Homebranch is a self-hosted web application for managing and reading your E-Book collection. It provides a user-friendly interface to organize, search, and read your eBooks across devices. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Homebranch on your Synology NAS using Docker and Portainer. STEP 1 Please Support My work … Read more about How to Install Homebranch on Your Synology NAS
Dockhand has taken out 7 separate Docker tools with a single elegant and modern container, drastically reducing overhead, complexity, and the number of services running on your NAS. Launched at the end of 2025 and exploding in popularity in 2026, it’s considered by many in the homelab/self-hosted community as the natural successor (and often superior) … Read more about Farewell to 7 Docker Tools: Dockhand Just Killed Them All in One Go
For years I’ve run Docker containers on my Synology NAS and UGREEN NAS boxes and relied on Watchtower for automatic updates. It was convenient until it wasn’t. Silent image updates started breaking services, containers failed to restart properly, and I lost visibility and control over when and how changes happened. After trying several alternatives I … Read more about How to Schedule Automatic Container Updates in Dockhand
On March 3, 2026, Dockhand switched from version 1.0.19 to the new 1.0.20 version. Dockhand fixes the following issues: Fix: Regression on Synology DSM – Error response from daemon: client version 1.53 is too new. Maximum supported API version is 1.43 Fix: Fix ARM64 regression: Go collector crashing on Raspberry Pi and other ARM devices … Read more about Synology & UGREEN: Dockhand Docker Version 1.0.20
Shelfmark is a self-hosted web interface for searching and downloading books and audiobooks from multiple sources, including popular web archives, torrents, Usenet, and IRC. It offers a clean modern UI with real-time download tracking, multi-user support via a built-in request system, and seamless automatic integration with library tools like Calibre, Calibre-Web, and Audiobookshelf, requiring no … Read more about How to Install Shelfmark on Your Synology NAS
On March 2, 2026, Dockhand switched from version 1.0.18 to the new 1.0.19 version. Dockhand fixes the following issues and adds new options: New – Inline logs panel on stacks page – view container logs without leaving the page New – Make ports column sortable in containers grid New – Structured auth logging with client … Read more about Synology & UGREEN: Dockhand Docker Version 1.0.19