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Welcome to my digital workbench. A space to explore, build and share insights from a journey across the diverse landscape of technology - from personal projects and coding adventures to navigating complex systems.

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• [Archived] I Lost My Keys, So I Built a Better Lost & Found for Poland: The Story of Znalazka.org

  Published: 2 Nov, 2025 |  at  11:00 AM

  A retrospective of Znalazka.org, a lost-and-found platform for Poland built with Next.js and Golang on a Raspberry Pi 5, and why I archived it.

• From Homelab to Production: Launching an E-commerce Shop with Open Source Tech

  Published: 24 Oct, 2025 |  at  05:00 PM

  How I built and deployed a production-ready e-commerce shop using Next.js, Golang and Caddy on a Raspberry Pi 5 - complete with image optimization, performance metrics and lessons learned.

• My Raspberry Pi 5 Homelab: Powering Privacy, Automation and More!

  Published: 20 May, 2025 |  at  05:00 PM

  Discover how a tiny Raspberry Pi 5, supercharged with an NVMe SSD, can run a powerful suite of self-hosted services for enhanced privacy, smart home control, development and monitoring.

• Self-Hosting Pi-hole on RaspberryPi: Your Network's Ad-Blocking Guardian

  Published: 10 May, 2025 |  at  06:00 PM

  Unlock a cleaner, faster and more private internet by self-hosting Pi-hole on your RaspberryPi. This guide covers setup, advanced features and why it's a game-changer.