👎🏻 Adulting How-To Geek: This Excel tool can predict future trends—but you probably never knew it existed: “When you track data over time, patterns often repeat themselves. Ice cream sales naturally rise during hot summer months and dip during the winter, garden harvests follow similar seasonal cycles, and retail store revenue predictably spikes during the holiday shopping rush. This repeating pattern is called “seasonality,” and Excel’s Forecast Sheet tool is designed to detect it automatically without you needing to build complex formulas.” 🤖 Android How-To Geek: I figured out how to run my favorite Linux TUI music player on Android, and it’s better than any app on the Play Store cmus: “cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.” Liliputing: Hack your Amazon Fire tablet with Fire Toolbox (Install Google Play, change default apps & behavior, and more) XDA Developers: [WINDOWS/LINUX][TOOL] Fire Toolbox V45.0 How-To Geek: 3 more open-source Android apps I’d (happily) pay for even if they weren’t free Unexpected Keyboard (F-Droid): “Lightweight and privacy-conscious virtual keyboard for Android.” Canta (F-Droid): “Canta Debloater lets you uninstall any(*) app without root (updated version).” GitHub: AhmetCanArslan / ShizuWall: “Lightweight, no vpn firewall solution for Android 11+” 🖥️🍎 Apple Apple Insider: How to exorcise your HomePod and HomePod mini of ‘ghost touches’ I have some of my Homepod mini’s unplugged because of this problem… “Starting off simply, clean the display. If it’s a HomePod that’s sat on a shelf for a long time, it can get a layer of dust on the top, which can trigger a false touch.” “Toggle off Touch and Hold for Siri” or change the hold duration through Accessibility settings. “It is possible to disconnect the touch panel from the display entirely” Lifehacker: This Tool Can Block Ads in Almost Any iPhone App App Store for iPhone: Wipr 2 What Is Filtr?: “Filtr is brand new feature that extends Wipr’s blocking to all apps on the device. It acts at the network level, but it can access none of your data.” 🤖 Artificial Intelligence \ Large Language Models How-To Geek: Don’t pay for another AI app until you try these free alternatives “Pay for AI only after the free tools hit their limits” “Use Claude for editing, structure, and long-form work. It’s useful when the words are already there but need a second pass” “Use Perplexity when you need research with sources. It works best when you want answers you can actually check” “Use Gemini or Copilot if you live in Google or Microsoft apps. Sometimes the best AI tool is the one already inside your workflow” “Use ChatGPT when you need help with code. Coding help is often better when the tool can explain the problem, not just fix it” Make Use Of: I stopped using OpenClaw — this is the better agent that the mainstream hasn’t caught up to yet Hermes Agent: “Not a coding copilot tethered to an IDE or a chatbot wrapper around a single API. An autonomous agent that lives on your server, remembers what it learns, and gets more capable the longer it runs.” Make Use Of: I built a private LLM on my home PC using a USB drive — it only knows what I put on it GPT4All: “Your Private and Local AI Chatbot” GitHub: pewdiepie-archdaemon / odysseus: “Self-hosted AI workspace.” 🌎 Current Events 🎥📺 Entertainment Make Use Of: Goodbye Goodreads — I found the reading app that’s better in every way fable: “The modern app for every reader. Join a community of good people to discuss great stories on Fable.” Lifehacker: 10 Shows and Movies Like ‘Backrooms’ You Should Watch Next Exit 8 (2025): “A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realizes he is trapped in a subway station, needing to complete a mission to get out.” Skinamarink (2022) In Fear (2013): “Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.” The Blair Witch Project (1999): “Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.” As Above, So Below (2014): “When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.” Vivarium (2019): “A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.” Channel Zero: No-End House (2017): Season 02 (Wikipedia) Timecrimes (2007): “A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.” Severance (2022): “Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.” The Deep House (2021): “While diving in a remote French lake, a couple who specialize in urban exploration videos discover a house submerged in deep waters. Their dive turns into a nightmare when they discover the house was the scene of atrocious crimes.” 🎮 Games Windows Central: Halo: Fireteam Raven is now playable on PC — but it’s not quite as simple as it sounds So this post is really just saying it exists. It doesn’t really give any details on where it’s available, unless TeknoParrot does have it. “While I can’t share it for obvious legal reasons, it’s still nice to know the game is out there for those willing to go looking for it.” “While sharing the ROM isn’t something I can do, it’s also not something I’d recommend you do either, just for the record. That said, there is actually a fairly active community dedicated to preserving and playing older arcade games, with TeknoParrot being one of the most popular emulators used for that purpose.” Chris’ Blog: Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled: I’m looking forward to mods \ remakes of this one. I forgot playing it until i saw the article, so definitely looking forward to it. This definitely reminded me to look at other games that were decompiled \ ported to other locations from N64. Android Authority: The best PS4 emulator just got its biggest update, including local multiplayer GitHub: shadps4-emu / shadPS4: “PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD written in C++” Web Site: shadPS4: “shadPS4 is an early PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++” OMG Ubuntu: Play Catan in your terminal with El Poblador, a TUI clone sourcehut: ~vicho/el_poblador: “A terminal-based implementation of Settlers of Catan in Go.” Gizmodo: New ‘Backrooms’ Game Merges Quantum Mechanics With an Old-School Dungeon Crawler Quantum Backrooms 🏡 Home (Homelab \ Self-Hosted) Rad Web Hosting: How to Install and Run Mail-in-a-Box on Ubuntu VPS I know running a mail server is pretty much never recommended, but I’ve always been curious when i see email settings on self-hosted things, since I’ve tried Gmail SMTP in the past with mixed results. So i wanted to see how this would be. Mail-in-a-Box: “Mail-in-a-Box lets you become your own mail service provider in a few easy steps. It’s sort of like making your own gmail, but one you control from top to bottom.” How-To Geek: 3 Home Assistant projects that work outside of your home to try this weekend (May 29 - Jun 1) Make Home Assistant ring your phone for urgent alerts Get Home Assistant to remember where you parked Build a live dashboard for your family Make Use Of: 4 smart home projects you should never DIY (even if the subreddit says you can) Upgrading an electrical panel: There is no way in hell i would attempt that myself 🙃 An extensive router rack can be difficult: I don’t agree with this one… pretty much mentioning that replacing a router &\or modem is complicated? A smart water monitor shouldn’t be attempted alone: Definitely agree to have a plumnber do this.. Installing an entire security system on your own: I have\had a security system that I’m replacing, so i was able to use the existing wires through the walls to put my own cameras. Make Use Of: I stopped SSHing into my server just to run scripts — this free tool put them all behind one button OliveTin: “Give safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.” This tool sounds familiar. I might have come across it before, but never set it up. Make Use Of: I built a $4 temperature sensor that works with every smart home app AliExpress: ESP32 AliExpress: DHT22 How-To Geek: Stop dreading the Plex-to-Jellyfin switch, this plugin does the heavy lifting GitHub: cleverdevil / plexyfin: “A Jellyfin plug-in to integrate with a Plex Media Server” “A plugin for Jellyfin that syncs collections and artwork from your Plex Media Server to Jellyfin.” How-To Geek: My Plex server became something else entirely—here’s what it actually does now Immich: “Self-hosted photo & video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.” AdGuard Home: GitHub: AdguardTeam / AdGuardHome: “Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server” Home Assistant: “Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.” Private Fitness Tracking (vs. Strava) How-To Geek: Strava was logging my home address without asking—here’s the open-source app I switched to Play Store: FitoTrack: “FitoTrack is a mobile app for logging and viewing your workouts. Whether you’re running, cycling or hiking, FitoTrack will show you the most important information, with detailed charts and statistics. It is open-source and completely ad-free.” Codeberg: endurain-project / Endurain: “Endurain is a self-hosted fitness tracking service designed to give users full control over their data and hosting environment https://docs.endurain.com” Nextcloud: “Nextcloud Hub combines the key Nextcloud products Files, Talk, Groupware, Office, Assistant and Flow, into a single platform, optimizing the flow of collaboration.” How-To Geek: 3 weekend Raspberry Pi projects that actually solve real problems at home (Jun 5 - 7) Build an offline Wikipedia: Kiwix Server: “Acting as a dedicated HTTP server, sharing ZIM files, Kiwix Server compresses archives of websites like Wikipedia over a local network, making the content easily accessible on any device with a web browser, whether it’s a phone, laptop, or desktop…” Monitor your battery backups with Network UPS Tools: Network UPS Tools (NUT): “The primary goal of the Network UPS Tools (NUT) project is to provide support for Power Devices, such as Uninterruptible Power Supplies, Power Distribution Units, Automatic Transfer Switches, Power Supply Units and Solar Controllers. NUT provides a common protocol and set of tools to monitor and manage such devices, and to consistently name equivalent features and data points, across a vast range of vendor-specific protocols and connection media types.” Create a network troubleshooting toolkit: NetTool: “A comprehensive toolkit that transforms your Raspberry Pi into a powerful network diagnostic and monitoring station.” How-To Geek: Every homelab needs these 3 free utilities Pi-hole: “Network-wide Ad Blocking” Proxmox VE: “Simplify your data center. Secure, flexible, and reliable open-source enterprise solutions. For the highest demands and tight budgets in professional IT environments.” TrueNAS Core: “From the edge to your data center – transform your data estate. Deliver data sovereignty with TrueNAS Enterprise storage solutions.” How-To Geek: 3 Docker upgrades that will change how you run your homelab this weekend (Jun 5 - 7) Beszel: “Simple, lightweight server monitoring. With Docker stats, historical data, and alerts.” Dozzle: “Real-time Docker logs, stats, and debugging — in your browser.” Dockge: “Self-hosted - Docker compose.yaml - Stack-oriented Manager” 🖥️🔐 IT Security GitHub: glytchtech / Pager-Mod-Docs: Mesh/payload.sh I was looking into this to see if i could get Meshtastic installed on my PinePager, then see about connected a Heltec v3 or v4 & seeing if that works vs. the “official” glytchtech piece. ars Technica: Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults: “In a campaign that started Sunday, the unknown threat actor abused the mechanism that allows Dashlane users to add new devices, such as computers or phones, to their accounts. By abusing Dashlane’s programming interfaces for device enrollment, the attackers sent requests to large numbers of existing users’ registered email addresses.” Dashlane Support: Security advisory: Brute force attack on Dashlane user accounts Ammar Askar: 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug: “Just by clicking a link, it’s possible for an attacker to steal a GitHub token that can read and write to your repos, including private ones.” 🐧 Linux Hack a Day: It’s Another Pi Handheld. But It’s A Really Good One: I really want to build this… OSHW Lab: piBrick Pocket-CM5: “piBrick Pocket-CM5 is a smartphone-sized handheld PC powered by the Raspberry Pi CM5, featuring a 3.92” AMOLED touch display and a QWERTY keyboard+trackpad from BBQ20." GitHub: amarullz / piBrick: “piBrick Pocket-CM5 is a smartphone-sized handheld PC powered by the Raspberry Pi CM5, featuring a 3.91” AMOLED touch display and a QWERTY keyboard+trackpad from BBQ20." IT’s FOSS: This Credit Card-Sized Linux Box Has a Keyboard, Camera, and AI Capability Something else i should have held off on, but caved & put money towards anyway… Kickstarter: m5stack / cardputerzero: “Powered by CM0 | All-in-One Design | Standard Linux I/O | Grove & Advanced I/O Ports | 100+ Extra M5 Modules | Credit Card Size” IT’S FOSS: I Tried This Open Source ChatGPT Alternative on Linux, But Went Back to Ollama GitHub: janhq / jan: “Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.” Web Site: Jan How-To Geek: These free, open source Linux apps made expensive creative software harder to justify Kdenlive: “Free and Open Source Video Editor. Kdenlive is the acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It works on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD.” darktable: “darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.” Blender: “Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game asset creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Examples from many Blender-based projects are available in the showcase.” How-To Geek: 7 Linux commands and shortcuts I wish I learned on day one Clear: clear: Clkears the screen. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+L Copying & pasting text: “Place the cursor where you want to cut the text and then press Ctrl+K. This will cut the text to the end of the line in the terminal. You can also go the other way and cut to the beginning of the line with Ctrl+U. To paste text copied from within the terminal, press Ctrl+Y to paste it.” Moving around and reading files or folders: pwd, cd, ls Read the manual: man <command>, tldr Kill any running program: xkill <application> History: history, *Ctrl+R Install apps and update your computer: apt, dnf GitHub: jeek / Meshtastic-Exploiteers-Hacker-Pager: sshclient 🎥📺 Media Talk Android: Discover 10 amazing forgotten sci-fi shows you can stream for free right now Haven: A genuine hit on SYFY in the 2010s, Haven is loosely based on Stephen King’s story The Colorado Kid. The show offers small-town mystery vibes with a supernatural twist, exploring psychic powers and unresolved questions over five seasons. The cast—Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, and Eric Balfour—had undeniable chemistry. The Outer Limits (1995 revival): Much like a darker, more mature version of The Twilight Zone, this series revived the 1960s anthology for seven seasons and over 150 episodes through the late 1990s and early 2000s, originally airing on Showtime and later SciFi Channel. Known for its impressive guest roster, you could spot Mark Hamill, Amanda Tapping, Ryan Reynolds, Kirsten Dunst, and Robert Patrick over the years. Continuum: This lesser-known Canadian time travel show ran as a SYFY original and followed a cop from the future who goes back in time to prevent criminals from changing history. Rachel Nichols stars, and the show explores the chaos and consequences of time travel. The Triangle: Back when SciFi Channel still took big creative swings with ambitious miniseries, The Triangle focused on the Bermuda Triangle. Written by Rockne S. O’Bannon and Dean Devlin, and starring Sam Neill, Eric Stoltz, Catherine Bell, and Lou Diamond Phillips, it offered high-concept sci-fi adventure. Relic Hunter: If you ever wondered what a budget 1990s-style live-action Tomb Raider knockoff starring Tia Carrere might look like, this short-lived syndicated show is it. Carrere plays a professor globe-trotting in search of mysterious treasures. The formula is familiar, but the adventure is fun. Lexx: Even sci-fi diehards sometimes forget Lexx. It ran for four seasons on SciFi Channel around the turn of the millennium, during a period when the network was experimenting with