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Christmas is approaching fast, so I'm writing down my wishlist for self-hosted software (and knowing myself, self-hosting in some of the cases implies, writing from scratch, as if the work-in-process were not killing me already...). Anyway:
- A feed aggregator. I'm happy with Liferea on the desktop, but it would be really nice to have it available everywhere. Might go open-source shopping there.
- An image uploader, think imgur, just for myself. This one is on the edge of "I could do that in a few evenings". Not sure if its worth the time though.
- Very lightweight Personal (Kanban) Board - no fluff, just a bunch of virtual cards moving around. Good candidate to write from scratch.
- A (Git-)forge as primary mirror of my repositories. The only case of definitively something from the shelf. Ggitea, forgejo, maybe a reason to experiment with Fossil SCM - which ticks many boxes, except that it is not git-based. Although, I'm not convinced that the admin tax will be worth it in the end.
- I'm an old wiki nerd, but by and large still happy with TiddlyWiki. I have written some tooling to be able toto use it as frontend to my SSG, but for the latter it turned out less productive than I had hoped for. The digital wineyard isn't growing many grapes. Too much friction. An ergonomic web-based editor for the pages would still be nice.
- I'd like to expand the bookmark app, I'd like it to be more connected with the website overall, maybe as driver for a linkblog, also on the list: to fight against link rot: auto-archive to Wayback machine plus self-hosted archiving, a clipping/annotation tool (like hypothes.is) would also be useful.
I'm not completely done here, but if I look at this long wishlist already, I realize what I need more than anything else is focus time.