Have been working on this for the past month after my previous vsphere/esxi setup had a few drives die and I decided to start over. Got a bit carried away I think, but I hope in a way this subreddit can appreciate!

Edit: A number of people have posted comments asking about the tools used, config etc (which I should have anticipated of course and included initially). To answer the question way too briefly: this is an extremely customized deployment of homepage, with connections to all of the servers, systems and services I use in my homelab, most of which are displayed in many of the pages you can see in the pictures. I have to wrap up some work tonight and will include a breakdown tomorrow and will make sure to respond to all comments and questions. Thanks everyone :)

Hey everyone! i've been working diligently the last few months developing a free (no in app purchases, no ads etc) reading app with an extremely high level of polish and attention to detail. What drove me to make this was the locked in system of Kindle and other publishers, so this is a DRM free epub and pdf reader which integrates with calibre, book orbit(only through OPDS at the moment), Zotero, and more. I've previously worked as a product designer so this app is a reflection of what a perfect and well designed reading app should be. Aside from the user experience, i made sure to pack a lot of features in too and much more to come like audio-bookshelf support.

• Opens EPUB and PDF, and turns MOBI, AZW3, Word, Pages and more into books
• Browse your calibre library and download books right in the app
• Zotero support for your papers
• Keeps your place in sync with Kindle, Kobo, etc. via KOReader
• Highlight, type notes, or draw them with your finger or a stylus
• Every highlight and note from every book in one Notebook
• Read aloud with a natural voice
• Any paper color you want, and any Google Font
• Page curl, like turning a real page
• 70,000 free classics to download in the app
• No ads, no in-app purchases and no account
• On iPhone, iPad and Android

iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6811711454

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aditya.athene

Docs: https://theadipost.com/athene/docs/

Would love for yall to check it out and give me some feedback/thoughts.

Thanks and have a great day!

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How I utilized a hybrid approach with AI in development?

• Me: Architectural spec planning, system implementation, integrating sync, UI/UX design - attention to little details
• Claude: Research on how to integrate sync and integrations, stress testing, edge case testing, assisting with bug fixing, code review

I'm one of the maintainers, so this is self-promotion. I want honest feedback more than upvotes.

What it is

SurfSense is an open-source (Apache-2.0) NotebookLM alternative: cited Q&A over your documents, mind maps, flashcards, quizzes and podcasts, and an agent that writes Word, PDF, PowerPoint and Excel files and edits your own files as a new copy, with Word edits coming back as tracked changes. It started as a desktop app, and since 2.3.0 the same app runs as one container.

Why self-host it

NotebookLM sends every document to Google and only works with Gemini. That rules it out for contracts, client files, medical or company documents. SurfSense keeps your documents on your own server and works with any model.

The container

• One image, ghcr.io/modsetter/surfsense, with one service and one /data volume. No Postgres, Redis or other services to run alongside it.
• Caddy is the only thing listening. Everything else stays on the container's loopback, and it needs no Docker socket.
• Local models run inside it on the CPU (llama.cpp, plus local OCR, embeddings and voices), or you can point it at Ollama, vLLM or any OpenAI-compatible API on your network.
• One password, no accounts. You can set the password on first visit or with SURFSENSE_PASSWORD, or turn sign-in off when your own reverse proxy handles it.
• HTTPS on your LAN through Caddy's own certificate authority, or with Let's Encrypt for a public domain.

Getting it running

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MODSetter/SurfSense/main/docker/scripts/install.sh | bash 

Or grab docker/surfsense/docker-compose.yml and .env.example from the repo and run docker compose up -d. It's on port 4929, and 4943 for HTTPS. Running the script again updates it.

Good to know

• amd64 and CPU only for now. A GPU image and arm64 are planned.
• The image is several GB: Docling, torch and about 1 GB of bundled models. Chat models download into /data at run time.
• Docker's published ports bypass ufw, so if the server is reachable from the internet, set SURFSENSE_PASSWORD before the first start.

