NASDEV — Network Attached Storage DEVice — started out in 2007 as a home storage box running Solaris. It's still running Solaris, and it's still growing. What began as "somewhere to dump my files" turned into a home server, a test bench, and a project I've been quietly tinkering with — and writing up here — ever since.
Fair warning: this isn't a site full of neat, step-by-step tutorials. It's more of a running logbook — real systems, real problems, and the honest version of how they got sorted. The stuff that worked, the stuff that blew up in my face, and what each one taught me. If a page looks half-finished, that's usually because the thing it describes is still running and still changing.
What you'll find here
NASDEV — The Build is the good stuff: the machine itself. How it came to be, why I stubbornly keep it on Solaris, and the tech holding it together — ZFS, zones, and everything that keeps a decade-old box genuinely useful instead of just old.
RF Technologies and Embedded & IoT are the day job — radio systems and the little purpose-built hardware that's quietly running more of the world than most people realise. Notes from the field, basically.
Opinions & Commentary is where I stop explaining how things work and start arguing about why. Engineering's rarely about one "correct" answer — usually the fun part is working out which answer actually makes sense.
The idea
Build it. Break it. Understand it. Improve it. That's been the whole approach since 2007. Hardware has limits, software has bugs, old systems have baggage — and the interesting bit always happens right where the tidy plan meets the messy reality in the rack.
Anyway — have a poke around. Some sections are fuller than others, and that's fine; the site fills out as I do the work and find time to write it up.