its direction. The show is dark, comedic, sexy, and unapologetically bizarre. Sanctuary: This SYFY original debuted in 2007 as an experimental web series before getting picked up for TV. Amanda Tapping, post-Stargate SG-1, stars as a scientist who studies unusual and wild creatures. The series was one of the first shot almost entirely using green screen, giving it a distinct, if now somewhat dated, visual style. Tin Man: Not to be confused with Wicked, this quirky revisiting of the Wizard of Oz concept premiered as a SYFY miniseries in 2007. The cast included Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming, Neal McDonough, Kathleen Robertson, and Richard Dreyfuss. It drew large ratings and reportedly cost $20 million to produce. Farscape: Perhaps not “forgotten” but definitely underwatched lately, Farscape remains a standout sci-fi series. It was the benchmark that put SciFi Channel on the map for original content, featuring a bold mix of puppetry and practical effects that still feel unique, alongside imaginative stories that rival Star Trek and Star Wars. The Dresden Files: Adapted from Jim Butcher’s urban fantasy book series, this 2007 SYFY show was well-received by critics and genre fans but didn’t draw enough viewers to last beyond a single season. Paul Blackthorne starred as wizard/private eye Harry Dresden. The series ran for just twelve episodes. As one viewer put it: “If the Dresden Files series had been called anything else… It was a good series if you’d never read the Dresden Files. It even got me to read the books … after which I found out why so many people didn’t like it. It was horrible as an adaptation. Not actors’ fault, they did the best you could expect.” Even with its flaws, it’s still an interesting watch, especially if you’re curious about Chicago’s magical underbelly. Lifehacker: 10 Shows and Movies Like ‘Backrooms’ You Should Watch Next Exit 8 (2025): “A man becomes increasingly desperate when he realizes he is trapped in a subway station, needing to complete a mission to get out.” Skinamarink (2022): “Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.” In Fear (2013): “Driving to a music festival in Ireland, a new couple become lost and are then set upon by a tormentor with an unknown motive.” The Blair Witch Project (1999): “Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.” As Above, So Below (2014): “When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.” Vivarium (2019): “A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.” Channel Zero: No-End House (2017): Channel Zero, Season 02 Timecrimes (2007): “A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.” Severance (2022): “Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.” The Deep House (2021): “While diving in a remote French lake, a couple who specialize in urban exploration videos discover a house submerged in deep waters. Their dive turns into a nightmare when they discover the house was the scene of atrocious crimes.” 🗣️ Social Networking 🖥️🪟 Windows Make Use Of: 5 Windows settings you can only change in the Registry Bring back the classic right-click menu “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID” > New Key: {86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2} > New Key: InprocServer32 Stop web results in Start menu search “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search” > BingSearchEnabled: Set value to 0. Skip the lock screen entirely “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows” > New Key: Personalization > New Key: NoLockScreen. Set value to 1. Fine-tune menu and hover delay “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop”: MenuShowDelay: Default is 400, so decrease to preferred value Get rid of shortcut arrows on desktop icons “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons”: New String Value: Set 29 & enter path to a blank ICO file. ❔ Miscellaneous Make Use Of: 5 open-source apps that are so good you’ll never need to pay for them I don’t really understand the subject “so good you’ll never need to pay for them”? ShareX: “ShareX is a free and open-source screenshot and screencast software for Windows. It is published under the GNU General Public License. The project’s source code is hosted on GitHub. It is also available on the Microsoft Store and Steam.” (Wikipedia) Duplicati: “Secure backup solution for hybrid cloud and on-prem. Unified Data Protection for Hybrid Infrastructure. Secure, monitor, and orchestrate backups across on-premises hardware and cloud workloads from a single, zero-trust console.” Super Productivity: “Deep work made simple. A productivity system that adapts to how you actually work. Tasks, time tracking, and focus tools in one open-source app – offline, private, and yours to shape.” OBS Studio: “Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.” LibreOffice: “LibreOffice is an open source office suite created by you, for you.” How-To Geek: Why I ditched VLOOKUP for XLOOKUP—and made Excel predictable again I’ve never used VLOOKUP, so i saved this as a note to look into that & the “XLOOKUP” mentioned here. How-To Geek: I turned my modded Fire Tablet into a working terminal — here’s how and what I did with it Used F-Droid to get Termux installed. How-To Geek: 3 criminally underrated free, open-source apps to try this weekend (May 29–31) Super Productivity: “A productivity system that adapts to how you actually work. Tasks, time tracking, and focus tools in one open-source app – offline, private, and yours to shape.” Portmaster: “Portmaster is a free and open-source application firewall. Monitor every network connection on your computer and set per-application rules for what to block.” Mailspring: “The fast, beautiful email client for people who take email seriously. A native desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux — with multi-account support, read receipts, link tracking, send later, and more. Free for everything you need. Pro features at $8/month.” How-To Geek: 5 ESP32-powered E-Ink display projects to make this weekend (May 29 - Jun 1) ESPHome and Home Assistant E-Ink boards GitHub: trip5 / ESPHome-eInk-Boards: “Weather & Tasks Boards for ESPHome and Home Assistant” Open-Meteo: “Free weather API. Free weather forecast and historical weather API — 30+ models, historical weather from 1940, no API key required.” Color E-Ink picture frame How-To Geek: I built an E-Ink photo frame using an Arduino, E-Paper display and Google Antigravity GitHub: shi-314 / esp32-spectra-e6: “ESP32 Firmware for Spectra E6 Displays” blog.shvn.dev: Building an E Ink Picture Frame GitHub: Duocervisia / e-paper-esp32-frame: “This project provides a comprehensive installation guide for an e-paper picture frame that updates daily. The frame features a Waveshare E6 full color e-paper display, which, combined with the implemented Floyd-Steinberg Dithering algorithm, creates the illusion of a greater color depth. Users have the ability to convert their own images using the included BMP-Converter. Additionally, the frame can be connected to the internet to display specific images on designated days. The 1000mAh battery is expected to last for approximately 700 days and can be recharged through the ESP32’s type-C port.” eFortune cookie: Instructables: EFortune Cookie — a Tiny ESP32 Fortune Teller TrailNAV GPS navigator: Instructables: TrailNAV: a Low-power Off-grid Assistive Navigation Device WeatherPaper minimalist weather display: Instructables: WeatherPaper - Start Your Day With Clarity, Not Clutter GitHub: EIrno / Cracked-Oura: “Oura ring paywalls the data behind a subscription, but luckily you can export your data from Oura and import it to Cracked Oura. Cracked Oura is an open-source desktop application that provides full access to your health metrics, stored locally on your machine.” How-To Geek: I tried these 4 obscure Docker containers, and now I run them 24/7 Papermerge: “A document management system for PDF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF — with custom metadata, full-text search, and a tamper-proof audit trail that satisfies GoBD requirements out of the box.” GitHub: ciur / papermerge: “Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives (Scanned Documents)” Actual Budget: “Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology. You own your data and can do whatever you want with it. Featuring multi-device sync, optional end-to-end encryption and so much more.” GitHub: actualbudget / actual: “A local-first personal finance app” Wallabag: “Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.” I did try Wallabag for a short time, but ended up staying with Karakeep. Excalidraw: “Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.” Make Use Of: NotebookLM finally has an open-source rival, and I’m hooked Open Notebook: “Open Notebook. Take Control of Your Learning. Privately. A powerful open-source, AI-powered note-taking/research platform that respects your privacy” GitHub: lfnovo / open-notebook: “An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features” Android Police: You might soon use WHOOP without paying for it, but the project is still in its early stages GitHub: b-nnett / goose: “Goose Swift proof-of-concept README” How-To Geek: This 34-year-old open source tool is still the fastest way to write on your computer Vim Vim Cheat Sheet selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (5 June 2026), by Ethan Sholly. GitHub: streamyfin / streamyfin: “A modern Jellyfin client built with Expo” Web Site: Streamyfin While trying to get my Home Video library working between Plex & Jellyfin earlier this week, i downloaded a number of Apple TV Jellyfin apps, but I’m not sure if Streamyfin was one. I also have a number of the clients on my phone, so i should probably take a look at all of them & see if i can narrow down what i have. GitHub: yakushstanislav / UltraViolet: “Self-hosted network discovery & search — your own Shodan, on your hardware.” I thought this was going to be for more local discovery, but i could see use-cases for the public side too. GitHub: perber / leafwiki: “LeafWiki - Self-hosted wiki. Single Go binary, SQLite, Markdown on disk. No external database required.” Web Site: LeafWiki: “A self-hosted wiki. Single binary, no external database, Markdown on disk.” I just wanted to save this one because it’s similar to some of the other note-taking apps i use (which is too many…), but using Markdown files, making backup (& migration if needed) extremely easy. GitHub: afaneca / myfin: “MyFin Budget - Web frontend for the personal finances platform that’ll help you budget, keep track of your income/spending and forecast your financial future.” Web Site: Myfin Budget: “Take Control of Your Finances with MyFin Budget” I’ve been trying to get better \ more on top of budget, bills, finances, etc & just started trying to use Actual Budget after not really loving the Budget part of Oikos, so i wanted to give this service a look too. GitHub: nezhahq / nezha: “Self-hosted, lightweight server and website monitoring and O&M tool” Web Site: Nesha Server Monitoring: “Open-source, lightweight, and easy-to-use server monitoring and operation tool” I haven’t found a home lab dashboard that I really love yet, so any time i see a new one mentioned i like to take a look at it. GitHub: raceApps / nutritrace: “Self-hosted personal nutrition tracker — single Docker container, AGPL-3.0, no telemetry, no cloud sync.” Along with trying to get a better view & handle on finances, trying to be healthier has been on the list too. After meaning to look into Cracked Oura, i thought this service might be worth a try too. GitHub: pewdiepie-archdaemon / odysseus: “Self-hosted AI workspace.” Web Site: Odysseus A coworker mentioned this one to me earlier this week, so i think i have it listed above in my post, but I’m still adding it since Ethan is also including it this week. fitpub.social/ GitHub: endurain-project / endurain: “Endurain is a self-hosted fitness tracking service designed to give users full control over their data and hosting environment” Codeberg: endurain-project / endurain (Primary host vs. GitHub): “Endurain is a self-hosted fitness tracking service designed to give users full control over their data and hosting environment https://docs.endurain.com” Microsoft | Windows Blogs: Build 2026: Furthering Windows as the trusted platform for development This is the part I’m excited for: “Coreutils for Windows – a set of Linux-like command line utilities that run natively on Windows, now generally available.” Plex: Plex Introduces a Social Platform for Entertainment Discovery Across Streaming Services Yeah… i agree with everyone else… why did they think this is what people wanted added to Plex? GitHub: caronc / apprise: “Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform” Release v1.11.0: Doesn’t look like there’s any new servers added that i would use, but was worth a look. GitHub: home-assistant / core: “🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.” Web Site: Home Assistant: “Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.” 2026.6.0: Home Assistant: 2026.6: Pick a card, any card I do have to sit down with my Home Assistant install & really build out the dashboards in a way that’s actually helpful, so I will probably be digging into that new card picker that was added: “So you can imagine my excitement for my personal favorite of this release: the new card picker. Instead of asking “which card type do I want?”, it now asks “which thing in your home do you want to show?”, and then suggests cards that actually make sense for it, with live previews using your own data. For someone like me, that’s not just easier; it’s genuinely inspiring. It nudges me towards combinations I would not have thought of on my own. 💡” GitHub: timothepoznanski / poznote: “Poznote is a personal note-taking and documentation platform.” Web Site: Poznote: “Poznote is a personal note-taking and documentation platform.” Release 6.17.0: Happy to see these two additions: Added a new setting to display attachment preview thumbnails directly at the top of notes. Added support for links to other notes, dates, and emojis within tasks. GitHub: RackulaLives / Rackula: “rack layout designer” Web Site: Rackula: “Drag and drop rack visualizer” v26.6.0 I can’t remember if i did look at this in the past or not, but hopefully i’ll remember going forward that this is a bit more than i need for my home lab. Definitely looks useful if i did have full racks though. solidtime-io / solidtime: “Modern open-source time-tracking app” Web Site: solidtime: “The modern Open-Source Time Tracker” jR4dh3y / BoxBox: “A modern, self-hosted file manager for your homelab. Built in SvelteKit & Go” Web Site: BoxBox: " The file manager your homelab deserves. Manage Linux servers like local folders. Zero latency, instant sync, chunked transfers, and native code editing right in your browser." SikamikanikoBG / homelab-monitor: “Plug-and-play homelab dashboard in one container — GPU, local-AI model VRAM, Docker, systemd and host health. One page, no Prometheus/Grafana.” Web Site: HomeLab Monitor: “One small container for your home lab — GPU, AI VRAM, Docker, systemd and host health, all on one page. Multi-machine since 0.8 — register your other boxes over SSH and see every host’s vitals side-by-side in one cockpit.” doomedramen / labitat: “Homelab dashboard” Web Site: Labitat: “A modern, self-hosted homelab dashboard. Live service widgets, drag-and-drop layout, and full PWA support.” slqdk / NoteControl: “Windows File explorer based notecontrol server with HTML5 as frontend” “A self-hosted, multi-user notes app for Windows. Notes are plain markdown files on disk, one folder per vault — open them in any editor, sync them with any tool, back them up by copying a folder. The app is just a friendly UI on top.” pewdiepie-archdaemon / odysseus: “Self-hosted AI workspace.” Web Site: Odysseus: “Your own AI workspace, running on your hardware. Odysseus is a self-hosted interface for talking to language models — chat, autonomous agents, tools, model serving, email, research, and more. Local-first, privacy-first, and no telemetry. Just you and your models.” Zoeille / picsou-finance: “Self-hosted personal finance dashboard Track bank accounts, brokerage, crypto, and net worth — all in one place.”

