Self-Host Weekly (24 April 2026)

Big tech giveth, and big tech taketh away

Weekly Highlights

Microsoft's Xbox divisionearned a ton of goodwill with the community this weekafter its new CEO brought a slew of changes to the platform, including a rebrand from 'Microsoft Gaming' back to 'Xbox', Game Pass price decreases, anew logo, and anupcoming partnership with Discord(ew, David).

What does this have to do with self-hosting? Nothing, but it's been a fantastic distraction from a few other shady things they're up to that will quietly impact many of us, like:

But before you pat yourself on the back with the smug sense of superiority so many of us feel as we look down on our SaaS-ridden counterparts, the grass wasn't necessarily greener on the other side this week:

But, hey – somebody developed acustomizable remote control card for Home Assistantthat I'm looking forward to configuring this weekend, so that's something.

Happyselfh.st/ing!

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MeetAnchor, an offline-first self-hosted note-taking platform. A relative newcomer in the space,Anchorplaces an emphasis on simplicity with a sticky note-like interface for organizing and managing thoughts and ideas. Features includes a rich text editor, color-based tags, sharing, attachments, backgrounds, pinning, archives, trash, and single sign-on via OIDC.

Anchorcan beeasily deployed via Dockerand doesn't require additional containers to get up-and-running.

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Append the-pflag (--parents) to themkdircommand to create entire directory trees at once rather than using multiplemkdircommands to create nested folders:

Clickherefor an archive of commands shared in past newsletters.

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