w33k in g33k: May 01, 2026

🎼 Games Engadget: The sequel to the iconic emulator ZSNES is called Super ZSNES, of course Notebook Check: Modder releases PS5-Linux that turns the console into a fully functional Linux gaming PC GitHub: ps5-linux / ps5-linux-loader: “Linux payload implementing the HV exploit and a custom bootloader” I wouldn’t mod my PS5 now, but maybe a future project & i’m interested it just seeing how it’s done. Windows Central: A modder got Halo: Combat Evolved running natively on Nintendo Switch without cloud streaming GitHub: JRickey / libultraship: “Porting games to the PC” This is a PC port of Super Smash Bros., from the Nintendo 64. đŸ–„ïžđŸ” IT Security GitHub: dougburks / ohmypcap: “A standalone web application for analyzing PCAP files using Suricata” Nerds.xyz: Copy Fail exploit lets 732 bytes hijack Linux systems and quietly grab root Xint.to: Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distributions Copy Fail: CVE-2026-31431 GitHub: theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431 🐧 Linux OhMyDebn: “OhMyDebn is a debonair Linux desktop for power users. It gives you the stability of the Debian distro, the ease of use of the Cinnamon desktop, and the power of AI, containers, and virtualization.” BunsenLabs: “BunsenLabs Linux Carbon is a distribution offering a light-weight and easily customizable Openbox desktop. The project is a community continuation of CrunchBang Linux. The current release is derived from Debian 13 “Trixie”.” I remember running CrunchBang Linux back in college on my ASUS Eee PC, so seeing this as continuation of that, i wanted to look into it. IT’s FOSS: 7 Features I Like in Ptyxis (The New Default Ubuntu Terminal) I dug old my old Surface Go to play with & saw i still had it running a very old version of Xubuntu. While i was first looking into upgrading it to the most recent Ubuntu-flavor release (before i thought of CrunchBang \ BunsenLabs), I was looking a bit into the new Ubuntu release & came across the posts about Ptyxis & wanted to take a look. Ubunlog: This is Ptyxis: the new GNOME terminal for modern Linux environments that will run Ubuntu 25.10. Rockford Lhotka: Running Linux on My Surface Go Since it’s been a while since i set anything up with the Surface Go, I just wanted to double check documentation because i believe there was a custom kernel i needed to run for everything to be working properly. Even with this from 2025, will still be more up-to-date than what i might have saved. https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/linux-lite-8-rc1/ Miscellaneous IT’s FOSS: Good News! AI-first Warp Terminal is Now Open Source warp: Warp is now open-source GitHub: warpdotdev / warp: “Warp is an agentic development environment, born out of the terminal.” Lifehacker: This App Lets You Use All Your AirPods’ Features on Any Android GitHub: kavishdevar / librepods: “AirPods liberated from Apple’s ecosystem.” I think i may have found this a little while ago on F-Droid, but maybe that was not as full-featured as this. Time to take a look. GitHub: ckolos / humblebundle-downloader: “Download your Humble Bundle Library” I had recently purchased another book pack off of Humble Bundle & was trying to use the tool to mass download them all versus having to go one-by-one, but ran into a few issues. First
 had to remind myself about Python virtual environments (Python venv: How To Create, Activate, Deactivate, And Delete). - python3 -m venv venv - source venv/bin/activate - And specifically for the Humble Bundle downloader: pip install -e With Ubuntu 26.04 adding a “Projects” folder, of course this was the one “server” where i had moved my “Development” folder into “Projects”, just because. That caused a problem because the virtual environment was hardcoded to use the path that included “Development”. After figuring that part out, received an error when trying to use the tool. I believe it’s that my session cookie is expired, so just have to give it another try later. selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (1 May 2026), by Ethan Sholly. Copy Fail: I have this listed above as well, but since it’s pretty significant, it can’t hurt to have it added a second time. NIST: CVE-2026-31431 GitHub: grimmory-tools / grimmory/: docs(governance): define the project’s governance structure and decision-making framework#1000 Really just making note for myself to check on my container & see if i loaded all my books or was still in the middle of anything. I thought the post would be an interesting read as well. GitHub: Hound-Media-Server / hound: “All-in-one Media Server—Find, watch, track, and manage your media” Interesting, but since it uses P2P sources, i don’t want to have to be concerned with copyright violations. As much as i want to get off Plex to Jellyfin, the former at least has the feature of showing you where something is available, if you don’t have it on your own server. “Watch and Track Movies and TV Shows. Self-hosted version of Plex/Stremio + Trakt, Simkl, etc. Hound aims to be a complete ecosystem of watching, tracking, downloading, and archiving media. Hound is a fully-featured media server, like Jellyfin or Plex, but with the additional ability to stream content through P2P (torrent) or HTTP/Debrid sources. With Hound, you get the benefits of fully controlling your media like Jellyfin, but can also stream instantly like Stremio. It’s the best of both worlds.” GitHub: dmunozv04 / iSponsorBlockTV: “SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients.” SponsorBlock: “SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe, and skipping to the point with highlight.” I don’t really use YouTube anymore (& no longer have a YouTube TV subscription), but wanted to look into it. Download Notepad++ for Mac: “Notepad++ for Mac is the free, native macOS build of the popular open-source code editor — the same Scintilla editing engine, the same syntax highlighting for 80+ languages, the same macro recording and plugin system, rewritten on top of native macOS Cocoa APIs so it feels at home on your Mac. Built as a Universal Binary for Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4, M5) and Intel Macs. No Wine, no Rosetta, no emulation needed. Every release is code-signed with an Apple Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple. For the official Windows version of Notepad++, visit notepad-plus-plus.org.” I mainly stick with VS Code or VSCodium on my devices now, but maybe I’ll play around with Notepad++ again. BookStack: BookStack Has Migrated From GitHub to Codeberg Bitwarden Community Forums: Bitwarden Statement on Checkmarx Supply Chain Incident SimpleX: SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding — to Preserve Freedom of Speech GitHub: Lissy93/dashy: Release 4.0.0 Dashy “🚀 A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!” I don’t think i still ahve this running anymore, but i wanted to look again to see if i should go back to it. GitHub: Freika / dawarich: “Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)” Dawarich: “Your Timeline, Forever. Google killed browser Timeline and is limiting data retention. Import your entire location history into Dawarich in minutes — private, encrypted, yours. No ads. No data selling.” I’m currently using Reitti, but wanted to see if i’d like this better. GitHub: simplex-chat / simplex-chat: v6.5.0 “SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps đŸ“±!” I know I’ve had the app saved or installed for a while, but i don’t think i ever really took advantage of it. Maybe with this v.6.5.0 release I’ll give it another look. GitHub: nandyalu / trailarr: “Trailarr is a Docker application to download and manage trailers for your Radarr and Sonarr libraries.” I actually have the trailers turned off on my Plex install, i think due to performance or some kind of issues they caused
 so maybe this isn’t worth looking into. GitHub: zulip / zulip: “Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused” Zulip: “Organized chat for distributed teams” This would probably be overkill for anything to self-host, but i wanted to look into it. Maybe as a local Discord replacement? All i really used Discord for was local network alerts, so not like i need channels \ users available to use it. GitHub: thehijacker / codexa: “A self-hosted EPUB web reader with multi-user support, OPDS browsing, KOReader sync, and a built-in dictionary lookup — all in a single lightweight Node.js container.” I do have to revisit my whole eBook setup & see if I’m going to try Calibre again, stay with Grimmory, try something like this
 it will take a little bit before i settle that. GitHub: qiaeru / couplecards: “A self-hosted web app that lets couples draw activity cards to break the routine and spice up their daily lives.” GitHub: hymns / hostiqo: “Simple Server Management” Hostiqo: “Hostiqo orchestrates webhooks, servers, and deployment pipelines for you. Provision infrastructure, enforce security, and roll out updates with a single command.” This looks to have a ton of features, so i’m going to look it over & see if it would be helpful. GitHub: floatpane / matcha: “A beautiful and functional email client for your terminal, built with Go and the charming Bubble Tea TUI library. Never leave your command line to check your inbox or send an email again!” Matcha: “Matcha is a modern TUI email client for people who live in the shell. Vim keybindings, PGP, IMAP multi-account, markdown composing, visual-mode batch ops, and a CLI that speaks your language.” It looked like it could be fun to try out. GitHub: hhftechnology / Dock-Dploy: “A web-based tool for building, managing, and converting Docker Compose files, configuration files, and schedulers.” Dock-Dploy: “A powerful web-based tool for building and managing Docker Compose files, configurations, and schedulers. All in one place, completely free.” I haven’t neeeded to deal with Compose files or anything recently (with services providing the sample one, it’s not hard to just edit as needed), but i wanted to see if it could be helpful. GitHub: denho / faved: “Free open-source bookmark manager with customisable nested tags. Super fast and lightweight. All data is stored locally.” Faved: “A bookmark manager that combines powerful tagging, instant search, and a clean interface that doesn’t break as your library grows.” I’m currently using Karakeep for “read-it-later” purposes, & wanted to see if this would be a replacement for that, or really just a pretty bookmark manager. GitHub: grimmory-tools / grimmory: “Grimmory is an independent community fork of Booklore.” Grimmory: “A modern way to organize, access, and self-host your digital library.” As mentioned above, i need to revisit my eBook situation & see where i left off on configuring this. GitHub: html2rss / html2rss-web: “🕾 Generates RSS feeds of any website & serves to the web! Automatic scraping. Ready to use configs. Write your own.” I didn’t have anything in mind for this, more just wanted to save it if i needed it in the future. Codeberg: endurain-project / endurain: " Endurain is a self-hosted fitness tracking service designed to give users full control over their data and hosting environment https://docs.endurain.com/" I think i started up another fitness tracker-type app but haven’t gone far with it, so i wanted to compare to this one.

