I had a setup that worked well for years. And therein lies the problem: I want to do things the same way, but various companies keep pulling rugs from under my feet. So over the past few months, I basically had to rebuild everything from scratch, this time on my own hardware.
I've written before about the software that makes up the part of my personal stack that handles music; this post describes how I finalized it using Symfonium's cool features.
I recently migrated my home NAS and application server to new hardware. This is basically a "not much happened" report, because a friend asked me to summarize whether it was as easy as it sounded in theory.
I'm slowly adding features to my Universal Personal Search project, which lets me search across my various data sources. Up to this point, there were 2 main ways data could flow
