w33k in g33k: May 29, 2026

YouTube to Invidious:

• Invidious (nadeko.net): Title
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👎🏻 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.
  1. Change your Mac’s desktop wallpaper
  2. Change your theme colors
  3. Set a custom icon and widget color
  4. Change your folder icons
  5. Set up the Aerial screensaver
  6. Change your user account icon

🤖 Artificial Intelligence \ Large Language Models

🌎 Current Events

• Crooks & Liars: 27 (More) Protest Songs Soundtracking The Movement

1. 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

2. Boots on the Ground Artists: Massive Attack, Tom Waits Release Date: April 16, 2026 Genre: Trip Hop Best line: A coal to a diamond, a vote into law They campaign up all the blood they can draw Mold your world, a soldier’s just clay How much does every soldier weigh?

3. ICE on the Road Artist: Pynk Beard Release Date: April 13, 2026 Genre: R&B Best line: Living in the land of lady liberty They’re roundin’ up everybody looks like me And there ain’t no rest for a wandering soul No snow in Alabama but there’s ice on the road

4. Forged in Fire Artist: Crys Matthews Release Date: March 28, 2026 Genre: Folk Best line: Is there fire in your heart? Then you can do your part Be a shot in the dark ‘Til that powder sparks

5. War’s Coming Home Artist: Planet B Release Date: March 20, 2026 Genre: Industrial Best line: War’s coming home Paramilitary hell hounds Focus group the perfect amount Of kids in cages that can be allowed

6. Fuck ICE!! Artist: The Whiskey Predicament Release Date: March 5, 2026 Genre: Folk Punk Best line: They’re like kids at play, with toys military grade Got the cosplay fatigues and the eyeblack smear, they got the purple haze from the flash bang grenades

7. Are We Great Yet? Artist: Bryan Andrews Release Date: March 5, 2026 Genre: Country Best line: Ain’t nobody winnin’ in the war we’re in Got them row crop farmers on their knees again

8. Chinga La Migra Artist: Dub Souljah Release Date: March 3, 2026 Genre: Reggae Best line: Nobody move, nobody gets hurt We don’t want to see another face on a shirt

9. ICE Twice Baby Artists: Mic Crenshaw, Anthony Rivera, Drew Dru Release Date: February 27, 2026 Genre: Hip Hop/Rap Best line: This moment is pivotal, crucial, critical Our opponent is intentional, brutally criminal

10. Stand Our Ground Artists: Emillio Rojas, UsVsThem Release Date: February 24, 2026 Genre: Rap Rock Best line: Answering the door with my gun drawn When I see them cowards pulling up on the front lawn The jakes hopping out of unmarked cars with their masks on Chasing good people like some Nazi attack dogs

11. American Obituary Artist: U2 Release Date: February 18, 2026 Genre: Pop Rock Best line: Crossing guard or yellow bus Our children teach us who to trust The worst can’t kill what’s best in us But they can try America will rise Against the people of the lie

12. You’re Next Artist: Moon Walker Release Date: February 13, 2026 Genre: Indie Rock Best line: Someone’s always first to go That’s what they do They start out with the media and the news They target all the people with different views And if you’re not the next in line You will be soon

13. Fuck ICE Artist: Brick + Mortar Release Date: February 11, 2026 Genre: Indie Rock Best line: Can you feel the love In the back of the club, As you listen to the rhythm Of the gunshot play?

14. Illegal Aliens Artist: Delilah Bon Release Date: February 6, 2026 Genre: Alternative Hip Hop Best line: Look, if that is the president How fucking misguided is everything What happened to loving thy neighbor You’ve traded him into the government

15. Blood on the Wheel (Fuck ICE) Artists: Everlast, WLPWR Release Date: February 6, 2026 Genre: Alternative Rock Best line: We got way more guns we got way more goons If we stand our ground when the bullets fly They call me big poppa cause I’m ready to die When you meet your maker you can ask him why

16. ICE Artist: Waterparks Release Date: January 27, 2026 Genre: Punk Best line: This ain’t even politics, this is fucking war They’re killing your neighbors, kicking down our doors So are you gonna wait until they show up at your place Or are we stepping to the White House gates?

