Building a Self-Hosted Personal Dashboard with Glance

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0000

I used to start the day by going through the same handful of browser tabs: weather, calendar, news, markets, YouTube. I wanted all of it on one screen instead.

Glance is an open source, self-hosted dashboard. It ships as a single binary with no database, and the whole page (widgets, data sources, refresh intervals, layout) is declared in one YAML file, glance.yml.

My config has grown to about 730 lines, plus roughly 2,000 lines of PHP in the proxy layer that feeds the parts Glance cannot fetch on its own. This post covers what is on the screen, where the data comes from, and why the PHP layer exists at all.

Data security on Android

Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:13:23 +0000

The biggest data generator is in our pockets - so securing it to protect privacy is the very first step to do before starting to use a device. Steps to secure Android:

Remove all non-needed apps
- Acquire root permissions on your phone (phone specific, use XDA forum)
- Use Titanium Backup
  - Backup all your data
  - Freeze or uninstall all unnecessary programs
    - Remove all which is vendor specific (Samsung, Sony, MIUI fork, …)
    - Remove all Google packages
- Disable all unused or privacy wise dangerous services with Disable Services
  - If some vital functions are not working you can re-enable it
  - Regularly, apps with disabled services still work (e.g. disabling LocationAccess for Facebook app)

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Building a Self-Hosted Personal Dashboard with Glance

Data security on Android