After a month of using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my primary work computer, I’ve discovered that trading raw performance for a distraction-free environment has dramatically improved my focus and productivity.

How to automate adding issues and PRs to GitHub Projects boards without paying for enterprise features, using a simple GitHub Actions workflow that works across both public and private repositories.

Fed up with day-long Virgin Media outages, I set up a 4G failover solution with a Netgear LM1200. Here’s how it’s been working for me.

I built a homelab with Raspberry Pis using Ansible and Docker Swarm. Here’s what worked, what didn’t, and why I spent way too much time on this.

I can’t stop watching YouTube when I should be coding. After trying and failing with about 50 different apps and Chrome extensions, I finally built a hardware solution using a Raspberry Pi.

After months of complaining about my depressing workspace, I’m finally doing something about it. Here’s my probably-too-ambitious plan to make this tiny room less soul-crushing.

It’s February and I’ve done absolutely nothing I planned to do this year. I’m stuck in the worst kind of rut - watching other people build stuff while my own projects collect dust. Time to sort out my disaster of a workspace.

I managed to get a bunch of stuff done in 2024 despite my usual chaotic approach. For 2025, I’m trying something radical - actually planning ahead!

After breaking my code one too many times by assuming everyone uses the latest Python version, I finally got smart about cross-version testing. Here’s my pyenv and tox setup that’s saved me countless deployment headaches.

I’m finally starting that Spring project I’ve been putting off for months, but first I needed to get a proper Java setup on my Linux machine. Here’s how I installed Oracle JDK 21 and the latest Maven without using those ancient package repos.