Self-Host Weekly (26 June 2026)

We've been trying to reach you about your self-hosted identity stack

Weekly Highlights

Heyselfh.st/ers! Ethan is traveling, soFoxxMDhere with a guest intro for you this week.

Many of you host your own websites/apps and you may even host your ownidentity providerto sign into those apps, but how do you handle identityownershipoutside of your network? Likely you have accounts on individual sites, or maybe you use SSO with a big provider like Google. Either way,someone elseultimately owns that account since any app using it would have to contact google.com (as an example) to verify your identity.

Wouldn't it be nice to own the whole identity stack, though? Even outside your network? Perhaps even self-hostallthe data for each app using that identity? Let me tell you the Good News about ATProto.

Although most commonly known for poweringBluesky, theAT Protocolis much more expansive, and agnostic, than the company that founded it. ATProto defines how to find and authenticate your identity,howandwhereyour data is stored, andhow apps consume it. Critically, each layer of the AT Protocol can be operated byindependententities (self-hosted!) andyour domain is your identity.

That's right: if you own a domain, then with a few DNS records, you can own your ATProto identity, which defines where your data lives for each app that accesses it. And that data location can easily beself-hosted.

The ecosystem of apps using ATProto is larger than Bluesky, and growing rapidly. Learn more about what you can do with an (ATProto)Atmosphere Account.

In other news:

Happyselfh.st/ing!

Self-Host Weeklyis an independent publication supported by its readers. Considersigning upormaking a donationto show your support and receiveexclusive member perksfor your contribution!

Newswire

Feedback

Content Spotlight

MeetIgnis, a self-hosted web app for the popularObsidiannote-taking platform. Unlike other VNC-based solutions that allow users to access their vaults from the browser,Ignisleverages Obsidian's Electron APIs to provide a semi-native web-based experience connected to a vault stored on a central server. Features include most of Obsidian's core functionality, existing community plugins (see caveatshere), a custom interface for managing multiple vaults, file uploads, multi-tab workspaces, and server-side sync.

Igniscan beeasily deployed via Dockerand can also be used as adrop-in replacement for existing Obsidian vaults.

Links:Source Code,Demo

Videos and Podcasts

Command Line Corner

Certain popular commands (cat, grep, less, etc.) can be prefaced with the letterzto allow command line users to interact with gzip-compressed files without extracting them. This is helpful, for example, if you're reading compressed logs in a directory you don't have permissions to write/extract to.

Clickherefor an archive of commands shared in past newsletters.

Executive Sponsors

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

Submit Content

I'm always looking for new and existing self-hosted content to share inSelf-Host Weekly. Submit the form below if you'd like to have your own content featured or have a suggestion for content types you'd like to see featured in future newsletters.

Read next

Self-Host Weekly (19 June 2026)

Self-Host Weekly (3 July 2026)