w33k in g33k: October 17, 2025

Automation

• $13 voice assistant for Home Assistant: Since I’m trying to focus more on setting up HomeAssistant, I was trying to see what people use for voice assistants & came across this article. I ordered a couple of the ATOM Echo Smart Speaker Development Kits so I can see how that works out.

Miscellaneous

• PiCockpit: Raspberry Pi 5 has a Real-Time Clock. So What?: Since I’m running Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 5 now, & that it also setup as an NTP server, I’m hoping this might help the device itself & rest of the network when the host goes down.
  • Raspberry Pi Documentation: Real Time Clock (RTC)
• crontab guru: As I’ve been working with cron more for things like NetAlertX & since it’s been a while since I worked with cron so i forgot syntax, this site has always been useful.

Security

• Yanko Design: Flipper One Rumors Suggest a Pocket Computer With ‘Hacking Tools’ That Governments Can’t Ban

Self-Host Weekly (17 October 2025), by Ethan Sholly

• William Elimbi: My Personal Digital Library with Z-Library, Telegram, Syncthing and OPDS: I’m curious to see other eBook setups since i haven’t really managed mine & need to see about Calibre, calibre-web, BookLore, etc.
  • And funny enough, it looks like BookLore has a new release: v1.7.0
• GitHub: agregarr / agregarr: “Agregarr is a Plex Collections manager that keeps your Home and Recommended fresh by frequently updating it with collections from various sources”
• GitHub: serversinc / docker-backup: “A CLI tool for backing up Docker instances; Containers, Networks, Images, Volumes”
• GitHub: FoxxMD / docker-proxy-filter: “Filter the contents of Docker API responses”
  • I just got Docker setup again on one of my hosts to sync my two Pi-Holes, & for monitoring & management, I also have Homepage & Portainer connecting to the Docker API. It’s all protected via client certificates, but still curious on this.
• GitHub: saihgupr / HomeAssistantTimeMachine: “Home Assistant Time Machine is a web-based tool that acts as a “Time Machine” for your Home Assistant configuration.”
  • Probably a good idea for when i inevitably break my Home Assistant install \ config.
• GitHub: MatiasDesuu / ThinkDashboard: “A lightweight, self-hosted bookmark dashboard with keyboard shortcuts.”
  • I’m using Homepage, but maybe this would be a nice alternative if I quickly want a bookmark vs. the live data I can get from Homepage.
• GitHub: iongpt / boxarr: “Boxarr is an automated box office tracking application that integrates with Radarr to monitor, add, and manage the latest theatrical releases. It provides a beautiful dashboard showing the current box office top 10, their status in your Radarr library, and allows quality profile management.”
• GitHub: Termix-SSH / Termix: “Termix is a web-based server management platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, and file editing capabilities.”
  • I can’t remember if this is something i tried before, but may look at it again.
  • Termux Docs