May 1, 2026 Â· Sean P. McAdam

w33k in g33k: April 24, 2026

đŸ€– Artificial Intelligence \ LLM’s Mozilla Thunderbolt: “The Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Extensible AI Client” 🎼 Games AtariAge: Atari Gamestation Go - Custom Firmware / Product Enhancement Media JellyFrame: “Built with absolute precision. JellyFrame provides a complete extension and theming framework for Jellyfin — replacing limitations with community-driven mods, themes, and server-side scripts, all managed from your dashboard.” GitHub: foldergram / foldergram: “Self-hosted folder-based Instagram-style photo and video gallery app.” Foldergram: “Local-first photo and video gallery. Point it at your folders, browse everything through a fast feed-style interface. No cloud, no accounts — just your files and SQLite.” chibisafe “is a beautiful and performant vault to save all your files in the cloud. A modern and self-hosted take on file uploading services that can handle anything you throw at it thanks to it’s robust and fast API, chunked uploads support and more.” GitHub: Ashim: I think the name of this project changed to SnapOtter? GitHub: snapotter-hq / SnapOtter: “A Self Hosted Image Manipulator - 45+ tools, local AI, and pipelines in a single Docker container. No cloud, no telemetry. Your images never leave your machine.” Security CrowdSec Manager: “Web and mobile interface for managing CrowdSec — decisions, alerts, scenarios, hub, logs, backups, and Traefik integration.” ❔ Miscellaneous SunFounder: Pironman 5 Pro Max Mini PC Case with 4.3" Touch Screen for Raspberry Pi 5, OpenClaw AI Agent, Dual NVMe RAID 0/1 NAS, Camera, Mic, Audio, M.2 Hailo8, LLMs ChatGPT/Gemini (RPI5 Not Included) I like that this has the little screen on the side, not that i have an aimmediate use for it, but i’m definitely interested when it will be back in stock. I have another version of the Pironman 5 (maybe this one SunFounder Pironman 5-MAX: Raspberry Pi 5 Case with Dual NVMe SSD & AI Support?), so this might be an upgrade for that. Qarote: “Full RabbitMQ monitoring in 2 minutes. No Prometheus. No Grafana. Enter your URL — full queue monitoring in under 2 minutes.” rockchip-linux / rkdeveloptool: Tool needed for custom firmware on the ATARI Gamestation Go. selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (10 April 2026), by Ethan Sholly. Infisical: “All-in-one platform to securely manage application secrets, certificates, SSH keys, and privileged access across classic and AI infrastructure.” Przemek Mroczek: Why I Open-Sourced My Hardened *arr Stack (and What Most Compose Files Get Wrong) GitHub: immich-app / immich v2.7.0 Here are some of the features of that latest update: Remove from album (asset viewer) Move to locked folder (folder page) Editor shortcuts Create a new face on-the-fly in the face tag editor Resolve duplicates Helmet configuration Version check infrastructure Notable fix: live photo and video download in Safari Notable fix: escape HTML in the Panorama Photo Viewer GitHub: immich-power-tools / immich-power-tools: v0.21.0 Here is the changelog: Comparing v0.20.1 to v0.21.0 GitHub: fronalabs / frona “Frona is a personal AI assistant. You create autonomous agents, give them tools, and talk to them through a chat interface. Agents act on their own. They browse the web, run code, develop applications, search the internet, make phone calls, and delegate work to each other. You give them a task and they figure out how to get it done.” GitHub: hunter-read / grimoire: “A self-hostable organizer for your your TTRPG content and campaigns” GitHub: Jellyfin-PG / JellyFrame JellyFrame: “Built with absolute precision. JellyFrame provides a complete extension and theming framework for Jellyfin — replacing limitations with community-driven mods, themes, and server-side scripts, all managed from your dashboard.” GitHub: rothdennis / links-as-code: “Self-hosted link collection in a simple YAML file” GitHub: kkodecs / livrarr: “Self-hosted ebook and audiobook library manager. Built for the arr ecosystem — finds, grabs, and organizes your books the way Sonarr does for TV.” GitHub: OneMana-Soft / OneCamp-fe: “OneCamp: self-hosted all-in-one workspace (chat, tasks, video calls, docs, calendar & AI)” GitHub: getqarote / Qarote: “A Modern RabbitMQ Monitoring Tool” Qarote: “The easiest way to monitor your RabbitMQ servers. Qarote provides a clean and intuitive interface to monitor, analyze, and manage your RabbitMQ servers effortlessly.” GitHub: ashim-hq / ashim: “A Self Hosted Image Manipulator - 45+ tools, local AI, and pipelines in a single Docker container. No cloud, no telemetry. Your images never leave your machine.” ashimA Self Hosted Image Manipulator GitHub: raffomania / ties: “đŸȘąFederated website aggregator. 🔗 A federated network to bookmark, organize, share and discover good web pages.” GitHub: outlook84 / yet-another-rclone-dashboard: “Modern Web Dashboard for Rclone. Modern Web Dashboard for rclone rcd (Rclone v1.72.0 or later recommended).” GitHub: hhftechnology / crowdsec_manager: “A web-based and mobile management interface and dashboard for CrowdSec security stack with Pangolin integration and multi proxy support- caddy, NPM, etc. This project replaces the bash script with a modern, user-friendly ShadcnUI built with Go and React.” CrowdSec Manager 2.1.0: “Manage CrowdSec, Traefik integration, decisions, scenarios, logs, backups, and updates from a single web interface.” GitHub: foldergram / foldergram: “Self-hosted folder-based Instagram-style photo and video gallery app.” Foldergram: “Local-first photo and video gallery. Point it at your folders, browse everything through a fast feed-style interface. No cloud, no accounts — just your files and SQLite.” Codeberg: nwithan8 / plex-prerolls: “Schedule Plex Pre-Roll listings” Chibisafe: “chibisafe is a beautiful and performant vault to save all your files in the cloud. A modern and self-hosted take on file uploading services that can handle anything you throw at it thanks to it’s robust and fast API, chunked uploads support and more.” YouTube: Private Searching at Home: SearXNG Installation & Setup Invidious (chocolatemoo53): Private Searching at Home: SearXNG Installation & Setup YouTube: The Open Source Software I’ve stopped using - 2026 edition. Invidious (chocolatemoo53): The Open Source Software I’ve stopped using - 2026 edition. YouTube: My homelab will never be the same after AI Invidious (chocolatemoo53): My homelab will never be the same after AI selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (17 April 2026), by Ethan Sholly. GitHub: alexkouzel / cinerr: “Media file manager for self-hosters. See what’s in your library, clean it up, keep it organized.” GitHub: gregluffy / HomeLabInfo: “HomeLabInfo is a modern, self-hosted network discovery and visualization suite designed for homelab enthusiasts.” GitHub: AlexRosbach / LanLens: “LanLens continuously scans your local network, identifies every device by MAC address, and gives you a clean dark-themed web UI to manage, document, and connect to them — all in a single Docker container.” GitHub: h4ckf0r0day / obscura: “The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping” GitHub: pauljoda / Obscura: “Self host media server, Stash alternative, supports Stash scrapers and hash databases” GitHub: MrModest / reisenotiz: “Offline-first travel notes for tracking trips, flights, accommodations, and travel documents” GitHub: ulsklyc / oikos: “Self-hosted family planner - tasks, calendars, shopping, meals, budget. Your data, your server.” GitHub: calcom / cal.diy: “Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.” Cal.diy Self-Hosting Documentation Cal.com: Cal.com is going closed source. Here’s why. selfh.st: Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users GitHub: liviro / boob-o-clock: “Self-hosted dark-mode baby tracker for the infant days & nights” GitHub: whoogle-search/releases/tag/v1.2.4 GitHub: the-booklore / booklore v2.2.2 selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (13 March 2026), by Ethan Sholly. Raspberry Pi: A security update for Raspberry Pi OS “From this release onwards, passwordless sudo is disabled by default. If you use sudo for administrator-level access, you will be prompted to enter the current user’s password. In the terminal, the password prompt will appear as soon as you issue a sudo command. If you enter the correct password, the command will proceed as normal; if you enter an incorrect password, the command will be refused.” GitHub: liviro / boob-o-clock: “Self-hosted dark-mode baby tracker for the infant days & nights” GitHub: fabienmillet / WiiFin: “Jellyfin Client for Wii” WiiFin phoronix: Linux 7.0 Ready For Release With Many Exciting Changes Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) now defaults to “auto” mode on Intel TSX-capable CPUs without any known TSX security issues, which will be able to help with out-of-the-box performance compared to the prior off-by-default mode. Some nice performance optimizations seen on AMD EPYC, thanks in part to scheduler scalability enhancements, memory management performance optimizations, and other Linux 7.0 kernel optimizations.. Initial hardware enablement for some upcoming AMD Radeon graphics hardware. Continued enablement work on Intel Crescent Island and Nova Lake graphics support. Autonomous self-healing capabilities for XFS. Improved EXT4 write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes. Standardized generic I/O error reporting for the Linux kernel. A nice UDP network performance boost thanks to inlining a function. Continued upstreaming work around Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC and laptop support. Rust 1.95 preparations and other Rust code improvements. New Kconfig options make it easier to replace the Tux logo with a logo of your choice for displaying during the kernel boot process. The Verge: The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason “The FCC has just granted Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1st, 2027 — even though the company builds those devices in Asia and has not announced any plan to bring manufacturing to the United States.” “We asked Netgear if it has voluntarily improved its security in any way to help satisfy the FCC; we have not yet received a response.” So, it sounds like Netgear can’t really be trusted if this “administration” is exempting them from the ban
