June 1, 2026 TrueNas Self-Hosted Apps I Run in June 2026 Self-hosting is one of those hobbies where you start with one small service and suddenly you have dashboards, reverse proxies, monitoring, media libraries, Git hosting, document management and at least three tools that tell you which other tools are currently broken. | more
May 5, 2026 DevOps & Administration, TrueNas CopyFail CVE-2026-31431 and the TrueNAS Workaround CopyFail has been all over the Linux security news lately, and for good reason. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-31431 and properly described in this blog post -> Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 And this one is not the usual “technically serious, but probably not relevant for my homelab” kind of bug. | more
May 5, 2026 DevOps & Administration, TrueNas Self-Hosted Forgejo Runner for Git and CI/CD Forgejo is a community fork of Gitea, created as a more independent home for self-hosted Git. A key reason to choose it over Gitea is its stronger community governance and focus on open development. | more
April 23, 2026 TrueNas TrueNAS SCALE 26 Removes the REST API While developing my TrueNAS Replication Monitoring Pipeline, I found that the easy to use REST API will be deprecated. This forces me to decide whether to keep using the REST API or redesign the system to adopt the new method. | more
March 25, 2026 TrueNas Readeck: Install Custom App + Logo via YAML While the current App catalogue has a lot to offer but you may end up with a deprecated project ( think booklore ) or an app wich has been requested but not yet implemented ( eg. | more
March 4, 2026 TrueNas Install TrueNAS on a partition rather the full disk So i bought my 2nd Ugreen DXP2800 and could finally do some more testing :D and perform a writeup. You can find the updated version in my Github GIST How to install TrueNAS SCALE 25. | more
February 26, 2026 TrueNas Dockpeek vs Dozzle on TrueNAS SCALE TrueNAS provides a great Apps UI, but it’s not ideal for: quickly scanning all containers tailing logs across multiple services spotting which ports map to which services lightweight troubleshooting without SSH When it comes to debugging on why an App wouldn't deploy / crash on TrueNas, you'll need some handy tools instead of using the TrueNAS UI which is often cumbersome. | more
February 21, 2026 TrueNas Large-Scale Data Copies on TrueNAS SCALE: tmux, rsync, and NTFS USB Drives Everybody has that one friend who comes along, dropping his USB HardDrive and want to have some stuff copied from your NAS. Here is a quick tip on how to copy large amount of data. | more
February 2, 2026 TrueNas Bichon – A lightweight Email Archiver Email maintenance can be a real "pain in the bane" - every time my wife logs in, her email provider warns that the mailbox is full and needs cleaning. | more
January 26, 2026 TrueNas BentoPDF the Swiss Army Knife You gotta love this App! It's suite of tools to handle all your PDF needs without the need to store any userdata or a database because BentoPDF itself is a client-side static PDF toolkit that runs entirely in your browser and does not maintain any server-side state or persistent user files by default. | more