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Over the last year, exploring and digesting content for this newsletter has become more demanding than ever. My content submission form receives upwards of 25+ submissions a day (keep them coming!), and controversial topics like vibe coding, GitHub, and Immich's lack of mobile tag support haven't made it any easier.
Despite this, for the first time in months this past week, I found myself completely immersed in a new-ish application (BookBridge) that automatically syncs reading progress across audiobooks and ebooks. And while I'm still ironing out the kinks, the euphoria from getting it to work for the first time was a refreshing reminder of what got me into this hobby in the first place.
If this is you, I'm officially granting you permission to skip the unnecessary maintenance this weekend, unplug from the rest of the internet, and dive into that app you've been dying to spin up (or find one TikTok-style).
In actual news and activity:
- A new self-hosting meme was born after a disgruntled LubeLogger user lectured the developer on closing issues with dignity
- The File Browser team announced the project is shutting down and will be archived on 9/1 (may I suggest some alternatives?)
- Late last week, Bitwarden (passwords) issued a client update that broke compatibility with the popular Vaultwarden implementation, and users are now being encouraged to update to v1.37.0 to regain client support
- If you're one of those people who just can't part with the bells and whistles of Obsidian, a popular community sync plugin released v1.0.0 this week
- Earlier this month, Ente (photos) open sourced their business metrics. This week, The Open Home Foundation announced a plan to make their web analytics public. (Virtue signaling is so hot right now.)
- Somebody developed a Jellyfin client for the Nintendo 3DS (and I've shamelessly stolen one of the top comments on its release for this week's newsletter subtitle)
- A newsletter reader offered shitcode.org in response to Codeberg's recent decision to ban vibe coded projects, where I subsequently found this gem
- Brace yourself – vibe coded operating systems are officially a thing
Happy selfh.st/ing!
Newswire
Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die)
Homebrew is thriving while other open source projects struggle. Its scarcest resource isn’t money: it’s maintainer motivation.
Mike McQuaid
SilverBullet 2.10: Enter the MultiSpace — No SilverBullet
No SilverBullet: notes on building SilverBullet and other things.
No SilverBullet
Making our web analytics open source with Plausible – Open Home Foundation
Find out how and why we’re implementing analytics on our websites: via open source software with no personal data collection or tracking.
Open Home FoundationDarren Griffin
The US government just banned Roombas
It’s not just bots with legs.
The VergeSean Hollister
LibreOffice, yours for a lifetime - TDF Community Blog
On 13 October 2026, Microsoft ends support for Office 2021. No more security updates, no more fixes, no more assurances. The software will still launch. It will still open your files. But from that date it becomes a liability rather than an asset — and the only sanctioned path forward runs through a subscription. This is not a bug in the model. It is the model. Support that does not expire LibreOffice has no end-of-support date, because there is no vendor with the power to declare one. The code is public. The development is community-driven and foundation-governed. When a release cycle closes, the next one is already available, free, to everyone — not to those who renewed. The distinction matters more than it appears. Microsoft’s lifecycle policy is a commercial instrument: the date is chosen, not discovered. It marks the moment when continuing to use software you paid for becomes unwise, and it exists to convert perpetual licences into recurring revenue. LibreOffice cannot issue such a date because no one holds the authority to issue it. Ownership of documents, not just access to them A support deadline is the visible layer. Underneath it sits something more consequential: the format your
TDF Community BlogItalo Vignoli
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Content Spotlight
Meet OpenTogetherTube, a self-hosted platform for remote YouTube watch parties. With OpenTogetherTube, users can stream synchronized videos with remote friends via dedicated virtual rooms with share links. Features include custom share URLs, text chat, SponsorBlock integration, support for various video sources (YouTube, Vimeo, .mp4 file streams), voting, themes, and more.
OpenTogetherTube can be easily deployed via Docker and requires separate PostgreSQL and Redis containers for data storage and memory caching.
Links: Website, Source Code
Overheard Online
Imagine going back a decade and saying some of the most-starred GitHub repositories in 2026 would be Markdown files.
People would've assumed you hit your head on the server rack.
Jerry Satpathy (X)
Videos and Podcasts
- Learn, play, choose: Prof. Dr. Johanna Pirker on AI, games, and open source | Nextcloud
- I Tried the Best Mini Rack Accessories I Could Find | Techno Tim
- OrcaSlicer - Powerful, Open Source 3d Printer slicing and control | Awesome Open Source
- I Thought Arr Dashboard Was Just a Homepage... I Was Wrong | AlienTech42
- My Favorite AI MCP Servers for the Home Lab in 2026 | VirtualizationHowTo
- One Server vs Cluster: What Your Homelab Actually Needs | Christian Lempa
Command Line Corner
Use Ctrl + x + e to instantly fire up an editor from the command line. By default, the shortcut will open a blank editor – but its usefulness shines when entered along with a line of text, which will automatically appear in the first line of the editor after hitting Ctrl + x + e.
This is particularly handy when running complex commands that may need to be documented for future reference.
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$ echo -e "correct\horse\battery\staple"
echo -e "correct\horse\battery\staple"_Click here for an archive of commands shared in past newsletters.
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