 Frederik BĂŠrentsen: FrederikBaerentsen / BrickTracker: “A web application for organizing and tracking LEGO sets, parts, and minifigures.” GitHub: dedicatedcode / reitti: “Reitti is a comprehensive personal location tracking and analysis application that helps you understand your movement patterns and significant places. The name “Reitti” comes from Finnish, meaning “route” or “path”.” v4.0.0 GitHub: alexkouzel / cinerr: “Media file manager for self-hosters. See what’s in your library, clean it up, keep it organized.” GitHub: Skyfay / DBackup: “A self-hosted database backup automation tool for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB & more. Backup to S3, FTP, or Local Storage. Features cron scheduling, notifications, and easy restores via a modern Web UI.” DBackup: “Database Backup Automation. Self-hosted solution for automating database backups with encryption, compression, and smart retention policies.” GitHub: ENTERPILOT / GoModel: “AI gateway written in Go. Lightweight unified OpenAI-compatible API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, xAI & Ollama. LiteLLM alternative with observability, guardrails, streaming, costs and usage tracking.” GoModel: “AI Gateway for Tracking, Decoupling, Debugging your AI Usage” GitHub: AlexRosbach / LanLens: “LanLens continuously scans your local network, identifies every device by MAC address, and gives you a clean dark-themed web UI to manage, document, and connect to them — all in a single Docker container.” GitHub: h4ckf0r0day / obscura: “The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping” GitHub: pauljoda / Obscura: “Self host media server, Stash alternative, supports Stash scrapers and hash databases” GitHub: jessielw / Reclaimerr: “Automatically reclaim space in your media library using customizable rules. Integrates with Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby (any or all of them) to analyze and manage your content. Functions similarly to Seerr (in reverse), providing efficient media cleanup and organization” GitHub: MrModest / reisenotiz: “Offline-first travel notes for tracking trips, flights, accommodations, and travel documents” GitHub: JudoChinX / rangarr: “Rangarr automates and staggers media searches across your Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr instances.” GitHub: calcom / cal.diy: “Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.” selfh.st: Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users Marketing Emails: “Opt out of the platform’s various marketing e-mails using the link below. Deselect individual publications or select Unsubscribe from ALL to prevent any future non-administrative e-mails from being delivered to your inbox.” https://www.plex.tv/email-preferences/ Ad Partners: “Plex doesn’t allow users to opt out of the ads served while streaming its own free offerings, but it does provide options to control whether user data can be sold to third-parties or used to serve personalized ads. Follow the link below and uncheck the first blue box to opt out of the sale of your personal data, then check All No in the second blue box to opt out of targeted advertising.” https://www.plex.tv/vendors-us/ Optional Playback Data: “Plex collects technical information about the content users stream from personal servers. Click the link below and expand the section labeled You have the right to limit what activity data is sent from your Plex Media Server. Uncheck the box next to Send playback data to Plex to opt out. Note: Due to my CMS’s outbound link tagging, you may need to manually copy and paste the link below in your browser to navigate to the correct menu.” https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/privacy-preferences/#opd Transmute: “Transmute is an open-source, self-hosted file converter that handles images, video, audio, data, documents, and more; all on your own hardware.” YouTube: Stop Using Google. Build THIS Instead! Invidious (chocolatemoo53): Stop Using Google. Build THIS Instead! YouTube: This Nextcloud Alternative is INSANELY Fast — OpenCloud on TrueNAS Invidious (chocolatemoo53): This Nextcloud Alternative is INSANELY Fast — OpenCloud on TrueNAS YouTube: I Built My Own Offsite 3-2-1 Backup System Invidious (chocolatemoo53): I Built My Own Offsite 3-2-1 Backup System selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (24 April 2026), by Ethan Sholly. FoxxMD Blog: Renovate + Komodo - Updating at Scale in a Large Homelab GitHub: tess1o / geopulse: “A self-hosted, privacy-first location timeline platform: an open-source alternative to Google Timeline with automatic trip detection, Immich integration, and rich analytics.” GeoPulse documentation: “A self-hosted location tracking and analysis platform” GitHub: ghostfolio / ghostfolio: “Open Source Wealth Management Software. Angular + NestJS + Prisma + Nx + TypeScript đŸ€â€ Ghostfolio: “Manage your wealth like a boss. Ghostfolio is a privacy-first, open source dashboard for your personal finances. Break down your asset allocation, know your net worth and make solid, data-driven investment decisions.” 3.0.0 GitHub: afairgiant / MediKeep: “A lightweight, self-hosted application for managing your personal medical information. Keep your health records organized and accessible while maintaining complete control over your data privacy.” GitHub: open-webui / open-webui: “User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, 
)” Open WebUI: “Run AI on your own terms. Connect any model, extend with code, protect what matters—without compromise.” v0.9.0 GitHub: timothepoznanski / poznote: “Poznote is a personal note-taking and documentation platform.” Poznote: “Poznote is a personal note-taking and documentation platform.” 6.0.0 GitHub: scanopy / scanopy: “Network diagrams that update themselves” Scanopy: “Never maintain another network diagram. Create a living model of your infrastructure. Built for modern teams and agents.” v0.16.0 I tried this out before, but wasn’t as smooth \ easy as i was hoping. But with a new update, i thought i could look at it again. GitHub: borgbase / vykar: “Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups in Rust — with friendly YAML config, a desktop GUI, and support for S3, custom REST and SFTP storage.” Vykar Backup Documentation: “Vykar is a fast, encrypted, deduplicated backup tool written in Rust. It’s centered around a simple YAML config format and includes a desktop GUI and webDAV server to browse snapshots. More about design goals.” GitHub: maxjb-xyz / blackbox: “The Forensic Journal for your Infrastructure. Written in Go for maximum impact with minimal footprint.” GitHub: TechSquidTV / Cliparr: “Create clips from media on your personal media server” GitHub: MrSuttonmann / flightjar: “A jar for your flights: live map, JSONL logs, and a WebSocket API on top of any BEAST feed (readsb, dump1090, ultrafeeder)” GitHub: araneite / fulgurite: “A secure PHP web UI for managing Restic backups, repositories, schedules, restores, secrets, SSH keys, logs, and notifications from a browser, with bilingual documentation and a self-hosted workflow.” GitHub: bytestrix / InfraCanvas: “Live Docker & Kubernetes infrastructure visualization — containers, pods, volumes, and networks in one visual map. No VPN, no inbound ports.” GitHub: krelltunez / lifeGLANCE: “An interactive zoomable timeline app” lifeGLANCE: “Your life, at a glance.” GitHub: Cawlumm / lyftr: “Self-hosted fitness tracker. Log workouts, track nutrition, and monitor progress. Docker deployment, mobile-friendly.” GitHub: Moonfin-Client / tvOS: “Moonfin tvOS is a native SwiftUI Apple TV client for Jellyfin and Emby users who want a modern, customizable 10-foot experience with smooth playback and controller-first navigation.” Moonfin GitHub: hankscafe / omnibus: “Omnibus - A self-hosted comic book and manga manager. Automate downloads, sync rich metadata, and read your collection from anywhere. Your Universe. Organized.” GitHub: Abrechen2 / TravStats: “Self-hosted flight tracker with interactive 2D/3D maps, 58 achievements, boarding-pass scanner, email/PDF import, and optional local LLM parsing — AGPL-3.0-or-later.” GitHub: open-uem / openuem-console: “Repository containing the OpenUEM web user interface used to manage endpoints and agents” OpenUEM: “An Open-Source Unified Endpoint Manager that is self-hosted and lets you manage your IT assets thanks to its agents” GitHub: raffomania / ties: “đŸȘąFederated website aggregator” GitHub: ether / etherpad: “Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.” Etherpad Documentation GitHub: MylarComics / mylar3: “The automated Comic Book downloader (cbr/cbz).” Mylar3: “Get back to what’s important - enjoying comics” GitHub: AtalayaLabs / OxiCloud: “☁ Ultra-fast, secure & lightweight self-hosted cloud storage — your files, photos, calendars & contacts, all in one place. Built in Rust.” OxiCloud: “Self-hosted cloud storage. Files, calendar & contacts — blazingly fast, written in Rust” phoronix: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Now Available & Powered By Linux 7.0 The Hacker News: Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign GitHub: thecodingdad / grid-remote-card: “Customizable TV/media remote control card for Home Assistant with drag-and-drop grid layout”

