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selfh.st/icons - a curated collection of 4,400+ icons - now supports custom colors (bring your own)! I've developed a (self-hostable) lightweight proxy server that can intercept icon requests and apply custom colors based on a hex color code in the URL parameters.

Check out the post below for more details and be gentle as this is my first public #development project...ever.

selfh.st/post/selfh-st-icons-c

selfh.st · Custom Colors Are Now Available For selfh.st/iconsApply virtually any color on the fly with a self-hosted proxy server

If you're from #Toronto, and use #python in your #raspberrypi #dashboard or magic mirror, I just wrote this to detail the hydro rates in a way that you can just glance at the screen and know what your current rate is set at. (useful for knowing if it's a good time for laundry, etc)

The rates change on May 1 (which is what gave me the idea). Simply running this provides either text output or graphic output for your dashboard or command line.

Feel free to fork, submit changes, etc.

github.com/ksaj/TorontoHydroRa

Python script for Toronto Residents to show the Electricity rate. Intended for dashboards, but it's up to you! - ksaj/TorontoHydroRateIndicator
GitHubGitHub - ksaj/TorontoHydroRateIndicator: Python script for Toronto Residents to show the Electricity rate. Intended for dashboards, but it's up to you!Python script for Toronto Residents to show the Electricity rate. Intended for dashboards, but it's up to you! - ksaj/TorontoHydroRateIndicator

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being asked to join Paul Cutler and Tod Kurt on their podcast, The Bootloader.

I’ve been an avid follower of The Bootloader since it began. In my opinion, it is a perfect 30 minute format: each participant gets to bring some “picks” to talk about (mostly in the tech / software / hardware / maker space), for no more than 5 minutes – so you get to hear about six things of interest, that you may not have come across before, and learn something cool about the thing and the host or guest. You either get a Paul/Tod double-header with three picks each, or they bring on a guest, and each person picks two things. I always discover something new through listening to this show! I was surprised and delighted that Paul and Tod asked me to join them for this episode – compared to them, I am a mere amateur when it comes to making cool electronics and such.

You can listen to the show via multiple channels – like our own Games at Work.biz podcast, there’s a YouTube version, but it is audio-only (nice work YouTube for forcing everyone into that weird system). The show notes are also extensive, as they more-or-less cover a linkified transcript of what we talked about.

The YouTube edition may be a bit strange for an audio show… but gives me an opportunity to embed it here, so if you feel like it, click away!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFRGhonClp0

So, what did I pick?

Oh, you don’t want to watch listen? Well, that’s a bit sad. OK, here are my picks:

  1. Glance
    I recently came across Glance, an easy-to-configure self-hosted dashboard that lets me arrange information, feeds and data into a useful start page for my life and interests. It is nice and straightforward, pretty easy to extend, and has a friendly community. Worth taking a look!
  2. MNT Pocket Reform / MNT Research
    I’ve written a few times about my MNT Pocket Reform, and after a recent spell where I had to get something looked at under warranty and didn’t have it with me, it came back just before we recorded the podcast episode. Again, I really wanted to share something that has a fantastic community, and in this case also a company (and people) with great principles behind it. So, I took the opportunity to give them a shout-out!

I hope you take a listen to The Bootloader, and maybe even get interested enough to check out their back catalogue of episodes and add it to your podcast app for new ones!

https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/04/24/the-bootloader/

Hey, #smarthome Expert*innen und #selfhosting Held*innen. Welche Hardware verwendet man so, wenn man, bspw. mit #homeassistant, einen paper-based Familienkalender ersetzen möchte. Mir schwebt eine Art Tablet an der Wand vor, auf dem - vielleicht als Teil eines #dashboard - ein Kalender angezeigt wird, der sich aus der #Nextcloud speist. Dort Termine auch eintragen zu können, wäre natürlich eine notwendige Funktion.

Irgendein #Android Tablet ist natürlich immer zu haben, aber das dauerhaft an den Strom zu hängen ist afaik nicht empfehlenswert. Ein Screen mit Touchfunktion braucht wieder ein extra Device, wie einen #raspberrypi oder so. Wie löst ihr sowas?

The #UML #dashboard is here 👏👏👏

Monitor #opensource UML tools and see their trends, e.g.:

- Can you guess how many (active) UML tools are out there? 🤔

- And which one is clearly the pillar of many others? 🤔

- And whether UML tools are becoming smart? 🤔

Some answers ⬇️⬇️⬇️

modeling-languages.com/dashboa

List of UML open source tools with more than 1000 stars in GitHub
Modeling Languages · Dashboard to monitor open source UML toolsThe UML dashboard shows a manually curated list of open source UML tools in GitHub. Some global stats and a deeper analysis of trends are discussed.