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Sean P. McAdam
🍎 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)
- 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
🐧 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
- 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 resultstail | grep: Extract relevant live data from a log filehistory | grep: Quick access to commands you’ve run beforesort | uniq: Simple summary info from structured datadf | tee: Get disk space reports on screen and in a fileecho | xargs: Copy a file to multiple directoriescurl | jq: Process data retrieved from a web APIdu -sh * | sort -h: Find your biggest files and directoriesdate | 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
🗣️ 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)
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”
- 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.”
- GitHub: karakeep-app / karakeep: “A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search”
- GitHub: edde746 / plezy: “Modern cross-platform Plex & Jellyfin client built with Flutter”
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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 (nadeko.net): New Self-Hosted Apps You NEED to Try [April 2026]
- Invidious (nadeko.net): Dockhand: A Smarter, Safer Docker Manager