GitHub: Moonfin: “Moonfin is a collection of enhanced Jellyfin and Emby client applications that build upon the excellent foundation of the official Jellyfin project. We focus on delivering refined user experiences, improved UI/UX, and platform-specific optimizations while maintaining full compatibility with Jellyfin and Emby servers.”
Web Site: llama.app: “AI that lives on your computer. Open-source, private, always local. Run frontier AI entirely on your machine. No API keys, no telemetry, no limits. Take AI back.”
GitHub: convictional / souls-only: “A font for humans not AI and keyboard firmware to type in it.”
Notion: “Notion agents keep work moving 24/7. They capture knowledge, answer questions, and push projects forwardâall while you sleep.”
Obsidian: “Obsidian stores notes privately on your device, so you can access them quickly, even offline. No one else can read them, not even us.”
Recall AI: “The API to get transcripts, recordings, and metadata from meetings.”
Atlas: “You didn’t spend years studying just to copy-paste and fix formatting. No copy-paste. No reformatting. No tab-switching. Just select what matters â your notes build themselves on the same screen.”
OpenNotebook: “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”
Claude Fable 5 Jailbreak: I kind of thought this was going to happen…
Pirates: Naval Combat
GitHub: piwodlaiwo / pirates: “Pirates: Naval Combat game using HTML5 and JavaScript” “A top-down naval combat game for the browser, inspired by the ship battles in Sid Meier’s Pirates!. Built with HTML5 Canvas and TypeScript â no game framework, no backend, the whole game runs in the front end.”
Make Use Of: I built a smart home dashboard for $5 and deleted three smart home apps: “Paired with the ESP32 was a simple 1.13-inch SH1106 OLED display and three tactile push buttons. If you’re shopping on AliExpress, the total component cost comes down to just under $5. Even if you were to buy all this off of Amazon or your local electronics store, I doubt you’ll be spending significantly more.”
Vibration Sensors: “If all you need to know is whether an appliance is running or not, a vibration sensor is actually quite a capable solution. Appliances like your washing machine, dishwasher, HVAC unit, and many more produce subtle vibrations when they’re running and sit stably when they’re not. That difference can be used to determine whether they’re active.”
LDR Sensors: “You can connect a light-dependent resistor (also known as a photoresistor) to your ESP32, point at an appliance’s status LED, and your ESP32 can tell whether that LED is on or off. This is a bit of a crude solution and requires the appliance to have proper LED status indication, but it works surprisingly well, especially considering photoresistors can cost under a dollar.”
Navidrome: “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.”
IR remotes into Home Assistant controls: “Home Assistant recently added native support for infrared. This means that with the right hardware and supported integrations, you can control devices that use infrared remotes directly from Home Assistant. While this is a very welcome addition to Home Assistant, the features are still in their infancy, and capturing, organizing, and using IR commands is a fairly laborious and complex process.”
GitHub: DAB-LABS / HAIR: “IR device admin panel for Home Assistant. Learn signals, assign to devices, create triggers, all from the GUI. Built on HA 2026.4+ infrared platform. ESPHome and Broadlink compatible.”
Clean up broken entity references: “Lost Entity Finder is a custom component you can download from HACS that takes the hard work off your hands. When you change an entity ID, it will find instances throughout Home Assistant where the old ID is being used and raise a repair with direct links to each location. The beauty is that you can choose to auto-replace all of the old entity IDs in bulk or opt to ignore all the repairs if you prefer.”
[]HACS](https://hacs.xyz/): “The Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) is a custom integration that provides a UI to manage custom elements in Home Assistant.”
The Home Smart Home: Elevating Voice Control and Smart Home Experience: “Whisper is an open-source speech-to-text (STT) system that Home Assistant uses to transcribe your voice commands into text locally. Piper is a fast, efficient text-to-speech (TTS) engine that Home Assistant uses to generate audible responses, also processed entirely on your local network. Together, they enable private and responsive voice control.”
openWakeWord: GitHun: dscripka / openWakeWord: “An open-source audio wake word (or phrase) detection framework with a focus on performance and simplicity.”
