Self-Host Weekly (17 April 2026)

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I overheard a Mastodon user refer to self-hosting as indie computing this week and I can't stop thinking about it. Maybe it's the coolness factor, or just a welcome reprieve from the virtue signaling and crankiness that is becoming increasingly associated with self-hosting. Either way, I'm stealing it.

In actual news, there was a ton of headline-worthy activity this week. And because my love language is bullet points...

• Cal.com officially thinks open source is dead and announced they're taking the platform closed source for security-related reasons
• Cloudflare introduced the world to Cloudflare Mesh, a new private networking tool (mostly targeted at AI workflows) that may end up as a serious rival to Tailscale, NetBird, and similar platforms
• Whoogle, a privacy meta search engine, dropped its final release after years of working around Google's increasingly hostile scraping restrictions
• YouTuber DB Tech published some great breakdowns outlining several recent open source supply chain attacks that are impacting self-hosted projects
• Booklore – yes, Booklore – is back with a new repo and minor release just a month after completely dismantling any good will the project had with the community
• Allbirds, the environmentally-friendly (and struggling) footwear manufacturer, pulled a Kodak and announced they're transitioning into an AI company (?)
• Unraid and 45HomeLab finally revealed their hardware collab, a pre-built server starting at – brace yourself – $2,999. (No need for sarcasm here, the jokes write themselves.)
• The developer of SilverBullet, a powerful note-taking tool, launched a beta for SilverBullet+ – a desktop version of the software (currently macOS only) intended to help fund future development
• Nextcloud announced Nextcloud Ethical AI Ratings, a new tool to help users identify models that are open source, self-hostable, or trained using publicly available data
• Raspberry Pi OS has finally disabled the default passwordless sudo in its v6.2 release (something something OpenClaw...)
• I experienced a bit of déjà vu as two different projects launched with the same name (1, 2), while two other similarly named projects dropped v0.80.0 releases (1, 2) within a day of each other
• The week's most absurd project launch name: Boob O'Clock (infant sleep and feeding tracker)
• If you've been on the fence about making the jump away from Plex, wait no longer – someone finally released a Jellyfin client for the Wii

Happy indie.comput/ing!

Newswire

Secure private networking for everyone: users, nodes, agents, Workers — introducing Cloudflare Mesh

Cloudflare Mesh provides secure, private network access for users, nodes, and autonomous AI agents. By integrating with Workers VPC, developers can now grant agents scoped access to private databases and APIs without manual tunnels.

The Cloudflare BlogNikita Cano

Nextcloud Ethical AI rating: A transparent approach to privacy-first AI - Nextcloud

Understand how Nextcloud Ethical AI Rating helps organizations evaluate AI privacy, transparency, and data control in modern AI solutions.

NextcloudKatrin Goethals

Announcing SilverBullet+ (beta): SilverBullet, Desktop Edition

I’ve been very happy with SilverBullet’s growth over the last 4 years. Starting out as just a project for myself, it now has (I would estimate) a few thousand active users (although I cannot be sure, because... 0 tracking) and a great community of enthusiasts. To be honest, it’s grown to become the proudest technical achievement of my career. Nevertheless, I keep finding it hard to recommend SilverBullet to people around me, because I feel the barrier to actually install and run it is... high.…

SilverBullet Communityzef

In defense of GitHub’s poor uptime

GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it looks; more like a D than an F.

Evan Hahn

Linux 7.0 Ready For Release With Many Exciting Changes

The Linux 7.0 kernel is gearing up for its stable release and should be out this coming Sunday, 12 April, barring any major last minute issues.

PhoronixMichael Larabel

Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data | Robert Reese’s Website

Robert Reese's Website

The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason

How did Netgear do it? Nobody’s saying.

The VergeSean Hollister

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Content Spotlight

Meet Transmute, a privacy-focused file conversion platform. With Transmute, users can easily convert images, videos, audio, JSON, Excel, and more (2,000+ supported conversions) into other formats via a minimal web interface. Features include client-side processing, single sign-on, unlimited file sizes, themes, and a REST API for automation.

Transmute can be easily deployed via Docker and doesn't require any additional containers or databases to get up and running.

Links: Website, Source Code

Videos and Podcasts

• Before You Trust Another Self-Hosted App, Watch This | DB Tech
• DeGoogle Your Life with THIS Tool! | SYNACK Time
• Forget Nextcloud — Deploy OpenCloud in 5 Minutes | Servers@Home
• NetBird Setup Guide (New & Simplified) | Christian Lempa
• I Built a Real 3-2-1 Backup System | Techno Tim
• The Open Source Software I'm Still Using in 2026 - Part 2! | Awesome Open Source

Command Line Corner

Use nl to preface each line with a number when viewing the contents of a file from the command line. (This is particularly helpful when trying to reference lines in a large file.)

$ cat example.txt
  Self-
  Host
  Weekly
$ nl example.txt
  1 Self-
  2 Host
  3 Weekly

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