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Weekly Highlights: Introducing selfhst-claw
Just kidding. Because so few developers can resist a good bandwagon, I now have to wade through a weekly sludge of claw-named projects attempting to capitalize on OpenClaw's popularity. It's somewhat reminiscent of the regularly misnamed *arr projects and "The AI <blank> Company" rebrands, but "claw" is at least unique enough to auto-tag these launches as potential stinkers before they even hit my feed.
On a semi-related note, AI continues to dominate self-hosted discussions and I've received quite a few recent inquiries on how I'm addressing AI-assisted projects across selfh.st publications.
Unfortunately, I don't have a great response. I hand-pick every project that appears in this newsletter and have become more selective over time, but I'm also not the arbiter of what makes a project great and would prefer to let readers come to their own conclusions.
In the meantime, I'll continue being as transparent as possible when projects are closed source or primarily developed by AI – even if it means overzealously tagging projects developed with shadcn as vibe coded.
As for me personally? I've already moved past this trend and have switched to open-sourced fly brains to automate these weekly intros.
In other news:
- TrueNAS closed-sourced their build system to meet new security requirements (additional insight from a staff member here, and TBD on whether the company is pulling a MinIO or not)
- Another Reddit sleuth uncovered some controversy surrounding Booklore, a new and increasingly popular book platform that I've featured several times in this newsletter (oops?) – and the dev's response (🍿) turned it into another Huntarr-level event
- The developer of ntfy (notifications) also took some heat for the project's v2.18 release, which added 14k lines of code written by AI to bring PostgreSQL support to the platform
- The Scraperr project (web scraping) was archived on GitHub after five months of development inactivity
- A selfh.st reader is writing a handbook for homelabbers and is looking for some real-world homelab examples to share in its final chapter
- Somebody developed a Home Assistant integration for monitoring and managing sourdough starters
Happy selfh.st[bzz]ing!
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Meet Open DroneLog, a self-hosted platform for tracking, managing, and analyzing drone flight logs. Built as an alternative to paid solutions that limit historical log retention and paywall functionality (battery tracking, 3D replays, etc.), Open DroneLog can ingest logs from a variety of platforms and formats for smart querying and analysis via DuckDB. Features include interactive flight maps, telemetry, smart tags, filters, search, battery health, maintenance tracking, exports, and more.
Open DroneLog can be easily deployed via Docker and doesn't require any additional containers or dependencies to run.
Links: Website, Source Code
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