Building my own DIY NAS

Ever since I shared my epic saga of self-hosting Immich on a Raspberry Pi (check out the post if you haven’t already, because, you know, it’s a masterpiece), everything’s been smooth sailing. Until, of course, I started adding more services.

Suddenly, 1TB of SSD plugged into a humble Raspberry Pi just isn’t going to cut it anymore. So, I’ve ventured into the treacherous world of Mini PCs, DAS, and NAS. Here’s what I’ve found so far.

My Journey to Self-hosting: Immich and Raspberry Pi for Personal Photos and Videos Storage

Preserving memories is a human instinct. We have been doing it for centuries. From cave paintings to digital photos, we have come a long way.

Real-time data synchronization and CDC with Alibaba Canal

When speaking of Change Data Capture, Debezium and Kafka connect are the first tools that comes to our mind. Though you are missing out on a great gem if you havent heard of Canal.

MySQL Point in Time Recovery

Point in Time Recovery (PITR) is a feature in MySQL that allows you to recover your database to a specific point in time.

Install Hadoop on Linux - Ultimate tutorial

Lately, in our Big Data course at University, we were required to install Hadoop and made a report about the installation progress. Having completed it, I thought I should share my experience.

Simple Gallery: Simple yet powerful gallery app for Android

Basic linux commands

Happy 30th birthday, Linux! Thirty years ago, on August 25th, 1991, 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix news group, saying that he’s working on a free operating system for 386(486) AT clones, just as a hobby.

Install Flutter on Arch Linux

Getting Flutter and Android working together is no small feat.

Linux may be a first-class citizen when it comes to developing with Flutter, but setting up Java, Android and the Android tool-chain can be a real hassle.

This blog post shows how get Flutter working with Android SDK without installing Android Studio.

Ranger manager configure

This is my personal config for the ranger file manager. Some basic information:

My personal setup - ThinkPad

After writing a post about my phone setup, I realized that I havent had one for my bigger machine (touchy). So here it goes.

So my currently setup is a ThinkPad T480 and… yeah, thats all. You heard it right. I plan to get a 27 inch monitor later though. And furthermore, a legit PC? Oh dont forget my “soon to be bought” mechanical keyboard ( I have a long wishes list. I meant, who doesnt?).