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title: "New adventures of an old geek"
description: "I've had a blog. Actually more than one..."
pubDate: "2025-02-19"
heroImage: "/blog-placeholder-1.jpg"
---

**I've had a blog**. Actually [more](https://bitbonsai.medium.com/) than [one](https://carnivoorexperiment.nl)...

Around 2007, I used to do bDay websites, with some sort of commenting system. I always wrote from scratch — in PHP — with the hopes to create a better version than the previous year. They usually had a guestbook on plaintext or mySQL, and I used all new CSS tricks I could, to make it **pop**. Good times. I don't even know where all that is now. I should have a backup in some CD or portable HDD somewhere.

And now, I thought: well, I could quickly spin up a [hey.world space](https://world.hey.com/wolff) to jolt some notes, and later one create a _webhook_ that would publish in both hey.world and here.

Doesn't sound too hard, but it needs to start somewhere. And it's much easier to start writing an email, publishing on [hey.world](https://world.hey.com/wolff) and later figure out how to integrate with the future blog. **So here we are.**

> The important point here is: to express ideas and quickly publish something.

So, what's up?

Well... a lot actually. In the _geek_ department, I finally bought a [NAS](https://nas.ugreen.com/products/ugreen-nasync-dxp4800-nas-storage). And it's a Debian underneath, so I installed Docker and [Immich](https://immich.app), and I'm transferring all my iCloud photos and videos to it. I also downloaded my [google takeout](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en) and I'm migrating all my Photos to it, using the clever [Immich-go](https://github.com/simulot/immich-go).

**The master plan?** Keep all my photos and videos, indexed, with Ai sprinkles on them to find people and places, **all in my living room**. No more cloud fees, no more using my data to train models. [Even if they say they don't](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw99n3qjeyjo).

Oh, but what about redundancy? Isn't it risky to have stuff only in your NAS? Well, a little. It's 16TB of space, and I'm still thinking to get a [cloud backup provider](https://www.idrive.com/) or maybe even some other NAS or external SSD just for peace of mind. In any case, I'm using 12TB with 4 of redundancy, so not too worried about disk failures.

But then... will I only access it when I'm at home? Well, thanks to [tailscale](https://tailscale.com/), I'm able to access my NAS files from anywhere in the world.

**Good things ahead, I foresee.** I feel it's the 2000's again, where I used to fiddle with servers and linux distros.

The next step is to test if this system works, then migrate the family to it. And [ditch the cloud](https://world.hey.com/dhh/our-cloud-exit-savings-will-now-top-ten-million-over-five-years-c7d9b5bd), because I feel much better having my data under my roof and out of Goliath's hands.