April 24, 2026 Â· Sean P. McAdam

w33k in g33k: March 13, 2026

Apple Lifehacker: 10 Hacks Every iPad User Should Know Use this hidden gesture to drag and drop multiple items at once: “When you tap and hold to select one item, drag your fingers out from the file to “pick” it up, but don’t let go just yet. With another finger, tap to pick up as many more files, photos, or links as you wish. They’ll all get collected under the finger you’re holding on to. Then, use your free hand to go to the Home Screen and open the app you want to drop everything off (like Notes or Mail). Once you let go, all the files will follow suit. This works within the Files app as well, which makes it a great way to move multiple files together. If you’re using the latest iPadOS version, you’ll also see a progress bar for transferring files at the top of the screen.” a. iPad User Guide: Learn advanced gestures to interact with iPad Use “Windowed Apps” to turn your iPad into a computer: “You can do this from Settings > Multitasking & Gestures, but there’s a faster way from wherever you are in iPadOS. Open Control Center, tap the new Multitasking toggle and switch to Windowed Apps mode.” a. Lifehacker: The iPad Has Never Been More Like a Mac, but Can It Replace One? Use this gesture for quick side-by-side app views: “One of the best new gestures added in iPadOS 26 is the flick gesture. Pick up a window when you’re in Windowed Apps mode, and just flick it to the right or the left of the screen. The window will then automatically resize itself to fit to half of the screen. When two apps are docked like this, you’ll see a new handlebar appear. You can drag it to resize the window split (going to a 70/30 split is a great ratio for multitasking, as one app essentially goes down to iPhone size). There are more gestures to know about, too. Using four or five fingers, swipe left or right on the screen to switch between apps, or app pairs. Swipe up and hold to enter app switcher mode (and to see a preview of all open apps). And of course you can swipe up with four fingers to go home. You can also swipe down from the top of the screen to reveal the Menu bar at any time.” Change this setting to make the Files app more like Finder on Mac: “From the top toolbar you can now switch from the default Icons view to either a List view or a Column view. Column view is like Finder, where you can drill down into a folder structure while still maintaining easy access to top folders in columns to the left. On the other hand, if you manage a lot of files, and you like to see all file information, along with sort options, you should try List view. You can sort based on name, date created, date modified, size, or tags. And you can add or remove columns to customize exactly what shows up.” Use “Sidecar” to turn your iPad into a second screen: “To enable Handoff, go to Settings > General > Airplay & Handoff > Handoff. Make sure the iPad is unlocked and nearby. Then, go to Control Center > Screen Mirroring and pick the iPad from your list. To use it as an external monitor, choose the Use As Separate Display option. If you want to use the iPad as a drawing surface for a Mac app, with Apple Pencil support, choose the Mirror Display option instead. You can now move freely between the iPad screen and the Mac. To arrange the layout for the screens, go to System Settings > Displays. For more tips, take a look at our detailed guide on using Sidecar.” Use your iPad’s hidden “iPhone” keyboard to type with one hand: “Just pinch in with two fingers in the middle of the keyboard to switch to a floating mini-keyboard. You can drag it anywhere you please. (Alternatively, long-press the keyboard icon in the bottom right, then choose “Floating.”)” Use Slide Over to pin a window to the top of the screen: “You can pin an app to the top of the screen using Slide Over if you want to refer to something else for a task (without shifting gears into the multitasking mode). First, you need to be in either Stage Manager or Windowed Mode. Then, open an app, long-press on the Stop Lights control in the top left, then tap “Enter Slide Over.” The app will shift to the side, and will always remain there, even when switching between apps. You can even resize the Slide Over window to make it as big or small as you want. You can hide the current Slide Over window by swiping the window to the edge of the screen. A small arrow button will appear in its place, which you can use to bring the window back. If you have a keyboard attached, use the keyboard shortcut Globe + Option + Right Arrow to send an app to Slide Over mode.” Edit your handwritten text with Apple Pencil gestures: “To remove an error, just scratch or scribble over a word or sentence to delete it. To rearrange handwritten text, you can draw a circle around a word to pick it up. Then, you can move the word around and place it where you’d like it to go. If two words are too close to each other, you can draw a vertical slice between them to insert some space. Similarly, just press and hold the Pencil in between two words to insert text in the middle.” Change default apps for your frequently used file types: “Open the Files app, then find a file type that you want to change (for example, always opening PNG files in Pixelmator instead of the Preview app). Tap and hold on the file, then tap “Get Info.” Here, choose “Always Open With,” and switch to a different app from the list. Apple will bring up a confirmation box. Here, select “Always Open.” The next time you tap on the file with the particular file extension, it will open in the app of your choice.” Add folders to the Dock to access your files anywhere: “When multitasking on your iPad, you might routinely need to drag and drop files from Downloads or your work folder. You can add that folder directly to the Dock to quickly access the files within, without even opening the Files app. From the Files app, press and hold any folder that you want to add to the Dock, and tap “Add to Dock.” Or, you can simply drag and drop a folder to the Dock itself. Now, when you tap the folder icon in the Dock, you’ll see recently added files, or folders within it. You can then drag and drop any file you see here onto any app, or you can open the folder using the Open Folder option at the top of the file’s preview.” Entertainment Gizmodo: People Are Convinced Nathan Fillion Is Reviving ‘Firefly’ Via
 Instagram Posts? I would love for Firefly to make a comeback
 but i’m not going to get my hopes up only to be disappointed. Waze Blog: Drive with “Star Trek” on Waze. I stopped using Google Maps because of the whole “gulf of america” garbage (Wired: Here’s How All Online Maps Are Handling the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ Name Change), i think Apple Maps now does it too, but Organic Maps i believe is safe
