684: You Ain't Ready For This Jelly

We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better.

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• Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
• Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
• Jupiter Broadcasting: Ultimate Home Theater PT 1 — 17 years ago, Chris Builds the Ultimate Home Theater. Part one goes into using OTA HD and recording it with MyTH.
• Wizarr — Wizarr is a automatic user invitation system for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby. Create a unique link and share it to a user and they will automatically be invited to your media Server! They will even be guided to download the client and instructions on how to use your requests software!
• Seerr — Seerr is a free and open source software application for managing requests for your media library. It integrates with the media server of your choice: Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. In addition, it integrates with your existing services, such as Sonarr, Radarr.
• Maintainerr — Maintainerr makes managing your media easy. No longer will you have to worry about your precious hard drive space being taken up by media, that isn't even being watched.
• Tracearr — Real-time analytics and intelligent detection for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. Free, open source, self-hosted via Docker.
• jellarr — Declarative configuration engine for Jellyfin — apply and sync server settings from YAML via the Jellyfin API.
• Jellyfin 12.0
• Release 12.0 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
• Query Performance Improvements by Shadowghost · Pull Request #16062 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
• [Group] Jellyfin 10.11.x performance issues · Issue #15685 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
• State of the Fin 2026-05-24
• Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy
• Scanner Refactoring · jellyfin/jellyfin-meta · Discussion #125 · GitHub
• Jellyfin - Project Leadership Changes — Don't worry, no jellyforks here.
• On My Jellyfin Resignation - Joshua M. Boniface
• Migration fails upgrading from 10.11.11 to 12.0 unstable: UNIQUE constraint failed: Users.NormalizedUsername · Issue #17458 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
• Jellyswarrm: Bring all your Jellyfin servers together — Reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. If you’ve got libraries spread across different locations or just want everything together, Jellyswarrm makes it easy to access all your media from a single interface.
• Smriti — photos without a server
• ChivukulaVirinchi/photovault — Smriti is offline-first photo library for your drives. No server, no cloud. On-device face recognition, Google Photos Takeout import. Windows/macOS/Linux.
• Commodore - The Future We Were Promised — In 1982, we made computers fun. In 2026, we’re making tech fun again.
• go-vikunja/vikunja: The task manager you actually own.
• Vikunja: The task manager you actually own
• automatic-ripping-machine — Insert an optical disc (Blu-ray, DVD, CD) and checks to see if it's audio, video (Movie or TV), or data, then rips it.
• Ripping Movies Automatically With ARM - YouTube
• OpenMouse — Free, open source mouse configurator
• OpenLogi
• OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.
• Pick: pelagica — Pelagica is a web, desktop, and TV client for Jellyfin built using React. It aims to provide a fast, modern, and customizable user experience for browsing and watching your media library. It's available as a self-hosted web app, a native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a TV app for Samsung Tizen, LG webOS and Apple TV.
• Wails — Build beautiful, performant applications using Go and modern web technologies. One codebase. Three platforms. No browsers.
• Pick: tether — Tether aims to support all of the Apple Continuity features on Linux that are technically possible. If you've migrated away from macOS but still carry an iPhone, Tether provides the missing ecosystem integration.
• Pick: ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote or local iCalendar files (like time tables of your school/university or event files of your sports team).
• ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote (Webcal) or local iCalendar files.