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Finally captured Bowshock? - I described in post Post 244 my effort to capture the Bowshock (shock wave) from the nearby X-1 Black hole and how badly I failed. And that was before I consulted it at Reddit and realized that I wasn't using the LP filter while taking the images - the crucial step and beginner miss!...
My Desk Sensor Became an Actual Weather Station! - I've had a little ESP32 sitting on my desk for a while, wired up to a DHT22 and a tiny OLED, showing room temperature and humidity whenever I touch a pin on it. (Yes, a pin! Soldered into a screw making it actual "touchpad" xD) And it worked, technically~. But it was held together like a: write once and never touch again xD. The Wi-Fi handling was…
T-Deck Became a Pocket Server Console! - I run a headless Linux box with no monitor attached, and normally I just SSH into it from whatever machine is nearby. That's fine 99% of the time, but SSH has a very specific failure mode I don't love: it only works when the network, the firewall rules, and sshd are all cooperating at the same time. If any one of those isn't, I'm locked out with no way back…
UFO-CATCHER electronic miniatures boom! - Just an another quick-post! I went to a nearby mall today and I already knew that this kind of routers/switchers miniatures catchers are getting popular at Reddit, and I have already seen it many times before, but this time see it all together made me think: This stuff is getting more and more popular, I maybe should try to buy one. But after realizing one…
Playing for free! Thanks, Mr.Sun! - Just a quick-post! I wanted to share this new gadget I bought in home-center here in Japan. A simple thin solar panel for like $7 ready to output 5V/2A :3...
New Comet captured! - Last night I got a little bit of clear sky, so I decided to capture a currently visible comet called 10P/Tempel , or by its other name, Tempel 2 ....
Retro-games Emulator + Projector - The Mini-HDMI to HDMI adapter I ordered last week finally arrived, so I was able to do something stupid with it 😆...
The Ultimate Mouse Jiggler! - I have an ESP32 microcontroller-based mouse jiggler device, which is explained in detail in this article. I use it primarily to prevent getting logged out of my work PC when I'm searching for things on the internet on my other PC (since the work one has very restricted internet access)....
3D printed case for incense sticks - Just wanted to share images of 3D printed case for incense sticks I've made yesterday. Firstly, I wanted to buy some wooden cool-looking one in the shop where I bought the sticks, but 20~30$ for a one case looked too much for me, so I decided to design one myself and print it 😚...
The Moon captured with a Smartphone and DIY adapter - Recently, I 3D-printed an eyepiece adapter that lets me connect my telescope's eyepiece to a smartphone camera, literally placing the camera lens in front of the eyepiece. I tried to make something like this before, but it was hard to design and wouldn't fit any smartphone other than my own, which wasn't a very flexible solution......
X1 in Cygnus - I haven't posted anything in this category for a long time. Why? Because I was taking thousands upon thousands of images in the constellation Cygnus , near Eta Cygni....
Got a pool at my balcony! 😄 - It's so hot here in Gifu, Japan I decided it's the perfect time to get a family pool....
Making IRC Server over i2p! - I have a dream of creating an "underground" way for people visiting the Void to communicate, not only with me, but also with one another. That's why I decided to build my own little server that I can fully manage, instead of relying on someone else's platform or a random third-party service. The obvious options would be renting a VPS or exposing a service by opening…
Reprocessing screenshots from old games! - I was playing Memories Off: After the Rain , and came across something stuff. There's a mode called Tsubame Super Mode . When you turn it on, Tsubame sensei switches into a rabbit costume for the rest of the game. It's kind of cute 😚, so I took a screenshot to save it in my little digital "memories" 😇....
Too many incense sticks? - I'm not saying I'm addicted to them, but I may be xD...
NGC 7023 - Iris Nebula - A new image after quite some time! NGC 7023 , also known as the Iris Nebula....
Is living in the US so tough on the wallet these days? - If any of my readers are from the United States, I have a question for you: Is it really hard to make ends meet there right now?...
Big News from NEAF 2026: Including the Seestar S50 Pro and More! - Just wanted to quickly share a new video by The Space Koala on YouTube covering the exciting product reveals from NEAF 2026. Seestar (ZWO) gets a lot of the spotlight, including the anticipated S50 Pro , but the video also goes deep into new telescopes and mounts from Sky-Watcher, Takahashi, PrimaLuceLab, Vaonis, and more!...
Messier 97 - Owl Nebula - Next Messier object on my radar! This time it's Messier 97 , the Owl Nebula....
Messier 101 - Pinwheel Galaxy - Another galaxy target captured....
Mangmi Air X soon? - Yes, I'll admit it. I went ahead and bought the Mangmi Air X gaming console....
The Leo Triplet - Three Galaxies of the Constellation of Leo - Yes! After a bit of a break, a few failed attempts with N.I.N.A software, and a full Moon washing out the whole night sky, I finally got a few clear, dark nights here in Gifu 😚...
Playing some Visual Novels recently! - Hello World! Recently a neighbor of mine Akibaten asked me about the Anbernic retro handheld console I've mentioned a few times on this blog. Specifically about playing Visual Novels on it!...
Ransei's Void Classic at i2p - After finally doing some research about i2p and seeing a few articles and news pieces recently, I decided to go and give it a try!...
