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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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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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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This is the TL;DR version. For the full background and debugging steps, check out Fixing PiHole USB NIC Flapping.
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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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*Update: I found another issue with this Pi-Hole install. Read about it here.*
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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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When I bought my house about five years ago my mother in law gave me her old lawn tractor.
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Rayhunter Project
Read more →Tracking the price of Raspberry Pi products at Microcenter so I don't have to keep looking them up..
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