YouTube to Invidious: Invidious (nadeko.net): Title Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com: Title YouTube: Title 👎🏻 Adulting How-To Geek: I put NFC tags on my storage bins so Home Assistant could finally track my junk IKEA Hackers: IKEA HEMNES Hack: How One DIYer Transformed a Basic Dresser With Wallpaper 🤖 Android Android Authority: Valve just let me turn my Android handheld into an unofficial Steam Deck: “So we have a Linux Arm version of Steam as well as the Proton 11 release with Arm support. It’s time to install Linux on my AYN Odin 2 Portal and see if Steam and Steam games run well here.” ROCKNIX Wiki Hot-To Geek: Google’s new dev tool automatically converts iPhone apps into Android apps: Migration Assistant in Android Studio “The Migration Assistant in Android Studio is designed to port apps from platforms like iOS, React Native, or web frameworks to native Android. By simply selecting an existing project, developers can have the agent intelligently map features, convert assets like storyboards and SVGs, and implement Android best practices using Jetpack Compose and our recommended Jetpack libraries. This will effectively transform what used to be weeks of manual porting into a streamlined agentic workflow that only takes hours.” How-To Geek: Your old Android phone can replace a Roku or Fire Stick—here’s the setup I use: AndroidTV Android Authority: The best Simpsons game just got (unofficially) ported to Android GitHub: Carlox33 / The-Simpsons-Hit-and-Run-Android: “Unofficial Android port of The Simpsons: Hit & Run. Requires legally owned game files. No assets included.” Make Use Of: I replaced Google Keep with this free app and ditched my Google account dependency F-Droid: Easy Notes 🖥️🍎 Apple Cult of Mac: Remap your Mac’s keyboard to unlock power features I might have saved this last week… Karabiner Elements Cult of Mac: 6 ways to personalize your Mac and make it your own: Doesn’t look like there’s anything too crazy on here that most people wouldn’t have already done, but since i started to add it to the post, i just left it here. Change your Mac’s desktop wallpaper Change your theme colors Set a custom icon and widget color Change your folder icons Set up the Aerial screensaver Change your user account icon 🤖 Artificial Intelligence \ Large Language Models 🌎 Current Events Crooks & Liars: 27 (More) Protest Songs Soundtracking The Movement Ode to Minnesota Artist: Tori Amos Release Date: May 1, 2026 Genre: Pop Rock Best line: Pink rabbits bathed in spearmint ICE breathes in fire’s wind I got an ode to you, Minnesota ‘Cause you got our back as a friend ...

👎🏻 Adulting How-To Geek: 6 simple Excel automations you can do in under 5 minutes Turn your static ranges into data tables Apply formulas to every row instantly Make your data learn from your examples Spot errors and progress updates automatically Create foolproof inputs with in-cell drop-down menus Clean up messy imported data in one repeatable step How-To Geek: If you only do 3 things for your lawn each year, make sure they’re these (and at the right time) Knock out spring cleanup before the grass wakes up Overseed aggressively in the first two weeks of September Mulch your leaves with the mower from mid-October through November 🤖 Android How-To Geek: Aurora Store, Obtanium, and 2 more: The Android app stores Google doesn’t want you to know about Aurora Store Obtanium: “Obtainium allows you to install and update apps directly from their release pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.” GitHub Store: “🩵 A free, open-source app store for GitHub releases — browse, discover, and install apps with one click. Powered by Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform for Android & Desktop (Linux, MacOS, Windows).” How-To Geek: This open-source app turned GitHub into my favorite Android app store Neo Store: “An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.” Android Authority: This long-running PS1 emulator for Android just got Google Drive support ePSXe I don’t believe i have a PlayStation emulator on my Android tablet, so something to see about installing. How-To Geek: Every Android user should check out this free, open-source app collection How-To Geek: This open-source app turned GitHub into my favorite Android app store GitHub: OpenHub-Store / GitHub-Store: “🩵 A free, open-source app store for GitHub releases — browse, discover, and install apps with one click. Powered by Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform for Android & Desktop (Linux, MacOS, Windows).” How-To Geek: This alternative Jellyfin app gave me a Plex-like experience without any fuss GitHub: damontecres / Wholphin: “An OSS Android TV client for Jellyfin” 🍎 Apple Engadget: This new Mac app locks the keyboard to prevent chaos when your cat tramples all over it App Store: Cats Lock: $3 Cult of Mac: 7 best AI apps for Mac (and how I actually use them) Cotypist: “Cotypist predicts your next words in every Mac app — on your Mac, not in the cloud. Press Tab to accept. Eerily good at picking up on what you’re about to write.” Superwhisper: “Superwhisper: ultra-fast AI powered dictation that understands what you want to say and how you want to say it.” Substage: “A natural language command bar for your Finder windows” Granola: “The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings” Codex: “The Codex app is a focused desktop experience for working on Codex threads in parallel, with built-in worktree support, automations, and Git functionality.” Claude: From Anthropic. “Chat, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code, all in one place.” Gemini: “Access Gemini from any screen on your desktop to clarify a topic, recall a formula, or brainstorm on the fly without opening a tab. It’s help on demand.” Mac Stories: Indigo: A Clever Mashup of Bluesky and Mastodon in One Timeline App Store: Indigo for Bluesky & Mastodon Haiku Forums: My Haiku arm64 Progress Haiku: “Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.” Apple Insider: How to use a spare keyboard or numpad as a macropad in macOS Karabiner-Elements MacStories: BetterTouchTool: Now with a Powerful Launcher for Your Mac [Sponsor] I wasn’t saving this for the “sponsor” part, but because i use BetterTouchTool & wanted to see what was new. BetterTouchTool Plugin Gallery GitHub: kageroumado / phosphene: “A video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe” “Phosphene is a menu bar app + wallpaper extension that plays your own video files as the macOS desktop and lock-screen wallpaper. It plugs into the system’s native wallpaper picker, so videos appear alongside Apple’s built-in Aerials in System Settings → Wallpaper.” Not that i have anything in mind for this, but thought it was interesting enough to save for the future in case i do decide i want to use it. 🤖 Artificial Intelligence \ Large Language Models Make Use Of: Stop paying for Claude Code — this tool does the same thing for free OpenCode 🌎 Current Events Rutger Bregman: 10 Signs of Fascism. America has all of them. First: a mythic past and national rebirth. Second: victimhood and humiliation Third: hierarchy and dehumanization Fourth: contempt for weakness This leads to the fifth family resemblance, which is the cult of action. Sixth: the leader as savior Seventh: the purification of institutions Eight: propaganda and the assault on truth Ninth: the merger of state and corporate power Tenth, final and most crucially: violence and terror 🎥📺 Entertainment Gizmodo: ‘Star Trek: The Last Starship’ Is Boldly Going Into Horror This sounded interesting & i wanted to check it out. Hail Mary - Star Map 🎮 Games Android Authority: One of the best handheld Zelda games is now (unofficially) available on Android Android Authority: One of the best handheld Zelda games now has an unofficial PC port GitHub: 999sian / tmc: “Decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (USA/JP/EU)” Lemmy.ca: The PlayStation 5 Linux project has been upgraded to support more firmware Gaming on Linux: [](URL: www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/the-playstation-5-linux-project-has-been-upgraded-to-support-more-firmware/) Windows Central: Winhanced update adds PlayStation integration and emulator support, turning Windows gaming handhelds into true all‑in‑one hubs: “Winhanced keeps expanding with PS5 support, emulator integration, improved navigation, and app launching features for Windows handheld gamers.” Winhanced GitHub: streetpea / chiaki-ng: “Next-Generation of Chiaki (the open-source remote play client for PlayStation)” Web Site: chiaki-ng: “PlayStation Remote Play for Everyone” 🏡 Home How-To Geek: This 10-minute Home Assistant automation saves me hours every week “Adding snapshots to notifications was a quick fix” “Displaying the live doorbell feed saves me a lot of wasted time” Make Use Of: My old phone became the smart home dashboard I should have built sooner IT’s FOSS: I Gave Desktop Email Clients Another Shot and This New App Delivered Aerion: “An Open Source Lightweight E-Mail Client” How-To Geek: 5 Home Assistant features you’re not using (but should be) Labels Helpers (Tools) Calendars Actionable notifications Webhooks How-To Geek: 5 Home Assistant integrations you’re probably not using—but should be Waste Collection Schedule: “Home Assistant integration framework for (garbage collection) schedules” Chime TTS: “A custom Home Assistant integration to play combined audio files before and/or after text-to-speech (TTS) messages” Multiscrape: “Home Assistant custom component for scraping (html, xml or json) multiple values (from a single HTTP request) with a separate sensor/attribute for each value. Support for (login) form-submit functionality.” Workday Presence Simulation: “This Home Assistant component aim to provide a presence simulation in your home while you are away. It will turn on & off lights, switches, covers… based on your history.” How-To Geek: Stop using Home Assistant automations for everything — here’s when scripts and scenes are better How-To Geek: 3 smart home upgrades you can make with a $24 Arduino boar Home irrigation system Smart coaster Smart safety monitoring system IT’s FOSS: How I Finally Added Tapo L530 Bulb to Home Assistant Art of Manliness: 10 Jobs to Get Your House Ready for Summer Get yardwork tools and gear ready. Test outdoor water lines. Repair damaged window screens. Get your A/C inspected and tuned up. Prep your mower for the season. Change ceiling fan direction: “In winter, the fan should spin clockwise (when viewed from below) at a low speed, which gently pulls cool air upward and pushes warm air trapped near the ceiling back down into the room. In summer, the fan should spin counterclockwise, creating a downward breeze that makes you feel cooler.” Clean your grill and get propane. Get ready for bugs (ant traps, wasp traps, fly catchers, etc.). Clean out gutters. Clean and/or pressure wash decks, sidewalks, and patios. How-To Geek: 4 smart home devices you can replace with a Pi Zero 2 W A presence detection system Your smart security camera An expensive air quality monitor A smart watering system How-To Geek: Home Assistant now works with this clever snap-on switch for smart home controls ZUNZUNBEE: Slate Switch — The First Snapable™ Smart Control 🖥️🔐 IT Security GitHub: ruvnet / RuView 🐧 Linux NERDS.xyz: RakuOS takes a huge step toward becoming a serious Linux distro RakuOS: “Atomic Linux that doesn’t take away your package manager. Immutable base. Install anything. Native gaming. Zero compromises.” Nice banner across the top of the page too: “Our stance on age mandates in general, and more specifically H.R. 8250: RakuOS opposes invasive age-verification and age-attestation mandates. If these laws move forward, we will implement the absolute bare minimum in the most privacy-respecting way possible. Read our full stance, including our response to H.R. 8250.” GitHub: tech4bot / rk3562deb: “rkdebian is a build system that produces a complete, bootable Debian 12 Bookworm image for the Doogee U10 Android tablet, powered by the Rockchip RK3562 SoC.” I forget where i saved this from, but Linux on a tablet caught my eye. Make Use Of: I ditched laggy Linux remote desktop for this browser-based setup Apache Guacamole: “Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required. Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser.” 