A conversation with Quartermaster developer Lewis Egley about the new Docker companion app, the security model built to survive real scrutiny, and the late nights behind the biggest update the app has ever shipped.
I went from upgrading every year to every other year to "when was it that I upgraded last?"
My Dell server is too old for a solid GPU, so a big photo import meant a stuck ML queue. Instead of buying hardware, I use a M4 MacBook Pro to burn through the backlog, plus a Home Assistant automation to flag it next time.
ImmiBridge pulled 51,000 photos and videos out of iCloud and into my self hosted Immich server over a single weekend. Here's how the setup and the sync actually went.
Teaching a Google Nest Hub to show more than family photos: a driveway camera feed on movement, and a now-playing card for whatever's on the living room Apple TV.
Let's add another skill to my resume - Proxmox.
A new iOS app tries to cover both your media stack and the infrastructure underneath it, from Radarr and Jellyfin to Unraid and Home Assistant, without picking a side.
I asked Casey Liss on Mastodon if Callsheet had added Jellyfin support. Turns out it shipped in May and I just hadn't noticed. Two month since Jellyfin was added to Callsheet and it's been a hit.
Streamystats is the stats tool for Jellyfin. Watch history, library analytics, AI recommendations, custom watchlists, and a Year in Review that shows you exactly what you watched.
Aggregarr did three jobs on Plex for me: collections, artwork, and home screen rows. Here's how that splits across Posterizarr, Maintainerr, and what Moonfin already does natively, plus where Seerr quietly covers more than I expected.
Plex stores audiobook progress at the track level, splits it by account in ways that don't survive a re-scan, and nobody had built a tool to move it to Audiobookshelf. So I wrote one, hit a couple of bad title-matching bugs along the way, and open sourced it.
WatchState keeps Plex and Jellyfin watch history in sync. Here's how the matching and webhooks actually work, and what skipping the docs on day one cost me.