 All that said, since Google owns Wze, I’m assuming they will have “gulf of america” too. I didn’t plan on using Waze long-term, i just wanted to play around with the new Star Trek additions. Games Windows Central: My top 5 Decky Loader plugins every SteamOS and Bazzite handheld gaming PC should use GitHub: shingonati0n / xivomega-decky: “Decky Plugin to mitigate latency on Final Fantasy XIV Online” GitHub: xXJSONDeruloXx / Decky-Lookup: “Per Game Web searches: PC Gaming Wiki, Google, Walkthroughs Etc” GitHub: rossimo / decky-pip: “Watch your favorite stream while you game!” GitHub: SteamGridDB / decky-steamgriddb: “Plugin for Decky Loader to apply and manage custom art assets from within gaming mode.” GitHub: itsOwen / playcount-decky: “A Steam Deck plugin that shows current player counts for your steam games.” GitHub: moraroy / NonSteamLaunchersDecky: “NonSteamLaunchers Decky Loader Version” GitHub: mubaraknumann / unifideck: “A Decky Loader plugin that brings together games from Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG and Amazon into a single, unified library experience on your Steam Deck.” GitHub: xXJSONDeruloXx / decky-lsfg-vk: “Decky plugin to streamline installation and usage of lsfg-vk; the Lossless Scaling compatibility layer for linux” Engadget: The Playdate Catalog’s 3-year anniversary sale is here I haven’t used my Playdate in a bit, so this is a reminder to look at it again. Hackaday: Running Ocarina Of Time On The Apple Watch YouTube: I Made OCARINA OF TIME Run on the Apple Watch!: Invidious is currently down, so i can’t post that link instead of direct to YouTube: “2026-03-11: Video playback is not working due to recent changes Youtube did. As always, just wait until a fix is released!” Just for fun
 of course i would want to run Ocarina of Time on anything i possibly could. Media Plappa: “Audiobook player for Jellyfin and AudioBookShelf, written in Swift/SwiftUI” Privacy HackRead: Best DeleteMe Alternatives (2026): Competitors and Comparisons: “Best DeleteMe alternatives for 2026 compared, including Incogni, Optery, Aura, Kanary, and Privacy Bee for data broker removal and privacy protection.” DeleteMe Incogni Optery Aura Kanary Privacy Bee IT’s FOSS: Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next From the sound of it, time to get off Ubuntu? Lifehacker: How the Government Uses Advertising Data to Track People (and What You Can Do to Limit It) Eh, who needs privacy. Right? Security Miscellaneous Baby Buddy: iOS Shortcuts #300: I wanted to make note of these to get added to my account. Help Net Security: OpenWrt 25.12.0 ships with new package manager, built-in upgrade tool, support for 2200+ devices It will take a little getting used to (although i really was using bash scripts for using opkg to get & upgrade packages. HACKADAY: Experiment With The Pi Camera The Modular Way HACKADAY: Modular Pi Cam: “This started out as just me wanting to try round displays and the 5D directional pad
 but as I worked on the project I realized the body could be modular eg. swap the camera module/front plate or back plate.” Nerds.xyz: CachyOS quietly adds a way to run Windows inside Linux 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.” selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (13 March 2026), by Ethan Sholly. Google Play Store: IT Pro Tools – Cannoli Shell: “Cannoli Shell: Built for the IT Trenches.” I still use my Pixel Tablet a bit, so this might be useful. /r/SelfHosted: PSA: Think hard before you deploy BookLore Proxylity: WireGuard Is Two Things GitHub: owenlejeune / ArrMatey: “A modern, all-in-one mobile client for managing your *arr stack. Built using KMP with native Jetpack Compose UI for Android and SwiftUI for iOS.” I think i saved this last week or the week before, but haven’t looked at or tried it yet. GitHub: autobrr / autobrr: “Modern, easy to use download automation for torrents and usenet.” autobrr: Introduction “autobrr redefines download automation for torrents and Usenet, drawing inspiration from tools like trackarr, autodl-irssi, and flexget. We’ve combined the best of these worlds into one versatile tool that can do it all, and then some.” -GitHub: cshum / imagor-studio: “Self-hosted image gallery with built-in editing and template workflows” I probably would just use GiMP or Pixelmator for image editing, but web-based might be convenient across different systems or platforms where i don’t have those options. GitHub: binwiederhier / ntfy: v2.18.0 This is the biggest release I’ve ever done on the server. It’s 14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed, all from one pull request that adds PostgreSQL support. ...

March 13, 2026 Â· Sean P. McAdam

w33k in g33k: March 06, 2026

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (6 March 2026), by Ethan Sholly. myrient: “Myrient will shut down on 31 March 2026. Download any content you find important. More information can be found on our Discord server and Telegram channel.” James Read’s Code, Containers & Cloud blog: I hadn’t heard of OliveTin before, so i wanted to check it out. OlivTin: “Give safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.” Paul Parau: Building a privacy-focused home assistant Speaches Documentation: “speaches is an OpenAI API-compatible server supporting streaming transcription, translation, and speech generation. Speach-to-Text is powered by faster-whisper and for Text-to-Speech piper and Kokoro are used. This project aims to be Ollama, but for TTS/STT models.” Jeff Geerling: Upgrading my Open Source Pi Surveillance Server with Frigate exaviz: Cruiser Carrier Board DeskPi: Pre-sale DeskPi 2U Mini Rack Mount Case (Pre-order) for the Exaviz Cruiser Carrier Board GitHub: bunkeriot / BunkerM: “🚀 BunkerM: All-in-one Mosquitto MQTT management platform, featuring dynamic security, MQTT ACL management, monitoring, API and cloud integrations” GitHub: figranium / figranium: “Figranium is a self-hosted, free browser automation and scraping platform built on Playwright, designed to handle everything from simple scraping to complex, human-like browser interactions. It provides a visual task editor, a structured JSON task format, and advanced execution modes that go far beyond traditional scrapers.” figranium GitHub: home-assistant / core: 2026.3.0: “🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. " GitHub: rommapp / romm: “A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.” GitHub: silverbulletmd / silverbullet: “An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua” GitHub: artifacts-oss / daylog: “📝 Self-hosted board-based simple text and markdown note taking web application.” GitHub: oldany / dropmind: “Self-hosted memory cache for digital thoughts” GitHub: bobbydd021-code / Lantern: “Real-time SvelteKit control panel for homelab/service monitoring with a visual editor, SSE live updates, and multi-node support.” GitHub: kOlapsis / maintenant: “Monitor everything. Manage nothing.” GitHub: getomnico / omni: “Workplace AI Assistant and Search Platform” Omni: “Your AI Assistant For Work. Omni connects to your work tools and learns your organization. Get instant answers, automate repetitive tasks, and work smarter with AI that understands your context across Google Workspace, Slack, Jira, and more.” GitHub: JangaJones / pve-notebuddy: “Generate pretty Proxmox Guest Notes with a simple web based UI” I saved this before i saw it was for Proxmox. GitHub: owenlejeune / ArrMatey: “A modern, all-in-one mobile client for managing your *arr stack. Built using KMP with native Jetpack Compose UI for Android and SwiftUI for iOS.” GitHub: openclaw / openclaw: “Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🩞” OpenClaw GitHub: immich-power-tools/immich-power-tools: “Power tools for organizing your immich library” Immich Power Tools GitHub: kOlapsis/shm: â€œđŸ›Ąïž Privacy-first, Agnostic Telemetry for Self-Hosted Software.” SHM - Self-Hosted-Metrics: “Collect usage stats, verify active instances, and understand your user base without spying on them.”

