James Barnett

[Personal] Some Updates

Thursday 5 September 2024

Alrighty, so haven't really made much progress with this website for a while. I recently gifted myself a Raspberry Pi 5 with an NVMe drive, so I'm hoping to mess around a bit more with home networking and blog about it. I'm intending it more as a guide for myself when I inevitably end up breaking it all rather than to be informative to anyone else.

At some point since the last post I moved this site, and all the others (except the wedding one) to GitHub pages - turns out hosting basic stuff on completely overprovisioned cloud infrastructure is noticably expensive. The wedding site got moved to Next.js cloud hosing (which is free!), so I've essentially cut the costs of running these pages to £0... For now...

In terms of personal updates - I've played a lot of video games, watched a lot of TV, bought a pizza oven, consumed far too much pizza, started cycling for exercise, started reading books, gotten married. Yeah, quite a lot has happened I guess.

On the more technical side, I've switched from Windows to Fedora, and started making better use of my NAS. More on the NAS stuff in the future I'm hoping.

That's it for this mini personal update. More of just an "I'm back". Hopefully I'll have a more interesting and technical post coming up soon on the absolute mission it's been to even start getting my home networking and self hosted services into a reasonable place.

Also on the development of this site front - need to add some sort of tagging feature. Just prefixing with "[Personal]" doesn't quite cut it.