Self-Host Weekly #144: Memory Limit Exceeded

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Weekly Highlights

My annual user survey officially closed last Friday with a whopping 4,081 completed responses (compared to ~3,700 last year). Thanks to all who participated! I'm still working through the data but should have an update next week as to when readers can expect to see the published results.

As is tradition, I'll also be discussing the survey's findings later this month via live stream with YouTuber DB Tech (who recently hit 100k subscribers!), so stayed tuned for additional information on that as well.

Some keen-eyed readers might have noticed the title of this week's newsletter looks a bit different. While some of the content I share each week is time-sensitive (news, updates), most of it isn't – and I fear new subscribers are missing out on great projects and software as we tend to avoid content we perceive to be outdated. Moving forward, I'll be transitioning away from date-centric titles to shake this perception. (Don't like it? Let me know!)

And lastly – for those who just can't get enough – there are a few YouTube channels that now cover the contents of this newsletter each week. The previously mentioned DB Tech typically hosts a live stream on Saturday afternoons where he explores some of the more interesting software launches, and Servers@Home (also a new sponsor of the publication) runs through it in detail in their State of Self-Hosting series every Friday.

In other related news and activity:

• The Homarr dashboard project took some heat after a Redditor called out the app's excessive memory usage. A GitHub issue filed three weeks ago indicates the development team was aware of the issue but didn't consider it a priority, although that seems to have changed. (Reminder: Open source devs are real people, too.)
• 'Vibe coding' is officially Collins Dictionary's 2025 word of the year, followed closely by aura farming, taskmasking, and broligarchy
• Nabu Casa shared that they'll be announcing a new Home Assistant product on November 19th. The graphics indicate it will be related to the ZWA-2 (of which I'm certain the name will make no sense).
• Nginx Proxy Manager received its first significant update in almost a year, which introduces a rewritten interface and refactored backend
• Mastodon – a popular self-hosted X/Twitter alternative – finally released support for quote posts. Here's to hoping dislikes are next...
• The Unraid team published a video walkthrough of their new 7.2 release with the strangest intro I've ever seen (sensual female voice meets poetry)

Happy selfh.st/ing!

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Ikea’s Big Smart Home Push Arrives With 21 New Matter Devices

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YouTube TV’s Disney blackout reminds users that they don’t own what they stream

“This is a hard lesson for us all.”…

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Software Updates

New Software

Recently Discovered

Project Updates

Feedback

Content Spotlight

Meet Sync-in, an open source file storage, sharing, collaboration, and syncing platform. A lightweight alternative to existing solutions like Nextcloud, Sync-in allows users to easily access and share files from virtually any device via a modern web interface or desktop app. Features include multi-factor authentication, fine-grained access permissions, activity tracking, deep content search, quotas, WebDAV compatibility, and more.

Sync-in can be easily deployed via Docker and requires a separate MariaDB database for external data storage.

Links: Website, Source Code

Videos and Podcasts

• Alexandrie Note App - The Good, The Bad & The Docker Setup | DB Tech
• Installing Glance on TrueNAS Community Edition 2025 | Servers@Home
• UptimeKit: Lightweight Alternative to Uptime Kuma | SYNACK Time
• Everything New In Home Assistant 2025.11! | Everything Smart Home
• Protect Your Unraid Setup from Disaster 🔥 | Docker Auto-Backup with Config Guardian | AlienTech42
• The Best Self-Hosted AI Tools You Can Actually Run in Your Home Lab | VirtualizationHowTo

Command Line Corner

Use command -v <application> to quickly determine if an application is installed on your machine:

$ command -v rsync
  /usr/bin/rsync
$ command -v rclone
$ 

Executive Sponsors

Thanks to following executive sponsors, whose continued support makes this newsletter possible:

• Servers@Home
• tirreno

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