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Curiosity is not a virtue. It is a habit formed through access, friction, and just enough bad decisions to make things interesting.

A satirical take on the over-engineered world of homelabs and the quiet frustration of managing them on the go. This post introduces a simpler alternative: a Telegram bot that brings essential server control into a chat interface, designed to reduce friction and make infrastructure feel human again.

A small Lenovo, a Raspberry Pi, and the slow realization that self hosting is a rabbit hole with no bottom.

An update on Catara, a finance bot that logs expenses like a chat message. After abandoning WhatsApp, it found a better home on Telegram and now runs quietly on a small server somewhere on the internet.

I built a WhatsApp bot to track my coffee spending. Meta built a permanent ban. A short story about shortcuts, unofficial APIs, and the moment you realize that free tools sometimes come with very expensive lessons.

A reflection on how a harmless experiment triggered real consequences, and why curiosity without authorization is not exploration but intrusion.

What started as a tiny computer in a small apartment turned into a rethink of cloud convenience, digital ownership, and what it means to archive things on purpose.

Docker on Windows 11? Are you sure about that?

SceneShift got a major update, and let's talk about it.

Let's talk about the tools and the motivations for making it.

Welcome. My name is tandukuda, a graphic designer and 3d artist that loves computers.