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Ever since I joined the Fediverse a year and a half ago, I had this vague idea that one day I would have my own instance.

Zambretti-py on PyPi.

I have been slowly getting into the field of smart home solutions.

In the previous post I talked about getting an NVME HAT for my Pi 5.

This is not a sponsored article, everything mentioned here I bought for myself with my own money.

Would you look at that, finally another post about taking photos of the night sky.

I just bought a 128GB Samsung SD Card for 39.99PLN (~9EUR), and that made me think about the progress that storage made since I started using computers.

Caveats Let's start with some caveats.

Nothing on the Internet can be considered permanent.

I am writing these words in NeoVim, started from tmux, running in Debian Bookworm.

In January of 2019 I bought a smartwatch, a Garmin vívoactive 3.

I have a homelab in which I run several self-hosted services (more on it here).

Yesterday I passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, and therefore I am a certified Practitioner of the Cloud of AWS.

March 2026: In December of 2025 my VPS got hacked, and the reason was a vulnerability in the Umami container: I got hacked, and that has uncovered all the things I've been doing wrong Disclamer I know that this article will be about touchy subjects, so le…

I started BOINCing somewhere in April of 2021.

Almost a year has passed since I last wrote about the the state of my homelab.

I haven't written anything here for almost a month, but that happened for a very important reason: I got married!

Go straight to the main part and skip my personal musings and all that boring stuff.

Just a few short updates today: Matrix Space I created a Matrix space for everyone who would like to discuss interesting topics like programming, SBCs, hamradio, BOINC, permaculture and all that in between, and I would like to invite who is reading my blog

If you don't want to read the intro, just jump straight to conclusions.

A few weeks ago, Scott Manley made a video about a nonstandard Space Shuttle landing at the Edwards Air Force Base.

I am continuing my journey with Meshtastic, and since my last post I made some progress, yet mostly in hardware.

No, it's not.

12 hours in 24 seconds.

This is the first episode of Shorts, a post in which I share things that raised my interest in the last few days.

This post is a log of my initial experiences with Meshtastic.

On the 29th of February my employer organized a Python meetup, PyRa2024, at their office in Poznań, and I was encouraged by a few colleagues to do a talk there.

So I've seen The Social Network again.

I bought new small headphones.

March 2026 - Since writing this post a lot has changed, most of all I moved my bots to my own GoToSocial instance, and GTS has a slightly different API.

Some time ago I came across this article about making a NAS from a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W.

Last year I built a 12V powerbank to power my astrophotography rig and to light my shed.

If you ever wanted to show how many followers on Mastodon you have without pointing people to your account, but instead present it on a physical numeric display, you have come to the right place.

20th post for the first anniversary of my blog, woop woop!

TL;DR: For Universe@Home the Pi 5 is roughly three times faster than Pi 4b.

TL;DR: For Asteroids@Home the Pi 5 is roughly three times faster than Pi 4b.

TL;DR: The Pi 5 is roughly 30-50% faster than Pi 4b.

In July of 2023 I left Twitter and switched to Mastodon.

Background This project came from a simple need: I have a piece of land without grid electricity, and I want to have Wi-Fi there.

Recently I had an idea to go back to my older astrophotography and try editing those photos again with new techniques that I learned along the way to see what happens and whether I can pull out some new stuff out of old data.

Finally a photo of the sky!

There is now a continuation of this post, in which I made an LTE modem to work with this powerbank: Off-grid LTE modem The problem One of my hobbies is astrophotography, and that is something that is best done off-grid, far away from light sources such as…

My center of operations I thought I might do a series of posts in which I show the status of my homelab, with updates each time something significant happens.

Today I reached one hundred million points in BOINC.

This is the description of my first attempt with powering a Pico with solar panels.

If you are in hurry and want to skip my ponderings and jump straight to the solution, le click here.

So, there's this Scottish Youtuber, Big Clive, who has a channel about electronics and electrical appliances, and I've been binge watching him for the last few months.

Continuing on what we did in part II of making a RPi Pico Weather Station, now it's time to untether the Pico from the PC.

This is my 2022 astrophotograpy summary.

This post is a continuation of Part I in which we build a Raspberry Pi Pico W with BME280 and DHT11 sensors and made it retrieve weather data.