Running a local LLM from VSCodium! - I couldn't believe what just happened. So here's the story: I had this weird issue with my website: the page would scroll fine when I hovered over the left-side navigation menu in Firefox , but not in any Chromium-based browser like Chrome or Edge . At first, I thought it might be something obvious, maybe a CSS quirk or a browser-specific bug. But after…
Trying Gitea at my local network - I've had enough of all that AI stuff Microslop and GitHub keep pushing everywhere. It's gotten really annoying, so I decided to stop using GitHub and switch to something that's more privacy-focused and better for my data. Plus, my website is getting bigger, and it's getting harder to keep track of all the changes I've made in my head. It's like trying to remember…
My little Meshtastic project! - As I live rather in rural are of Japan it is very rare - if not nearly impossible to see any Meshtastic message from someone else. So I wouldn't like to miss this opportunity... That was a drive power I needed to decide to create this project....
RockBox player inside my little Anbernic device! - Just like in the old days vibe: Wired earphones connected to AUX jack or just metallic sound of Chinese cheap speaker blasting Linkin Park all around! That's what I tried to reproduce with my Anbernic retro game console and software's gem called RockBox ....
Something little more about i2p! - Last time I tried running i2p , I wasn't really seeing the full picture of what this project can actually do. I used i2pd , a C++ version of the I2P client, not the official one. It worked, but it felt kind of hacky. You have to install and configure nginx to get a web server going, which isn't super complicated, but definitely not a plug and play solution....
I officially hate Reddit! A.K.A is freedom-of-speech dead? - I spent about 20 minutes writing a polite post where I wanted to share my feelings and ask for advice on the "japan" subreddit about astrophotography, only for it to get deleted 30 seconds after I posted it. Honestly, was there anything controversial in there that got it taken down? Or is this just some idiotic AI moderation issue on…
The Little Beehive Cluster 🐝 - Few posts back I wrote an article about Beehive Cluster (Messier 44) which looks like a little bees around hive. And today I would like to introduce you yet another Beehive Cluster! But this one is called "little", why? Both Beehive clusters are open clusters resembling flying bees with bright, loosely bound stars, but M41 (little one) is more distant and less rich…
It is freezing! ☃️ - Man, I love this season! No bugs, no flowers also means no allergies, and it's not freaking hot like summer. It's just perfect....
N.I.N.A with Seestar! - Hey everyone, just a quick post I wanted to share!...
Jellyfish Nebula! 🪼 - Over the last two nights I photographed IC443 , or the Jellyfish Nebula ....
Tiny yet mighty objects! - You know, from what I see every day, most people with a smart telescope like my Seestar usually just go for the classic stuffs like: Messier or NGC objects, that kind of thing. But that's not the only cool stuff out there in the night sky! There's so much more to explore, and it's way more fun when you go off the beaten path 😀...
3I Atlas finally captured?! - On December 31st, around 11:30 PM, I finally managed to snap a photo of 3I Atlas 😊. And it was literally right at 11:30 PM ! This comet is leaving the solar system now, getting dimmer every day. I'm pretty sure in just a few days we won't be able to see it with a small telescope like my Seestar anymore....
Horsehead Nebula! - Finally found some time to write about this spectacular object! Barnard 33 , or the Horsehead Nebula , as the "Barnard" name suggests, is a dark nebula near Orion ✨...
Adobe being Adobe .... - So, I've got this spare PC running WinDDoS that I use for a few things, like Adobe Lightroom. * Actually, I'm running it inside Bottles, and there's even a tutorial for getting it to work on Linux. You can check out No.29 - Lightroom under Linux....
Went to Nagoya Christmas Markets 🎅🏻 - So yesterday was my workplace's year-end party. We call it a “忘年会” - "Bounenkai" - in Japanese! It was in “居酒屋” - "Izakaya" tavern like pub, and afterward, a bunch of us decided to check out the Christmas markets in Nagoya!...
Skull Nebula💀 - Last time we featured "Ghost of Cassiopeia", now we have "Skull Nebula": Spooky season is in full swing!...
Shot myself in the foot😵 - Just a quick story about how I shot myself in the foot with the site's structure....
Fatty Cat - Buchta - This one:...
🎉 PC Setup Complete! 🎉 - It took two days of hard work, but my dream machine is finally up and running! After some consideration, I decided to go with Fedora KDE since it supports all the software I need. Plus, a new version had just been released recently, which made it even more appealing!🐧...
Messier M45 - Pleiades - I've been trying to capture a new image of the Pleiades for about three days now, but I wasn't able to take enough pictures to effectively reduce the noise. So, I decided to include an older image I took exactly one year and one day before writing this article because it looks much better!😇...
🍔 McDonald's x Street Fighter: The "Street Burger" Collaboration! 🎮 - McDonald's Japan just dropped a collaboration with Street Fighter, and it's absolutely cool!...
Do You Like Trout?🐟 - The Old School Runescape community just pulled off the weirdest, funniest event or meme I've seen in a while 😅...
Build your own PC! DIY! - Hello! Today I did a cost comparison between buying a prebuilt PC from a vendor here in Japan versus building my own using parts from Amazon, and I was really shocked... I know, I know, Japan is notorious for its sky high service fees, what we call 「ぼったくり」(bottakuri), basically "getting ripped off." It's everywhere, and it's getting out of hand. 😱...
Reclaim the Web: Try Indie Web, Not Doom-Scrolling - Why You Should Try Blogging Platforms Like Neocities Instead of Doom-Scrolling AI-Generated Nonsense......
Homelab part 2! - Continuing from part 1, I want to keep introducing my homelab here! This part focuses on my second Proxmox server and all the containers running on it....
More about my Homelab ^^/ - Since my neighbor wanted to know more about my Homelab setup ^^/ I decided to cover it a bit more in this article 🥰 For anyone who doesn't know: I've got a few mini PCs and Raspberry Pis all clustered together into one bigger system, usually called a Homelab. It's basically a bunch of devices on one home network acting as servers (mostly running Linux) for self-hosting…