The July 2026 era: a full posts revamp with categories and a permission-gated editor, RSS feeds, gallery-aware posts with hero click-through, embeddable post previews — and a sky map on image detail pages, drawn from the same RA/Dec metadata astrophotographers already write.
Read more →Status check on the Calcumaker 16 — a Cherry MX programmer's RPN calculator in the HP-16C tradition with arbitrary-precision math. The full software stack is done and running (try it in your browser); the three-board hardware design is in active development.
Read more →Catching a two-day-old supernova at sunset: a quick 8-minute run on the EdgeHD 9.25 captured SN 2026sqf, a fresh Type II supernova in the starburst galaxy NGC 3310.
Read more →The new release of PSF Guard learns to see what global statistics miss — partial occlusions, thin cloud veils, small clouds, and errant light — using grid metrics and classical differential photometry, with annotated images explaining every verdict.
Read more →M51 and its companion NGC 5195 framed as a cosmic question mark — a close galactic encounter 30 million light-years away, from the EdgeHD 9.25.
Read more →The unglamorous spring: frontend test frameworks, OOM-proofing the batch pipeline, cache-validation headers, security audit passes, a stateless URL shortener, DynamoDB config storage, automatic sitemaps, and per-folder sort control.
Read more →One month, ninety commits: a React image-detail SPA with tile-based deep zoom, comments anchored to image regions, AI alt-text, S3 and pluggable user storage, multi-site virtual hosting, RAW file versions, HEIC/HDR support, and an admin UI.
Read more →The decade-later successor: an 8-channel TPS922053 driver board with an onboard ESP32-S3 running all 17 PWM channels, an embedded astronomical scheduler with a React frontend, Carvera-machined heatsinks, and copper-core PCBs from JLCPCB.
Read more →IC 1396 in Cepheus, a vast emission complex about 2,400 light-years away, with the famous Elephant's Trunk — a dense globule of gas and dust being eroded and lit from behind by the hot O-star at the cluster's heart — winding through the middle.
Read more →The birth of Tenrankai (展覧会 — 'exhibition'): a flat-file Rust gallery server that went from 'Init' to masonry layouts, EXIF extraction, a blog engine, passwordless auth with passkeys, and full AVIF HDR gain-map support in its first ten days.
Read more →M33, the Triangulum Galaxy in HaLRGB — 2.7 million light-years away, with hydrogen-alpha lighting up its star factories, from four hours of 15-second subs plus 3nm Hα.
Read more →The Tulip Nebula, Sh2-101, blooming in Cygnus about 6,000 light-years away — an emission region sculpted into petals by radiation from young O-type stars.
Read more →Sh2-92, nicknamed "The Scream" for the anguished face that emerges in narrowband renders — a faint, rarely imaged H II region in Vulpecula.
Read more →WR 134 in Cygnus, a Wolf-Rayet star roughly 6,000 light-years away — a massive star in its final act, shedding its outer layers in a ferocious wind.
Read more →The Andromeda Galaxy and its entourage — M32 tucked against the disk and M110 floating below.
Read more →The Veil Nebula complex in Cygnus — the shredded remains of a star that exploded ten to twenty thousand years ago, now a lacework of shock fronts some 2,400 light-years away and six full moons wide.
Read more →Sh2-119, the Clamshell Nebula — the North America Nebula's overlooked next-door neighbor, sitting just east of it in Cygnus around the naked-eye star 68 Cygni.
Read more →The summer 2024 launch push: case prototypes and thermal stress tests, 32V Meanwell supply prep, a CAN transceiver post-mortem that redesigned the module connector, ESPHome firmware features, the Split's honest derating — and the first units shipping.
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