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Navidrome is an open source web-based music collection server and streamer

2025-06-012025-06-01 Danie
A music library interface displaying various album covers and tracks, featuring artists like The Black Keys and Joy Division.

Navidrome gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device. It’s like your personal Spotify! It handles very large music collections, will stream virtually any audio format available, and […]

Blogmusic, opensource, selfhosted, technology

Speedtest-Tracker is a self-hosted Internet Performance Dashboard

2025-05-262025-05-29 Danie
HP laptop displaying a speed test dashboard, showing download speeds of 896.47 Mbps and upload speeds of 854.13 Mbps.

“Do you keep tabs on how much your network speed varies day to day? What about hour by hour? With this simple Docker container, you can not only automatically monitor your network performance, but also […]

Blogopensource, selfhosted, speedtest, technology

SearXNG is an open source privacy respecting metasearch engine that is really easy to use

2024-10-282024-10-28 Danie
Teal colour background with title SearXNG Search. Below that appears Private, Ad/Tracking Free, No Profiling, multiple sources. To the right side is a man's head and shoulders. He is holding up a magnifying glass and looking through it.

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity. My video covers […]

Blogopensource, privacy, SearXNG, selfhosted, technology

Cal.com is an open-source alternative to Calendy for scheduling meetings

2024-08-132024-08-13 Danie
Meeting invites showing one image of an e-mail format invite to someone giving various optional times to choose from. On the right side is an app open on a phone, prompting the user to just pick a time that works best from them from a month calendar view.

Cal.com works by everyone sharing their calendars to it, and it then suggests times when everyone should be available. It is great for doctors, dentists, teachers, companies meeting candidates, etc who need to set up […]

Blogmeetings, opensource, selfhosted, technology

You can build your own NAS home server and save $100s

2023-08-142023-08-14 Danie
Small mini-PC computer resting on top of a NAS drive enclosure box, with four vertical slots on the front side.

Self-hosting your data and services with Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a great way to free yourself from the spiralling costs and tangled web of subscription fees. Whether you’re simply looking to back up your […]

1 CommentBlogNAS, selfhosted, technology

Apache Guacamole: Open-Source Self-Hosted Remote Access Gateway To Access Various Computers With Just A Browser

2023-05-302023-05-30 Danie
Self-host remote access gateway

To normally access say two Raspberry Pi’s, maybe a remote virtual private server, a media machine in the sitting room, etc you’d probably use SSH from a terminal, as well as say a VNC Viewer, […]

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RustDesk is an open-source self-hosted virtual / remote desktop TeamViewer alternative

2023-05-292023-05-29 Danie
RustDesk

The software is used to easily perform tech support on a remote computer. Perfect for assisting family members with computer issues, or for small teams or businesses. A remote desktop software, the open-source TeamViewer alternative […]

Blogopensource, remoteaccess, selfhosted, teamviewer, technology

Databag is an open-source self-hosted messaging service with Android and iOS client apps

2023-05-292023-05-29 Danie
Databag screenshot

You host your own service, which can also federate with other Databag nodes. It is Public-Private key based identity (not bound to any blockchain or hosting domain) and End-to-End encrypted (the hosting admin cannot view […]

Blogmessaging, opensource, privacy, selfhosted, technology

Open source Five Filters Full Text RSS can be self-hosted in a Docker container to retrieve full text from RSS articles

2022-11-212022-11-21 Danie
Screenshot of the Full Text RSS options page

Chris did a nice breakdown of how this can work in conjunction with a self-hosted Fresh RSS reader (same as I’m using). It solves that issue with some RSS feeds only showing a short snippet […]

Blog#fulltextrss, opensource, RSS, selfhosted, technology

Automatisch is an open-source self-hosted Zapier alternative

2022-11-182022-11-18 Danie
automatisch

Zapier, and similarly Make, are products that allow end users to integrate the web applications they use and automate workflows. You can keep your data on your own servers with Automatisch. It’s a critical requirement […]

Blog#integrations, #zapier, opensource, selfhosted, technology

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