So, currently my tech setup looks like this:

• A Synology DS220+ NAS system, ds220a1
• A Mini PC system running Ubuntu 24.04, annagassan
• An old Dell Latitude laptop, blackrock
• A Digital Ocean VPS instance based in their New York data center, VPS-FP1
• Two personal laptops running Windows 11 - an Asus X515 system and a TUF F16 system. In addition to day-to-day activitieis - gaming, Reddit, email, spreadsheets and documents, the usual stuff - they are used to manage the servers.

Each system runs Tailscale, so regardless of their location or IP address, any system can securely communicate with all the other systems and vice versa. The Linux systems all run Docker, Portainer, and Syncthing, and host containers that make up the core of the tech stack, primarily for personal media consumption and for coordinating access from both Texas and Ireland.

Earlier today, I (finally) migrated my Hugo blogging setup from the X515 laptop to annagassan. The Hugo setup on the X515 ran under Git Bash, so the migration only required changes to the source directories, along with some minor changes to permissions and some tweaks to the Syncthing folder definitions.

I’m hoping this makes it easier to add more content to the blogs - but we’ll have to see.