17. The ICEman Cometh Artist: ColdFishStix Release Date: January 27, 2026 Genre: Indie Folk Best line: Iceman knocks me to the ground He says I should have watched my mouth Freedom of speech is expensive now and my card’s just declined Now it’s my neck on the line

18. Brown Representation Artists: Reverie, Louden, Coyote Release Date: January 26, 2026 Genre: Hip Hop/Rap Best line: A country that’s bounded by immigrants, but still they do us dirty I guess the white power decided we weren’t worthy

19. Minneapolis Artist: Mary Lambert Release Date: January 22, 2026 Genre: Indie Pop Best line: Men armed and masked The present is the past But love will bring you to your knees She’ll take you to the streets

20. Good Citizen Artist: Iyah May Release Date: December 18, 2025 Genre: Alt-Pop Best line: Stay silent, stay violent Stay plugged in and divided

21. ¡BASTA YA! Artists: Cain Culto, Xiuhtezcatl Release Date: November 28, 2025 Genre: Hip Hop/Rap Best line: Resisto al sistema que nos sigue oprimiendo Persisto por el futuro Que estamos construyendo con todo mi fuerza exijo, denos libertad Y como una mamá furiosa los persigo con mi chancla

22. Have You Heard the News Today? Artist: Earth to Eve Release Date: September 11, 2025 Genre: Indie Pop Best line: Temperatures rise like interest rates Built Auschwitz in the Everglades and sold merch at the front gate

23. Heavy Foot Artist: Mon Rovîa Release Date: September 3, 2025 Genre: Folk Best line: Do you see the man on the street? Just fighting for a meal to eat You can write him off as a lunatic But it could’ve been you or me If we didn’t ever find our feet

24. Alligator Artist: Snow Tha Product Release Date: July 22, 2025 Genre: Hip Hop/Rap Best line: This is ancestor shit, this is who I am You can never press me ′cause I’m sticking to the plan I am not some feminist to stick it to the man I’m an adelita only abuelita understand

25. fuck ice Artist: Chrissa Sparkles Release Date: June 12, 2025 Genre: Pop Best line: We ain’t gonna play nice Oh, you wanna fight? Keep sucking daddy’s dick On the far right

26. Fuck ICE Artist: JD the MC Release Date: April 30, 2025 Genre: Hip Hop/Rap Best line: Been staring at every one of my people like we’re see through And you need us, we don’t need you Just trying to do your job Motherfucker, me too

27. Duckin’ ICE Artist: Bambu Release Date: January 20, 2023 Genre: Hip Hop/Rap Best line: So, oop, while you was passive while Obama was in office They were moving little pieces so a Trump could get it popping And get it popping he did Pulled militias out the sticks

🎥📺 Entertainment

🎮 Games

• Apple Insider: How to use an iPad as a screen for the Nintendo Switch 2
  • App Store for iPad: []HDMI Monitor - Orion](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hdmi-monitor-orion/id6459355072)

🏡 Home

• How-To Geek: [My jailbroken Kindle is now a smart home dashboard by day and eReader by night])https://www.howtogeek.com/jailbroken-kindle-smart-home-dashboard-and-ereader/)
• How-To Geek: 7 places you should put a smart button or remote in your smart home
  1. Bedside table
  2. In your car
  3. On top of dumb light switches
  4. Near your smart speakers
  5. On your desk or coffee table
  6. In the garage
  7. Next to the front door
  • How-To Geek: This $6 gadget made my old smart lights feel new again: IKEA: BILRESA: “Remote control, white smart/dual button”
• How-To Geek: The Home Assistant resources everyone should know about (even if you’re just getting started)
• How-To Geek: 3 more Raspberry Pi projects to try this weekend (May 29 - 31)
  • Build an AI journal analyzer with either local or cloud models : This involves running Journiv which i do have running alongside DailyTxT, but DailyTxT is my “primary” digital journal. n8n is involved here & while I’ve come across it, i haven’t actually tried it out there.
  • Publish your own blog with nothing but Markdown files and Cloudflare (or GitHub) Pages: How-To Geek: How to turn a Markdown file into a website
    • Hugo is actually what i am using on my sites =].
    • They also list Zola or Eleventy (11ty) as options.
  • Create your own music with NeuralPi: “Raspberry Pi guitar pedal using neural networks to emulate real amps and effects.”
• Home-To Geek: 3 more homelab projects to try this weekend (May 29 - 31)
  1. Set up game server backup snapshots
  2. Speed up OS installs and updated with a local cache server
  3. Be prepared for anything by backing up your GitHub locally
• https://tinycld.org/
• https://www.engadget.com/2182061/how-to-get-wired-internet-without-ethernet-cable-in-walls/

