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Scrapegoat - Raspberry Pi Price Tracker

Scrapegoat - Raspberry Pi Price Tracker

Tony Oct 13, 2025

Back in August’s Raspberry Pi Price Tracking post, I talked about a quick Markdown table I put together by hand to compare Micro Center’s Raspberry Pi prices. It worked fine for a snapshot, but those numbers go stale fast — and I wanted something that could keep itself up-to-date.

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Pi‑hole Zero 2 W: Beyond NIC Flapping — The Freeze Mystery

Pi‑hole Zero 2 W: Beyond NIC Flapping — The Freeze Mystery

Tony Oct 2, 2025

TL;DR — Early on I fixed a flaky USB NIC (Realtek r8152) that caused short dropouts. Weeks later the box began hard freezing. Logs from the previous boot showed SD host timeouts (sdhost-bcm2835 ... timeout waiting for hardware interrupt) and ext4 read stalls. The fix: back up, move to a new endurance SD card, and restore Pi‑hole + Tailscale configs.

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Adding Comments with Utterances

Adding Comments with Utterances

Tony Aug 25, 2025

I wanted to add a lightweight way for people to interact with my Jekyll posts without running my own backend. Utterances turned out to be perfect: free, simple, and powered by GitHub Issues.

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Quick Fix: Stabilizing Pi-hole USB NIC Flapping (Realtek r8152)

Quick Fix: Stabilizing Pi-hole USB NIC Flapping (Realtek r8152)

Tony Aug 24, 2025

This is the TL;DR version. For the full background and debugging steps, check out Fixing PiHole USB NIC Flapping.

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Automating Jekyll Commits with Gitkwik

Automating Jekyll Commits with Gitkwik

Tony Aug 24, 2025

A simplified version of my gitkwik script, adapted for Jekyll projects — with support for version bumps in `_config.yml`, clean commits, and automatic site builds.

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Fixing Pi-hole Dropouts on Zero: Debugging the USB NIC Flapping Issue

Fixing Pi-hole Dropouts on Zero: Debugging the USB NIC Flapping Issue

Tony Aug 24, 2025

*Update: I found another issue with this Pi-Hole install. Read about it here.*

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Remotely Updating from Debian 12 Bookworm to Debian 13 Trixie

Remotely Updating from Debian 12 Bookworm to Debian 13 Trixie

Tony Aug 23, 2025

Update 2025/09/05: There were display issues following this update. I will post a followup once I’ve corrected them.

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The burnt out husk of a lawn tractor...

The burnt out husk of a lawn tractor...

Tony Aug 15, 2025

When I bought my house about five years ago my mother in law gave me her old lawn tractor.

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Installing Rayhunter on Orbic Hotspot

Installing Rayhunter on Orbic Hotspot

Tony Aug 14, 2025

Rayhunter Project

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Raspberry Pi Price Tracking

Tony Aug 6, 2025

Tracking the price of Raspberry Pi products at Microcenter so I don't have to keep looking them up..

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