🎥📺 Media How-To Geek: Stop paying Netflix: Here’s how I built my own media library without self-hosting OSMC: Vero How-To Geek: Why I quit Jellyfin for a different open-source Plex rival Kodi: “Kodi spawned from the love of media. It is media center and entertainment hub that brings all your digital media together into a beautiful and user friendly package. It is 100% free and open source, very customisable and runs on a wide variety of devices. It is supported by a dedicated team of volunteers and a huge community.” I’ve used Kodi here & there, but i always thought of it as more of a client than server. Maybe just for fun I’ll dig a bit deeper into it. Self Hosting Make Use Of: 5 things you shouldn’t self-host, even though you technically can Running your own email is a pain you don’t need Payments are not a DIY project Production DNS isn’t forgiving: I agree with this one for business purposes, but if your knowledgable enough & know you’ll have to troubleshoot, running it for yourself locally isn’t that much of a headache. And even that is usually just at the beginning; once it’s running for a while you generally don’t have too many issues & if they do come up, you are now experienced enough to know where to fix the issue. Streaming at scale is a different beast: Disagree with this one, based on what you want to accomplish. If you 100% want to replace Netflix or another streaming service, i do think that would be extremely difficult. If you want to complement what you have, including things that might not be easily accessible online, it’s definitely worth it. And also for things that you would NOT find online, like a shared Library for your family to view digitized home videos. Kubernetes is overkill for most homelabs How-To Geek: Proxmox solves Plex’s biggest backup problem, but most people don’t know it Just skimmed the article, but looks like it’s just about a snapshot that would include media files, but I’m not too worried about losing movies, shows, or music that might be in Plex. Home Videos would be different, but those i already have backed up in multiple places anyway. How-To Geek: These 5 open-source apps do everything your paid subscriptions do, but better Immich: “Self-hosted photo and video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.” audiobookshelf: “Audiobookshelf is an open-source self-hosted media server for your audiobooks and podcasts.” Wallabag: “wallabag is a read-it-later application: it saves a web page by keeping content only. Elements like navigation or ads are deleted.” Plex or Jellyfin: After everything with the ridiculous price increase from Plex… definitey going to say Jellyfin over Plex here. Postiz: “Plan, generate, and schedule posts automatically to 30+ social media networks — then review and edit everything in a visual calendar. Bring your OpenClaw / Hermes / Claude” How-To Geek: 5 Pi Zero 2 W projects that are more useful than they have any right to be Network-wide malware protection and ad-blocking: Pi-hole A tiny backup VPN: Wireguard This is the one Raspberry Pi project I leave running 24/7 in my homelab A self-hosted password manager: Vaultwarden Your homelab dashboard: Uptime Kuma A mini music server: Navidrome Make Use Of: 3 self-hosted apps I’m trying out this weekend (and you should too) Immich: “Self-hosted photo and video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.” Mealie: “Mealie is an intuitive and easy to use recipe management app. It’s designed to make your life easier by being the best recipes management experience on the web and providing you with an easy to use interface to manage your growing collection of recipes.” Uptime Kuma: “A self-hosted monitoring tool” GitHub: louislam / uptime-kuma: “A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool” 🗣️ Social Networking ❔ Miscellaneous How-To Geek: That old 128GB NVMe SSD in your junk drawer has 5 better uses than storage Turn it into a high-speed external SSD using an NVMe enclosure: So, literally the first suggestion in the list is to use it as storage… not that i think it’s bad, just not very appropriate based on the title. Run a lightweight homelab or self-hosted services from it Install and carry a portable Linux operating system Use it as a dedicated scratch disk for fast transfers and temporary work files Store all your favorite lightweight games Again, not that I’m disagreeing with any of these uses, it’s just that 3/5 are using the SSD for storage… How-To Geek: I let a local LLM take control of my video doorbell—it’s probably the future of smart cameras: “TTS out, Whisper in, Ollama in the middle” Make Use Of: This free app replaced half the browser tools I used every day: IT - TOOLS How-To Geek: Your Raspberry Pi is a better Plex server than you think (but change these 3 settings) Disable transcoding Keep video in original quality Use SRT subtitles files.md GitHub: zakirullin / files.md: “🌱 Your life in plain .md files” How-To Geek: How I turned an old Kindle into an E-Ink portable monitor How-To Geek: How to Jailbreak a Kindle eReader: Kindle Modding Wiki How-To Geek: I put this open-source reader on my Kindle, and I wish I had done it sooner: KOReader: “KOReader is a document viewer for E Ink devices. Supported fileformats include EPUB, PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBT, CBZ, FB2, PDB, TXT, HTML, RTF, CHM, DOC, MOBI and ZIP files. It’s available for Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Android and desktop Linux.” How-To Geek: I replaced ElevenLabs with this free, open-source voice cloner, and the quality is scarily good Voicebox: “Clone, dictate and create. Clone voices, generate speech across seven TTS engines, dictate into any app, and talk to agents in voices you own. A free and local alternative to ElevenLabs and WisprFlow, running entirely on your machine.” Hack A Day: Building Festival Badges That Sync Themselves Up I still have my DEF CON badges & a few “addons” that i haven’t done too much with, so this was a reminder to dig those out & play around with them. Make Use Of: I found a free file converter that never uploads your files anywhere — and it handles everything VERT.sh: “The file converter you’ll love. All image, audio, and document processing is done on your device. Videos are converted on our lightning-fast servers. No file size limit, no ads, and completely open source.” Make Use Of: I switched from Outlook to Thunderbird, but this free email client is better than both Thunderbird Mailspring: “💌 A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.” How-To Geek: 7 ways I use Python to edit and animate images—it’s very easy and very powerful Using Python to resize, crop, and rotate an image from PIL import Image # Import the Image module from the Pillow library img = Image.open("photo.jpg") # Load photo.jpg from disk into an Image object (original is untouched in memory) # --- RESIZE --- resized = img.resize((800, 600)) # Create a new Image object scaled to 800x600px (non-destructive, img is unchanged) resized.save("resized.jpg") # Write the resized image to disk as resized.jpg # --- CROP --- cropped = img.crop((100, 100, 500, 400)) # Cut a rectangle from img: starts at (100,100), ends at (500,400) → gives a 400x300px image cropped.save("cropped.jpg") # Write the cropped image to disk as cropped.jpg # --- ROTATE --- rotated = img.rotate(45) # Create a new Image rotated 45° counter-clockwise; corners are clipped and filled black (canvas size unchanged) rotated.save("rotated.jpg") # Write the rotated image to disk as rotated.jpg 02. Using Python to draw text and shapes on an image from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont # Also import ImageFont to load a proper font img = Image.open("photo.jpg") draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img) # Draw object bound directly to img — modifications are in-place # Draw a red rectangle draw.rectangle([50, 50, 300, 150], outline="red", width=3) # Rectangle from (50,50) to (300,150), red border, 3px thick # Load a proper font (change path/size to suit your needs) font = ImageFont.truetype("arial.ttf", size=32) # Load a TTF font at 32px — use any .ttf file available on your system # Add white text at position (60, 60) draw.text((60, 60), "Hello, World!", fill="white", font=font) # Write text using the loaded font img.save("annotated.jpg") 03. Using Python to manipulate pixels directly from PIL import Image # Import Pillow's Image module for loading and saving images import numpy as np # Import NumPy — allows treating the image as a grid of numbers for direct pixel math img = Image.open("photo.jpg") # Load photo.jpg from disk into an Image object pixels = np.array(img) # Convert the Image object into a NumPy array — each pixel becomes a number (0–255) representing its brightness/color value # --- INVERT --- inverted = 255 - pixels # Subtract every pixel value from 255 — this flips the colors (0 becomes 255, 255 becomes 0, etc.) result = Image.fromarray(inverted.astype(np.uint8)) # Convert the NumPy array back into a Pillow Image object — astype(np.uint8) ensures values stay in the valid 0–255 range result.save("inverted.jpg") # Write the inverted image to disk 04. Using Python to apply filters and color adjustments from PIL import Image, ImageFilter, ImageEnhance # Import Image for loading, ImageFilter for blur/sharpen effects, ImageEnhance for brightness/contrast adjustments img = Image.open("photo.jpg") # Load photo.jpg from disk into an Image object (original stays unchanged throughout) # --- GRAYSCALE --- gray = img.convert("L") # Convert img to grayscale — "L" is Pillow's mode for 8-bit black & white; returns a new Image object gray.save("grayscale.jpg") # Write the grayscale image to disk # --- BLUR --- blurred = img.filter(ImageFilter.BLUR) # Apply a simple box blur to img — returns a new Image object, img is unchanged blurred.save("blurred.jpg") # Write the blurred image to disk # --- SHARPEN --- sharpened = img.filter(ImageFilter.SHARPEN) # Apply a sharpening filter to img — enhances edges; returns a new Image object sharpened.save("sharpened.jpg") # Write the sharpened image to disk # --- BRIGHTNESS --- enhancer = ImageEnhance.Brightness(img) # Create a Brightness enhancer object bound to img — similar to ImageDraw, but read-only (non-destructive) bright = enhancer.enhance(1.5) # Apply 1.5x brightness (1.0 = original, <1.0 = darker, >1.0 = brighter) — returns a new Image object bright.save("brighter.jpg") # Write the brightened image to disk 05. Using Python to remove the background from an image from rembg import remove # Import the remove function from rembg — a third-party library that uses an AI model (U2Net) to detect and remove image backgrounds from PIL import Image # Import Pillow's Image module for loading and saving images input_image = Image.open("photo.jpg") # Load photo.jpg from disk into an Image object output_image = remove(input_image) # Pass the image through the AI model — detects the foreground subject, removes the background, returns a new Image object with a transparent background output_image.save("no_background.png") # Save as PNG — must use PNG (not JPG) because JPG doesn't support transparency; the transparent areas would be lost 06. Using Python to composite two images together from PIL import Image background = Image.open("photo.jpg").convert("RGBA") # Convert to RGBA to support transparency overlay = Image.open("logo.png").convert("RGBA") # Convert to RGBA — logos often have transparent areas # Resize overlay to desired size before pasting overlay = overlay.resize((200, 100)) # Scale the logo to 200x100px — adjust to suit your needs # Paste the overlay at position (50, 50) background.paste(overlay, (50, 50), mask=overlay) # mask=overlay uses the overlay's alpha channel to blend edges cleanly — without this, transparent areas paste as black background.save("composited.png") # Save as PNG to preserve transparency 07. Using Python to animate a single image into a GIF from PIL import Image img = Image.open("photo.jpg").convert("RGBA") # Load image and convert to RGBA — needed for consistent pixel handling across frames frames = [] # Empty list to store each frame of the animation for i in range(20): # Loop 20 times — each iteration generates one frame of the zoom effect scale = 1 + i * 0.02 # Calculate scale factor for this frame — starts at 1.0 (100%), increases by 2% each frame up to 1.38 (138%) new_width = int(img.width * scale) # Calculate new width based on scale factor new_height = int(img.height * scale) # Calculate new height based on scale factor resized = img.resize((new_width, new_height)) # Resize the image to the new dimensions — makes it slightly larger each frame # --- CROP BACK TO ORIGINAL SIZE FROM CENTER --- left = (resized.width - img.width) // 2 # Calculate how many pixels to trim from the left to center the crop top = (resized.height - img.height) // 2 # Calculate how many pixels to trim from the top to center the crop frame = resized.crop((left, top, left + img.width, top + img.height)) # Crop the resized image back to the original dimensions from the center — this creates the zoom-in illusion frames.append(frame) # Add the cropped frame to the frames list # --- SAVE AS GIF --- frames[0].save( "zoom.gif", # Output filename save_all=True, # Tell Pillow to save all frames, not just the first one append_images=frames[1:], # Attach frames 2–20 after the first frame duration=50, # Each frame displays for 50 milliseconds — lower = faster animation loop=0 # 0 = loop forever; set to 1 for play-once, 2 for twice, etc. ) selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (22 May 2026) , by Ethan Sholly. GitHub: bookorbit / bookorbit: “BookOrbit: Your Reading Space” Web Site: BookOrbit: “A self-hosted library and reading platform for ebooks, audiobooks, and comics. Automate metadata at scale, sync with Kobo, track reading analytics, and support multiple users.” Invidious (nadeko.net): Pi: Open-Source AI Agent Terminal Set-Up Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com: Pi: Open-Source AI Agent Terminal Set-Up YouTube: Christian Lempa: Pi: Open-Source AI Agent Terminal Set-Up GitHub: ether / etherpad: “Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.” v3.0.0 Web Site: Etherpad Documentation: “EtherpadNext generation collaborative document editing. Make your documents come alive” I don’t remember if I’ve tried Etherpad before, but maybe I skipped looking into it since it is more “collaborative” & it’s not something i need to use. GitHub: Timmoth / RackPeek: “CLI tool to discover, manage, and document your IT infrastructure and home lab.” Web Site: rackpeek I know i’ve seen \ saved this before, but haven’t had a chance to look more into it. Codeberg: danb / rss: “A simple twitter-feed-style RSS aggregator written in PHP, Laravel, Inertia.js, Tailwind and Vue.js” Within the last week or two, i had just setup FreshRSS so i probably won’t be moving to anything else any time soon, but wanted to look at this RSS reader. GitHub: snapotter-hq / SnapOtter: “🦦The open-source image toolkit that makes paid tools nervous. Every image tool you need. Your images stay yours.” Web Site: SnapOtter: “A free, open-source image toolkit with 50+ tools that runs entirely on your network.” I might have saved this last week too, but didn’t get to look at it yet. GitHub: ellite / Wallos: “Wallos: Open-source, self-hostable personal subscription tracker. Visualize your recurring expenses, manage your budget, and save money.” Web Site: Wallos: “Wallos: Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker. Self-hostable web application designed to empower you in managing your finances with ease. Wallos simplifies the process of tracking expenses and helps you gain better control over your finances.” I was running this previously, but i don’t remember if it broke & i never brought it back up (would have been an issue on my side, not the app) or forgot about it. At the moment i’ve been trying out Oikos) which isn’t the same thing, but maybe I will spin Wallos back up & use them together.

