w33k in g33k: July 25, 2025
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Sean P. McAdam
Apple
- GitHub: rushhiii / Scriptable-IOSWidgets: “An library of iOS widgets & scripts to supercharge your Apple experience, all built in Scriptable IOS app.”
- I haven’t really done much with Scriptable recently, so maybe this will get me to play around with it again.
- Scriptable For Dummies
- dersvenhesse / awesome-scriptable: “A curated list of awesome Scriptable scripts and widgets.”
- /r/Scriptable: The most common use of Scriptable
- Medium: Nowhere Man: Home Assistant Widgets with Scriptable
Docker \ Containers
- /r/SelfHosted: What’s wrong with Portainer?]: I do try to keep an eye out for something to use instead of Portainer, but at least for right now that’s what I’m sticking with.
Games
IT Security
- EFF: Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying: My Orbic RC400L is being delivered this week, so going to get a chance to work on this & see about bringing it to DEF CON.
- Kali: The Raspberry Pi’s Wi-Fi Glow-Up: I used to have a Pi running Kali, but since I wasn’t using it much I had wiped it. Maybe I’ll get it running again since I should have a spare Pi sitting around somewhere.
- GitHub: CervantesSec / cervantes: “Cervantes is an open-source, collaborative platform designed specifically for pentesters and red teams. It serves as a comprehensive management tool, streamlining the organization of projects, clients, vulnerabilities, and reports in a single, centralized location.”
- Not that I do much red-teaming, but seeing new tools & posts make me want to start digging into it more. Would especially love to get my CEH, but not sure how feasible that is.
- This is a reminder that I’ve been meaning to circle back on this: GitHub: WithSecureLabs / Kanvas: “A simple-to-use IR (incident response) case management tool for tracking and documenting investigations.”
Linux
- OMG Ubuntu: Argon ONE Up Laptop Runs on a Raspberry Pi CM5: I will definitely be keeping an eye on this. Sounds like it’s not available yet, but they have a notification page up on Kickstarter.
Privacy
- DuckDuckGo: The DuckDuckGo Browser: Fresh New Look, Same Great Protections, AI Optional: I’ve had the mobile app installed for a while but have only really been using it for password generation when creating accounts on mobile; for normal day-to-day I’ve still stuck with Firefox, but maybe time to give the DDG browser some more time.
Miscellaneous
- /r/SelfHosted: portracker - Ports monitoring & auto discovery dashboard for your homelab
- GitHub: mostafa-wahied / portracker: “A self-hosted, real-time port monitoring and discovery tool.”
- /r/SelfHosted: [My HomeServer(-Dashboard) Q3/2025: I had saved this just to see what some others have running, & to see if there’s anything new i might want to run.
- /r/SelfHosted: UPDATE! First home Server: Saved for the same reason as above & also just a listing of how \ why things were setup.
- /r/SelfHosted: What are your favorite self-hosted, one-time purchase software?: Just curious to see what people might recommend.
- /r/SelfHosted: 2 Years Self Hosted (Finally proud!)
- /r/SelfHosted: What’s the One Self-Hosted App That Truly Blew You Away?
- /r/SelfHosted: Karakeep (0.26) is here! Comprehensive usage stats, reader mode, search history, S3 support, and much more!: I do use Karakeep, so just wanted to see what new features were added in this version.
- GitHub karakeep-app / karakeep: “A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search”
- /r/SelfHosted: Help with Homepage Glances setup: I’ve looked
- GitHub: nicolargo / glances: “Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.”
- While looking for a possible Portainer replacement, I’ve also kept an eye out for an overall system management tool, since I have my containers spread across multiple hosts.
- GitHub: nicolargo / glances: “Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.”
- Another Glances post: /r/SelfHosted: Finally got into Glance and I’m loving it
- /r/SelfHosted: OmniTools just dropped a massive update - Image/PDF editor, GIF maker, audio tools, and more - all self-hosted
- GitHub: iib0011 / omni-tools: “Self-hosted collection of powerful web-based tools for everyday tasks. No ads, no tracking, just fast, accessible utilities right from your browser!”
- /r/SelfHosted: My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 (So Far) | selfh.st
self.st: Self-Host Weekly (25 July 2025)
- PaerrinsLab: GUIDE: Using Trilium Templates to Document Your Homelab: I gave Trilium a shot in the past, but forget why I didn’t stick with it. I bounce between Joplin & Obsidian for different tasks. Maybe I’ll give it a try again just to see how i like it.
- The Verge: Ring reintroduces video sharing with police: Because who needs privacy in a police state…
- Code Captured: My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup
- GitHub: operacle / checkcle: “CheckCle is a self-hosted, open-source monitoring platform for seamless, real-time full-stack systems, applications, and infrastructure. It provides real-time uptime monitoring, distributed checks, incident tracking, and alerts. All deployable anywhere.”
- GitHub: RA341 / dockman: “Yet another docker compose manager for homelabs”
- GitHub: kuvasz-uptime / kuvasz
- Google Play: nzb360 - Sonarr / Radarr / SAB: “nzb360 is a full-featured NZB / torrent manager that focuses on providing the best experience possible for controlling all of your usenet and torrent needs.”
- GitHub: xpipe-io / xpipe: “Access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop”
- GitHub: ilkerol / dashymobile
- GitHub: coolcat1575 / fleetview: “Visualize container workload distribution between docker (swarm, standalone) nodes”
- GitHub: ethanocurtis / MultiNotify: “A lightweight, open‑source Discord bot that monitors a subreddit for new posts (optionally filtered by flair) and automatically send them to Discord, Mattermost, Slack, or other services via webhook, with optional DM notifications.”
- GitHub: WhiskeyCoder / Nextt: “A self-hosted, Plex-powered recommendation dashboard with TMDB enrichment and Overseerr integration — finally, a smart, personalized way to find what to watch next.”
- GitHub: mostafa-wahied / portracker: “A self-hosted, real-time port monitoring and discovery tool.”
- GitHub: Darkatek7 / sonosControl: “This is a Blazor Server App to Control a Sonos Speaker”
- GitHub: Phantom8015 / Specters: “A linux web interface”