March 6, 2026 Â· Sean P. McAdam

w33k in g33k: February 27, 2026

/r/SelfHosted: Huntarr - Your passwords and your entire arr stack’s API keys are exposed to anyone on your network, or worse, the internet. Ladybird It’s FOSS: OpenClaw Alternatives That You Can Run on Raspberry Pi Like Devices Felix Krause: OpenClaw - My Automation Setup Gizmodo: The Original 151 PokĂ©mon and Their History Are Up for Auction CFO Silvia Apprise Documentation: Suported Services I was looking over this list to see which services supported images &\or attachments. It’s FOSS: FOSS Weekly #26.09: Linux Mint Shortcuts, OpenClaw Alternatives, Ladybird’s Rust Move, Super Productivity and More Brave as Spyware Simon Willison: I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation app Cofense: Abusing Windows File Explorer and WebDAV for Malware Delivery selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026), by Ethan Sholly. /r/SelfHosted: Huntarr - Your passwords and your entire arr stack’s API keys are exposed to anyone on your network, or worse, the internet. GitHub: yjeanrenaud / yj_nearbyglasses: “attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you” TIME: Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge TIME: Inside Anthropic, the AI Company Betting That Safety Can Be a Winning Strategy GitHub: booklore-app / booklore v2.0.0: " BookLore: A self-hosted, multi-user digital library with smart shelves, auto metadata, Kobo & KOReader sync, BookDrop imports, OPDS support, and a built-in reader for EPUB, PDF, and comics." I haven’t been on top of my eBook library recently, but i remember deploying this to see if it’s GitHub: Freika / dawarich: “Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)” I’m currently running Reitti, but keeping an eye out if there’s an alternative i like. GitHub: Kyonew / DVinyl: “DVinyl is a modern, self-hostable collection manager designed for physical media enthusiasts. From Vinyls and CDs to Books and Movies, catalog, value, and organize your entire physical library through a single, customizable interface.” I didn’t realize this was for physical media when i saved it. Codeberg: superseriousbusiness / gotosocial: “Fast, fun, small ActivityPub server. https://docs.gotosocial.org” More Fediverse services to look into. GitHub: damongolding / immich-kiosk/: v0.33.0: “Highly configurable slideshows for displaying Immich assets on browsers and devices.” Another service i’ve been running & wanted to see what features were added. GitHub: karakeep-app / karakeep v0.31.0: " A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search" I’ve been using Karakeep so i wanted to see what new features have been added. GitHub: Sharkord / sharkord: “Lightweight, self-hosted, open-source chat server with voice, video, text, and screen sharing. Built for small groups who want privacy, simplicity, and full control over their data.” Discord replacement, if i could get Apprise working with any of these. GitHub: bzlapp / Bzl: “Self-Hosted Ephemeral Community Engine” “Bzl is a self-hostable, modular social platform designed for creators and communities who want full control of their space. Launch your own instance, extend it with plugins, and shape the experience to fit your world.” I was just looking for something like Openvibe since I try to use my Mastodon, BlueSky, & Nostr accounts. GitHub: Lungshot / dashma: “dashboard / start page” I guess the theme from selfh.st & my post this week is for dashboards. GitHub: krelltunez / dayGLANCE: “A Day Planner App” dayGLANCE GitHub: itsDNNS / docsigh: “DOCSIS cable modem monitoring dashboard with health assessment, trend charts, and Home Assistant integration via MQTT” I have to see if this would be compatible with Optimum, but looked interesting to run. GitHub: santhoshjanan / donut-hole: “An AI-powered sidecar for Pi-hole that classifies the domains passing through your network, lets you review them, and exports a custom blocklist back to Pi-hole. It does not replace Pi-hole — it works alongside it.” Maybe i can get more use out of my RasPi AI HAT 2+. GitHub: Sir-Scuzza / gluetun-webui: “A lightweight web UI for monitoring and controlling Gluetun — the VPN client container for Docker.” I haven’t had problems with Glutun, but it will be nice to just have an overview of the status. GitHub: rackandhost / getmando: “A beautiful and simply dashboard” Another dashboard \ homepage i want to test. GitHub: Anagraphy / roampage: “Roampage dashboard” I’m still looking for some kind of dashboard for an overview not just of my local services but also hosts. GitHub: sunburnco / sunburn: “Chat, voice, and video, designed to self-host.” Sunburn I don’t really use Discord that much, but since i am using it a little bit for alerts through Apprise, i would like to find a replacement. GitHub: nginx-proxy / nginx-proxy I wanted to look into this because i do use nginx. GitHub: kite-org / kite: “đŸȘ A modern, lightweight Kubernetes dashboard.” I must have saved this thinking it was something else. I’m not running Kubernetes.

February 27, 2026 Â· Sean P. McAdam

w33k in g33k: February 20, 2026

đŸ€– Artificial Intelligence \ Large Language Models Simon Willison’s Weblog: Rodney v0.4.0 GitHub: simonw / rodney: “CLI tool for interacting with the web” Lifehacker: These Three Claude Premium AI Features Are Now Available for Free “File creation in Claude”: Ability to create “Word documents, PowerPoint slideshows, Excel spreadsheets, & PDFs” “Claude Connectors”: Allows you to connect Claude to “other apps, sites, & services.” “Claude Skills”: “With Skills, you can “teach Claude how to complete specific tasks in a repeatable way” (in the words of the official support document). In old-school computer talk, they might be referred to as macros: batches of set instructions that Claude can repeat whenever you need something doing in a particular way.” Games WCCF Tech: Nintendo Once Again Brings DMCA Hammer Down on Switch Emulators, But Eden Is Fighting the Notice: Citron: This domain is down, but this site is active. But
 no downloads. Eden: Downloads still available at: GitHub: eden-emulator / Releases Kenji-NX: Android release repo is down, but the rest is active: GitHub: Kenji-NX / Releases MeloNX: Has links to Ryujinx: emu Pine: GitHub repo is DMCA’ed Pomelo: Repo on GitHub id down, but not GitLab Ryubing Ryujinx Skyline: No current releases available? Sudachi Sumi Suyu Yuzu WCCF Tech: Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown Review: I do still have to finish watching Voyager, but i wanted to look into the new Star Trek game. IT Security Malwarebytes Labs: Betterment data breach might be worse than we thought: Shiny Hunterswas the group involved. “We analyzed some of the data and found one particularly worrying CSV file with detailed data on 181,487 people. This file included information such as: Full names (first & last) Personal email addresses (e.g., Gmail) Work email addresses Company name & employer info Job titles and roles Phone numbers (both mobile & work numbers) Addresses & company websites Plan details—company retirement/401k plans, assets, participants Survey responses, deal & client pipeline details, meeting notes Financial needs/interests (e.g., requesting a securities-backed line of credit for a house purchase) Help Net Security: Microsoft Defender update lets SOC teams manage, vet response tools 🐧 Linux OMG Ubuntu: Official Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ mascot revealed ...

