Posts from 2025

ODROID H4 Ultra NAS Upgrade

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Way back in 2015, I built a NAS. I’d had a “NAS” before, but it was old/spare parts cobbled together to approximate a NAS. This was the first NAS I built, where I bought parts specifically to make a NAS.

I remember doing some research, but ultimately just deciding to go with this wonderful guide from Brian C Moses. It was not the most powerful box, but it did what I needed and I got about 10 years out of it, so I’d say it was a success.

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Tags: hardware

Moved Site to Hugo

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After a long time of using Python & Flask as the base for my site, I’ve switched over to Hugo. My site doesn’t change very often, so this move makes a lot of sense. It’s easier to host and no more Python updates to keep up with.

The move was pretty easy. I created a new Hugo project and copied all my static resources from the old site to the /static directory of my Hugo project. Then I took my Python Jinja2 templates layout and used it for the base of my default layout in Hugo (i.e. baseof.html). I was then able to add content for the pages of my site, and lastly copy over the posts that I wanted to keep.

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Tags: website