Today at work  I received in the mail a din rail.  Next week I will receive another package containing two DinrPlate mounts for my Raspberry Pi's.  They will of course be mounted on the din rail.  Also in that package will be a set of heatsinks for cooling off the Pi 4.

Gophering Around

Last night I finally got the Golang environment variables figured out.  The documentation is not very good.  I think the writers assume too much.  It doesn't help that I'm no expert on writing BASH scripts.  But I'm learning.  It's a bit more complicated than the olden days of DOS and BAT files.

Now I have "go" (golang) recognized and the editor I'm using (VSCode) is happy.  Now to do some real coding.

But what to code...?

I think I will create an app that will take my raw photos taken with my Nikon D80 to automatically rename and organized them on my hard disk.  Currently, I do this manually and it's a pain in the donkey.

Pi NAS

Yesterday at work I turned on the phone's VPN and started File Manager and was delighted to be able to navigate to my data on my new Raspberry Pi-powered NAS.   :-)

But when I got home I think I killed my operating system by plugging in a second 1TB USB drive.  Me thinks it was too much for the mighty Pi.  So today I reinstalled and got it up and running again.  I plugged the second drive into my laptop and initiated a synchronizing plugin to do pretty much the same thing.  I might eventually get another Pi with my second USB drive and use it as a backup.

Now I think I will queue up some Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck on youtube and learn some Go (Golang).

Happy New Year!

I started this blog as a platform to show my pictures.  That was 10 years ago and so far I have posted just once.  So I have decided to jump-start this blog with some new goals.

First, my photo portfolio can be found in two places; Pugpop Flickr and Pugpop.Photos (links are at the right).  These are where my photo energies will be kept.

This site will hold some of my day to day activities and thoughts mainly as a reminder for myself what I did or what I was thinking.  There will be photos, when needed.

So to start things off, today I started pumping up pictures off my laptop onto my new NAS, a system I made with a Raspberry Pi 4 with a 1 TB WD Passport drive running on Openmediavault software.

Yea... it's very cool.

The original intent was to make a Raid 1 system just to be geeky.  But after some thought I decided to go with one main drive and use the other as a backup drive. I still have to work out the details on how that will work.  Ideally I would like to have a backup system off site (not in my  house) in case the house blows up.

Maybe I'll do a Raspberry Pi cloud system using Rsync to push/pull files remotely.