🍎 Apple Lifehacker: 10 Apple Shortcut Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know Extend your Action Button’s capabilities: Shortcuts: Multi-shortcut Action Button Use News Report AI to get your news right in Notes: Shortcuts: News Report AI Save X video clips with this shortcut: Shorcuts: X Downloader Expand your song repertoire with MusicBot: Shorcuts: 🤖 MusicBot Save Current Location will log where you are: Shorcuts: Save Current Location Low Battery Announcement will save you from a dead phone: Shorcuts: Low Battery Announcement Shazam & Save listens for what’s playing: “You’ll find it in the Gallery tab of the Shortcuts app.” Personalize your post-morning-alarm routine Get a battery warning when leaving the house Run specific actions in your car /r/Apple: Forcing the iPad 6th Gen Past iPadOS 17 (upRa1n) - Channel Ramble Invidious (nadeko.net): Forcing the iPad 6th Gen PAST iPadOS 17 (upRa1n) YouTube: Forcing the iPad 6th Gen PAST iPadOS 17 (upRa1n) GitHub: Zer0xDev / upRa1n: “Tethered dualboot/restore iOS 18 on iPad 6 (Wifi / Cellular)” 🎮 Games Gizmodo: Activists Install Arcade Game Mocking Trump on the National Mall. You Can Play It in Your Browser Right Now Gizmodo: Someone Created a Version of ‘Elden Ring’ That Runs on a PS1 Gizmodo: The Best You Can Do in the Strait of Hormuz Simulation Game Is Mess Up as Little as Possible Eden: “Eden is a free and opensource (FOSS) Switch 1 emulator, derived from Yuzu and Sudachi - started by developer Camille LaVey. It’s written in C++ with portability in mind, with builds for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, FreeBSD and more.” 🖥️🔐 IT Security Hack Read: 9-Year-Old Dirty Frag Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Linux Systems IT’s FOSS: Dirty Frag is a New Linux Exploit That Grants Root, and There’s No Proper Patch Yet SC Media: New Linux privilege escalation flaw ‘Fragnesia’ disclosed; PoC available GitHub: v12-security / pocs: Fragnesia Project Zero: A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10: When a Door Closes, a Window Opens Project Zero: A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 Part 1: Decoding Dolby 🐧 Linux Hack a Day: A Cyberdeck That Runs Linux…in An Altoids Tin IT’s FOSS: Linux is Getting a Kill Switch! Nerds.xyz: MX Linux 25.2 Beta 1 brings new text installer and important fixes SparkyLinux: Sparky 8.3 SparkyLinux: “SparkyLinux is a GNU/Linux distribution based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Sparky is a fast, lightweight and fully customizable operating system which offers several versions for different use cases.” nixCraft: How to add cron job entry for acme.sh nixCraft: A Bash Script to Read All Command Line Arguments into an Array: Simplify Argument Handling nixCraft: How to copy permissions from one file to another on Linux nixCraft: sttr – Awesome Linux & Unix tool for transformation of the string nixCraft: lnav – Awesome terminal log file viewer for Linux and Unix nixCraft: Shell script to set up an LXD / Incus (Linux Containers) lab for testing purpose nixCraft: How to control the SSH multiplexing with the control commands IT’s FOSS: Yazi is the Terminal-based File Manager I Didn’t Know I Needed GitHub: sxyazi / yazi: “💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.” Yazi: “⚡️ Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.” IT’s FOSS: Can You Run LLMs Locally Without a GPU? I Tested 8 Models on Linux How-To Geek: 2 beginner Linux distros that don’t force you to use the terminal Zorin OS: “A Windows-like, GUI-driven beginner’s distro that simply works” Nobara Project: “A multimedia-focused distro that also simply works” Make Use Of: 6 Linux distros that were huge once, but barely matter now Mandrake Linux Caldera OpenLinux Yellow Dog Linux Knoppix CentOS Pop!_OS How-To Geek: 9 essential command pipelines that simplify everyday Linux grep | less : Filter data and page the results tail | grep: Extract relevant live data from a log file history | grep: Quick access to commands you’ve run before sort | uniq: Simple summary info from structured data df | tee: Get disk space reports on screen and in a file echo | xargs: Copy a file to multiple directories curl | jq: Process data retrieved from a web API du -sh * | sort -h: Find your biggest files and directories date | md5sum: The quickest way to generate a decent password IT’s FOSS: Fedora Hummingbird Debuts As a Super Hardened Linux Distro Project Hummingbird: “minimal, hardened, and secure container images” 🎥📺 Media Make Use Of: I replaced my Kindle with a Boox and got everything Amazon refuses to offer Boox 🗣️ Social Networking NERDS.xyz: Ditto wants to bring back the weird customizable internet people actually loved Ditto: “Your content. Your vibe. Your rules.” ❔ Miscellaneous ADT camera access outside their service? FreshRSS with FeedBurner & other kinds of feeds? IT’s FOSS: This $85 PCB is Giving Old Google Home Mini Devices a Second Life Crowd Supply: MiciMike Home Mini Drop-In PCB How-To Geek: 5 Bluetooth ESP32 projects for this weekend (May 15 - 17) Home Assistant Bluetooth proxies ESP32-based presence detection A Bluetooth system monitor for your PC ESP32 Bluetooth receiver or speaker 3D-printed Stream Deck alternative macropad Make Use Of: Excel already has a built-in web scraper, this is what I use it for Make Use Of: I tracked my life in Excel for 3 months—I’m never using a journaling app again OneDrive: Daily Journal 2026 - Updated How-To Geek: 5 Pi Zero 2W projects you can do in a weekend A retro gaming console A DIY weather station A wireless print server A tiny home server Low power doesn’t mean useless How-To Geek: 3 money-saving free, open-source apps to try this weekend (May 15-17) Handbrake Upscayl Ollama selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (15 May 2026), by Ethan Sholly. GitHub: V4bel / dirtyfrag Bambu Lab Blog: Setting the record straight on Cloud Access and Community Jeff Geerling: Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract GitHub: lahirumaramba / rocky: “Rocky: Your Own Personal Eridanian Buddy” Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com): I Built “Rocky” from Project Hail Mary using a Raspberry Pi and Local LLM YouTube: I Built “Rocky” from Project Hail Mary using a Raspberry Pi and Local LLM The Verge: Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter: “The open-source Apple HomeKit bridge is adding Matter, allowing it to support Alexa, Google Home, Home Assistant — and robot vacuums.” GitHub: FreshRSS / FreshRSS: “A free, self-hostable news aggregator…” I just started running this a few days ago, so I’m looking into the release notes. FreshRSS 1.29.0 GitHub: homarr-labs / homarr: “A modern and easy to use dashboard. 40+ integrations. 20K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration.” Each time i see new releases for other home \ dashboard services, i like to take a look & see if i should start trying them out again. v1.61.0 GitHub: home-assistant / core: “🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.” 2026.5.0 GitHub: karakeep-app / karakeep: “A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search” 0.32.0 GitHub: edde746 / plezy: “Modern cross-platform Plex & Jellyfin client built with Flutter” Plezy: " A beautiful client for Plex & Jellyfin. Stream your media library with HDR, Dolby Vision, offline downloads, and a gorgeous experience across all your devices." 2.0.0 GitHub: oyeolamilekan/appshots: “A free, open-source tool to create stunning, high-converting screenshots for the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in minutes. Design professional app previews with an intuitive drag-and-drop editor.” AppShots Editor Aviato: “All your videos, images, audio, and text. A self-hosted media server that handles it all. Extensible with plugins, webhooks, and API.” Just curious to see other options to Plex or Jellyfin. GitHub: jonymaster / catalogIT: “A Web App to track Hardware and Software in an IT Team” GitHub: adinhodovic / compass: “A landing page for your services, dashboards, and documents, discovered automatically from sources such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Tailscale.” Compass GitHub: aicrafted / compote: “Compose Templater - UI for create, validate and manage docker compose based infrastructures” CompoTe: “Manage your self-hosted environments. Switch between cloud clusters, local development boxes, or home lab deployments.” App Store: DimDash: “A native iPadOS/iOS kiosk app for Home Assistant, Grafana, Dashy, Homarr, Glance, Node-RED, Flame, and any dashboard URL. Built for wall panels that should stay useful without jailbreaks, MDM, or browser hacks.” Nick Renard: DimDash GitHub: pablitofernandez / FamilyNido: “Self-hosted PWA for a single household — shared calendar, chores, meals, school agenda, health records and a family wall. .NET 10 + Angular 21. Pair-programmed with Claude Code Opus 4.7.” GitHub: PyroghostX / ForgottenMovies: “App built to remind users about media they requested but never watched. Requires Plex, Tautulli and Seerr.” GitHub: doctor-io / homeio: “Homeio is a self-hosted server manager with a desktop-style UI. It is designed as an alternative to other home server managers (CasaOS, Umbrel, Portainer), focused on a modern interface, realtime system visibility, and app lifecycle operations.” GitHub: parkejunior / jellycc-cli: “A CLI to ensure Jellyfin Direct Play compatibility.” “A smart CLI that diagnoses, audits, repairs, standardizes, and optimizes your media to ensure Direct Play on Jellyfin.” GitHub: open-noodle / gallery: “High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.” Noodle Gallery: “Noodle Gallery is a self-hosted photo and video platform with AI-powered search, face recognition, shared family spaces, and cloud storage — all under your control.” Patilla Forgejo: Piruetas: “A minimalist, self-hosted diary and journaling web app. https://piruet.app” Piruetas: “A minimalist journal. Beautiful, private, yours.” GitHub: solyto / solyto: “Free, privacy-oriented, no bullshit. Just manage your stuff with ease.” “solyto is a free, private, all-in-one personal management app — covering your todos, contacts, calendar, notes, news, music and book library in one place, with one login, and one coherent interface. No annoying AI features, no tracking, no subscriptions, no bullshit. Use it on the web, install it as a PWA, or self-host it entirely on your own infrastructure. Built out of frustration with bloated tools, fragmented self-hosted stacks, and services that keep adding things you never asked for.” solyto GitHub: 0xchasercat / flint: “Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines” “A single <11MB binary with a modern Web UI, CLI, and API for KVM.” GitHub: nanocoai / nanoclaw: “A lightweight alternative to OpenClaw that runs in containers for security. Connects to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Gmail and other messaging apps,, has memory, scheduled jobs, and runs directly on Anthropic’s Agents SDK” NanoClaw: “Your personal AI agent. Secure. Lightweight. Yours. The official website for NanoClaw, the secure personal AI agent. NanoClaw runs securely in containers, built to be understood and customized for your own needs.” Invidious (nadeko.net): Lawrence Systems: Stop Putting Everything in Discord & Reddit: Use Forums Instead Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com: Stop Putting Everything in Discord & Reddit: Use Forums Instead YouTube: Stop Putting Everything in Discord & Reddit: Use Forums Instead Invidious (nadeko.net): New Self-Hosted Apps You NEED to Try [April 2026] Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com: New Self-Hosted Apps You NEED to Try [April 2026] YouTube: [New Self-Hosted Apps You NEED to Try [April 2026]] Invidious (nadeko.net): Dockhand: A Smarter, Safer Docker Manager Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com: Dockhand: A Smarter, Safer Docker Manager YouTube: Dockhand: A Smarter, Safer Docker Manager

🎮 Games Engadget: The sequel to the iconic emulator ZSNES is called Super ZSNES, of course Notebook Check: Modder releases PS5-Linux that turns the console into a fully functional Linux gaming PC GitHub: ps5-linux / ps5-linux-loader: “Linux payload implementing the HV exploit and a custom bootloader” I wouldn’t mod my PS5 now, but maybe a future project & i’m interested it just seeing how it’s done. Windows Central: A modder got Halo: Combat Evolved running natively on Nintendo Switch without cloud streaming GitHub: JRickey / libultraship: “Porting games to the PC” This is a PC port of Super Smash Bros., from the Nintendo 64. 🖥️🔐 IT Security GitHub: dougburks / ohmypcap: “A standalone web application for analyzing PCAP files using Suricata” Nerds.xyz: Copy Fail exploit lets 732 bytes hijack Linux systems and quietly grab root Xint.to: Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distributions Copy Fail: CVE-2026-31431 GitHub: theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431 🐧 Linux OhMyDebn: “OhMyDebn is a debonair Linux desktop for power users. It gives you the stability of the Debian distro, the ease of use of the Cinnamon desktop, and the power of AI, containers, and virtualization.” BunsenLabs: “BunsenLabs Linux Carbon is a distribution offering a light-weight and easily customizable Openbox desktop. The project is a community continuation of CrunchBang Linux. The current release is derived from Debian 13 “Trixie”.” I remember running CrunchBang Linux back in college on my ASUS Eee PC, so seeing this as continuation of that, i wanted to look into it. IT’s FOSS: 7 Features I Like in Ptyxis (The New Default Ubuntu Terminal) I dug old my old Surface Go to play with & saw i still had it running a very old version of Xubuntu. While i was first looking into upgrading it to the most recent Ubuntu-flavor release (before i thought of CrunchBang \ BunsenLabs), I was looking a bit into the new Ubuntu release & came across the posts about Ptyxis & wanted to take a look. Ubunlog: This is Ptyxis: the new GNOME terminal for modern Linux environments that will run Ubuntu 25.10. Rockford Lhotka: Running Linux on My Surface Go Since it’s been a while since i set anything up with the Surface Go, I just wanted to double check documentation because i believe there was a custom kernel i needed to run for everything to be working properly. Even with this from 2025, will still be more up-to-date than what i might have saved. https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/linux-lite-8-rc1/ Miscellaneous IT’s FOSS: Good News! AI-first Warp Terminal is Now Open Source warp: Warp is now open-source GitHub: warpdotdev / warp: “Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal.” Lifehacker: This App Lets You Use All Your AirPods’ Features on Any Android GitHub: kavishdevar / librepods: “AirPods liberated from Apple’s ecosystem.” I think i may have found this a little while ago on F-Droid, but maybe that was not as full-featured as this. Time to take a look. GitHub: ckolos / humblebundle-downloader: “Download your Humble Bundle Library” I had recently purchased another book pack off of Humble Bundle & was trying to use the tool to mass download them all versus having to go one-by-one, but ran into a few issues. First… had to remind myself about Python virtual environments (Python venv: How To Create, Activate, Deactivate, And Delete). - python3 -m venv venv - source venv/bin/activate - And specifically for the Humble Bundle downloader: pip install -e With Ubuntu 26.04 adding a “Projects” folder, of course this was the one “server” where i had moved my “Development” folder into “Projects”, just because. That caused a problem because the virtual environment