Lux sensors: " Another problem with using a simple automation that turns on the light when motion is detected by a motion sensor is that it will work at any time, night or day. In the evening, when the room is dark, having the light turn on when you walk in is ideal. In the daytime, when the room is full of sunlight, turning on the light is unnecessary. That’s where a lux sensor can help. A lux sensor measures light levels, and you can use this to ensure that your lights only turn on when it’s dark enough to warrant it. You can add a simple condition to your automation that will only turn the lights on when the light level is below a certain threshold."
Contact sensors: “Contact sensors could be the most underrated sensors there are. The obvious uses for contact sensors are to determine whether a door or window is open or closed, and they’re excellent for that purpose. There’s so []much more you can do with them](https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-cheap-contact-sensors-gave-my-smart-home-superpowers/), however.”
Build a family recipe kiosk to make choosing dinner easier: 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.”
Have a wall-mounted smart calendar in the kitchen: GitHub: fatihak / InkyPi: “E-Ink Display with a Raspberry Pi and a Web Interface to customize and update the display with various plugins”
Scan USB drives for malware before plugging them into your computer: “The way it works is by setting up the virus and malware scanning software you want on the Raspberry Pi. Set it up so that any removable storage that is attached to the Pi automatically gets scanned the moment it’s mounted.”
I was self-hosting Wallabag for a short time, before switching to Karakeep (previously, Hoarder): “Quickly save links, notes, and images and Karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Built for the data hoarders out there!”
Create an RSS feed dashboard: Feedreader: “Add an RSS/Atom feed reader that polls feeds every hour and sends new entries into the event bus.”
Track your location history: " If you use the Home Assistant Companion app, it can track your location. In the default Map view in Home Assistant, you can then see the locations of yourself and other family members. However, this view only displays the current location of tracked devices; it doesn’t show where you’ve been."
Build a simple guest dashboard: “You can give your guests a huge instruction manual for your smart home that covers everything they’ll need to know. Or you can set up a guest mode that disables most of the more complex automations and just leaves the important ones in place.”
Palo Alto: UNIT42: When âHi, This Is ITâ Comes Through Microsoft Teams: “The worker previews the message and sees, “Hi, this is the IT Department. We see an issue with your account.” The message looks routine and is in MS Teams, not email. The worker accepts the message. The conversation proceeds and the “IT technician” explains that a login anomaly was detected and asks the worker to approve a multi-factor authentication (MFA) prompt to confirm their identity. The conversation continues for a few minutes to maintain credibility, but behind the scenes the compromise is already underway.”
Ghost-Sender: “Exchange Online tenants routing mail through third-party filters may allow incoming spoofing from any sender - bypassing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC entirely. Paste a list of your domains to check which are affected.”
I did test it myself (vs. using the tool), & while it was successfully sent, Microsoft 365 quarnatined it with a high spam score. I will have to test alternate senders vs. the recipient domain, but at least it looks like this was caught.
GitHub: aliasvault / aliasvault: “Privacy-first password manager with built-in email aliasing. Fully encrypted and self-hostable.”
Web Site: AliasVault: “Privacy-First Password & Email Alias Manager. AliasVault is an end-to-end encrypted password and (email) alias manager that protects your privacy by creating alternative identities, passwords and email addresses for every website you use.”
ClamAV: A no-nonsense, open-source antivirus you control
VeraCrypt: Open-source encryption for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Wazuh: Modern intrusion detection that puts you in control
Make Use Of: This is hands down the easiest way to access your PC from anywhere without a VPN: “Getting into your home network from somewhere else used to mean accepting a slow, centralized VPN that routes everything through a single server, or a complicated manual setup that most people give up on halfway through. WireGuard is neither of those things. It connects devices directly, keeps the cryptographic overhead low, and doesn’t maintain connection state, so switching networks doesn’t break anything. You just need to get used to using it.”
