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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Nothing special, just sharing the daily driver. Got Fedora 44 with 7.1.6 kernel on this ThinkPad E14 Gen 6—the Tux and Red Hat stickers just complete the look! 🐧💞

Top-down view of a ThinkPad E14 laptop on a white desk featuring Linux and Red Hat stickers, alongside a controller, mouse, and phones.

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Spent the day fine-tuning the HomeLab: migrated from Ubuntu Server to Debian. Local NAS Transmission Cockpit CI/CD Runners w/ FFmpeg & QuickSync Docker - Pi-hole - WireGuard - Minecraft Scheduled Backups, Scans, Updates and Reboots. Boot time dropped from 53s to 14s. Worth every minute.✨ #HomeLab

Terminal screenshot showing an SSH session to an Lenovo ThinkCentre M710Q HomeLab from Lenovo ThinkPad E14 running Debian 13 (kernel 6.12.100-1). The output of free -h shows 1.2Gi of 15Gi RAM used, 14Gi available, and 3.2Mi of 6.0Gi swap used.

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I started learning programming with Borland Turbo C, so this hit hard. Most people think Microsoft killed Borland, but this video nails what actually happened: they abandoned the developers who loved them to chase enterprise sales. That instant feedback compile loop changed everything. 💻✨ #DevSky

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What Happened to Borland? Why the Developer Tool King Disappeared

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My migration process… - Gmail → @tuta.com - Office → @libreoffice.bsky.social - Authenticator → Aegis - Password Manager → Vaultwarden - Contacts, Calendar, Tasks → Radicale - Notes → Joplin - Podcast → AntennaPod - YouTube → NewPipe - QuickShare → NAS - Cloud → Cryptomator (waiting for Tuta Drive)

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Sometimes when people refuse to listen, going idle is the only choice. You know something won't work, but saving your peace comes first. Let them break their heads over it and figure it out themselves. 🧠✨ #WorkLife

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

No new project ideas right now, so I spent some time getting the workbench spotlessly clean. 🧹⚙️ Everything is organized and ready to go for whatever comes next! #Hardware #Electronics #Maker #BuildInPublic

A neatly organized electronics workbench on a clean white desk, featuring an Arduino Nano and an ATmega32 setup with a 5V regulator on breadboards at the center. Surrounding them are various maker tools and components, including a green digital multimeter, spare breadboards, microcontrollers, ribbon cables, a bottle of IPA, a helping-hands magnifying glass, wire strippers, precision tweezers, and a power strip.

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just bought a new ThinkPad E14! 💻✨ While setting up Flatpak and clearing duplicate entries, I accidentally deleted /usr/share/applications. 🤦‍♂️ Thought I was doomed to nuke & reinstall the OS, but a 7-year-old AskUbuntu thread saved the day! askubuntu.com/questions/87... #Ubuntu #Linux #ThinkPad

Top-down view of an open Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 6 laptop (AMD Ryzen 7, 32GB RAM, 512GB NVMe, purchased July 21, 2026, from Lenovo India) resting on a speckled granite surface. The laptop is running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Linux, with an active terminal window on screen showing package dependency installation via apt. A desktop script file named `reinstallApplications.sh` and a custom raccoon illustration wallpaper are visible in the background.

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is pure genius! 🎮✨ A maker upcycled cheap 128GB SSDs into physical "Steam Cartridges". They used custom labels, a udev rule, and a systemd template on Linux to auto-launch the specific game the second you plug it in. Old-school console feel meets modern hardware. #Cartridge @steampowered.com

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PC gamer turns Steam games into cartridges with ingenious 2.5-inch SSD system — games are stored on 128GB drives alongside a script to auto-start the title once plugged in

Video shows Steam Game Cartridge system in action.

