№ 02Notes
My story since I moved to Jakarta
Sixteen years inside Indonesia's media transformation — Kompas Editor for iPad, KompasTV, Gramedia Digital, KGX, Bhisma, Kompas.ID. The long arc, in my words.
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The Journal · Vol. I11 stories
Blog
Notes, posts, and half-thoughts from Eberhard. Written here, hosted here.
FeaturedProject
The ESP32 on my desk that learned to open my front door
I had a spare ESP32 and an idea — make the house notice me. A few hours later the door unlocks when I walk in, the bedroom light comes on at dusk, and the deadbolt locks itself at bedtime — all without ever turning on Location Services.
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№ 03Notes
A short history of this site
Three names, one person, thirty years of restarts: powercx.com → eberhardo.com → iameberhard.com.
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№ 04Games
My self-hosted arcade got a leaderboard, and now my friends won't stop competing
My pile of browser games became a console-style hub. Then I gave it a shared leaderboard — and a quiet single-player project turned into a competition my friends keep coming back to.
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№ 05Games
I built a console-style arcade for my self-hosted games
My browser games were scattered one-off HTML files, so I gave them a home: a nostalgic, console-style dashboard with a profile, achievements, and a built-in waiting-room mini-game — all self-hosted on the Pi.
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№ 06Side Projects
I put a multiplayer Minecraft server on a Pi — then taught it to build real places
A PaperMC server, a custom dashboard, and an OpenStreetMap world generator — all sharing one Raspberry Pi 5 that was already running everything else.
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№ 07Project
A personal finance dashboard that forecasts your money to the day
It reads my bank's transaction emails, sorts them in a Google Sheet, and projects my balance to the end of the year — telling me the exact day I'd run out at my current pace.
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№ 08Project
A live dashboard of Jakarta's public traffic cameras
I wired up every public Jakarta traffic CCTV I could find — Dishub ATCS, Balitower, WebcamTaxi — into one filterable, click-to-play dashboard.
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№ 09Engineering
Self-hosting my blog on a Raspberry Pi 5
I migrated this site off a managed PaaS and onto a Pi 5 sitting on my desk. Cloudflare Tunnel removes the need for any open ports, Docker keeps it tidy, and the whole thing runs cooler than my router.
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№ 10Networking
Tailscale as a personal mesh — six months in
A short note on why having a stable private IP from anywhere changed the way I think about home infrastructure. No port forwarding, no DDNS, no VPN appliances.
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№ 11Side Projects
A driver time tracker I actually use
I built a tiny clock-in / clock-out app for my driver, replacing a paper log. It computes overtime, weekly totals, and a payroll-ready export — all in about 600 lines of code.
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