Weekly Highlights
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake," a quote famously attributed to open source advocate Napoleon Bonaparte, has arguably never been more apropos for the self-hosted community. From AWS and Azure outages to GitHub unofficially pausing feature development, hosted services have recently done a better job evangelizing self-hosted software than I could ever hope to do.
This week, Microsoft took the stage as the president of the Windows division announced the operating system is 'evolving into an agentic OS.' Cue the intense backlash from, well, pretty much everyone. Despite Bill Gates' recent warnings that we may be experiencing an AI bubble, companies will never learn that we'd rather spend 30 hours neglecting our families over the weekend to perfect our NixOS configs vs having an LLM do everything for us.
Meanwhile, Google finally caved a bit on their recent sideloading decision and Apple announced the iPhone Pocket – a $230 knitted sock carrying case (bag?) and partnership between Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake and Apple.
For those who read this newsletter for actual self-hosted news (oops), consider this other notable activity from the week:
- Docker's v29 release bumped the minimum supported API version, which is breaking certain services (exercise caution if updating this weekend)
- The Material for MkDocs (documentation) team launched their new static site generator, Zensical
- KeePassXC, a popular open-source password manager, publicly addressed their decision to incorporate generative AI into their development process
- The developer of BentoPDF, a new-ish web-based PDF toolkit, refused to stop kicking off their release notes with dad jokes (1, 2, 3, 4)
- Research faculty at the University of Maribor released the results of a recent survey conducted to determine why people self-host (spoiler alert: pleasure, autonomy, and usefulness)
- Home Assistant is scheduled to announce the launch of their next hardware product next Thursday (11/19) at 3pm EST
And lastly, I'll be publishing the results of my annual user survey next week and discussing them via live stream with YouTuber DB Tech next Saturday (11/22) (link to be provided in next week's newsletter).
Happy selfh.st/ing!
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Content Spotlight
Meet Postgresus, an automated PostgreSQL backup platform. With Postgresus, users can easily schedule and automate database backups to multiple storage destinations from the comfort of a web interface. Features include notifications, local and cloud storage, workspaces, access management, and smart compression.
Postgresus can be easily deployed via bare metal or Docker and doesn't require any additional services to run.
Links: Website, Source Code
Videos and Podcasts
- Journiv - Private Journaling App with Daily Prompts | DB Tech
- Best Docker Apps of October 2025! | Servers@Home
- PRODUCT LAUNCH - The best just got better | Home Assistant
- Forget Dropbox! 😎 Host Seafile 12 — Your Fast Private Cloud | AlienTech42
- My BEST N8N HomeLab automations | Christian Lempa
Command Line Corner
Use wc -w <file> to quickly count the number of words in a file:
$ wc -w example.txt
4 example.txtClick here for an archive of commands shared in past newsletters.
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