# Slowly but surely...

By [Ramblings of a Based Optimist](https://paragraph.com/@omgbbqhax) · 2025-04-03

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I am finally beginning to feel comfortable enough in learning more about writing smart contracts, dApps or even better… [Mini Apps](https://miniapps.farcaster.xyz/) on **Farcaster❤️**!

I hope to log my thoughts in my wonderful journey and also help make sense of things that may be complicated to others.

Currently setting up my _“developer build server”_ because my old RaspberryPi 3 & 02W’s aren’t cutting it anymore plus any excuse to buy something is a win 😏

I think a newer Pi 5 would be enough and it doesn’t seem anyone else has shared their knowledge so, guess there’s only one way to find out! I really am trying to avoid the _“cloud mindset”_ and wind up getting stuck relying on systems I don’t need to be worrying about but man it’s hard to say no to a prebuilt work environment to just be done with it!

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*Originally published on [Ramblings of a Based Optimist](https://paragraph.com/@omgbbqhax/slowly-but-surely)*