How we used AI in development

Most of the code is written with AI coding assistants, mainly Claude Code and some Cursor, with maintainers designing the features, reviewing every change and testing the releases. New behaviour starts with a failing test, and each feature has an architecture doc the assistants read before changing it.

Repo: https://github.com/MODSetter/SurfSense

Docs: https://surfsense.com/docs

What it is: a self-hosted caching proxy (git-pkgs/proxy, one Go binary) between everyone at work and npm, PyPI, pub, Maven and Go. New releases stay hidden for a week, and every download is logged with who pulled it.

Why: this year's big hijacks were all pulled within a few hours, so a week means you basically never see them.

The post has the config, what broke, and the built-in settings if you'd rather not run a proxy.

Hey everyone

I thought I'd post this here too, since not every homelabber spends their free time on GitHub looking for new discussions.

Version 3 of Pocket ID is around the corner, and I'd love to hear your feedback before we release it so we can polish it.

If you have any feedback, please post it in our GitHub discussion so we can keep track of it:

https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id/discussions/1888

You can try it out in our demo: https://demo-next.pocket-id.org

You can also test it on your own machine with the `next` image. I wouldn't install it on your production instance though, since this image includes all the WIP v3 changes.

Here are a few highlights I like the most:

Feature toggles

There's a new Features tab where you can turn on LDAP, SCIM, custom claims, APIs and API keys when you need them. Until then they stay out of your sidebar. Settings you rarely touch are behind an "Advanced" section. I think this change is needed since we want that Pocket ID supports advanced use-cases but still doesn't get overwhelming like other IDPs.

https://preview.redd.it/4xopejk011zh1.png?width=2404&format=png&auto=webp&s=924af82a5d84c554019fc3e88763806526f080b6

Command palette

Press ⌘K / Ctrl+K to jump to any page or run actions like creating a new OIDC client without touching the mouse.

https://preview.redd.it/rzimj3g311zh1.png?width=1544&format=png&auto=webp&s=f669abccffa17eef9ac88292c94db6c4c6d16a77

Fresh look

New typography and five colour themes, each in light and dark mode.

https://preview.redd.it/j45pxsr021zh1.png?width=4217&format=png&auto=webp&s=901c1653aa86755a1797c9a3ae3a09bb9bac7d56

Besides that there are a lot of more changes, feel free to try them out! Looking forward to your feedback :)

My glance setup, mostly used on my phone since i like having everything in my pocket and checking the house, the nas or what's coming out this week without opening 10 apps.

Home tab is the daily stuff like weather, calendar, lights and budget, media is self explanatory and yes I like IMDB and the nas tab shows all my containers with outages and scheduled tasks.

Running on a ugreen dxp2800, open to ideas if you would change something.

Links:

Demo: https://demo.pluetzner.de
Github: https://github.com/karatektus/pl_mail

Wow, it has been about 3 Weeks now since my last post on r/selfhosted. Since then plMail went from 6 to 470+ stars and from two to about 8 contributors and 2 actual sponsors on github.
THANK YOU!
I've basically worked full time the last three weeks fixing bugs, building new features and reviewing PRs. It's been a blast.

First things first: While I am a PHP Dev for at least ten years, this is built with Claude Code. For more details and discussions about this you can reference my last post: link

What is plMail?

The idea is to replace Gmail. It is about to remove it's gmailify feature which lets you include external mail in the Gmail Client. I've been using it for the last 22 years and really do not want to configure Thunderbird or whatever on all of my devices. Six months ago there really was no alternative for a web based client, which had a unified inbox and supported IMAP and Gmail. So I built my own.

