Jagan Ganesh
@jaganganesh.bsky.social
Lead Software Engineer fascinated by computers and how they work, deeply invested in retro-computing, open-source ecosystems, hardware architecture, digital privacy, and automation. Sharing my unfiltered thoughts, ideas and occasional project updates…
Sometimes it's totally okay to sit back, watch animation, and cry tears of joy! Watched the new "Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender" movie today, and seeing adult Aang and Team Avatar back together hit surprisingly hard. Peak storytelling ✨ #AvatarTheLastAirbender #AnimeSky
Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender | Official Movie Trailer | Paramount+ | Avatar
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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
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
What Happened to Borland? Why the Developer Tool King Disappeared
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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)
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
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
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
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
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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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 🚀
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?! 📝
"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
Tom and Jerry: Tom Walks Away Sad
ALT: Tom and Jerry: Tom Walks Away Sad
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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
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
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
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
Tuta@tuta.com · last mo.More and more countries ditch Microsoft as the movement of digital sovereignty keeps growing🎉🇪🇺 The idea of digital sovereignty is to become independent from US Big Tech providers. Only together we can achieve digital sovereignty💪🇪🇺 Find out more here 👉 tuta.com/blog/countri...
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
Tokyo Game Life@tokyogamelife.bsky.social · last mo.Nintendo 64 turns 30 years old today in Japan! Yes, the Japanese box art is just that cool.
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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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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
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