was hardcoded to use the path that included “Development”. After figuring that part out, received an error when trying to use the tool. I believe it’s that my session cookie is expired, so just have to give it another try later. selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (1 May 2026), by Ethan Sholly. Copy Fail: I have this listed above as well, but since it’s pretty significant, it can’t hurt to have it added a second time. NIST: CVE-2026-31431 GitHub: grimmory-tools / grimmory/: docs(governance): define the project’s governance structure and decision-making framework#1000 Really just making note for myself to check on my container & see if i loaded all my books or was still in the middle of anything. I thought the post would be an interesting read as well. GitHub: Hound-Media-Server / hound: “All-in-one Media Server—Find, watch, track, and manage your media” Interesting, but since it uses P2P sources, i don’t want to have to be concerned with copyright violations. As much as i want to get off Plex to Jellyfin, the former at least has the feature of showing you where something is available, if you don’t have it on your own server. “Watch and Track Movies and TV Shows. Self-hosted version of Plex/Stremio + Trakt, Simkl, etc. Hound aims to be a complete ecosystem of watching, tracking, downloading, and archiving media. Hound is a fully-featured media server, like Jellyfin or Plex, but with the additional ability to stream content through P2P (torrent) or HTTP/Debrid sources. With Hound, you get the benefits of fully controlling your media like Jellyfin, but can also stream instantly like Stremio. It’s the best of both worlds.” GitHub: dmunozv04 / iSponsorBlockTV: “SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients.” SponsorBlock: “SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe, and skipping to the point with highlight.” I don’t really use YouTube anymore (& no longer have a YouTube TV subscription), but wanted to look into it. Download Notepad++ for Mac: “Notepad++ for Mac is the free, native macOS build of the popular open-source code editor — the same Scintilla editing engine, the same syntax highlighting for 80+ languages, the same macro recording and plugin system, rewritten on top of native macOS Cocoa APIs so it feels at home on your Mac. Built as a Universal Binary for Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4, M5) and Intel Macs. No Wine, no Rosetta, no emulation needed. Every release is code-signed with an Apple Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple. For the official Windows version of Notepad++, visit notepad-plus-plus.org.” I mainly stick with VS Code or VSCodium on my devices now, but maybe I’ll play around with Notepad++ again. BookStack: BookStack Has Migrated From GitHub to Codeberg Bitwarden Community Forums: Bitwarden Statement on Checkmarx Supply Chain Incident SimpleX: SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding — to Preserve Freedom of Speech GitHub: Lissy93/dashy: Release 4.0.0 Dashy “🚀 A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!” I don’t think i still ahve this running anymore, but i wanted to look again to see if i should go back to it. GitHub: Freika / dawarich: “Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)” Dawarich: “Your Timeline, Forever. Google killed browser Timeline and is limiting data retention. Import your entire location history into Dawarich in minutes — private, encrypted, yours. No ads. No data selling.” I’m currently using Reitti, but wanted to see if i’d like this better. GitHub: simplex-chat / simplex-chat: v6.5.0 “SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!” I know I’ve had the app saved or installed for a while, but i don’t think i ever really took advantage of it. Maybe with this v.6.5.0 release I’ll give it another look. GitHub: nandyalu / trailarr: “Trailarr is a Docker application to download and manage trailers for your Radarr and Sonarr libraries.” I actually have the trailers turned off on my Plex install, i think due to performance or some kind of issues they caused… so maybe this isn’t worth looking into. GitHub: zulip / zulip: “Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused” Zulip: “Organized chat for distributed teams” This would probably be overkill for anything to self-host, but i wanted to look into it. Maybe as a local Discord replacement? All i really used Discord for was local network alerts, so not like i need channels \ users available to use it. GitHub: thehijacker / codexa: “A self-hosted EPUB web reader with multi-user support, OPDS browsing, KOReader sync, and a built-in dictionary lookup — all in a single lightweight Node.js container.” I do have to revisit my whole eBook setup & see if I’m going to try Calibre again, stay with Grimmory, try something like this… it will take a little bit before i settle that. GitHub: qiaeru / couplecards: “A self-hosted web app that lets couples draw activity cards to break the routine and spice up their daily lives.” GitHub: hymns / hostiqo: “Simple Server Management” Hostiqo: “Hostiqo orchestrates webhooks, servers, and deployment pipelines for you. Provision infrastructure, enforce security, and roll out updates with a single command.” This looks to have a ton of features, so i’m going to look it over & see if it would be helpful. GitHub: floatpane / matcha: “A beautiful and functional email client for your terminal, built with Go and the charming Bubble Tea TUI library. Never leave your command line to check your inbox or send an email again!” Matcha: “Matcha is a modern TUI email client for people who live in the shell. Vim keybindings, PGP, IMAP multi-account, markdown composing, visual-mode batch ops, and a CLI that speaks your language.” It looked like it could be fun to try out. GitHub: hhftechnology / Dock-Dploy: “A web-based tool for building, managing, and converting Docker Compose files, configuration files, and schedulers.” Dock-Dploy: “A powerful web-based tool for building and managing Docker Compose files, configurations, and schedulers. All in one place, completely free.” I haven’t neeeded to deal with Compose files or anything recently (with services providing the sample one, it’s not hard to just edit as needed), but i wanted to see if it could be helpful. GitHub: denho / faved: “Free open-source bookmark manager with customisable nested tags. Super fast and lightweight. All data is stored locally.” Faved: “A bookmark manager that combines powerful tagging, instant search, and a clean interface that doesn’t break as your library grows.” I’m currently using Karakeep for “read-it-later” purposes, & wanted to see if this would be a replacement for that, or really just a pretty bookmark manager. GitHub: grimmory-tools / grimmory: “Grimmory is an independent community fork of Booklore.” Grimmory: “A modern way to organize, access, and self-host your digital library.” As mentioned above, i need to revisit my eBook situation & see where i left off on configuring this. GitHub: html2rss / html2rss-web: “🕸 Generates RSS feeds of any website & serves to the web! Automatic scraping. Ready to use configs. Write your own.” I didn’t have anything in mind for this, more just wanted to save it if i needed it in the future. Codeberg: endurain-project / endurain: " Endurain is a self-hosted fitness tracking service designed to give users full control over their data and hosting environment https://docs.endurain.com/" I think i started up another fitness tracker-type app but haven’t gone far with it, so i wanted to compare to this one.

🤖 Artificial Intelligence \ LLM’s Mozilla Thunderbolt: “The Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Extensible AI Client” 🎮 Games AtariAge: Atari Gamestation Go - Custom Firmware / Product Enhancement Media JellyFrame: “Built with absolute precision. JellyFrame provides a complete extension and theming framework for Jellyfin — replacing limitations with community-driven mods, themes, and server-side scripts, all managed from your dashboard.” GitHub: foldergram / foldergram: “Self-hosted folder-based Instagram-style photo and video gallery app.” Foldergram: “Local-first photo and video gallery. Point it at your folders, browse everything through a fast feed-style interface. No cloud, no accounts — just your files and SQLite.” chibisafe “is a beautiful and performant vault to save all your files in the cloud. A modern and self-hosted take on file uploading services that can handle anything you throw at it thanks to it’s robust and fast API, chunked uploads support and more.” GitHub: Ashim: I think the name of this project changed to SnapOtter? GitHub: snapotter-hq / SnapOtter: “A Self Hosted Image Manipulator - 45+ tools, local AI, and pipelines in a single Docker container. No cloud, no telemetry. Your images never leave your machine.” Security CrowdSec Manager: “Web and mobile interface for managing CrowdSec — decisions, alerts, scenarios, hub, logs, backups, and Traefik integration.” ❔ Miscellaneous SunFounder: Pironman 5 Pro Max Mini PC Case with 4.3" Touch Screen for Raspberry Pi 5, OpenClaw AI Agent, Dual NVMe RAID 0/1 NAS, Camera, Mic, Audio, M.2 Hailo8, LLMs ChatGPT/Gemini (RPI5 Not Included) I like that this has the little screen on the side, not that i have an aimmediate use for it, but i’m definitely interested when it will be back in stock. I have another version of the Pironman 5 (maybe this one SunFounder Pironman 5-MAX: Raspberry Pi 5 Case with Dual NVMe SSD & AI Support?), so this might be an upgrade for that. Qarote: “Full RabbitMQ monitoring in 2 minutes. No Prometheus. No Grafana. Enter your URL — full queue monitoring in under 2 minutes.” rockchip-linux / rkdeveloptool: Tool needed for custom firmware on the ATARI Gamestation Go. selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (10 April 2026), by Ethan Sholly. Infisical: “All-in-one platform to securely manage application secrets, certificates, SSH keys, and privileged access across classic and AI infrastructure.” Przemek Mroczek: Why I Open-Sourced My Hardened *arr Stack (and What Most Compose Files Get Wrong) GitHub: immich-app / immich v2.7.0 Here are some of the features of that latest update: Remove from album (asset viewer) Move to locked folder (folder page) Editor shortcuts Create a new face on-the-fly in the face tag editor Resolve duplicates Helmet configuration Version check infrastructure Notable fix: live photo and video download in Safari Notable fix: escape HTML in the Panorama Photo Viewer GitHub: immich-power-tools / immich-power-tools: v0.21.0 Here is the changelog: Comparing v0.20.1 to v0.21.0 GitHub: fronalabs / frona “Frona is a personal AI assistant. You create autonomous agents, give them tools, and talk to them through a chat interface. Agents act on their own. They browse the web, run code, develop applications, search the internet, make phone calls, and delegate work to each other. You give them a task and they figure out how to get it done.” GitHub: hunter-read / grimoire: “A self-hostable organizer for your your TTRPG content and campaigns” GitHub: Jellyfin-PG / JellyFrame JellyFrame: “Built with absolute precision. JellyFrame provides a complete extension and theming framework for Jellyfin — replacing limitations with community-driven mods, themes, and server-side scripts, all managed from your dashboard.” GitHub: rothdennis / links-as-code: “Self-hosted link collection in a simple YAML file” GitHub: kkodecs / livrarr: “Self-hosted ebook and audiobook library manager. Built for the arr ecosystem — finds, grabs, and organizes your books the way Sonarr does for TV.” GitHub: OneMana-Soft / OneCamp-fe: “OneCamp: self-hosted all-in-one workspace (chat, tasks, video calls, docs, calendar & AI)” GitHub: getqarote / Qarote: “A Modern RabbitMQ Monitoring Tool” Qarote: “The easiest way to monitor your RabbitMQ servers. Qarote provides a clean and intuitive interface to monitor, analyze, and manage your RabbitMQ servers effortlessly.” GitHub: ashim-hq / ashim: “A Self Hosted Image Manipulator - 45+ tools, local AI, and pipelines in a single Docker container. No cloud, no telemetry. Your images never leave your machine.” ashimA Self Hosted Image Manipulator GitHub: raffomania / ties: “🪢Federated website aggregator. 🔗 A federated network to bookmark, organize, share and discover good web pages.” GitHub: outlook84 / yet-another-rclone-dashboard: “Modern Web Dashboard for Rclone. Modern Web Dashboard for rclone rcd (Rclone v1.72.0 or later recommended).” GitHub: hhftechnology / crowdsec_manager: “A web-based and mobile management interface and dashboard for CrowdSec security stack with Pangolin integration and multi proxy support- caddy, NPM, etc. This project replaces the bash script with a modern, user-friendly ShadcnUI built with Go and React.” CrowdSec Manager 2.1.0: “Manage CrowdSec, Traefik integration, decisions, scenarios, logs, backups, and updates from a single web interface.” GitHub: foldergram / foldergram: “Self-hosted folder-based Instagram-style photo and video gallery app.” Foldergram: “Local-first photo and video gallery. Point it at your folders, browse everything through a fast feed-style interface. No cloud, no accounts — just your files and SQLite.” Codeberg: nwithan8 / plex-prerolls: “Schedule Plex Pre-Roll listings” Chibisafe: “chibisafe is a beautiful and performant vault to save all your files in the cloud. A modern and self-hosted take on file uploading services that can handle anything you throw at it thanks to it’s robust and fast API, chunked uploads support and more.” YouTube: Private Searching at Home: SearXNG Installation & Setup Invidious (chocolatemoo53): Private Searching at Home: SearXNG Installation & Setup YouTube: The Open Source Software I’ve stopped using - 2026 edition. Invidious (chocolatemoo53): The Open Source Software I’ve stopped using - 2026 edition. YouTube: My homelab will never be the same after AI Invidious (chocolatemoo53): My homelab will never be the same after AI selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (17 April 2026), by Ethan Sholly. GitHub: alexkouzel / cinerr: “Media file manager for self-hosters. See what’s in your library, clean it up, keep it organized.” GitHub: gregluffy / HomeLabInfo: “HomeLabInfo is a modern, self-hosted network discovery and visualization suite designed for homelab enthusiasts.” GitHub: AlexRosbach / LanLens: “LanLens continuously scans your local network, identifies every device by MAC address, and gives you a clean dark-themed web UI to manage, document, and connect to them — all in a single Docker container.” GitHub: h4ckf0r0day / obscura: “The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping” GitHub: pauljoda / Obscura: “Self host media server, Stash alternative, supports Stash scrapers and hash databases” GitHub: MrModest / reisenotiz: “Offline-first travel notes for tracking trips, flights, accommodations, and travel documents” GitHub: ulsklyc / oikos: “Self-hosted family planner - tasks, calendars, shopping, meals, budget. Your data, your server.” GitHub: calcom / cal.diy: “Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.” Cal.diy Self-Hosting Documentation Cal.com: Cal.com is going closed source. Here’s why. selfh.st: Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users GitHub: liviro / boob-o-clock: “Self-hosted dark-mode baby tracker for the infant days & nights” GitHub: whoogle-search/releases/tag/v1.2.4 GitHub: the-booklore / booklore v2.2.2 selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (13 March 2026), by Ethan Sholly. Raspberry Pi: A security update for Raspberry Pi OS “From this release onwards, passwordless sudo is disabled by default. If you use sudo