I don’t agree with the title of this article… from WireGuard’s web site: “WireGuardÂź is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN for running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike, fit for many different circumstances. Initially released for the Linux kernel, it is now cross-platform (Windows, macOS, BSD, iOS, Android) and widely deployable. It is currently under heavy development, but already it might be regarded as the most secure, easiest to use, and simplest VPN solution in the industry.”
“According to a post made by Will Dormann on Infosec.exchange, the exploit only works if several very specific conditions are met, including the target system having previously used Microsoft Defender’s Offline Scan feature.”
GitHub: Anduin2017 / AnduinOS: “AnduinOS is a custom Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that offers a familiar and easy-to-use experience for anyone moving to Linux.”
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 pipelineâmodeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game asset creation. Advanced users employ Blenderâs API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blenderâs 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.”
Web Site: melia: “Introducing Melia, a privacy-first desktop email client built exclusively for Linux. While other clients phone home, inject ads, or quietly let tracking pixels confirm you opened an email, Melia does the opposite. It connects directly to your IMAP and SMTP servers, stores everything locally, and keeps your credentials locked in your OS keyring. No middleman, no cloud, no silent data collection. Tracking pixels are neutralized. Suspicious senders are flagged. Read receipts are silenced. Every message is verified for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC authentication so you know whatâs real. Manage multiple accounts from a single window, search across all of them with blazing-fast full-text indexing, and keep working even when your connection drops. Verifiable zero telemetry, not just promised in a policy. Free forever with one account, or $10 once for unlimited. No subscription, no trial countdown, no crippled features, no catch. This is email the way it should have been all along.”
Ouch: GitHub: ouch-org / ouch: “Painless compression and decompression in the terminal”
ISD: GitHub: kainctl / isd: “isd (interactive systemd) â a better way to work with systemd units”
Topgrade: GitHub: topgrade-rs / topgrade: “Upgrade all the things. Keeping your system up-to-date usually involves invoking multiple package managers. This results in big, non-portable shell one-liners saved in your shell. To remedy this, Topgrade detects which tools you use and runs the appropriate commands to update them.”
GitHub: rvaiya / keyd: “A key remapping daemon for linux.”
JellyTag: GitHub: JellyTag â Quality Badge Plugin for Jellyfin: “JellyTag automatically overlays quality badges (resolution, HDR, codec, audio, language) on your media posters and thumbnails. Badges are rendered server-side via HTTP middleware, so they appear on all Jellyfin clients without any configuration.”
Meilisearch: GitHub: meilisearch / meilisearch: “A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.”
This has to be run in a separate Docker container. It’s not a “direct” Jellyfin plugin.
Web Site: Meilisearch: “Meilisearch is a flexible and powerful user-focused search engine that can be added to any website or application.”
Make Use Of: [https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-using-monitoring-software-once-i-learned-these-powershell-diagnostics/](I stopped using monitoring software once I learned these PowerShell diagnostics)
Get-Counter: “Gets performance counter data from local and remote computers.”
Get-Process: “Gets the processes that are running on the local computer.”
KDE Connect: “Want to transfer that album with photos from the latest family trip or birthday party between your computer and smartphone? KDE Connect makes this easier than ever before. You can also browse your phone files remotely or quickly open a link on the other device.”
Super Productivity: GitHub: super-productivity / super-productivity: “Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, GitLab, GitHub and Open Project.”
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 itâs transmitted over the internet.”
Portmaster: “Monitor and control all network connections on your device.”
Nextcloud: “Nextcloud is a modular workspace platform designed to provide teams and businesses with a comprehensive environment for digital collaboration. Beyond central data management, it integrates office suites like Collabora Online and EuroOffice for seamless, cooperative workflows.”
