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…
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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…
Self-hosting a website from a Linux box at home, the cheap way
I run a small WordPress site from a Linux box under my desk. The box cost me about the same as a year of managed hosting from a major provider, and it…
Schedule one-off Linux jobs with at and stop abusing cron
I used to write cron entries for things that should have been one-shot jobs. A temporary firewall rule for a vendor. A service restart at 2 AM. A reminder to pull a…
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…
Ollama or LocalAI, and which one to actually install
Most people who want to run large language models (LLMs, the AI systems that generate text and code) on their own machine have heard of Ollama. You install it, type ollama run…
Windows Settings opens to a blank pane. Here’s the actual fix.
I clicked the Start button, opened Settings, and saw nothing. The window was open, the title bar said “Settings,” the sidebar had the section names, but the right pane was empty. No…
FOSS Weekly: the Linux stories from week 26 worth your time
This is the week that Brave decided to give Linux users a free browser that costs $59.99 for everyone else, Canonical remembered that ARM64 servers exist, and a small tiling window manager…
Brave charges $60 for Origin. Linux users get it for nothing.
Brave launched a stripped-down browser called Origin this month. It is the same Chromium engine, the same shield blocking system, and the same update cadence as the flagship Brave Browser, but it…
iodé figured out how to make de-Googled Android actually usable
A few weeks back I read a conversation between the team at It’s FOSS and Brian from iodé, a de-Googled Android project that has been getting more attention lately. The interview covered…