Brian McGonagill - Open Source is Awesome Show Notes

Self Hosted Gateway

When you self host, one of the primary goals is to have your services available, yet secure. Many of us run into hindrances to having publicly available self hosted services because of the way our ISPs handle oru internet access. They block ports like 80 and 443, and common email

Radicale - CalDav for Shared / Syncing Calendars

Radicale is an awesome open source, self hosted project that is absolutely great for creating shared calendars for the family, or a group of people / team. InstallationWhat You'll NeedDocker and Docker-Compose(optional) NGinX-Proxy-Manager (or a reverse proxy of your choice)(optional) A domain name for your Radicale installAbout 10 minutes

WBO - Online Collaborative Whiteboard

As we moved from office work to remote work as a more regular part of life, I found that the lack of idea creation via something like a whiteboard in a cubicle, conference room, or office was palpable. It was definitely something I used on a day to day basis

FreeScout

FreeScout is an open source help desk suite that starts with email communication. It provides a way to connect your team to email. You create emails that your clients and users can utilize to get in touch with your staff, and provide your staff with a centrally managed web interface

Lemmy - A Self Hosted, Open Source Alternative to Reddit

If you've watched any number of my videos, you'll know that I really enjoy Reddit. It's my kind of social media platform. I subscribe to the content areas I like, and only get content from those areas. The sub-reddits are generally well monitored, so they keep out the junk and

Crater Invoice

Crater is a really nice, well polished, invoicing system that is open source, and can be self hosted. I have struggled a bit to get this running, but with a couple of bug reports from the docker install side, I've gotten it to run. In this tutorial, I'll show you

Veloren - Open Source, Self Hosted, Multi-player, Endless World Exploration, and Adventure Game

My daughter, and nieces have all been playing an MMO Game called Roblox for a couple of years. I have no issue with MMOs in general for adults, but for pre-teens, I don't like the idea of a game that has uncontrolled servers, and unknonw safety and security controls in

n8n Workflow Automation

n8n is a freely licensed (based on the Apache 2.0, but more permissive) workflow automation tool set. It enables you to drag and drop nodes for various tools to generate amazing information workflows. Be sure to check out the end of the article for a discount code for 20%

CheckMK

CheckMK is a network and systems monitoring solution that can span from a small home user's needs into the enterprise with ease. There are many of these solutions out there, and all of them have their pros and cons, but for many of them, the con is that they are

Baserow

Baserow is a No-code, open source alternative to AirTable. If you've ever needed to collect data on anything. A system for sales leads, or a shopping list that does something specific to your needs, maybe a client support form, and a way to add comments, or perhaps a Product Management

NetBox

NetBox is an Apache 2.0 licensed open source software suite that allows you to design, map, and manage your network and infrastructure systems. Let me be clear, and you should read the NetBox docs for more detail, but NetBox is not a network monitoring system. It's not a DNS

RustDesk

What Is It?RustDesk is an open source, remote desktop system that gives you control of your own server, and client software. If you've ever used TeamViewer, AnyDesk, Remotely, GoToAssist, GoToMyPc, and a whole host of other options, then you'll understand exactly what RustDesk is. It's remote access / remote support

Dashy Widgets

I showed you how to setup and use a really nice homepage / dashboard for all of your self hosted services a while back called Dashy. I've stuck with it since then, and have just been super happy with it. It has active development, and tons of new features since then.

NetDiscover

As I've been re-working my home network, moving from an Eero Mesh install to an open source setup using OPNSense as my firewall and router, and DD-WRT for my Wired / Wireless Access Points, one thing I didn't want ot mess up was my IP addressing that I had setup in

Pi-Alert - Network Device Change Notifications

One of the things i really like about Eero was a notification about a new device joining my network. I think it was really more based on a new lease being pulled from DHCP, but still it let me know when Family members or friends came by and got close

Yacht - a WebUI for Docker Management

If you're already into self-hosting, and home-labbing (yes, I just made that word up I think), then you have probably used docker at some point. If you have, and you haven't heard of the great tools out there for Graphical User interface based management of your docker applications, then you

DD-WRT Install and AP Setup

I am combining the post for these two videos, as they are actually closely related. If you've never heard of or used DD-WRT, then you'll be interested to know that it's been around for at least 15 years, if not more. It's some amazing open source software (firmware) that takes

OPNSense Install and Initial Setup

I've been wanting to switch away from my Eero mesh wireless network for almost a year and a half. I really wanted a system that I had more control over, and an open source option was my ideal situation. I have made several attempts to do this over the past

Draw.io

Diagramming is a powerful tool in the world in general. It can help you convey ideas from the very simple to the extremely complex with far less effort than to try and transmit the context of ideas and workflows with words alone. There are literally tons of diagramming tools out

RPort - Remote Machine Management

What Is It?RPort is an RMM (Remote Machine Management) tool. It's a server based system where you install a client access application on each client machine you want to manage. That client then connects to the server, and becomes accessible in many ways. What Can I Do With It?

Cadmus - Noise Suppression in Linux

Why?Working remote has been a huge change for a lot of us. Making these videos for the last two and a half years has been a huge learning experience for me, especially when it comes to our mics and background noise. When we all started working remote, meeting with

Vaultwarden

Vaultwarden is a compatible, open source, back end for Bitwarden written in Rust. It is extremely light on resource requirements, and will work with any of the Bitwarden clients in your browsers and mobile devices. Why Run My Own Password ManagerThere are several reasons why you might want to run

Low Code, or No Code - Open Source Game Development

I'm always trying to encourage my nieces and nephews to get into programming. I think Apple really hit the nail on the head with their Swift Playground app that teaches kids how the basics of development works, and gives them some really great logic pussles. There are also things like

Quant-UX

If you've ever wanted to just throw some screen ideas onto a canvas before, almost like a quick napkin drawing, or if you've wanted to create a fully clickable interface that you could have potential users give you feedback from, then you should definitely look at Quant-UX. As a Product

Wiki JS

WikiJS is a tremendously powerful, extremely full-featured open source, self hostable Wiki system. It has a modern user interface, and tons of settings, configuration, and customization options. Installing it with Docker-CE and Docker-Compose makes it a breeze to get WikiJS up and running in no time. Today, we'll go through