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I Built a GNOME Shell Extension for Tailscale — Panel Toggle, Peer Browser, and the Signal-Handler Gotcha That Broke It
Why GNOME's built-in VPN panel can't drive Tailscale, how I shipped a small GJS extension to fix that across GNOME Shell 48–50, and the signal-handler re-fire bug that made my toggle behave like a one-shot fuse.
Running ComfyUI on an AMD RX 7900 XTX — Native ROCm 7.1 on Windows
How I got ComfyUI running natively on an AMD RX 7900 XTX on Windows 11 using ROCm 7.1, without Zluda, with Wan2.1, LTX-Video, and FramePack custom nodes — and the exact steps to replicate it.
Zero-Shot Voice Cloning on AMD — ROCm 7.1 on Windows, F5-TTS, and the ONNX Fallback
How I got zero-shot voice cloning running on a Windows gaming machine with an AMD RX 7900 XTX — using ROCm 7.1 natively on Windows, with an ONNX+DirectML fallback for when you don't want the full SDK.
Outlook Classic Not Syncing New Gmail Folders
When new Gmail labels wouldn't appear in Outlook Classic despite existing on the IMAP server, the only reliable fix was deleting the OST file to force a full resync. Here's the batch script that automates it on every ...
I Completely Overhauled My Discord Music Bot — Slash Commands, Spotify Radio, and 70 Tests
How I took an abandoned MusicBot fork and modernised it with 48 slash commands, a Spotify-powered radio feature, Docker support, systemd hardening, input validation, and a full test suite. 3,640 lines added across 21 ...
Building a Real-Time Temperature and Humidity Monitoring System with Flask, Prometheus, and Grafana
Learn how to build a real-time temperature and humidity monitoring system using a DHT22 sensor, Raspberry Pi, Flask, Prometheus, and Grafana. This project demonstrates data collection, metric exposure
ESP32 Email Notification on State Change to trigger IFS ERP Report
One of the smaller projects which I particularly enjoyed enabled a fire alarm system to interact with the organisations ERP system. This was an integration project where a business stakeholder wanted
SQL: An Idiot's Guide
SQL, or Structured Query Language, is a programming language designed for managing and manipulating relational databases. It is widely used in the field of database management and is considered a stan