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.