🖥️🔐 IT Security

• GitHub: ruvnet / RuView: “π RuView turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time spatial intelligence, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video.”
• How-To Geek: Passkeys were a headache until I moved them to my own home server
  • Skimming the article, i don’t really see how it was a “headache”… yes, it’s inconvenient if it was tied to Chrome \ Android, but i wouldn’t call that a “headache”. That said… i have been running Vaultwarden for a few years now & absolutely love it.
  • GitHub: dani-garcia / vaultwarden: “Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs”
• Help Net Security: Microsoft 365 users targeted by new phishing threat that bypasses MFA
  • Making note of this since it could be related to work…
  • ““Kali365 lowers the barrier of entry, providing less-technical attackers access to AI-generated phishing lures, automated campaign templates, real-time targeted individual/entity tracking dashboards, and OAuth token capture capabilities,” the FBI said.”
• https://docs.flipper.net/one
• https://blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we-need-your-help/

🐧 Linux

• How-To Geek: This criminally underrated Linux distro beats CachyOS in every way that matters
  • 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.”
  • Garuda Linux: “Simple by default, powerful when needed. Your favorite Linux distribution providing opinionated settings that make the Arch Linux base easy to use.”
• Make Use Of: [This Linux shell gives you the terminal features Bash forgot to add]https://www.makeuseof.com/this-linux-shell-gives-you-the-terminal-features-bash-forgot-to-add/)
• Hack a Day: Linux On Android Provides Inexpensive, Powerful Computing: Termux
  • Hack a Day: Linux Fu: The Linux Android Convergence

🎥📺 Media

• How-To Geek: 6 psychological thrillers on Prime Video that are guaranteed to mess with your head this week
  1. Jacob’s Ladder (1990): “Reminiscing about his dead son, a Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.”
  2. Identity (2003): “Stranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain storm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they’re being killed off one by one.”
  3. The Game (1997): “An arrogant, isolated investment banker is targeted by an enigmatic entertainment company, plunging into an escalating, reality-bending conspiracy orchestrated by his estranged brother to shatter his emotional detachment.”
  4. [Requiem for a Dream (2007)[(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/)]: “Four Coney Island dreamers chase love, fame, and escape, but addiction and obsession begin to distort their hopes for a better life.”
  5. American Psycho (2000): “A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.”
  6. Martyrs (2008): “A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.”

🗣️ Social Networking

🖥️🪟 Windows

• Make Use Of: 42 million people downloaded this free Windows 11 mod — I finally tried it, and now I get it: GitHub: valinet / ExplorerPatcher: “This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows”

