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Navigating the future of Homebox's bounties

Open Source thrives on collaboration and community involvement. Homebox empowers this through community bounties and rewards, but only when the tooling allows us to.

29 Sep 2025 · 2 min read

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Navigating the future of Homebox's bounties

Homebox Testing and Release Changes

We want to share an update with the community about changes we will be making to our testing and release policies following the v0.22.x release. Testing Going forward,

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28 Dec 2025 · 2 min read

Navigating the future of Homebox's bounties

Open Source thrives on collaboration and community involvement. Homebox empowers this through community bounties and rewards, but only when the tooling allows us to.

Multiple authors

29 Sep 2025 · 2 min read

Homebox v1 Roadmap: Update

This is a blog post to outline some changes we're making to the v1 Roadmap, as well as highlighting some of the things from the original we'

Multiple authors

11 Jun 2025 · 7 min read

Backing up Docker volumes with ease

Backing up Docker containers and volumes with ease, leveraging crontabs and Github!

Philip Marsh

24 Nov 2024 · 7 min read

How we run Homebox Demos

How we operate Homebox demo and Homebox nightly over Docker Rootless with no exposed ports, leveraging Cloudflare Tunnels.

Philip Marsh

13 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Homebox v1 Roadmap

A roadmap to get Homebox to the v1 state and ready for general use.

Matthew Kilgore, Philip Marsh

4 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

News

We're continuing HomeBox Development

After the recent archiving of the Homebox GitHub repository we've decided that we would like to continue maintaining it long term, with the support and feedback of the

Matthew Kilgore, Philip Marsh

17 Jun 2024 · 2 min read

Spotlight

Open Source Spotlight: Zitadel

For yet another amazing open-source spotlight I wanted to highlight an SSO authentication provider that I've started using in my home lab and services. Incredibly fast, reliable, well

Matthew Kilgore

4 May 2024 · 1 min read

Free Intune Enterprise App Management via Winget

Recently, Microsoft unveiled their latest offering: Intune Enterprise App Management. However, upon closer examination, you’ll discover that it functions as an add-on—even for M365 E5 subscribers. As someone

Matthew Kilgore

22 Jan 2024 · 6 min read

Secure USB access with temporary override using InTune and Azure Automation

Using InTune and Azure Automation to protect USB Access

Introduction USB devices and external media continues to pose a very real and immediate threat to businesses around the world, introducing a potential attack vector for malicious files from keyloggers

Philip Marsh

31 Dec 2023 · 4 min read

Open Source Spotlight: FerretDB

There are a lot of applications out there, especially NodeJS apps, that require MongoDB to run. Even when the application is incredibly basic, and doesn't make any uses

Matthew Kilgore

18 Dec 2023 · 1 min read

Open Source Spotlight: Stirling-PDF

In the first ever open source spotlight for SysAdmins Journal I wanted to shine the light on an incredible PDF manipulation software that in some cases might allow companies to

Matthew Kilgore

4 Dec 2023 · 1 min read

Let’s Crack Passwords, For Auditing and for Fun

A lot of people believe that password cracking is complex or requires a large budget to complete. And of course, the general public believes that it's only for

Matthew Kilgore

17 Nov 2023 · 5 min read

Welcome to SysAdmins Journal

We're a small collaborative of IT administrators from various industries and business sizes sharing news, guides, general blog type content, and other valuable information for other IT professionals.

Matthew Kilgore

18 Oct 2023 · 1 min read