Many people have heard of Plex over the years for hosting your own copies of movies you own or home videos, but Jellyfin is an up and coming player in the field of personal streaming services that has emerged in recent years. Jellyfin is an open-source fork of Emby as a response to the closing of some of the open source code used on the Emby project and thus Jellyfin was born. Availability Despite only…
Searxng For all the nerds out there that love self-hosting you may find a self-hosted search engine to be an appealing prospect. That’s where Searxng comes in handy. Searxng (which I assume is pernounced like searching) is an open source meta search engine that was forked from the popular Searx meta search engine. What makes it different than a traditional search engine is that instead of keeping your own search index and web crawlers, it…
I forget when I started using docker, maybe around 2015 or so. Ever since then I would start these grand projects, take them 50% of the way and get stuck. A few months or even years would pass and I’d get a little further and get stuck again, rinse and repeat. Perhaps one of the biggest hurdles I could never overcome was automating certificate installs and renewals for docker containers. Using the good ole’ certbot…