I built an honest radio-astronomy research pipeline (and it mostly finds nothing)
A tested, reproducible toolkit for amateur radio astronomy — 40+ analyses of public survey data, most of them honest nulls. Learn, do, observe.
Joe Barbere’s Blog
Linux, Gaming, Coding, Game Dev, AI, Home Lab, Electronics, Radio, Astronomy, Astro Photography, Photography, Radio Astronomy, Rocketry, Robotics, Drones, 3D Printing...
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Aquascape
A free, open-source design tool for planted aquariums — a 2D editor wired to a live 3D tank simulation with schooling fish and a real nitrogen cycle.
Claude "hello world"
What happened when I handed Claude Code a blank repo and said "let's build something" — a hello world that mutated into an absurdly over-engineered full-stack weather platform.
Beginnings
How a Tandy 1000, a library card, and a 56k modem sparked a lifelong obsession with computers.
Quake in 2026
Running Quake and QuakeWorld on Fedora in 2026 — ezQuake, DarkPlaces, Team Fortress and FortressOne, running your own server, and compiling QuakeC.
Linux Kernel Development in 2026
A Linux kernel development workflow on Fedora 43 — build, boot in QEMU/mkosi, debug with gdb/lldb, navigate in Neovim with clangd, and fuzz with syzkaller.
Linux in 2026
Building out a Fedora 43 Linux workstation in 2026 — GNOME tweaks, the fish shell, a full dev toolchain, and creative apps.