Five self-hosting stories worth following this week
A useful self-hosting roundup should do more than list releases. It should tell me which change deserves an evening, which one deserves caution, and which one can wait until somebody else finds…
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Self-hosting notes from the week Immich refused to add mobile tags
The Selfh.st roundup for the week of 19 June 2026 leads with Immich, the popular Google Photos alternative that continues to ignore the author’s “desperate pleas for tags on mobile.” Immich is…
Self-hosting week, mostly a roll call of projects that didn’t make it
The Selfh.st weekly roundup for the week of 12 June 2026 is a quiet one. Most of the headline space is given over to the projects that have died, not the ones…
Strava paywalled its API, and self-hosters are still fuming
The 5 June 2026 Self-Host Weekly carried a lead item about Strava paywalling its API, and I have been thinking about it for a week. Strava is the hosted fitness tracking service…
A Vatican AI memo and a quieter week of self-hosting news
The 29 May 2026 issue of Self-Host Weekly landed in my inbox with two stories that, on the surface, have nothing to do with each other. The first was a 52-page Vatican…
Plex’s $750 lifetime pass and GitHub’s pricing bombshell, side by side
I read the Self-Host Weekly digest for the week of 22 May 2026 the morning after it landed, and two stories have been sitting in my head since. The first is Plex…
Why Vinyl Still Wins the Collection Game (And Where CDs Actually Make Sense)
Why Vinyl Still Wins the Collection Game (And Where CDs Actually Make Sense) Here is a thing nobody expected: vinyl records are outselling CDs in 2026, and the gap is widening. Not…
I Started Using This Home Assistant Add-on To Help Me Sleep (And It Actually Worked)
I Started Using This Home Assistant Add-on To Help Me Sleep (And It Actually Worked) I went through three sleep apps before I found one that stuck. The first was a phone-only…
I Built a Family Dashboard (The Honest Engineering Writeup)
I Built a Family Dashboard (The Honest Engineering Writeup) Six months ago I published a piece about my e-paper family dashboard. Since then, three things happened. The build was adopted by 4…