❔ Miscellaneous

• 9to5 Mac: The Virtual OS Museum is a fantastic project that lets you run Mac OS, A/UX, NeXTSTEP, more
  • The Virtual OS Museum
• MacStories: Mindspace: A Private All-in-One Journal App Made for iPad [Sponsor]: $50/year
  • App Store for iPad: Private Journal - Mindspace
• How-To Geek: Your Kindle can do way more than read books—here are 5 ways I use mine
  • A Home Assistant dashboard: GitHub: sibbl / hass-lovelace-kindle-screensaver: “This tool generates a png from a Home Assistant Lovelace view, which can be displayed on a Kindle device which has the Online Screensaver plugin installed.”
  • Reading PDFs: 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 put this open-source reader on my Kindle, and I wish I had done it sooner
  • A portable E-Ink monitor
    • How-To Geek: How I turned an old Kindle into an E-Ink portable monitor
      • “With my Kindle jailbroken, I was able to set up a method of getting the Kindle to display a mirror of my Mac desktop. This works by running a shell script on my Mac that takes a screenshot of my desktop every half a second. This is passed through ImageMagick, an open-source image processing tool that converts the image to grayscale and resizes it to the correct resolution for the Kindle’s screen.”
      • “This image is then made available as a JPEG over my home network using Python’s lightweight web server. Another shell script running on the Kindle fetches the JPEG over Wi-Fi using Wget, a common tool for downloading files. The JPEG is then displayed on the Kindle screen, and the process repeats, producing a near-live mirror of my Mac desktop running at around one frame per second.”
  • Playing games
  • Displaying my photos
• Make Use Of: I turned my Obsidian vault into an automatic project tracker with one free plugin
  • “Instead of switching to another app, you can use the Dataview plugin to fix this. It turns your local file system into a searchable database. You get a live, in-memory index of the metadata scattered across your vault, so instead of rummaging through files, you can extract exactly what you need with a query. Once you get into the habit of adding metadata to your notes, tags, dates, statuses, and project names, you can search across all of it instantly. It takes a little work upfront, but it pays off fast.”
• How-To Geek: How I run heavy open-source LLMs for free without a GPU
  • “Kaggle is an AI platform owned by Google where you can train and run AI models. It gives you a free cloud environment with free access to GPU and TPU hardware. Allow me to show you how you can use it to run open-source models.”
• How-To Geek: 6 neat plugins I’ve installed on my jailbroken Kindle
  1. 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.”
  2. KPomo: “A Pomodoro timer for your Kindle”
  3. Gamebatte-K2: “Turns your Kindle into a Game Boy”
  4. KWordle: “Play Worlde offline”
  5. KUAL (Kindle Unified App Launcher): “Launch your Kindle apps from here”
  6. KindleForge: “Download Kindle apps with one tap”
• How-To Geek: These 6 free, open-source apps saved me $852 last year
  • HandBrake: “HandBrake is a open-source tool, built by volunteers, for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.”
  • Handy: “speak into any text field. the free and open source app for speech to text”
  • OpenWhispr: “Your voice is 3x faster than your keyboard. Open source voice-to-text assistant. Private by design. Write faster in every app.”
  • Upscayl: “Upscayl lets you enhance your images using AI.”
  • 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.”
  • Syncthing: “Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.”
• How-To Geek: 5 open-source apps that completely replaced every subscription I had
  1. Jellyfin: “Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way.”
  2. 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”
  3. Nextcloud
  4. Joplin: “Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device.”
  5. Navidrome: “Your Personal Streaming Service. Navidrome allows you to enjoy your music collection from anywhere, by making it available through a modern Web UI and through a wide range of third-party compatible mobile apps, for both iOS and Android devices.”
• Make Use Of: I set up Windows 11’s God Mode and then made it even faster with these shortcuts
  • New folder, & name it: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
  • I’m pretty sure i also have these details saved in this post: Pureinfotech: Super God Mode unlocks all settings and features on Windows 11, 10: GitHub: ThioJoe / Windows-Super-God-Mode: “Creates shortcuts to virtually every special location or action built into Windows”
• Lifehacker: How to ‘Jailbreak’ Your Kindle Out of Amazon’s Clutches
  • 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.”
  • ZDNet: Your Kindle’s not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I’ll show you how it’s done
  • Kindle Modding Wiki: Jailbreaking Your Kindle
• Androud Authority: Amazon wants you to throw away your old Kindle. Here’s why I jailbroke mine instead
  • Kindle Modding Wiki
• How-To Geek: Don’t trade in your old Kindle, here are 5 ingenious ways to repurpose it instead
  1. Smart-home E-Ink display
     • How-To Geek: My jailbroken Kindle is now a smart home dashboard by day and eReader by night: GitHub: sibbl / hass-lovelace-kindle-screensaver: “This tool generates a png from a Home Assistant Lovelace view, which can be displayed on a Kindle device which has the Online Screensaver plugin installed.”
  2. Turn it back into a functional eReader: 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.”
  3. Create a dedicated kitchen cookbook or recipe reader
  4. E-paper clock and calendar
     • XDA Developers: I turned an old Kindle into a wall-mounted calendar, and here’s how you can too
       • GitHub: Kindle WeatherCN Parameters Configuration page
       • eCal Ink: “’ecal.ink’ is a simple service that displays a calendar and clock on Kindle devices.”
  5. DIY e-ink hardware projects
     • How-To Geek: 6 unusual things you can do with a jailbroken Kindle
     1. Turn it into an e-ink gaming console
     2. Transform it into a picture frame
     3. Use it as a text editor
     4. Turn it into a second monitor for your PC
     5. Turn it into a Bluetooth audio player
     6. Run a Minecraft server on it
• How-To Geek: Windows God Mode is hiding from you—Super God Mode unlocks everything in seconds
  • “God Mode—technically called the Windows Master Control Panel—is a trick that dates back to the Windows Vista era. Basically, you create a folder and make sure it ends with the extension .{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}—it can have any name you like. Windows then magically transforms it into a virtual folder with the Control Panel icon.”
  • “Super God Mode is a free, open-source PowerShell script created by popular Windows YouTuber ThioJoe. Instead of exposing a prebuilt virtual folder, the script actively scans your Windows installation—reading resource files, registry entries, and app directories—to generate a folder packed with shortcuts, all neatly organized into subfolders. On my Windows 11 system, it generated 1,176 shortcuts.”
  • GitHub: ThioJoe / Windows-Super-God-Mode: “Creates shortcuts to virtually every special location or action built into Windows”

