Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 10/09/2026Built Blissboard: a shared corkboard for D&D that lives on the TV. FastAPI + WebSockets under the hood, so notes, images, videos, HP bars sync live to every tablet and laptop at the table. Local only for IRL games, Audio only on the TV. #dnd #homelab 031 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 04/09/2026Built LootGoblin, a Discord bot for D&D party inventory. Tracks loot, gold, locations. Pairs with a webpage using Discord auth tied to guild ID. No more "who's got the poison keg" arguments. #DnD #Homelab 020 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 21/08/2026Turns out you can just measure your HVAC instead of guessing whether it's knackered. Supply and return temps into Home Assistant. Every sawtooth is a cycle, delta stays 18-20F. ESP32s and temp probes. Now maybe I can catch it going bad before it's another 5k bill... #HomeAssistant #Homelab #hvac 000 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 21/08/2026Here's what that actually looks like. Pulled this out of a PSU yesterday. The X on top is a pressure vent, scored in so the can splits there instead of exploding. It's split both arms and vented, hence the soot. It didn't dry out quietly. It went. Also, dust adds heat. Heat kills PSUs. #homelab 111 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 21/08/2026Elizabeth Feinler (1931-present) Ran the ARPANET directory from 1974 to 1989. Her team invented .com, .edu, .gov and .org, and built the first WHOIS server. Every domain you own traces back to her filing system. #WomenInTech #Selfhosted 020 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 13/08/2026 Seeing all the post of the solar eclipse with people saying its their first one, makes my heart happy. Its a surreal moment. While I didnt get to see this one I was fortunate enough to experience one Apr 8, 2024. Here are the two best pics I was able to get on that one. 000 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 07/08/2026And then here you can see when the new system got online. Just some graphs for the graph nerds out there like me. 000 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 07/08/2026Well one thing good about esp32s and a Homelab you can see when your central AC fails in real time..... yesterday was a long day. #esp32 #homelab #hvac #selfhosted. 110 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 10/06/2026Lynn Conway (1938–2024) Redesigned how microchips are designed at Xerox PARC. Her methods are in virtually every chip made since the 80s. IBM fired her in 1968. She rebuilt her career quietly, changed the industry anyway. Trans woman. The work speaks for itself. #WomenInTech #Pride 151 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 02/06/2026Sophie Wilson (1957–present) Designed the ARM instruction set in 1985. ~95% of all smartphones run on it. Your phone, your tablet, probably your watch. Trans woman. Quietly responsible for the device you're reading this on. #WomenInTech #Pride 020 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 28/05/2026Mary Allen Wilkes (1939–present) Built software for the LINC in the 1960s. One of the first interactive personal computers. She took one home in 1965, making her the first person known to use a computer at home. She then quit computing and became a lawyer. The field's loss. #WomenInTech 030 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 28/05/2026Built a self-hosted D&D tactical map — Flask + SocketIO so terrain, tokens & AoE shapes sync live between DM and players. DM controls the session with login, players join via share link. No account needed. Runs in Docker. 🗺️⚔️ #DnD #TTRPG #Homelab 010 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 02/05/2026Been playing with custom workshop dash. It tracks everything from inventory levels for my ESP32-S3 builds to vetting salvaged 18650s with a built-in pack builder. Really helps keep the budget engineering projects on track. #homelab #tinkering #industrialgrunge #tinkerer #coding #budgetengineer 140 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 24/04/2026ESP32 weather station → MQTT → Python → MIDI synth → speakers. Calm Rain atm. Also made a web UI. #Esp32 #midi #Weather 130 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 13/04/2026ESP32 weather station → MQTT → Python → MIDI synth → speakers. the weather outside is literally playing music inside. calm morning so it sounds like this. wait till a storm rolls in. #Esp32 #midi #Weather 040 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 10/04/2026Joan Clarke (1917–1996) Codebreaker at Bletchley Park. Worked directly with Turing cracking Enigma — the cipher the Nazis thought was unbreakable. She was paid less than the men doing the same job. The work was classified for decades. Without her, the war likely runs longer. #WomenInTech 010 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 07/04/2026Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) Hollywood actress by day. Co-invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum in 1942 — the tech that underpins WiFi, Bluetooth & GPS. The patent expired before it made a penny. The entire wireless industry built on it anyway. They remembered the actress. Forgot the engineer. 020 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 07/04/2026Built a DIY weather station from scratch 🌤️ ESP32-S3 + BME280 + SparkFun wind/rain sensors. Solar powered, MQTT → Home Assistant dashboard → Esp32 Lcd display. Took way too long. Absolutely worth it? I think so! #HomeAssistant #ESP32 #DIY #HomeAutomation #WeatherStation 170 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 07/04/2026Dr.Gladys West, the mathematician whose precise modelling of Earth's shape became the backbone of GPS, passed away this January aged 95. Her work was hidden for decades. Every sat-nav on the planet carries her legacy. Rest well. 🛰️ #WomenInTech #GladysWest 020 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 19/03/2026My dnd group needed a combat tracker three weeks later: multi-user web app, live soundboard, full character sheets, encounter management, admin panel anyway. how's everyone else's 'quick little project' going 020 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 23/02/2026Radia Perlman (1951–present) Invented Spanning Tree Protocol - the algorithm that prevents network loops and makes the internet actually function. Without her, the whole thing crashes. They call her "Mother of the Internet" but most people have never heard her name... 020 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 05/10/2025Katherine Johnson (1918–2020) NASA mathematician who hand calculated the trajectories for the Moon landing. John Glenn refused to launch until she verified the computer's math. She worked through segregation, through being the only woman in the room. With out her space = no go. #womenintech 020 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 28/09/2025Dr. Annie Easley (1933–2011) Rocket scientist, computer programmer, and energy conversion badass at NASA She started in the 1950s. While Black. While a woman. In tech building the software for rocket launch systems. She also worked on battery tech for early hybrid vehicles. 020 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 25/09/2025Grace Hopper (1906–1992) Invented the first compiler. Helped shape COBOL, a language that still runs half the world’s finance. She pulled a literal moth from a relay and called it “debugging.” They called her “Grandma COBOL.” We should call her the architect of modern programming. 020 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 25/09/2025Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) Wrote what’s considered the first computer algorithm for Babbage’s Analytical Engine. She basically predicted general-purpose computing a century before actual computers existed. People thought she was just “helping out” Babbage. No, she was seeing the future. 020 0
Budget Engineer @budget-engineer.com · 25/09/2025Margaret Hamilton wrote the code that got us to the Moon. She coined the term software engineering when the world didn’t even think programming was a "real" field. Without her, half of us wouldn’t have jobs, and the other half would still be debugging punch cards. 040 0
