STFN

On computers and the night sky.

• New house, new blog, new me
  I finally move to my new house, and on that occasion I have redone my blog
  March 28, 2026
• Tmux, Starship, and Neovim, the trio to make your terminal better
  In which I show how to configure a few different tools to make the terminal more pleasurable to use
  February 6, 2026
• Goodbye AWS - moving from Cloudfront to Bunny CDN
  Another step in the europeanisation of my tech stack
  January 23, 2026
• Blog statistics for 2025
  Some insights on who visited my blog in the last 12 months
  December 30, 2025
• First steps with Proxmox running on a Lenovo Tiny PC
  I migrated all of my LXC containers from LXD to Proxmox
  December 21, 2025
• I got hacked, and that has uncovered all the things I've been doing wrong
  A vulnerability in a docker container caused my VPS to catch a bug
  December 7, 2025
• Pyriodic Backend, The Backend for the Small Web, is published on PyPi
  PyPi publishing party! Pyriodic project is packaged and published on Python's package page, PyPi
  December 2, 2025
• My GoToSocial instance is now one year old
  Happy Birthday fedi.stfn.pl!
  November 23, 2025
• I bought a Pi which is not of the Raspberry kind
  This Pi is Orange, and a Zero!
  October 25, 2025
• My self-hosted music streaming solution
  How to privately stream music from a NAS to a phone
  October 18, 2025
• New, leaner network setup; removing NATs, and ditching Tailscale
  A story about small decision lead to larger changes in the homelab
  October 3, 2025
• Preparing for my future house; building a 2U NAS from scratch
  I am building a cheap 2U server from second hand, readily available parts
  September 26, 2025
• Today I TIL; Mikrotik NTP support and the surprise use of octal counting
  Router shenanigans lead to having 'fun' with time
  September 8, 2025
• How I built an off-grid, solar powered webserver and exposed it to the Internet
  With the help of Wireguard and the Sun, I can host webpages on my own Raspberry Pi
  September 4, 2025
• How I bought a Tiny PC and turned it into a GPU workstation / gaming rig
  Lenovo M720q Tiny and an Nvidia Quadro GPU - a match made in tech heaven
  August 23, 2025
• Automatically regenerate Tailscale TLS certs using systemd timers
  The TLS certs in my LXD container expired, so I learnt some more bash and systemd to automate regenerating them
  July 25, 2025
• State of my homelab in June 2025
  Time flies when you are having a homelab
  July 12, 2025
• Continued adventures with LXD; Grafana, InfluxDB, and ZFS storage
  Expanding my usage of LXD to eventually move away altogether from Docker
  July 8, 2025
• Installing Actual Budget expense tracker in LXD and serving it using Tailscale with TLS.
  Self-hosting another service with my newest favourite combination: LXD and Tailscale
  July 3, 2025
• How to make Pi-hole even more private and secure by switching to Unbound and adding extra blocklists
  I'm making my Pi-hole setup even more private and secure.
  June 25, 2025
• A few updates, a few milestones. My magic internet points are growing.
  Not much is happening, but numbers go up, and it is good when numbers go up
  May 31, 2025
• Using PiHole and Tailscale to block ads on all my devices, including mobile
  I switched from WireGuard to Tailscale for ease of use, and now any device connected to my Tailscale network has an adblocking service running straight from the box
  May 17, 2025
• I achieved 100 million points in Einstein@Home, and rediscovered Folding@Home
  Helping scientists with my Pis and GPU continues
  May 10, 2025
• My new, (mostly) Mikrotik network setup
  I have a bridge made of Wi-Fi!
  May 9, 2025
• Migrating servers, leaving Fosstodon, moving to my own GoToSocial
  I talk about why and how I migrated my GoToSocial instance from one VPS to another, and one of my Fediverse accounts from Fosstodon to that GoToSocial instance
  May 2, 2025
• Access local Nextcloud with HTTPS anywhere by using Tailscale TLS certificates
  With Tailscale you can generate TLS certificates and use them to access your private services with HTTPS
  April 26, 2025
• Deploying Nextcloud locally with LXD
  Nextcloud is a great tool to privately store your data on your own machine. And LXD makes deploying it locally simple, quick, and safe.
