted Home Organization Center | DB Tech
- Immich Is Now Stable! | FUTO
- The First Services I Always Spin Up in Any Home Lab | VirtualizationHowTo
- Everything New In Home Assistant 2025.10! | Everything Smart Home
- The TRUTH about Self Hosting Email | Dave Swift
- Perfect Jellyfin Setup on Unraid! | AlienTech42
- Rebuilding my NAS - Moving to Virtual TrueNAS in Proxmox | Jim's Garage
- Using rsync for backups, because it's not shiny and new | Veronica Explains
- Manage Authentik Resources in Terraform | Christian Lempa
Command Line Corner
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$ grep -c "self-hosted" example.txt
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