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Project Announcement ✨ Planning a retro 2D platformer in Godot with Aseprite for characters, animations, and assets. If you played games in 90s, you'll feel right at home. 9 levels (2 checkpoints + 1 boss fight each) Devlogs + Audience Feedback here on @bsky.app Full Game on Steam and PlayStore 🚀

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Sick of constantly refreshing Amazon for price drops… Built a Node.js app on my M710Q HomeLab to automate it: 1. Drop the URL + target price into a CSV 2. With CRON it checks live price every 4 hours 3. Pings my Telegram the second it hits! What automation scripts are saving your sanity lately?! 📝

Screenshot of a Telegram web interface displaying a "Price Drop Alert!" from an Amazon India bot. The message lists a Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 laptop with its specifications, showing a current price of ₹105,000 against a target price of ₹120,000, along with a "Buy Now" link and product image preview.

Screenshot of VS Code showing JavaScript backend code inside index.js for an Amazon price tracker, alongside a products.csv file listing tracked URLs and target prices. The integrated terminal shows the script executing via Node.js, successfully checking the two CSV products, confirming a current price of ₹105,000, and printing "Telegram notification sent successfully."

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"Pick My Anime" bot is officially sunsetting today due to the Jikan API shutdown. 💔 The full source code is live on GitLab. Feel free to fork it, plugin a new API, and make it your own. 🚀 Repo: gitlab.com/jaganganesh/... Thanks for all your support during this short-lived project! #Anime #NodeJS

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Tom and Jerry: Tom Walks Away Sad

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Giving this perf-board project some personality! 🤖✨ Been playing around with an OLED and this library github.com/FluxGarage/R... It's amazing how simple animated eyes bring a tiny screen to life. If I ever finish this project, she's going to be the EVE to my WALL-E bot! 🌱 #Arduino #BuildInPublic

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Wanted to emulate something easier than CHIP-8 on an Arduino Nano and stumbled across - Little Man Computer - SAP-1 Never heard of them before, but they look like an excellent baseline for understanding how a CPU works under the hood. peterhigginson.co.uk/lmc - #Arduino #Emulation #Hardware #CPU

A visual interface for the Little Man Computer educational simulator. The left panel contains an empty text area for Assembly Language Code with assembly and execution controls. The right panel displays the internal architecture, including a CPU with a program counter and accumulator, an arithmetic unit, and a RAM grid with 100 memory slots currently initialized to 000.

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Built a 5V regulator & shift in/out board (74HC165, 74HC595) with manual/auto clock via a 555 timer & tactile button. What's on your workbench right now? 👇 #DIYTech #Hardware #BuildInPublic

A DIY electronics project on a white workbench featuring a green digital multimeter, a perfboard circuit with a 5V voltage regulator and heatsink, and a main perfboard containing 74HC165 and 74HC595 shift registers, a 555 timer, tactile buttons, a DIP switch, and an illuminated red LED bargraph. Solder wire and a soldering iron stand are visible in the background.

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The funny thing is governments are starting to make this shift now, while plenty of us switched to Linux years ago. 🐧 This might finally be the year of Linux on the desktop... we've all heard that before, but this time it feels different. #FOSS #Linux #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Nintendo 64 launched in Japan 30 years ago today, completely changing how we think about 3D worlds! 🇯🇵🎮 From the analog stick to Super Mario 64, it wrote the playbook for player movement and camera controls. - #N64 #GameDev #RetroGaming

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Random thought 💭 Every good developer has made a terrible game at least once. 🎮 Not a great game. Not a successful game. A gloriously broken game that taught more about programming than any tutorial ever could. What was the first game you built? 👇 - #DevLife #GameDev #BuildInPublic #100DaysOfCode

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Hyperdrive disengaged, Time for a movie! 🎬🍿 Hunting for film recommendations themed around tech-focused thrillers, software biopics, or network-heist. Less "green text flying across the screen" more compelling stories. What’s a must-watch? Drop your best picks… #DevLife #FilmSky #HackerCulture

