Holidays and work got in the way of last weeks update. Spent most of the last week off work and it was a much needed break. Rest and reset with some jobs tackled around the house.
Oh Synology. I’ve had my NAS for just under 10 years and was plotting moving to an 8 bay Synology – easy upgrade, wait for this years hardware refresh, Synology do make managing the device pretty straightforward. Then Synology announced that they were bringing in hard drive restrictions to their devices. They say it’s to reduce risk of hard drive failure, it’s really to make a little more coin as Synology drives are just rebranded third party as they don’t make their own drives. Coupled with the 8 bay refreshes this year using the same hardware as 2021 means I’m done. Going down build my own NAS route – more interesting, more bang for buck, Unraid has interested me for a few years and this news is enough to put me over the edge. Hope to have it done and migrated to by end of May.
Another itch I’ve had for a while is moving this site from WordPress onto…something else. It’s more than I need to run the site, I’ve been looking for something much simpler and over the last 6 months the politics around WordPress has made for grim reading. In the last week employees have found hidden watermarks to catch leakers. Sounds pretty toxic. So I’m looking at ditching WordPress and moving to something like Hugo or Eleventy. Or is it 11ty? Anyway…bit longer in the year for this one but it will be happening.