Husband, dad of 2 amazing boys, Open Source and Raspberry Pi Enthusiast and blogger. {he/him}
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If you design app, sites or media for clients and want an Open Source alternative to adobe express or figma look no further than PenPot and you can even run it on your Raspberry Pi, we'll teach you just how to do that!
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Make vim your default editor on your raspberry pi and find out how to add some custom plugins.
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Love VSCode but don’t love MS tracking your every move? We’ll try out VSCodium, the libre/free version of the popular IDE without the binaries for telemetry baked in.
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Learn how to degoogle your documents and free them from the tech giants by hosting the open source cryptpad on your raspberry pi.
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Securely expose your Raspberry Pi to the internet, making your homely hosted service available to everyone.
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Setting up Remote Desktop and SSH connections with a Raspberry Pi to resources in your network can be secure and private with Apache Guacamole.
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Many people are either getting into blogging or looking to port their current Wordpress site to something a little lighter in resources but still has all the goodness of an easy editor, SEO and theme control. This is where ghost really shines and we’ll show you how to set it up!
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Sometimes when you’re developing a website or service you need to test email but you don’t want to hook your dev environment up to a full blown mail server because, well, Dev Happens! The good news is this is really easy to do with a program called mailhog!
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Accessing your Raspberry Pi remotely from your network via VNC is super simple and can save you form many cabling issues allowing you to run headless but still use the desktop GUI.
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Adverts seem to be embedded on every page on the internet these days and to be honest it’s spoiling the browsing experience. The good news is that you can use your Raspberry Pi to fight back with an awesome bit of software called PiHole.
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Apostrophe is probably the best kept secret in editing Markdown. It’s an amazing tool that I can’t recommend enough. Go try it now on your Raspberry Pi.
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One thing that’s great fun to do with a Raspberry Pi is to play Minecraft, and you can use the tiny single board computer to run a server where you and others can play. We’ll look at setting up Minecraft Server Java Edition on the Pi.