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…
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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…
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…
That mysterious Secure Boot folder, and why you must not delete it
I noticed a new folder in File Explorer last week called Secure Boot and I almost deleted it. It appeared after a routine cumulative update (a single patch that bundles security fixes,…
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…
The Open Source Struggle Is Different Outside the Western Bubble
I have spent the last three years working with developer communities across West Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, and the open source struggle I have seen there does not match the…
Our Virtual Conference Used These Open Source Tools—Here’s the Stack
Our Virtual Conference Used These Open Source Tools (And Saved $80,000) I helped organize a 700-person virtual conference last year, and the entire thing was built on open source tools. Stage production,…
I Got More Productive By Embracing Guilt—Here’s What Happened
I Got More Productive By Embracing Guilt: Here’s What I Learned I am a person who feels guilty when I do not work. I have felt this way since I was about…
Your Database Can’t Handle Your Success (But ShardingSphere Can)
There’s a moment in the life of every successful product where the database quietly stops being the easiest part of the system. For a long time, you can run a Postgres (PostgreSQL,…