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Time for a new project! 💻✨ Planning to turn a refurb ThinkCentre M700 into a budget DIY NAS running OpenMediaVault, with upgraded RAM, SSD and a RAID HDD setup. Would love your take on this hardware choice—any pitfalls to watch out for? 🚀 #HomeLab #SelfHosted #OpenMediaVault #FOSS #BuildInPublic

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Building b64 🚀 A lightweight React Native app for inspecting and removing hidden file metadata, with built-in Base64 encoding/decoding for safer file sharing and better privacy. Planning to release on F-Droid and Google Play soon github.com/mobilenaut/b64 #OpenSource #Privacy #BuildInPublic #FOSS

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

That quiet satisfaction of keeping the GitHub streak alive no matter how heavy the workload gets. 💻✨ Happiness is carving out just one hour every day to push to FOSS and private repos. It's about the daily ritual of showing up. 🚀 #OpenSource #GitHub #FOSS #DevCommunity #Coding #BuildInPublic

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Pure dopamine rush: tweaking your own system files for that flawless macOS desktop aesthetic... then realizing you can fix it for everyone else too! 💻✨ Just opened PR #4313 on Fritzing to fix the Dock & Launchpad icon padding. 🚀 #OpenSource #Fritzing #macOS #GitHub #Coding #UI #Design #Tech

A web browser screenshot showing a GitHub pull request titled "Fix macOS Dock/Launchpad icon padding for Fritzing #4313" submitted by user jaganganesh. The description explains it updates the application icon asset to fix layout misalignment and match native macOS design spacing.

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"Pick My Anime" is officially moving to GitLab! 🚀 I've finished porting the full source code. Sadly, after Twitter/X killed the project without notice—despite me paying for API access—I've officially abandoned and archived all Twitter-related code. #Bluesky #OpenSource #GitLab #Anime #DevCommunity

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Jagan Ganesh / Pick My Anime · GitLab

An automated pipeline that fetches random anime from the Jikan API, applies a branded watermark, and uses GitLab CI/CD to auto-publish the posts to Bluesky. Bluesky...

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I kept hesitating to switch to a new MacBook because I'd have to manually reinstall every single app again. Then I remembered shellscripts exist 😅 Using @brew.sh to automate my entire setup. Huge thanks to the maintainers for making macOS migrations painless #OpenSource #Homebrew @mikemcquaid.com

Screenshot of a macOS terminal editor showing a shell script with multiple Homebrew install commands for apps including Brave Browser, VS Code, VLC, Docker, Obsidian, Thunderbird, OpenVPN Connect, and Raspberry Pi Imager. The script also installs nvm and rbenv for Node.js and Ruby environments.

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Jagan Ganesh @jaganganesh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Want to de-cloud your Apple ecosystem but hate heavy software? 🍍 pineapple-cloud is an ultra-lightweight, self-hosted iCloud alternative. Sync native macOS/iOS Notes, Calendar, Reminders & Contacts under 100MB RAM! 🔗 github.com/jaganganesh/... - #selfhosted #privacy #opensource #apple #macos #ios

A screenshot of the macOS System Settings "Internet Accounts" panel demonstrating the successful local configuration of "pineapple-cloud". Three distinct accounts are mapped to a local network server at 127.0.0.1. The first is an IMAP Mail account labeled "Pineapple Notes" configured specifically to natively sync Apple Notes. The second is an advanced CalDAV account named "Pineapple DAV" managing Apple Calendars and Reminders (Tasks). The third is an advanced CardDAV account named "Pineapple Contacts" syncing the native Apple Contacts address book.

This visual setup proves that privacy-focused Apple users can completely de-cloud their native macOS and iOS ecosystems using a single, ultra-lightweight Docker stack combining the Radicale DAV engine with a minimalist IMAP mail container. The entire footprint runs efficiently under 100MB of RAM, making it the ideal low-resource, open-source alternative to heavy suites like Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi or a home NAS.

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