AppControl: “Historical resource monitoring, powerful controls for managing troublesome apps, and detailed visibility into hidden behavior that impacts your PCâs performance, privacy, and security.”
How-To Geek: [3 free, open-source apps to cancel your subscriptions this weekend (Jun 5â7)(https://www.howtogeek.com/free-open-source-apps-to-cancel-your-subscriptions-this-weekend-jun-5-7/)
ONLYOFFICE: “Powerful online editor for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, and fillable forms. Open source, secure, cross-platform, and truly accessible.”
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.”
Nextcloud: “Nextcloud offers a modern, on-premises content collaboration platform with real-time document editing, video chat & groupware on mobile, desktop and web.”
How-To Geek: [5 easy ESP32 projects for absolute beginners to try this weekend (Jun 5 - 7)(https://www.howtogeek.com/easy-esp32-projects-for-absolute-beginners-to-try-this-weekend-jun-5-7/)
“Kittygram is an anonymous, privacy-friendly, lightweight, and open-source Instagram frontend inspired by nitter. It offers a clean, fast way to browse Instagram without the usual clutter or tracking.”
I’ve been curious about the Cardputer for a while, especially while looking into this: Kickstarter: CardputerZero, Pocket Raspberry Pi Computer for Makers: “Powered by CM0 | All-in-One Design | Standard Linux I/O | Grove & Advanced I/O Ports | 100+ Extra M5 Modules | Credit Card Size”
Caldera Music: “One audiophile-grade engine, three players.”
Apple TV: “A Plex-powered music player for Apple TV. Lossless audio, multi-room sync, and a real MilkDrop visualizer on your living-room display.”
AMP (Desktop): “Caldera Amp sits in your menu bar (or system tray). Drive it from Plexamp on your phone, tablet, or desktop. Pop out the visualizer window for the big show.”
Headless (Linux): “A Plex-powered music system for Linux”
Ladybird: Changing How We Develop Ladybird: “We will no longer accept public pull requests. From now on, code changes to the Ladybird codebase will only be introduced by project maintainers.”
GitHub: elk-zone / elk: “A nimble Mastodon web client”
GitHub: SikamikanikoBG / homelab-monitor: “Plug-and-play homelab dashboard in one container â GPU, local-AI VRAM, Docker, systemd, host health. Built-in read-only MCP server so AI agents can explore it too.”
Web Site: Navidrome: “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.”
GitHub: enchant97 / note-mark: “Note Mark is a lighting fast, web-based Markdown notes app.”
I think this was one of the note apps that i tried, but wasn’t a huge fan of, but i have to go back & take a look to see if that’s the case.
GitHub: silverbulletmd / silverbullet: “An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua”
I tried SilverBullet in the past as well, but again, wasn’t for me. Eventually i will finish the post i was making where i was comparing a lot of the note apps so at least i could have a reference for why i did or didn’t like a particular service.
Recipe app that connects to 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.”
GitHub: Turbootzz / freshdock: “Keep your docker containers up to date. A modern, health-gated Docker container auto-updater â a maintained successor to Watchtower, in a single Rust binary.”
Komodo should be taking care of this for me, but i was still interested in looking into it.
Web Site: Looksyk: “Write in Markdown. Think in links. Move fast. Looksyk keeps your notes local and queryable without forcing you into a hidden database format.”
GitHub: DestinyJazz / servedash: “A simple Docker dashboard for just wanting to see what’s running. Auto-discovers all your containers, shows CPU/RAM, lets you tail logs, and opens each service â without leaving the page.”
GitHub: Priveetee / TypeType: “Privacy-respecting video platform to watch Youtube, BiliBili and NicoNico”
“Kittygram is an anonymous, privacy-friendly, lightweight, and open-source Instagram frontend inspired by nitter. It offers a clean, fast way to browse Instagram without the usual clutter or tracking.”
GitHub: ulsklyc / yuvomi: “Self-hosted family planner - tasks, calendars, shopping, meals, budget. Your data, your server.”