  April 12, 2025
• Short update on my life and homelab
  I'm still here and things are happening
  March 29, 2025
• This post is very political, but then again, all the previous ones were too
  It's my blog and I can vent my frustrations here if I want to
  March 6, 2025
• I'm going back to astrophotography
  It's a pain and I'm freezing, but I still want to do it
  February 19, 2025
• Blog Questions Challenge Technology Edition
  Another set of questions, this is fun!
  February 15, 2025
• Python Dependency injection for cleaner I/O handling
  A way to handle I/O calls that makes code cleaner and testing easier
  February 10, 2025
• Blog Question Challenge 2025
  Me too!
  February 8, 2025
• Using Pinchflat and Jellyfin to download and watch Youtube videos
  Watching Youtube without Youtube, or even without internet access.
  February 3, 2025
• Powering PC fans from a USB port to cool my Raspberry Pi Cluster
  Making blursed adapters is ony of my hobbies.
  February 1, 2025
• Using a Lenovo USFF PC as a Home Assistant box
  No more Raspberries?!
  January 25, 2025
• How much electricity does my home server use?
  Zigbee shows how my lab is buzzing with electricity.
  January 19, 2025
• My Kubernetes & BOINC Raspberry Pi Cluster
  Kubernetes, BOINC, Ansible, Prometheus, and all that jazz.
  January 11, 2025
• I have a new skill - I can now make Ethernet cables
  Another skill for the apocalypse
  January 4, 2025
• Administrating my GoToSocial instance - monitoring and backup
  The day-to-day tasks of a Fediverse instance admin
  December 23, 2024
• How I started my GoToSocial instance in the Fediverse
  I have joined the elite coterie of Fedi administrators
  November 26, 2024
• I published my first package to PyPi
  It turned out to be much simpler than I thought
  November 19, 2024
• I started using ESPhome and now I have a local smarthome
  ESPhome is a simple way to use ESP microcontrollers with Home Assistant
  November 13, 2024
• Testing the performance of an NVMe HAT in BOINC
  Does using an NVMe HAT make the Pi 5 crunch BOINC faster? Yes and no.
  October 31, 2024
• I got my Raspberry Pi 5 a HAT
  It now looks very stylish and is much, much faster thanks to an NVMe boot drive
  October 19, 2024
• I also caught the comet
  Hello there C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
  October 17, 2024
• Thinking on storage
  The size of drives is the most palpable progress in computing in the last 30 years, IMHO.
  September 21, 2024
• WireGuard and PiHole for secure ad blocking on your smartphone
  Every Step You Take, ads will not be watching you
  September 7, 2024
• How to archive YouTube
  Nothing is permanent on the Internet
  August 26, 2024
• Trying to use a terminal only laptop
  I expected not having a graphical environment will be hard, but it's even harder. And fun.
  August 16, 2024
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Classic Watch
  I cannot be bothered to use a smartwatch anymore
  August 10, 2024
• How to set up subdomains in the homelab with PiHole and Caddy
  No longer need to remember the port numbers
  July 20, 2024
• I passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification
  A few words how I did it
  July 17, 2024
• How to set up Umami.is, a self-hosted analytics service
  How I switched to self-hosted analytics.
  July 4, 2024
• I reached 150 million points in BOINC
  Another milestone, time for an update.
  June 27, 2024
• State of my homelab/NAS in June 2024
  My homelab changed a lot since last year. I finally have a proper NAS!
  June 23, 2024
• I got married!
  Yes I did.
  June 20, 2024
• Making my own private Strava
  I have a new bicycle, and I created a pipeline to have my own activity logging without relying on some third party cloud service.
