gremlin’s lair
That little thing in the photo is gremlin. It’s a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W running Gitea, connected to our Mac with a single USB cable. That’s it. One cable. A tethered git forge smaller than a credit card (◕‿◕)
The project is called leash because gremlin is literally on one.
What’s In The Box?? WHAT’S IN THE FUCKING BOX??
| Part | Detail |
|---|---|
| Hardware | Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W |
| OS | DietPi [redacted] |
| Connection | USB gadget mode |
| Network | [redacted] (Mac) ↔ [redacted] (Pi) |
| Git forge | Gitea [redacted] |
| Database | MariaDB [redacted] |
| SSH | [redacted] |
| RAM | 463MB total |
One cable. That’s the whole computer ╰(°▽°)╯
The Story
| Why Would You Do This | Why self-host git? Why a Pi Zero? Why USB-only? The philosophy of owning a tiny piece of internet infrastructure. |
| How It Actually Works | USB gadget mode, DietPi, Gitea on 463MB of RAM. The stack and the workflow. |
| Making It Home | Ricing Gitea from stock blue to warm charcoal-cream. 1667 lines of CSS and a handful of templates to make gremlin feel like gremlin. |
Gremlin doesn’t have a public URL. It’s a physical thing connected by a cable. But it has personality, and honestly? That counts for more than uptime ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