New major features since my last post:

• PGP and S/Mime encryption
• OIDC oAuth Login (including an option to disable password login entirely)
• It's now also a JMAP Client (And a JMAP Server for it's own apps... so yes. you can chain plMail installations. xD)
• Less memory usage through it's own IMAP Client
• More languages: French and simplified chinese
• A lot of smaller stuff

Installation:

On Truenas it's in the Appstore, otherwise it's just:

git clone https://github.com/karatektus/pl_mail.git cd pl_mail docker compose up -d 

The Future

While it has been a lot of fun and I do have time currently I'm also trying to figure out how to justify spending all my time on this project. I'm currently looking for a job, which I've let slide a bit in favour of plMail. As a first step, I will sell the plMail android App on the google play store: It's fairly expensive, but it's also open source, and releases can be downloaded for free on it's github page.
It is very much in development and needs refinement on every corner. So if you're considering buying it: Please see it as a contribution to the project and not as buying a finished product.
Just search for plMail on the playstore if you want to. I'm not posting a link here.

Otherwise this is a very fun project for me and the next majore releases are probably business related. Shared Accounts, User management, etc.
Also a contributor is currently building a calDAV task feature.

If you like it, want other features or find a bug: Feel free to participate on Github :)

Last year I built Docker Compose Maker, It was a super simple website to help you get a fully working docker compose file to get started homelabbing.

Now, one year later I am presenting to you: self-host.fyi, the "v2" of DCM.

I've been contributing to Homarr almost weekly for almost 5 years. Recently I'm preparing to support Sonarr v5 beta and needed to ensure that nothing broke, as well as adding automated tests every week to check that every Homarr integration still works properly with the latest breaking changes from the 91 integrations it supports. We used to mock integrations results so basically the users complaints were the test suite.

For that purpose I made a tool that sets-up these apps in a headless environment and connects them to Homarr. I now run a script weekly on my own homelab that sets-up every one of the 91 integrations with the :latest image and pings me if something broke. I adapted it into a tool that I thought newcomers to self-hosting could enjoy.

Self-host is a complete re-write and addition to DCM / compose.ajnart.dev, it is a simple binary that works for linux, mac, wsl2 & agent skill that aims to get people into self-hosting.
It's just Docker compose underneath. You pick which services you want through a TUI catalog, and it handles not just deploying every containers but also the setup of accounts, API keys & linking apps together.

All your config files and your docker setup is inspectable docker compose files. Think of it like a helper for docker compose for new users, some kind of TUI to manage containers, it's like Dokploy, Portainer or CasaOS but directly inside of your terminal.

The most important change is that it will link apps together. It is able to setup Sonarr for you and set Qbittorrent as the download client automatically, by creating an admin account in Qbittorrent and putting its API key into Sonarr directly. The passwords are automatically generated by default and can be manually defined.

You can have a fully running self-hosted setup going with one command, it comes with a fully-configured dashboard to access all your services from if you want to.

If you've already got your dream homelab running and perfectly tuned, this isn't for you. It is more geared towards people who are looking into getting into self-hosting or who'd want to try out an app in an easy way.
Right now we support 93 self-hosted apps and hopefully that covers most people's use cases.
I've spent extra time to make sure that the SDK the tool uses is super easy to work with so that anyone who knows how to program in Go can suggest additions, there's also a feature to add unsupported apps without coding

website : self-host.fyi
repo : github.com/ajnart/self-host
small presentation video: https://self-host.fyi/#reel

We just crossed 6.5k+ stars in Github and have 150+ amazing developers contributing to the project. We are scaling faster than ever and estimated to 10k+ users who are using SparkyFitness. It could be even more as we don't collect anything and this count is based on active downloads in Github, Google & Apple app stores.

https://github.com/CodeWithCJ/SparkyFitness

I was also able to setup demo site so you can give it a try before you actually install it.

https://demo.sparkyfitness.com/

If you haven't tried SparkyFitness yet, I'd love for you to give it a spin and let us know what you think.