for administrator-level access, you will be prompted to enter the current user’s password. In the terminal, the password prompt will appear as soon as you issue a sudo command. If you enter the correct password, the command will proceed as normal; if you enter an incorrect password, the command will be refused.” GitHub: liviro / boob-o-clock: “Self-hosted dark-mode baby tracker for the infant days & nights” GitHub: fabienmillet / WiiFin: “Jellyfin Client for Wii” WiiFin phoronix: Linux 7.0 Ready For Release With Many Exciting Changes Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) now defaults to “auto” mode on Intel TSX-capable CPUs without any known TSX security issues, which will be able to help with out-of-the-box performance compared to the prior off-by-default mode. Some nice performance optimizations seen on AMD EPYC, thanks in part to scheduler scalability enhancements, memory management performance optimizations, and other Linux 7.0 kernel optimizations.. Initial hardware enablement for some upcoming AMD Radeon graphics hardware. Continued enablement work on Intel Crescent Island and Nova Lake graphics support. Autonomous self-healing capabilities for XFS. Improved EXT4 write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes. Standardized generic I/O error reporting for the Linux kernel. A nice UDP network performance boost thanks to inlining a function. Continued upstreaming work around Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC and laptop support. Rust 1.95 preparations and other Rust code improvements. New Kconfig options make it easier to replace the Tux logo with a logo of your choice for displaying during the kernel boot process. The Verge: The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason “The FCC has just granted Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1st, 2027 — even though the company builds those devices in Asia and has not announced any plan to bring manufacturing to the United States.” “We asked Netgear if it has voluntarily improved its security in any way to help satisfy the FCC; we have not yet received a response.” So, it sounds like Netgear can’t really be trusted if this “administration” is exempting them from the ban… Frederik Bærentsen: FrederikBaerentsen / BrickTracker: “A web application for organizing and tracking LEGO sets, parts, and minifigures.” GitHub: dedicatedcode / reitti: “Reitti is a comprehensive personal location tracking and analysis application that helps you understand your movement patterns and significant places. The name “Reitti” comes from Finnish, meaning “route” or “path”.” v4.0.0 GitHub: alexkouzel / cinerr: “Media file manager for self-hosters. See what’s in your library, clean it up, keep it organized.” GitHub: Skyfay / DBackup: “A self-hosted database backup automation tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB & more. Backup to S3, FTP, or Local Storage. Features cron scheduling, notifications, and easy restores via a modern Web UI.” DBackup: “Database Backup Automation. Self-hosted solution for automating database backups with encryption, compression, and smart retention policies.” GitHub: ENTERPILOT / GoModel: “AI gateway written in Go. Lightweight unified OpenAI-compatible API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, xAI & Ollama. LiteLLM alternative with observability, guardrails, streaming, costs and usage tracking.” GoModel: “AI Gateway for Tracking, Decoupling, Debugging your AI Usage” GitHub: AlexRosbach / LanLens: “LanLens continuously scans your local network, identifies every device by MAC address, and gives you a clean dark-themed web UI to manage, document, and connect to them — all in a single Docker container.” GitHub: h4ckf0r0day / obscura: “The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping” GitHub: pauljoda / Obscura: “Self host media server, Stash alternative, supports Stash scrapers and hash databases” GitHub: jessielw / Reclaimerr: “Automatically reclaim space in your media library using customizable rules. Integrates with Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby (any or all of them) to analyze and manage your content. Functions similarly to Seerr (in reverse), providing efficient media cleanup and organization” GitHub: MrModest / reisenotiz: “Offline-first travel notes for tracking trips, flights, accommodations, and travel documents” GitHub: JudoChinX / rangarr: “Rangarr automates and staggers media searches across your Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr instances.” GitHub: calcom / cal.diy: “Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.” selfh.st: Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users Marketing Emails: “Opt out of the platform’s various marketing e-mails using the link below. Deselect individual publications or select Unsubscribe from ALL to prevent any future non-administrative e-mails from being delivered to your inbox.” https://www.plex.tv/email-preferences/ Ad Partners: “Plex doesn’t allow users to opt out of the ads served while streaming its own free offerings, but it does provide options to control whether user data can be sold to third-parties or used to serve personalized ads. Follow the link below and uncheck the first blue box to opt out of the sale of your personal data, then check All No in the second blue box to opt out of targeted advertising.” https://www.plex.tv/vendors-us/ Optional Playback Data: “Plex collects technical information about the content users stream from personal servers. Click the link below and expand the section labeled You have the right to limit what activity data is sent from your Plex Media Server. Uncheck the box next to Send playback data to Plex to opt out. Note: Due to my CMS’s outbound link tagging, you may need to manually copy and paste the link below in your browser to navigate to the correct menu.” https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/privacy-preferences/#opd Transmute: “Transmute is an open-source, self-hosted file converter that handles images, video, audio, data, documents, and more; all on your own hardware.” YouTube: Stop Using Google. Build THIS Instead! Invidious (chocolatemoo53): Stop Using Google. Build THIS Instead! YouTube: This Nextcloud Alternative is INSANELY Fast — OpenCloud on TrueNAS Invidious (chocolatemoo53): This Nextcloud Alternative is INSANELY Fast — OpenCloud on TrueNAS YouTube: I Built My Own Offsite 3-2-1 Backup System Invidious (chocolatemoo53): I Built My Own Offsite 3-2-1 Backup System selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (24 April 2026), by Ethan Sholly. FoxxMD Blog: Renovate + Komodo - Updating at Scale in a Large Homelab GitHub: tess1o / geopulse: “A self-hosted, privacy-first location timeline platform: an open-source alternative to Google Timeline with automatic trip detection, Immich integration, and rich analytics.” GeoPulse documentation: “A self-hosted location tracking and analysis platform” GitHub: ghostfolio / ghostfolio: “Open Source Wealth Management Software. Angular + NestJS + Prisma + Nx + TypeScript 🤍” Ghostfolio: “Manage your wealth like a boss. Ghostfolio is a privacy-first, open source dashboard for your personal finances. Break down your asset allocation, know your net worth and make solid, data-driven investment decisions.” 3.0.0 GitHub: afairgiant / MediKeep: “A lightweight, self-hosted application for managing your personal medical information. Keep your health records organized and accessible while maintaining complete control over your data privacy.” GitHub: open-webui / open-webui: “User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, …)” Open WebUI: “Run AI on your own terms. Connect any model, extend with code, protect what matters—without compromise.” v0.9.0 GitHub: timothepoznanski / poznote: “Poznote is a personal note-taking and documentation platform.” Poznote: “Poznote is a personal note-taking and documentation platform.” 6.0.0 GitHub: scanopy / scanopy: “Network diagrams that update themselves” Scanopy: “Never maintain another network diagram. Create a living model of your infrastructure. Built for modern teams and agents.” v0.16.0 I tried this out before, but wasn’t as smooth \ easy as i was hoping. But with a new update, i thought i could look at it again. GitHub: borgbase / vykar: “Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups in Rust — with friendly YAML config, a desktop GUI, and support for S3, custom REST and SFTP storage.” Vykar Backup Documentation: “Vykar is a fast, encrypted, deduplicated backup tool written in Rust. It’s centered around a simple YAML config format and includes a desktop GUI and webDAV server to browse snapshots. More about design goals.” GitHub: maxjb-xyz / blackbox: “The Forensic Journal for your Infrastructure. Written in Go for maximum impact with minimal footprint.” GitHub: TechSquidTV / Cliparr: “Create clips from media on your personal media server” GitHub: MrSuttonmann / flightjar: “A jar for your flights: live map, JSONL logs, and a WebSocket API on top of any BEAST feed (readsb, dump1090, ultrafeeder)” GitHub: araneite / fulgurite: “A secure PHP web UI for managing Restic backups, repositories, schedules, restores, secrets, SSH keys, logs, and notifications from a browser, with bilingual documentation and a self-hosted workflow.” GitHub: bytestrix / InfraCanvas: “Live Docker & Kubernetes infrastructure visualization — containers, pods, volumes, and networks in one visual map. No VPN, no inbound ports.” GitHub: krelltunez / lifeGLANCE: “An interactive zoomable timeline app” lifeGLANCE: “Your life, at a glance.” GitHub: Cawlumm / lyftr: “Self-hosted fitness tracker. Log workouts, track nutrition, and monitor progress. Docker deployment, mobile-friendly.” GitHub: Moonfin-Client / tvOS: “Moonfin tvOS is a native SwiftUI Apple TV client for Jellyfin and Emby users who want a modern, customizable 10-foot experience with smooth playback and controller-first navigation.” Moonfin GitHub: hankscafe / omnibus: “Omnibus - A self-hosted comic book and manga manager. Automate downloads, sync rich metadata, and read your collection from anywhere. Your Universe. Organized.” GitHub: Abrechen2 / TravStats: “Self-hosted flight tracker with interactive 2D/3D maps, 58 achievements, boarding-pass scanner, email/PDF import, and optional local LLM parsing — AGPL-3.0-or-later.” GitHub: open-uem / openuem-console: “Repository containing the OpenUEM web user interface used to manage endpoints and agents” OpenUEM: “An Open-Source Unified Endpoint Manager that is self-hosted and lets you manage your IT assets thanks to its agents” GitHub: raffomania / ties: “🪢Federated website aggregator” GitHub: ether / etherpad: “Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.” Etherpad Documentation GitHub: MylarComics / mylar3: “The automated Comic Book downloader (cbr/cbz).” Mylar3: “Get back to what’s important - enjoying comics” GitHub: AtalayaLabs / OxiCloud: “☁️ Ultra-fast, secure & lightweight self-hosted cloud storage — your files, photos, calendars & contacts, all in one place. Built in Rust.” OxiCloud: “Self-hosted cloud storage. Files, calendar & contacts — blazingly fast, written in Rust” phoronix: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Now Available & Powered By Linux 7.0 The Hacker News: Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign GitHub: thecodingdad / grid-remote-card: “Customizable TV/media remote control card for Home Assistant with drag-and-drop grid layout”

Apple Lifehacker: 10 Hacks Every iPad User Should Know Use this hidden gesture to drag and drop multiple items at once: “When you tap and hold to select one item, drag your fingers out from the file to “pick” it up, but don’t let go just yet. With another finger, tap to pick up as many more files, photos, or links as you wish. They’ll all get collected under the finger you’re holding on to. Then, use your free hand to go to the Home Screen and open the app you want to drop everything off (like Notes or Mail). Once you let go, all the files will follow suit. This works within the Files app as well, which makes it a great way to move multiple files together. If you’re using the latest iPadOS version, you’ll also see a progress bar for transferring files at the top of the screen.” a. iPad User Guide: Learn advanced gestures to interact with iPad Use “Windowed Apps” to turn your iPad into a computer: “You can do this from Settings > Multitasking & Gestures, but there’s a faster way from wherever you are in iPadOS. Open Control Center, tap the new Multitasking toggle and switch to Windowed Apps mode.” a. Lifehacker: The iPad Has Never Been More Like a Mac, but Can It Replace One? Use this gesture for quick side-by-side app views: “One of the best new gestures added in iPadOS 26 is the flick gesture. Pick up a window when you’re in Windowed Apps mode, and just flick it to the right or the left of the screen. The window will then automatically resize itself to fit to half of the screen. When two apps are docked like this, you’ll see a new handlebar appear. You can drag it to resize the window split (going to a 70/30 split is a great ratio for multitasking, as one app essentially goes down to iPhone size). There are more gestures to know about, too. Using four or five fingers, swipe left or right on the screen to switch between apps, or app pairs. Swipe up and hold to enter app switcher mode (and to see a preview of all open apps). And of course you can swipe up with four fingers to go home. You can also swipe down from the top of the screen to reveal the Menu bar at any time.” Change this setting to make the Files app more like Finder on Mac: “From the top toolbar you can now switch from the default Icons view to either a List view or a Column view. Column view is like Finder, where you can drill down into a folder structure while still maintaining easy access to top folders in columns to the left. On the other hand, if you manage a lot of files, and you like to see all file information, along with sort options, you should try List view. You can sort based on name, date created, date modified, size, or tags. And you can add or remove columns to customize exactly what shows up.” Use “Sidecar” to turn your iPad into a second screen: “To enable Handoff, go to Settings > General > Airplay & Handoff > Handoff. Make sure the iPad is unlocked and nearby. Then, go to Control Center > Screen Mirroring and pick the iPad from your list. To use it as an external monitor, choose the Use As Separate Display option. If you want to use the iPad as a drawing surface for a Mac app, with Apple Pencil support, choose the Mirror Display option instead. You can now move freely between the iPad screen and the Mac. To arrange the layout for the screens, go to System Settings > Displays. For more tips, take a look at our detailed guide on using Sidecar.” Use your iPad’s hidden “iPhone” keyboard to type with one hand: “Just pinch in with two fingers in the middle of the keyboard to switch to a floating mini-keyboard. You can drag it anywhere you please. (Alternatively, long-press the keyboard icon in the bottom right, then choose “Floating.”)” Use Slide Over to pin a window to the top of the screen: “You can pin an app to the top of the screen using Slide Over if you want to refer to something else for a task (without shifting gears into the multitasking mode). First, you need to be in either Stage Manager or Windowed Mode. Then, open an app, long-press on the Stop Lights control in the top left, then tap “Enter Slide Over.” The app will shift to the side, and will always remain there, even when switching between apps. You can even resize the Slide Over window to make it as big or small as