In this guide, I’ll show you how to deploy the open source time tracking app Kimai in a Docker container. Kimai is free, browser-based (so it’ll work on mobile devices), and is extremely flexible for just about every use case. It has a stopwatch feature where you can start/stop/pause a worklog timer. Then, it accumulates…
In this guide, I’ll show you how to customize your Flame Dashboard by using CSS tweaks. This will allow you to change font sizes, hover colors, number of rows, custom background images, and much more. If you haven’t set up your Flame dashboard yet, follow my How To Install Flame Dashboard in Docker guide. You…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to install Snippet Box in a Docker container. Snippet Box is an application that lets you organize your code snippets. You can add things docker-compose configs, Powershell scripts, batch files you run, your Homer dashboard configuration, or any other snippets of code you’d like to store…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup and install the Flame dashboard in a Docker container. Flame is a simple, minimalistic self-hosted startpage. It’s very customizable – you can change the theme, add or remove sites from the GUI, upload custom icons, and even display the weather! It’s easy to setup…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to update one of your docker containers to the latest version in just a few short steps. For this guide, I’m going to be updating my Homer dashboard to take advantage of the the PING feature, which displays a round circle if the service is reachable…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to install Vikunja using Docker-Compose. Vikunja is an open-source task management / task tracking application. It offers features of many popular cloud-hosted solutions such as Trello, TickTick, Todoist, or Microsoft To-Do – with that caveat that is selfhosted! Currently, I use a combination of Google Keep…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup Node Red in Docker. For purposes of this tutorial, I’m just going to show you how to configure Node-Red in a simple Docker container in 2021, but you’ll have to do your own research as to how to fully use it. A great resource…
If you’ve been looking for a selfhosted server monitoring and uptime detector, look no further than Uptime Kuma. Uptime Kuma is a relatively new player player in the uptime monitoring space. It’s a great replacement for Statping, which is no longer being developed and has numerous breaking bugs (for example, not receiving alerts or the…
By far one of my most-used Docker images is Mealie, a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Adding new recipes to Mealie is as easy as pasting a URL into the app. Mealie will automatically pull in the ingredients, cooking steps, and images. It’s truly awesome, and I use every single day. One of the…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add an internet search bar into your Homer dashboard. This is especially useful if you access Homer from a shortcut on your phone. Rather than having to open a new tab, I can quickly hit the back button to return to my Homer dashboard. Despite…