February 20, 2026 Â· Sean P. McAdam

w33k in g33k: February 13, 2026

📚 Books \ Reading Remy Sharp: Review: Bear Head (Dogs of War, #2): To add to my “to read” list that i’m never going to actually get through. Gizmodo: Doom Overtakes 3 Very Different Planets, Earth Included, in This Eerie Sci-Fi Short Story Docker Docker API TLS certs I ran into some issues while getting this setup recently & plan to have a separate post with notes on how i finally got it working. I can also include Rootless Docker + Komodo with the TLS certs. 🎼 Games Deckbrew DeckThemes itch.io: No ICE in Minnesota: “We created this bundle to raise funds for Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota in response to the Trump administration sending ICE agents to the Minneapolis area and the reckless murder of an innocent people by ICE agents. ILCM provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in Minnesota and North Dakota. They also work to educate the community about immigration matters and advocates for public policies which respect the universal human rights of immigrants. ILCM provides services based on capacity and has a generally high demand for services. The more we are able to fundraise, the more people they will be able to assist.” Engadget: Pokemon Pokopia is so damn cozy: “PokĂ©mon Pokopia can be described as a pocket monster-themed take on Animal Crossing with a hint of Stardew Valley thrown in for good measure.” When this was first announced it made my want to pickup Animal Crossing again, especially since there’s been a ton of new update & content since i last played it. If Pokopia is supposed to be (kind of) like Animal Crossing + PokĂ©mon, i’m in =]. Engadget: This Itch.io bundle to help Minnesota includes over 1,200 games and costs just $10 đŸ€“ g33k Notifox Error handling in bash I still mainly use some bash scripts for backups of my services (i.e.: nginx, DailyTxT, Step-CA) so adding some error handling & having notifications got through ntfy or Gotify might be a good idea. I do have notifications currently setup, but there is no fancy logic to it at all. Windows Central: Microsoft just made a command line version of the Microsoft Store for Windows 11 — install and update your apps without a GUI: “Store CLI is available now, and you can get started by typing store --help for a complete list of available commands.” I have scripts \ aliases \ functions written for Linux & macOS to make updating apps easier (macOS App Store included), so it will be nice to have something similar for Windows. CipherOS: CipherOS on Rabbit R1 - Standard Android Experience Unleashed: Android ROM for Rabbit R1 I have run a version of Android on the r1 before & while it wasn’t that bad, i ended up putting Ubuntu Mobile on there for a while. Now i want to give CipherOS a shot to see how it feels. IT Security Help Net Security: Brutus: Open-source credential testing tool for offensive security GitHub: praetorian-inc / brutus: “Fast, zero-dependency credential testing tool in Go. Brute force SSH, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, SMB, and 20+ protocols. Hydra alternative with native fingerprintx/naabu pipeline integration.” Insinuator: One More Thing: Introducing the New macOS 26 Tahoe Hardening Guide Miscellaneous IT’S FOSS: Ghostty vs Kitty: Which Modern Terminal is the Best for Linux Users? IT’S FOSS: DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech IT’S FOSS: I Ditched Claude Code and Now Using Open Source Qwen AI for Real Sysadmin Work đŸŽ„ đŸ“ș Movies & TV Gizmodo: The New ‘Stargate’ Is Adding a Familiar Face in a Surprising Way The Mummy 4: Looking forward to this with Brendan Fraser & Rachel Weisz! Stargate: I mean
 i don’t know if i would say this is “Adding a Familiar Face in a Surprising Way”
 just that Joe Flanigan from Stargate: Atlantis appears to be a writer for the new series. Self Hosted IT’S FOSS: This Lesser-Known Nextcloud Alternative’s Latest Release Makes it More Suitable for Small Businesses Group-Office: “Open Source groupware & CRM Software” I saw this mentioned as a Nextcloud replacement, but looking it over it doesn’t look like it has as many of the features that Nextcloud does. Maybe if it has some more time & look at it again in the future it will have more of what i’m looking for. đŸ«‚ Social It’s FOSS: Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web: “Roomy is an open-source Discord alternative built on the AT Protocol (ATProto), the same protocol that powers Bluesky, with ActivityPub (the protocol behind Mastodon, Pixelfed, Pleroma, and others) planned for the near future. Currently in alpha, it sits somewhere between Matrix and Discord in terms of its practical position in the broader chat ecosystem.” Since Discord is going to start being creepy & requiring some kind of ID, time to start looking into something else; not that i was using Discord that much. If it really is just for “adult” content then maybe it’s not such a huge deal, but requiring age verification sounds like it’s going in the wrong direction. Ars Technica: Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs Roomy Stoat selh.st: selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (13 February 2026), by Ethan Sholly Discord Alternatives: I wanted to look into at least some of the servives Ethan has listed here: Established: Matrix, Stoat, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, Zulip Smaller But Growing: Campfire, Spacebar, Positive Intentions Newcomers: Sharkord, Fluxer, Haven, OpenChat Forums: Discourse, NodeBB, Lemmy, Apache Answer, Flarum, Storyden See Also: Cinny (Discord-styled Matrix client), MostlyMatters (Mattermost fork without user limits) Vaultwarden Security Fix: v.1.35.3 fixes GHSA-h265-g7rm-h337: “This vulnerability would allow an authenticated attacker that is part of an organization to access items from collections to which the attacker does not belong.” Jeff Geerling: The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop Argon Forty: Argon ONE UP CM5 Laptop Core System: Too bad this is sold out
 i am tempted to pick this up. GitHub: amir20 / dozzle: v.10.0.0 I’ve been running Dozzle for a little while now & since it’s a big release, i wanted ot checkout what has been added recently. GitHub: open-webui / open-webui: v0.8.0 I do still have to get back to working on my RasPi5 + AI HAT 2, & see what has been added to OpenWebUI for this version. GitHub: timothepoznanski / poznote: Release 4.6.0 I have to finish my post about the different text editors \ notes \ etc apps I’ve been running so that I can remember why i liked or didn’t like a specific one
 But like the adds above, i wanted to read over the release notes here to see what was added with the new version. GitHub: got3nks / amutorrent: “A unified download manager for aMule and rTorrent: manage both ED2K and BitTorrent downloads from a single modern web interface.” Looked pretty, so just wanted to see the details about it. GitHub: CodesWhat / drydock: “Automated container update monitoring with multi-registry support and flexible notifications.” I’m happy now that I moved to Komodo so Drydock might not even be something to look into. GitHub: akitaonrails / FrankMD: “Self-hosted, Simple Markdown Web Editor and Notes Organizer” Because what i need is more note services 🙃 GitHub: ancsemi / Haven: “Self-hosted private chat — your server, your rules. No cloud, no telemetry, no Big Tech. Discord alternative that runs on your own machine.” Not that i even use Discord that much, but i wanted to look into alternatives & believe this is one that Ethan mentioned above. GitHub: TopSwagCode / help-motivate-me: helpmotivate.me: “A habit tracking and identity-based motivation application built with SvelteKit and .NET. Inspired by James Clear’s Atomic Habits, this app helps you build better habits through identity reinforcement, habit stacking, journaling, and AI-assisted guidance.” Might look at this not just for the “motivation” part, but also reminders \ tracking on certain “chores” getting done, how often, etc. GitHub: porthorian / openchat-client: “OpenChat Client is an open-source Electron desktop app that provides a Discord-like experience while connecting each joined server to its own independent backen” Possible Discord alternative. GitHub: ClassicOldSong / Plexsonic: “Plex Music to Subsonic bridge” I probably don’t need another service to play local music when i have Plex & Jellyfin (& i do subscribe to Apple Music
 don’t hate me) GitHub: Sharkord / sharkord: “Lightweight, self-hosted, open-source chat server with voice, video, text, and screen sharing. Built for small groups who want privacy, simplicity, and full control over their data.” Possible Discord alternative. GitHub: fr4nsys / usulnet: “Self-hosted platform for managing containers, stacks, security scanning, monitoring, reverse proxy, and multi-node deployments — all from a single, modern interface. A single Go binary with no runtime dependencies. Templates compiled at build time. No Node.js, no Python, no heavy frontend frameworks. Just fast, reliable infrastructure management.” This might not be needed since i’m running Komodo. GitHub: sfox38 / whodunnit: “Whodunnit: A Sensor for Home Assistant which indicates the ‘who’ and ‘how’ behind every state change by linking real-time event contexts to their human or automated origins” There’s only two of us in the house, so this would be overkill
 GitHub: Materialious / Materialious: “Materialious is a modern material design frontend for YouTube & Invidious, focused on a clean, privacy-friendly YouTube experience. It supports local video fallback when Invidious fails and is available on Web, Desktop, Android, and Android TV.” Each time i post on Mastodon \ BlueSky \ etc, it kills me a little inside to post a YouTube link instead of something like the Invidious link.