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (29 May 2026), by Ethan Sholly.

• GitHub: lklynet / hypermind: “The High-Availability Solution to a Problem That Doesn’t Exist.”
  • “Hypermind is a completely decentralized, Peer-to-Peer deployment counter and ephemeral chat platform. It solves the critical infrastructure challenge of knowing exactly how many other people are currently wasting 50MB of RAM running this specific container, while providing a secure, serverless way to say “hello” to them.”
  • Web Site: Hypermind
  • I’m pretty sure i did save this before but didn’t actually look into it or do anything with it.
• GitHub lklynet / hypermind-swarm: “Decentralized. Ephemeral. Unfiltered.”
  • Same dev as the previous saved item.
  • “Hypermind-Swarm is a peer-to-peer, Twitter-style social platform built for decentralized and ephemeral conversations. It’s a fork of the original Hypermind project, evolving from a simple deployment counter into a full-fledged communication swarm. Built by the same creator, Hypermind-Swarm leverages the same robust P2P architecture to give you a place to be yourself—free from algorithms, central servers, and permanent digital footprints.”
• GitHub: Yoas1 / ansible-handson: “Ansible-HandsOn: Containerized Learning Environment Ansible-HandsOn is a lightweight, local lab environment designed for learning, testing, and mastering Ansible infrastructure automation. Instead of relying on resource-heavy Virtual Machines (VMs), this project leverages Docker containers to simulate a real-world network infrastructure in seconds.”
  • I have been wanting to look more into Ansible for a while, so this looks like it will be a perfect way for me to get into it.
• GitHub: johanohly / AirTrail: “A modern, open-source personal flight tracking system”
  • Saving this in case i were to use it for work.
  • Web Site: AirTrail: “Your flights. Your story. A modern, self-hosted personal flight tracking system. Map every journey, analyze your travel patterns, and own your data.”
• 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. For engineers and small teams. No Node.js, no Redis, no Postgres — just a binary and a data directory.”
• GitHub: usememos / memos: “Open-source, self-hosted note-taking tool built for quick capture. Markdown-native, lightweight, and fully yours.”
  • Web Site: Memos: “Capture first. Keep it yours. A self-hosted timeline for quick notes, daily logs, links, and snippets. Open it, write in Markdown, and move on.”
  • v0.29.0: New Features:

##Link Previews and Metadata

• Link metadata APIs - Memos now includes endpoints for fetching and batching metadata for links attached to memos.
• Rendered link cards - The web app can render metadata cards for shared links, making memo references easier to scan.
• DNS rebinding protection - Link metadata fetching now rejects DNS rebinding attempts.

