After quite a long time, I was finally able to take a look at this series: a rather atypical mecha show that despite some bad production, still manages to be interesting.

Because changes occur when one least expects them. This post is about one such change.

(Note: this post also appears in Planet KDE and Planet openSUSE because I thought this might be interesting to others) As I mentioned in some other posts, I have a small “server” which I use as a NAS to provide archiving for photos and other files of interest. As it runs in a remarkably small (and quiet) enclosure, I’ve managed to put it in an incospicuous part of the room it is in.

Omnia? The Turris Omnia is quite a nice (although a little pricey) OpenWRT-based router from CZ.NIC. It provides a fairly powerful CPU, relatively unconstrained eMMC space, and quite a lot of hackability (some revisions even have GPIO ports to play with). It runs a modified version of OpenWRT, named TurrisOS. The problem A few years ago, I built a custom NAS for my storage needs, using a cheap Intel SoC (J1900 chipset) and a (much pricier) mini-ITX small form factor server tower.

The migration happened and well… it turns out that it was not as smooth as I expected. In particular, comments weren’t working at all due to a filesystem permission on the database (which meant nothing would get written at all). That is now fixed. Sorry for the problems. To add problems over problems, I had a hardware failure (RAID card) last June, which wrecked the root filesystem and I had to reinstall everything from scratch.

You might have noticed that the blog has a markedly different look than before. It has not only changed visually, but also under the hood. This (brief) post summarizes the reasons behind the change. Why? Simply put, the previous solution was unmaintainable. “But,” you might say, “it was a static site generator! How could it become unmaintainable?”. It can. You might recall I moved from Wordpress to Jekyll about six years ago.

Sadly (for me) I’m back from the holidays. For those of you who wondered why the updates on Japan stopped: when I got back to Tokyo I didn’t have an Internet connection, so I had no means to update. The whole holiday was a blast, though, and we’re considering getting back in two years. Aside from that, work has picked up a really fast pace immediately (why on Earth journals don’t accept LaTeX-produced PDFs?