A Raspberry Pi 5 set up as a no-distraction development box, with no audio and a bit of physical friction, turned browsing time into building time.

A practical plan to fix a tiny office by changing the floor, adding texture and storage to the walls, building drawers and a printer cabinet, and finishing with lighting and small details.

Early 2025 stalled out, so the plan is simple. Clear the room, add heat, build storage, and make the desk work for typing and tinkering.

A focused plan for 2025 that builds on last year’s progress, covering Night Sky Pi upgrades, two small Python tools, a cleaner workspace, and a quieter Pi cluster.

A repeatable workflow to install several Python versions with pyenv, run tests across them with tox locally, and mirror the matrix in GitHub Actions.

Clean install of Oracle JDK 21 and Apache Maven 3.9.8 on Linux without relying on outdated distro packages. Commands, PATH updates, and quick verification.

A tidy 1.1.0 release that adds category pills alongside tags and clarifies how to build taxonomy pages that fit the theme’s look.

What was removed, what was added, and why the Smigle Lite fork fits a minimalist, reading‑first site.

A small Night Sky Pi module that subscribes to MQTT topics and forwards notifications to ntfy.sh, using the core config for local MQTT and a simple per-module config for routing.

Night Sky Pi reached 1.0.0 with automated overnight capture, date-organised storage, adaptive exposure, JSON metadata, packaging, MQTT signals, automatic cleanup, and a configurable setup.