  May 21, 2024
• Join my Matrix Space! And some other random news
  I created a Matrix space to talk about Life, the Universe, and stuff
  May 17, 2024
• Reducing Raspberry Pi Pico W power consumption and a second attempt at using solar panels
  I found a way to significantly reduce the power consumption of a Raspberry Pi Pico W, and I use that new knowledge to make a better solar powered weather station
  May 7, 2024
• The Space Shuttle - how I remember it
  My thoughts and recollections about the Space Shuttle, inspired by Scott Manley and Wayne Hale
  April 23, 2024
• Making a portable Meshtastic node
  Continuing my experiences with Meshtastic, I built a portable node with battery power and a better antenna
  April 16, 2024
• IS TICKLESS Pet really single use?
  TICKLESS says that you should not open its ultrasonic tick repellent, and should not change the battery inside, I find those claims unreasonable
  April 9, 2024
• How to make a timelapse with a Raspberry Pi
  Growing new plants for my garden gave me a reason to do a timelapse video, and I'm sharing how to do it
  April 5, 2024
• Shorts 1
  A mix of things I found interesting
  March 23, 2024
• My first steps in Meshtastic
  Trying to summarize what I already know about mesh radio communications
  March 18, 2024
• I gave my first public talk on Python
  One small step for me on a leap day
  March 3, 2024
• the social network
  I talk about The Social Network (the movie) and my feelings about Facebook (the platform).
  February 18, 2024
• The time came to replace my headphones
  A short, positive review of Edifier X3s
  February 7, 2024
• My Mastodon bots, and how to easily run your own
  I'm sharing a template to make a Mastodon bot
  January 24, 2024
• Building the tiniest NAS with ZFS using a Raspberry Pi Zero
  Part success, part failure, and a lot of waiting
  January 21, 2024
• How to monitor 12V battery charge with a Raspberry Pi Pico
  Going back to the Pico series
  January 5, 2024
• Display your Mastodon followers count on a 4 digit TM1637 display
  How to show off in real life
  December 16, 2023
• Invidious - Open Source Youtube Frontend
  And it's self-hosted!
  December 5, 2023
• RPi 4b vs RPi 5 benchmark in BOINC - Universe@Home
  Again the 5 is much faster
  November 30, 2023
• RPi 4b vs RPi 5 benchmark in BOINC - Asteroids@Home
  This time the 5 is much faster
  November 16, 2023
• RPi 4b vs RPi 5 benchmark in BOINC - Einstein@Home
  My first benchmark ever
  November 4, 2023
• On degoogling my life
  And debezosing and deappling
  October 20, 2023
• Powering an LTE modem from a 12V battery
  How to have off-grid Wi-Fi
  October 8, 2023
• Astro Archive - The Horsehead Nebula
  Looking at older works
  October 4, 2023
• NGC 7000 - North America Nebula
  Combined HaOIII narrowband with RGB stars
  September 9, 2023
• A DIY off-grid 12V powerbank
  Continuing the theme of powering stuff
  August 27, 2023
• State of my homelab in August 2023
  Hopefully beginnng of a series
  August 15, 2023
• My thoughts as I reach 100 million points in BOINC
  The not so happy reflections on distributed computing
  August 4, 2023
• Powering a Raspberry Pi Pico with solar panels and an 18650
  Even more off-grid solution for a SBC
  June 9, 2023
• Set up GPSD with U-blox7 GPS Dongle on Linux
  Let's set up a GPS device and make it work in gpsd and EKOS.
  February 18, 2023
• Big Clive's NiMH charger
  Let's build a NiMH trickle charger for AA batteries!
  January 30, 2023
• Powering Raspberry Pi Pico with AA batteries (Weather Station Part III)
  Pi Pico off-grid solution
  January 3, 2023
• My 2022 in astrophotography
  A summary of my astrophotography journey throughout 2022
  December 30, 2022
• Raspberry Pi Pico Weather Station - part II
  Let's connect a weather station!
  December 12, 2022
• Astrophotography - The Iris Nebula
  First post about astrophography
  December 5, 2022
• Raspberry Pi Pico Weather Station - part I
  Let's build a weather station!
  December 2, 2022
• Hello World
  Who are you what and how did you get in here?
  December 1, 2022