you want. You can hide the current Slide Over window by swiping the window to the edge of the screen. A small arrow button will appear in its place, which you can use to bring the window back. If you have a keyboard attached, use the keyboard shortcut Globe + Option + Right Arrow to send an app to Slide Over mode.” Edit your handwritten text with Apple Pencil gestures: “To remove an error, just scratch or scribble over a word or sentence to delete it. To rearrange handwritten text, you can draw a circle around a word to pick it up. Then, you can move the word around and place it where you’d like it to go. If two words are too close to each other, you can draw a vertical slice between them to insert some space. Similarly, just press and hold the Pencil in between two words to insert text in the middle.” Change default apps for your frequently used file types: “Open the Files app, then find a file type that you want to change (for example, always opening PNG files in Pixelmator instead of the Preview app). Tap and hold on the file, then tap “Get Info.” Here, choose “Always Open With,” and switch to a different app from the list. Apple will bring up a confirmation box. Here, select “Always Open.” The next time you tap on the file with the particular file extension, it will open in the app of your choice.” Add folders to the Dock to access your files anywhere: “When multitasking on your iPad, you might routinely need to drag and drop files from Downloads or your work folder. You can add that folder directly to the Dock to quickly access the files within, without even opening the Files app. From the Files app, press and hold any folder that you want to add to the Dock, and tap “Add to Dock.” Or, you can simply drag and drop a folder to the Dock itself. Now, when you tap the folder icon in the Dock, you’ll see recently added files, or folders within it. You can then drag and drop any file you see here onto any app, or you can open the folder using the Open Folder option at the top of the file’s preview.” Entertainment Gizmodo: People Are Convinced Nathan Fillion Is Reviving ‘Firefly’ Via… Instagram Posts? I would love for Firefly to make a comeback… but i’m not going to get my hopes up only to be disappointed. Waze Blog: Drive with “Star Trek” on Waze. I stopped using Google Maps because of the whole “gulf of america” garbage (Wired: Here’s How All Online Maps Are Handling the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ Name Change), i think Apple Maps now does it too, but Organic Maps i believe is safe… All that said, since Google owns Wze, I’m assuming they will have “gulf of america” too. I didn’t plan on using Waze long-term, i just wanted to play around with the new Star Trek additions. Games Windows Central: My top 5 Decky Loader plugins every SteamOS and Bazzite handheld gaming PC should use GitHub: shingonati0n / xivomega-decky: “Decky Plugin to mitigate latency on Final Fantasy XIV Online” GitHub: xXJSONDeruloXx / Decky-Lookup: “Per Game Web searches: PC Gaming Wiki, Google, Walkthroughs Etc” GitHub: rossimo / decky-pip: “Watch your favorite stream while you game!” GitHub: SteamGridDB / decky-steamgriddb: “Plugin for Decky Loader to apply and manage custom art assets from within gaming mode.” GitHub: itsOwen / playcount-decky: “A Steam Deck plugin that shows current player counts for your steam games.” GitHub: moraroy / NonSteamLaunchersDecky: “NonSteamLaunchers Decky Loader Version” GitHub: mubaraknumann / unifideck: “A Decky Loader plugin that brings together games from Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG and Amazon into a single, unified library experience on your Steam Deck.” GitHub: xXJSONDeruloXx / decky-lsfg-vk: “Decky plugin to streamline installation and usage of lsfg-vk; the Lossless Scaling compatibility layer for linux” Engadget: The Playdate Catalog’s 3-year anniversary sale is here I haven’t used my Playdate in a bit, so this is a reminder to look at it again. Hackaday: Running Ocarina Of Time On The Apple Watch YouTube: I Made OCARINA OF TIME Run on the Apple Watch!: Invidious is currently down, so i can’t post that link instead of direct to YouTube: “2026-03-11: Video playback is not working due to recent changes Youtube did. As always, just wait until a fix is released!” Just for fun… of course i would want to run Ocarina of Time on anything i possibly could. Media Plappa: “Audiobook player for Jellyfin and AudioBookShelf, written in Swift/SwiftUI” Privacy HackRead: Best DeleteMe Alternatives (2026): Competitors and Comparisons: “Best DeleteMe alternatives for 2026 compared, including Incogni, Optery, Aura, Kanary, and Privacy Bee for data broker removal and privacy protection.” DeleteMe Incogni Optery Aura Kanary Privacy Bee IT’s FOSS: Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next From the sound of it, time to get off Ubuntu? Lifehacker: How the Government Uses Advertising Data to Track People (and What You Can Do to Limit It) Eh, who needs privacy. Right? Security Miscellaneous Baby Buddy: iOS Shortcuts #300: I wanted to make note of these to get added to my account. Help Net Security: OpenWrt 25.12.0 ships with new package manager, built-in upgrade tool, support for 2200+ devices It will take a little getting used to (although i really was using bash scripts for using opkg to get & upgrade packages. HACKADAY: Experiment With The Pi Camera The Modular Way HACKADAY: Modular Pi Cam: “This started out as just me wanting to try round displays and the 5D directional pad… but as I worked on the project I realized the body could be modular eg. swap the camera module/front plate or back plate.” Nerds.xyz: CachyOS quietly adds a way to run Windows inside Linux CachyOS: “CachyOS ships every package optimized for your CPU - compiled with x86-64-v3/v4 and Zen4 instructions, LTO, and PGO - on top of a custom kernel with the tuned EEVDF scheduler. The result: a noticeably faster Arch Linux experience with the same rolling-release flexibility you expect.” selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (13 March 2026), by Ethan Sholly. Google Play Store: IT Pro Tools – Cannoli Shell: “Cannoli Shell: Built for the IT Trenches.” I still use my Pixel Tablet a bit, so this might be useful. /r/SelfHosted: PSA: Think hard before you deploy BookLore Proxylity: WireGuard Is Two Things GitHub: owenlejeune / ArrMatey: “A modern, all-in-one mobile client for managing your *arr stack. Built using KMP with native Jetpack Compose UI for Android and SwiftUI for iOS.” I think i saved this last week or the week before, but haven’t looked at or tried it yet. GitHub: autobrr / autobrr: “Modern, easy to use download automation for torrents and usenet.” autobrr: Introduction “autobrr redefines download automation for torrents and Usenet, drawing inspiration from tools like trackarr, autodl-irssi, and flexget. We’ve combined the best of these worlds into one versatile tool that can do it all, and then some.” -GitHub: cshum / imagor-studio: “Self-hosted image gallery with built-in editing and template workflows” I probably would just use GiMP or Pixelmator for image editing, but web-based might be convenient across different systems or platforms where i don’t have those options. GitHub: binwiederhier / ntfy: v2.18.0 This is the biggest release I’ve ever done on the server. It’s 14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed, all from one pull request that adds PostgreSQL support. ...

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (6 March 2026), by Ethan Sholly. myrient: “Myrient will shut down on 31 March 2026. Download any content you find important. More information can be found on our Discord server and Telegram channel.” James Read’s Code, Containers & Cloud blog: I hadn’t heard of OliveTin before, so i wanted to check it out. OlivTin: “Give safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.” Paul Parau: Building a privacy-focused home assistant Speaches Documentation: “speaches is an OpenAI API-compatible server supporting streaming transcription, translation, and speech generation. Speach-to-Text is powered by faster-whisper and for Text-to-Speech piper and Kokoro are used. This project aims to be Ollama, but for TTS/STT models.” Jeff Geerling: Upgrading my Open Source Pi Surveillance Server with Frigate exaviz: Cruiser Carrier Board DeskPi: Pre-sale DeskPi 2U Mini Rack Mount Case (Pre-order) for the Exaviz Cruiser Carrier Board GitHub: bunkeriot / BunkerM: “🚀 BunkerM: All-in-one Mosquitto MQTT management platform, featuring dynamic security, MQTT ACL management, monitoring, API and cloud integrations” GitHub: figranium / figranium: “Figranium is a self-hosted, free browser automation and scraping platform built on Playwright, designed to handle everything from simple scraping to complex, human-like browser interactions. It provides a visual task editor, a structured JSON task format, and advanced execution modes that go far beyond traditional scrapers.” figranium GitHub: home-assistant / core: 2026.3.0: “🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. " GitHub: rommapp / romm: “A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.” GitHub: silverbulletmd / silverbullet: “An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua” GitHub: artifacts-oss / daylog: “📝 Self-hosted board-based simple text and markdown note taking web application.” GitHub: oldany / dropmind: “Self-hosted memory cache for digital thoughts” GitHub: bobbydd021-code / Lantern: “Real-time SvelteKit control panel for homelab/service monitoring with a visual editor, SSE live updates, and multi-node support.” GitHub: kOlapsis / maintenant: “Monitor everything. Manage nothing.” GitHub: getomnico / omni: “Workplace AI Assistant and Search Platform” Omni: “Your AI Assistant For Work. Omni connects to your work tools and learns your organization. Get instant answers, automate repetitive tasks, and work smarter with AI that understands your context across Google Workspace, Slack, Jira, and more.” GitHub: JangaJones / pve-notebuddy: “Generate pretty Proxmox Guest Notes with a simple web based UI” I saved this before i saw it was for Proxmox. GitHub: owenlejeune / ArrMatey: “A modern, all-in-one mobile client for managing your *arr stack. Built using KMP with native Jetpack Compose UI for Android and SwiftUI for iOS.” GitHub: openclaw / openclaw: “Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞” OpenClaw GitHub: immich-power-tools/immich-power-tools: “Power tools for organizing your immich library” Immich Power Tools GitHub: kOlapsis/shm: “🛡️ Privacy-first, Agnostic Telemetry for Self-Hosted Software.” SHM - Self-Hosted-Metrics: “Collect usage stats, verify active instances, and understand your user base without spying on them.”

/r/SelfHosted: Huntarr - Your passwords and your entire arr stack’s API keys are exposed to anyone on your network, or worse, the internet. Ladybird It’s FOSS: OpenClaw Alternatives That You Can Run on Raspberry Pi Like Devices Felix Krause: OpenClaw - My Automation Setup Gizmodo: The Original 151 Pokémon and Their History Are Up for Auction CFO Silvia Apprise Documentation: Suported Services I was looking over this list to see which services supported images &\or attachments. It’s FOSS: FOSS Weekly #26.09: Linux Mint Shortcuts, OpenClaw Alternatives, Ladybird’s Rust Move, Super Productivity and More Brave as Spyware Simon Willison: I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation app Cofense: Abusing Windows File Explorer and WebDAV for Malware Delivery selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026), by Ethan Sholly. /r/SelfHosted: Huntarr - Your passwords and your entire arr stack’s API keys are exposed to anyone on your network, or worse, the internet. GitHub: yjeanrenaud / yj_nearbyglasses: “attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you” TIME: Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge TIME: Inside Anthropic, the AI Company Betting That Safety Can Be a Winning Strategy GitHub: booklore-app / booklore v2.0.0: " BookLore: A self-hosted, multi-user digital library with smart shelves, auto metadata, Kobo & KOReader sync, BookDrop imports, OPDS support, and a built-in reader for EPUB, PDF, and comics." I haven’t been on top of my eBook library recently, but i remember deploying this to see if it’s GitHub: Freika / dawarich: “Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)” I’m currently running Reitti, but keeping an eye out if there’s an alternative i like. GitHub: Kyonew / DVinyl: “DVinyl is a modern, self-hostable collection manager designed for physical media enthusiasts. From Vinyls and CDs to Books and Movies, catalog, value, and organize your entire physical library through a single, customizable interface.” I didn’t realize this was for physical media when i saved it. Codeberg: superseriousbusiness / gotosocial: “Fast, fun, small ActivityPub server. https://docs.gotosocial.org” More Fediverse services to look into. GitHub: damongolding / immich-kiosk/: v0.33.0: “Highly configurable slideshows for displaying Immich assets on browsers and devices.” Another service i’ve been running & wanted to see what features were added. GitHub: karakeep-app / karakeep v0.31.0: " A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search" I’ve been using Karakeep so i wanted to see what new features have been added. GitHub: Sharkord / sharkord: “Lightweight, self-hosted, open-source chat server with voice, video, text, and screen sharing. Built for small groups who want privacy, simplicity, and full control over their data.” Discord replacement, if i could get Apprise working with any of these. GitHub: bzlapp / Bzl: “Self-Hosted Ephemeral Community Engine” “Bzl is a self-hostable, modular social platform designed for creators and communities who want full control of their space. Launch your own instance, extend it with plugins, and shape the experience to fit your world.” I was just looking for something like Openvibe since I try to use my Mastodon, BlueSky, & Nostr accounts. GitHub: Lungshot / dashma: “dashboard / start page” I guess the theme from selfh.st & my post this week is for dashboards. GitHub: krelltunez / dayGLANCE: “A Day Planner App” dayGLANCE GitHub: itsDNNS / docsigh: “DOCSIS cable modem monitoring dashboard with health assessment, trend charts, and Home Assistant integration via MQTT” I have to see if this would be compatible with Optimum, but looked interesting to run. GitHub: santhoshjanan / donut-hole: “An AI-powered sidecar for Pi-hole that classifies the domains passing through your network, lets you review them, and exports a custom blocklist back to Pi-hole. It does not replace Pi-hole — it works alongside it.” Maybe i can get more use out of my RasPi AI HAT 2+. GitHub: Sir-Scuzza / gluetun-webui: “A lightweight web UI for monitoring and controlling Gluetun — the VPN client container for Docker.” I haven’t had problems with Glutun, but it will be nice to just have an overview of the status. GitHub: rackandhost / getmando: “A beautiful and simply dashboard” Another dashboard \ homepage i want to test. GitHub: Anagraphy / roampage: “Roampage dashboard” I’m still looking for some kind of dashboard for an overview not just of my local services but also hosts. GitHub: sunburnco / sunburn: “Chat, voice, and video, designed to self-host.” Sunburn I don’t really use Discord that much, but since i am using it a little bit for alerts through Apprise, i would like to find a replacement. GitHub: nginx-proxy / nginx-proxy I wanted to look into this because i do use nginx. GitHub: kite-org / kite: “🪁 A modern, lightweight Kubernetes dashboard.” I must have saved this thinking it was something else. I’m not running Kubernetes.