Tags

  • Productivity (13)

    Productivity posts about focus, workspace design, habits, study tools, and reducing friction.

  • Engineering (9)

    Engineering judgment, tradeoffs, reliability, technical practice, and the boring choices that make systems better.

  • Night Sky Pi (9)

    Posts about Night Sky Pi, its modules, sensors, releases, and related astronomy automation work.

  • GitHub Actions (8)

    Automation notes for GitHub Actions, including builds, deployments, packages, and project workflows.

  • Homelab (8)

    Homelab notes on self-hosting, networking, storage, backups, containers, and services that run at home.

  • Projects (8)

    Project notes about planning, building, finishing, archiving, and learning from small software and hardware work.

  • Home Assistant (7)

    Home Assistant posts about automation, sensors, dashboards, notifications, and keeping a smart home understandable.

  • Hugo (7)

    Hugo notes covering themes, content structure, publishing, static site workflows, and blog maintenance.

  • Raspberry Pi (7)

    Raspberry Pi notes covering desktops, homelab nodes, automation projects, and practical hardware constraints.

  • 3D Printing (6)

    Posts about printers, calibration, materials, troubleshooting, and the practical side of making physical parts.

  • Learning (6)

    Learning notes about study habits, technical skills, slow progress, and making new subjects stick.

  • Sensors (6)

    Sensor posts covering Home Assistant, Night Sky Pi, environmental readings, and useful state from the real world.

  • Networking (5)

    Networking posts about failover, DNS, routing, homelab access, and keeping services reachable.

  • Python (5)

    Python posts about tools, testing, CLI and TUI applications, packaging, and practical development workflows.

  • Release (5)

    Release posts about versioning, changelogs, publishing, and making shipped work easier to understand.

  • Workspace (5)

    Workspace posts about office setup, layout, storage, hardware, and making the room easier to work in.

  • Architecture (4)

    Posts about system design choices, tradeoffs, simplicity, scale, and avoiding unnecessary complexity.

  • Astronomy (4)

    Astronomy notes, observing plans, clubs, sensors, and the software projects around sky watching.

  • Automation (4)

    Small automations for the home, development workflow, notifications, publishing, and repeated chores.

  • Conference (4)

    Conference notes, reflections, useful sessions, hallway conversations, and takeaways from technical events.

  • DevOps (4)

    Posts about deployment, operations, reliability, backups, containers, and the habits that keep systems maintainable.

  • Docker (4)

    Posts about containers, images, local services, self-hosting, and practical Docker workflows.

  • GitHub (4)

    Posts about GitHub workflows, hosting, actions, packages, projects, and the tradeoffs of using the platform.

  • Notifications (4)

    Notification posts covering alerts, reminders, desktop feedback, and messages that should stay useful.

  • Smigle (4)

    Posts about the older Smigle-based site theme work and the Hugo theme lessons that came from it.

  • Workflow (4)

    Workflow posts about reducing friction, improving repeatable tasks, and making everyday work easier to restart.

  • Backups (3)

    Backup notes focused on restore tests, retention, tooling, and protecting data that would be painful to lose.

  • Bindicator (3)

    Posts about the Harlow Bindicator project and the bin-day automation work around it.

  • Blogging (3)

    Writing about the habit, workflow, motivation, and maintenance involved in keeping a personal blog.

  • Community (3)

    Posts about meetups, conferences, maker events, clubs, and the people around technical hobbies.

  • Docker Swarm (3)

    Notes on running Docker Swarm in a small homelab and choosing boring orchestration that fits the job.

  • Documentation (3)

    Posts about writing things down, improving handovers, release notes, PRs, and future-proofing work.

  • Math (3)

    Math learning notes, study plans, refreshers, and the slow process of rebuilding confidence with fundamentals.

  • Maven (3)

    Maven notes covering Java builds, package publishing, private dependencies, and local setup.

  • Moisture Battle (3)

    Posts about condensation, sensors, data, and the ongoing effort to protect outdoor astronomy kit.

  • Prusa Mini (3)

    Prusa Mini posts about calibration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and getting more reliable prints.

  • Reliability (3)

    Reliability notes about backups, failure modes, production readiness, and designing systems that recover cleanly.

  • Reviews (3)

    Review posts about tools, devices, printers, and the practical experience of living with them.

  • Tools (3)

    Tool notes about the software and hardware that make daily work smoother or more reliable.

  • Writing (3)

    Writing posts about blog process, clarity, dyslexia, editing, and using words to make technical work easier to revisit.

  • Git (2)

    Git notes covering history, commits, pull requests, publishing, and day-to-day version control.

  • Java (2)

    Java notes covering setup, tooling, project work, and practical development on Linux.

  • Linux (2)

    Linux posts about desktop setup, tools, workflow, troubleshooting, and using a lightweight system day to day.

  • MQTT (2)

    MQTT notes for Night Sky Pi, notifications, and small event-driven automation projects.

  • Open Source (2)

    Open source notes about tools, publishing, projects, and choosing software that can be inspected and maintained.

  • Security (2)

    Security notes around backups, access, secrets, home services, and sensible baseline protections.

  • Ansible (1)

    Notes on using Ansible to automate setup, configuration, and repeatable infrastructure tasks.

  • AWS (1)

    Posts about AWS services, backups, deployment choices, and the practical tradeoffs of using cloud infrastructure.

  • CAD (1)

    Notes on CAD tools, design practice, and learning to model parts for practical projects.

  • Camping (1)
  • ChatGPT (1)

    Posts about using ChatGPT as part of writing, learning, and practical development workflows.

  • CLI (1)

    Command-line tools, interfaces, and workflows that keep small jobs direct and scriptable.

  • DIY (1)

    DIY notes around tools, workspace improvements, home projects, and practical fixes.

  • Dyslexia (1)

    Writing about dyslexia, tools, workflows, and practical ways to make publishing less frustrating.

  • Family (1)
  • FreeCAD (1)

    Notes on learning FreeCAD and moving between CAD tools for practical design work.

  • Immich (1)

    Posts about Immich in the homelab and the practical work of running photo services locally.

  • Kubernetes (1)

    Posts about Kubernetes tradeoffs, when orchestration helps, and when it is too much for the problem.

  • Local-first (1)

    Posts about keeping data and tools local, understandable, portable, and independent of unnecessary services.

  • Paperless-ngx (1)

    Posts about using Paperless-ngx for document management as part of a practical homelab.

  • Photography (1)

    Photography notes covering Linux tooling, editing workflows, and replacing old dependencies.

  • Startups (1)

    Startup-adjacent engineering notes about scale, simplicity, tradeoffs, and building for the problem in front of you.

  • Storage (1)

    Storage notes around workspaces, homelabs, files, backups, and keeping important data organized.

  • Travel (1)

    Travel posts and personal downtime notes from time away from the normal technical routine.

  • Troubleshooting (1)

    Troubleshooting posts about debugging hardware, software, setup problems, and awkward edge cases.

  • TUI (1)

    Text user interface notes for terminal tools that need more structure than a plain command.