Welcome to NASDEV
NASDEV — Network Attached Storage DEVice — began as a personal engineering project and has grown into a collection of technical projects, experiments, articles and practical solutions.
This site documents the things I build, operate, troubleshoot and learn along the way — including this site itself.
Rather than a collection of theoretical tutorials, NASDEV is intended to document real systems and real engineering problems: the decisions made, the solutions that worked, the solutions that didn't, and the lessons learned from both.
A Site Still Being Built
NASDEV is currently under active development. Some sections are populated, others are placeholders, and the structure below is still settling as content gets written. If a page looks thin or a category is empty, that's not a bug — it's where things stand right now, not where they'll stay.
You're welcome to look around anyway. Watching a project take shape is very much in the spirit of the site.
Projects
The Projects section is where the larger pieces of work live — ongoing or completed efforts that involve multiple technologies, components or stages of development. Each project can evolve over time as new hardware, software and ideas are added.
Current projects include:
- Solaris Home Server — a long-running systems, storage and server project.
- NASDEV Website — the design and development of this site and the infrastructure behind it, documented as it happens.
- Embedded Systems — hardware and software projects involving small, specialised systems.
- Home Network — networking, infrastructure and the technologies that connect everything together.
Projects are deliberately treated as evolving engineering work rather than static documentation.
Articles
The Articles section covers individual technologies, techniques and ideas that don't necessarily belong to a single project. Current topics are:
Solaris (with deeper dives into Zones, ZFS, IPS, SMF, Security, Troubleshooting and Storage), Networking, IoT, RF Technologies, and DevOps & Automation.
Some articles will stand alone, while others will form part of a larger project. This list will grow as more gets written — new categories will show up here as they earn one.
Opinions & Commentary
Not everything is a walkthrough or a build log. Opinions & Commentary is where the occasional take lives — because engineering isn't always about finding a single technically correct answer. Sometimes the interesting question is which solution makes the most sense.
Engineering in Practice
One of the things I enjoy most about engineering is that the solution on paper isn't always the solution that works in the real world.
Hardware has limitations. Software has bugs. Old systems have history. Configuration changes have consequences. And sometimes the most interesting part of a project is figuring out why something doesn't work.
NASDEV is a place to record that process — including this site's own, since building and maintaining NASDEV is itself an ongoing engineering project (see NASDEV Website under Projects).
The aim is to make the information useful to someone facing a similar problem, while also creating a permanent technical record of the projects themselves.
A Work in Progress
NASDEV is an evolving site, in more ways than one. Some projects are decades old, some are brand new, and some ideas may never progress beyond an experiment. The site itself is no different — it's being built in the open, one page at a time.
Build it. Break it. Understand it. Improve it.
Welcome to NASDEV.
