Guide

Taiga is an agile project management tool built around Scrum and Kanban boards, officially packaged as taiga-docker for self-hosted deployment.

Tailscale creates a private mesh VPN (built on WireGuard) between your devices with almost no configuration — the easiest way to securely reach a home server from anywhere without opening ports on your router.

Technitium DNS Server is a self-hosted, cross-platform authoritative and recursive DNS server with a built-in web console, DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS support, and ad/tracker blocking.

TheHive is a scalable security incident response platform for case and alert management, officially shipped as a Docker Compose bundle backed by Cassandra and Elasticsearch.

Tiny Tiny RSS (TT-RSS) is a self-hosted, web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator, officially deployed via a documented Docker Compose stack (nginx, FPM app, PostgreSQL, and an updater service).

A hierarchical, note-taking application built for building a large personal knowledge base, with scripting, encryption, and a server mode for syncing across devices.

Open-source network-attached storage OS with ZFS, apps, and virtualization — turns a server into a full NAS appliance.

Lock down an Ubuntu server to only the ports it actually needs, using UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) -- a friendly frontend for iptables that ships with Ubuntu.

A privacy-friendly, self-hosted web analytics alternative to Google Analytics that gives you visitor stats without tracking cookies or collecting personal data.

Play Protect flags almost every app installed outside the Play Store, regardless of whether it's actually harmful -- this explains what the warning really means, and how to judge whether a specific install is safe.

A commercial (paid license, free 30-day trial) NAS/hypervisor OS that boots from a USB flash drive, with flexible mixed-size-disk storage, Docker, and VM support.

Apps installed via a downloaded APK/XAPK don't auto-update through the Play Store -- this covers how updates actually work for sideloaded apps, and how to check for them safely.

Self-hosted uptime and status monitoring with a clean dashboard, notifications, and a public status page.

UrBackup is a client-server network backup system that performs full and incremental image and file backups of clients over a LAN, with a web interface for managing jobs and restores.

Lightweight, self-hosted password manager server, compatible with official Bitwarden apps and browser extensions.

Verdaccio is a lightweight, zero-configuration private npm registry that can proxy the public npm registry while hosting your own private packages, with its own small file-based storage.

Vikunja is a self-hosted to-do and task management app that bundles its API and frontend into a single container, ideal for teams wanting a lightweight Todoist/Asana alternative.

Install VS Code and a small set of genuinely essential extensions -- the widely-used, free code editor, configured for a real day-to-day development workflow rather than the bare default install.

Free, open-source firmware for controlling individually-addressable LED strips from an ESP8266/ESP32 board, with a huge library of effects, presets, and integrations (including Home Assistant).

Run a real Linux kernel alongside Windows and containerize workloads with Docker Desktop -- the standard dev environment setup for Windows 11.

Wallabag is a self-hosted read-it-later application that saves web articles in a clean, ad-free format for offline reading, with tagging, full-text search, and browser/mobile clients.

A free, open-source tool that watches your running Docker containers and automatically pulls + restarts them when a new image version is published -- keeps self-hosted apps patched without manual `docker pull` runs.

Run a full Android system in a lightweight container on Linux -- the actively maintained, Wayland-based successor to the now-deprecated Anbox project.

Open-source security monitoring — intrusion detection, log analysis, and compliance across your whole infrastructure.

Wekan is an open-source, Trello-style kanban board, distributed as an official Docker image alongside its MongoDB-compatible FerretDB backend.

A modern, extensible wiki engine with a Markdown/visual editor, fine-grained permissions, and built-in support for multiple authentication and storage backends.

Replace the legacy Windows console with the modern, tabbed Windows Terminal and upgrade from Windows PowerShell 5.1 to the actively-developed, cross-platform PowerShell 7.

WireGuard is a minimal, high-performance VPN protocol and kernel module that establishes encrypted point-to-point tunnels using static public-key pairs instead of certificates.