##Notification and Transcription Settings

• SMTP email settings - Instance notification settings now include SMTP email configuration.
• Email test endpoint - Admins can test notification email settings through the instance API.
• Explicit speech-to-text settings - Transcription settings now expose provider, model, and prompt configuration.

##Memo and Workspace Improvements

• Task list quick actions - Memos with task lists now support faster task interactions.
• Calendar-aware memo creation - Creating a memo from the calendar uses the selected calendar date.
• Dedicated shortcuts page - Shortcut management is available from a dedicated page.
• About page and placeholder refresh - The app includes a refreshed about page and new placeholder states.

Administration and Statistics

• Instance resource statistics - Admin instance stats now include resource statistics.
• Filtered all-user stats - All-user statistics can be filtered for more focused administration views.
• Configurable log level - The server now accepts a –log-level flag.

• GitHub: bscott / subtrackr: “Self-hosted Subscription Tracker”
  • Web Site: SubTrackr: " Know exactly where your money goes. Every month. SubTrackr is a self-hosted subscription tracker that puts you in control. No cloud dependency, no tracking, no data harvesting. Just a clean, powerful tool running on your server."
  • I’m trying to keep better track of spending, so this popped up at a good time for me to take a look into it.
• GitHub: jaapjan14 / darkroom-log: “Self-hosted darkroom print log and Immich photo library viewer. Browse, sort, and filter your Immich albums and library — including sort by upload or taken date inside albums, a feature missing from Immich’s native UI. Includes Ken Burns slideshow with music, public album sharing, PWA support, and an A+ security score.”
  • My Dad was VERY interested in photography, so i wanted to see what the project was about.
• GitHub: liquidguru / docker-updater: “Self-hosted Docker update manager — manual-approval alternative to Watchtower”
  • I didn’t realize Komodo was maxxing out some of my container update requests, so maybe i do have to go back to looking into something like Docker-Updater or Watchtower.
  • Well, i guess i won’t be looking into Watchtower since that was archived in December 2025.
• GitHub: evert / h4w: “Homelab for workgroups”
• GitHub: hushhq / hush: “End-to-end encrypted messaging, voice, and video. Entry point that orchestrates every public component.”
  • Web Site: Hush: “Yap. yPrivately. Servers, channels, voice and video. End-to-end encrypted. Self-hostable.Servers, channels, voice and video. End-to-end encrypted. Self-hostable.”
• App Store for iPhone: OpsHome NOC
• Codeberg: rafssunny / owl: “A self-hostable, lightweight and minimalist application for tracking bad habits/addictions.”
• GitHub: Priyanshu-1622 / skiff: “Self-hosted SSH connection manager. Open-source alternative to Termius”
• GitHub: Dan6erbond / trevi: “Trevi is a self-hosted application for tracking restaurant visits, writing reviews, and maintaining a wishlist of places to try. Built for food enthusiasts who want to organize their culinary experiences—individually or with friends and family.”
• GitHub: atuinsh / atuin: “✨ Making your shell magical”
  • Web Site: atuin: " Making your shell magical. Sync, search and backup shell history with Atuin."
• GitHub: p2r3 / convert: “Truly universal online file converter”
  • Web Site \ hosted: Convert
• GitHub: carlnewton / habitat: “Habitat is a free and open source self-hosted social platform for local communities”
  • Web Site: Habitat
• selfh.st: Ethan Sholly: Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users
  • I do want to start to move further away from Plex, but at least for now I can be looking at making it more private \ less tracking.
  • Marketing Emails
  • Ad Partners
  • Optional Playback Data
  • Profile Privacy Settings
  • Sync Watch State & Ratings
  • Online Media Sources
  • My Friends
  • Personal Data Request Forms
• Tracearr: “The modern monitoring platform for media servers. Real-time analytics and intelligent detection for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. Free, open source, self-hosted via Docker.”
  • I don’t really use Tautulli anymore, so maybe i’ll see about this one.
• Invidious (nadeko.net): Portainer to Dockhand: One Container Replaced Several
  • Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com: Portainer to Dockhand: One Container Replaced Several
  • YouTube: Portainer to Dockhand: One Container Replaced Several