February 13, 2026 Â· Sean P. McAdam

w33k in g33k: February 06, 2026

Dark Reading: Attackers Use Windows Screensavers to Drop Malware, RMM Tools: Just thought it was interesting that this is going in circles again. It’s been a while since i’ve seen SCR files used for malicious actions, but maybe it’s making a comeback. Help Net Security: Microsoft brings project-focused AI agents into OneDrive: I wanted to see if this would be beneficial for work. Help Net Security: Why a decade-old EnCase driver still works as an EDR killer: I saved it because it sounded interesting & i wanted to read it, plus could be beneficial for work. selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (6 February 2026), by Ethan Sholly. Kometa: “Kometa is a powerful tool designed to give you complete control over your media libraries. With Kometa, you can take your customization to the next level, with granular control over metadata, collections, overlays, and much more.” GitHub: Nezreka / Museck: “A Decky Loader plugin that streams music from your media servers on Steam Deck.” Nextcloud Blog: A new data access architecture for Nextcloud: introducing the ADA engine: I saved this since i am running Nextcloud at the moment. Right now it’s where i compose my posts for the site, but playing around with other notes platforms to see if there’s something else that might work better. “Dubbed ADA, which stands for Accelerated Direct Access, the new engine is designed to pre-calculate and cache the data access and permissions, offering direct file access and actively pushing data to the clients, ensuring responsive access when users navigate the system.” GitHub: gethomepage / homepage: v1.10.0: " A highly customizable homepage (or startpage / application dashboard) with Docker and service API integrations." I wanted to review to see what was added in this version since i am running Homepage. GitHub: usememos / memos v0.26.0: " An open-source, self-hosted note-taking service. Your thoughts, your data, your control — no tracking, no ads, no subscription fees." Same as above – running Memos & want to see what’s new. GitHub: navidrome / navidrome: " đŸŽ§â˜ïž Your Personal Streaming Service" I’m already running Plex & Jellyfin for music, but have heard about navidrome for years & want to try it. GitHub: Panonim / dynacat: “A fork of ‘glance’ dashboard with dynamic reloading.” I have looked at Glance in the past & don’t think it was for me, but always worth re-visiting things. GitHub: Vesperino / MerMarkEditor: “Elegant and simple Markdown, Mermaid editor” Another notes app i can try. GitHub: Vsein / Neohabit: “A self-hosted habit-tracker with a new approach to heatmaps, and flexible habits that happen X times in Y days.” I think i have one or two habit tracking apps on my phone, so going to compare to this. GitHub: albertasaftei / plumio: " A self-hosted markdown editor with live preview, document encryption, multi-user support, and multi-organization capabilities." Yet another notes app i can try
 GitHub: poisonarp / SimpleTrack: " Domain and SSL Tracker" I use Certbot with step-ca so shouldn’t have to worry about expiring certs, but could be useful for work as well. GitHub: 1Panel-dev / 1Panel: " đŸ”„ 1Panel offers an intuitive web interface for Linux server, making it easy to manage OpenClaw agents, LLMs, websites, databases, containers, files, and scheduled tasks." Since most of my “servers” are Linux, a single \ central place to at least monitor would be nice. I’ve tried using Cockpit but it doesn’t have full capabilities on certain distros & didn’t really give me a single view of everything. NetBox: “Manage your network and infrastructure with confidence. NetBox is the world’s most popular platform for understanding, operating, automating, and securing networks.” I can’t remember if I’ve tried this before. selfh.st: Self-Hosted Software Names You’re Probably Mispronouncing: I wanted to look this over because i know i was pronouncing “calibre” wrong for a while
 YouTube: We Need Your Help to Make Immich Better! Immich: Dataset Uploader YouTube: Which Apps Should You Run in 2026? YouTube: Termix - Take back your server management. I set this up a few weeks ago but keep forgetting I have it. selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026), by Ethan Sholly. OpenClaw: I keep meaning to look into this, but haven’t gotten to it yet. The Cloudflare Blog: Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver GitHub: jordan-dalby / ByteStash: “A code snippet storage solution written in React & node.js” GitHub: crocodilestick / Calibre-Web-Automated: “Calibre-Web but Automated and with tons of New Features! Fully automate and simplify your eBook set up!” GitHub: fccview / jotty: “Lightweight but powerful alternative for managing your personal, file based, notes and checklists.” GitHub: rommapp / romm: “A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.” GitHub: Fantastic-Computing-Machine / atlantis: “Create beautiful charts and diagrams privately, without relying on external cloud services.” GitHub: jsixface / ddash: “A dashboard for docker application through Caddy” GitHub: schelskedevco / ignidash: “An open-source, AI-powered alternative to ProjectionLab for planning your long-term personal finances.” GitHub: pineappledr / vigil: “Vigil is a modern, lightweight, and open-source server monitoring system, that provides real-time S.M.A.R.T. health tracking.”

February 6, 2026 Â· Sean P. McAdam

w33k in g33k: January 16, 2026

CipherOS https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/ai-hat-plus-2/ selh.st: Self-Host Weekly #154: Hello, My Name Is, by Ethan Sholly.

January 16, 2026 Â· Sean P. McAdam

w33k in g33k: January 09, 2026

Hardware The Pi Hut: TRMNL (OG) TRMNL “Recipes” Nerds.xyz: Eve’s new Matter thermostat has me rethinking my Nest loyalty: “The pitch is simple and, frankly, refreshing: local control, no accounts, no subscriptions, and no data being siphoned off to some remote server.” Absolutely interested in a thermostat for all those reasons they stated in the article. Eve Home: Eve Thermostat Linux Nerds.xyz: Nitrux 5.1.0 drops as a Linux distro designed for modern hardware: This might be a distro i check out the next time I’m looking to change. OMG Ubuntu: Bazaar Flatpak Manager Gets New Icon, Permission Warnings + More: I thought this was a different Bazarr when i saw the title, but it still looked like something useful if i was using Flatpaks anywhere. Privacy Lifehacker: This Free Script Disables Every AI Feature in Windows 11: Because we don’t all need AI shoved down our throats from every site, app, OS, etc. gitHub: zoicware / RemoveWindowsAI: “Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11” Security The Hacker News: Microsoft Warns Misconfigured Email Routing Can Enable Internal Domain Phishing: This has been ongoing for ages
 but hopefully now there will be an official, “safe” fix for this kind of phishing. selh.st: Self-Host Weekly #153: Hivemind, by Ethan Sholly. GitHub: lklynet / hypermind: “The High-Availability Solution to a Problem That Doesn’t Exist.” GitHub: Aletech-Solutions / Open-Atlas-Node GitHub: jnunez2301 / jellyfin-wireless-remote GitHub: ghobs91 / mediora (https://selfh.st/post/plex-privacy-settings/) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTR2z-JeTc0) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhTEHsbQk34) (https://danb.me/blog/2026-homelab/) GitHub: amir20 / dozzle: v9.0.0 GitHub: DonutWare / Fladder GitHub: maxdorninger / MediaManager GitHub: streamyfin / streamyfin

January 9, 2026 Â· Sean P. McAdam