Tech & servers
When I’m not outside getting rained on, I’m usually poking at something with a command line.
I run a small flock of boxes at home – a Synology NAS, the odd Raspberry Pi pretending to be serious infrastructure, and whatever else I’ve dragged back from eBay “for parts or not working”. Most of it is there to keep files safe, run backups, stream media, and quietly justify the amount of time I spend fiddling with it.
On the software side, I’ve spent years around CMMS systems like Maximo and TRIRIGA, so I have a soft spot for anything that tries (and usually fails) to be “the single source of truth”. At home it’s a bit looser: Obsidian for notes, Time Machine and the NAS for backups, and various self‑hosted bits that I’m allegedly “testing”.
What you’ll find here:
- Synology setups, backup schemes and “how I nearly lost everything but didn’t”.
- Raspberry Pi NAS and home‑server experiments – from sensible to slightly daft.
- Occasional dives into Linux, containers and services that make life easier (or more complicated, depending).
- Notes for future‑me on things I don’t want to have to figure out twice.
This isn’t meant to be a perfect guide or a slick homelab showcase – it’s a record of what I’ve actually done, what worked, and what quietly broke at 2am.
Recent posts
- Arduino winToday’s little Arduino win: hooked up an ultrasonic sensor to an UNO and turned it into a simple distance display. It’s amazing how quickly you can go from loose components on the bench to a working gadget that measures the world around you in real time. Next step is to log the readings and see … Read more
- AnthropicToday in tech: the US government has decided it no longer wants to use Anthropic’s AI tools while simultaneously demanding other AI firms drop their safety brakes. Meanwhile, Nvidia is printing money, Burger King is strapping AI headsets to staff to measure ‘friendliness’, and fake AI grime videos of ‘broken Britain’ are racking up views. … Read more