Core Features

• Nutrition, hydration, fasting, barcode, snap picture to log etc.
• Sleep, Mood, Symptom tracking
• Exercise, Workout, GPS run/cycle mapping
  • New Updates
    • Train with run programs: Follow a zone 2 base plan with HR guidance, weekly distance goal etc.
    • Draw routes on map, snap them to roads, generate loops of set distance, follow a saved route on your apple watch.
    • Smart strength workout: Pin the set to do now, swap exercises in a tab, keep your sets when you replace an exercise and load the bar with plate calculator.
    • Heart rate zones: Set your own max and resting HR, zone method and analyze using detailed HR reports
• Body measurement tracking
  • New Updates
    • Log your mood, measurements, progress photo in three quick steps using guided navigation
• Period Cycle, Pregnancy, Medication & GLP1 tracking
• Goal setting and daily check-ins
• Interactive charts and long-term reports
  • New Updates
    • Mobile app includes many reporting in the dashboard view
• Multiple user profiles and family access
• AI Chatbot & MCP Server
• Light and dark themes
• Apple watch & Android companion Apps
• OIDC, TOTP, Passkey, MFA etc.

Please thumbs up Github issues & enhancement request so we know which one to prioritize next. I would like explore following hardware integrations.

• NFC tag for quick water log, food etc.
• Direct integration with smart weight scale (starting with Etekcity) - This way you don't need to send your health details to cloud providers

Health & Device Integrations

SparkyFitness can sync data from multiple health and fitness platforms:

• Apple Health (iOS - iPhone & Apple watch) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sparkyfitness/id. for latest version use https://testflight.apple.com/join/9Yz8PzpR
• Google Health connect (Android) https://github.com/CodeWithCJ/SparkyFitness/wiki/Android-Mobile-App
• Google Health API
• Fitbit (will be decommissioned as google health API is the replacement)
• Garmin Connect
• Withings
• Polar Flow
• Oura
• Hevy
• OpenFoodFacts
• USDA
• Fatsecret
• Nutritionix
• Mealie
• Tandoor
• Strava (partially tested)
• COROS
• Norish
• Yazio (uses unofficial API)
• Swiss Food Database
• Canadian Nutrient File (Health Canada)
• Swedish Food Agency (Livsmedelsverket)
• Free Exercise DB (Github)
• Wger
• Intervals icu

https://preview.redd.it/gcfggqi90gyh1.png?width=2400&format=png&auto=webp&s=a67d4c34f20af5abd1554a7f22ad9e1782946528

I've been working on Playmat, a fork of XMage (the open-source MTG rules engine) with a browser client, and the main way to run it is self-hosted. It's built for a playgroup that wants its own server.

The stack: four containers from one compose file: the game server, Caddy with automatic HTTPS, a cache for card pictures from Scryfall, and a nightly backup. Images are published for x86 and ARM, so a Pi-class box or a free ARM VPS works. About 1 GB of RAM is enough for a group's evening; there's a small-VPS preset that lowers the limits.

Setup:

git clone https://github.com/arcanite24/playmat.git && cd playmat cp ops/web/.env.example ops/web/.env # set DOMAIN and the owner account docker compose -f ops/web/docker-compose.yml --env-file ops/web/.env up -d 

No domain? There's a LAN mode for a group on one home network. There are also desktop installers if you just want to host for friends on the same Wi-Fi.

Admin side: a web admin console with moderator/admin/owner roles: who's online, reports, the audit log, registration rules, scheduled maintenance with in-game warnings, and an optional one-button update and rollback. It can send Discord notifications and password-reset mail.

What you get as a player: play vs AI or friends with invite links, drafts and sealed with AI filling empty seats, deck import from Moxfield/Archidekt, spectating and replays. Desktop browsers, tablets, and an Android app.

Docs: https://arcanite24.github.io/playmat/docs/server.html
Repo (MIT): https://github.com/arcanite24/playmat

It's a free fan project, not affiliated with Wizards. Feedback on the deployment side especially welcome: what would you want before running it for your group?

https://preview.redd.it/hsbkll9h0gyh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=5e3d4e6423fb37b2d2cfa368e3db506d34646fe5