Jordan Crawford

In my previous article, I discussed the process I went through to digitise my family’s Video8 tapes to produce a high-quality archive.

In 1995, just a few months before I was born, my parents purchased a Sony camcorder (CCD-FX730VE).

I’ve been using Evernote since 2013 and I had over 1,800 notes stored.

When I was about 10 years old I was getting into the first of many little projects on the family computer.

Since I got a Synology NAS (DS920+) about two years ago I’ve had a few false starts with my Time Machine backup, but I think I’ve finally gotten it right.

When I was a kid, my brother and I really enjoyed playing Dungeon Siege.

I switched my personal account to Google Workspace so I could use my own domain name for my email.

Moving your Google Drive files from a Google Workspace account to a personal Google account is harder than it should be!

When I first started out on my budget home server journey back in 2016, the most logical choice was the Raspberry Pi 2 micro-computer.

In 2016 I finished my Software Engineering degree at the University of Waikato with my fourth year honours project.

Ten percent of my work time is dedicated to professional development through two ‘Hackdays’ a month.

About a year ago, I posted two articles about setting up my Raspberry Pi as a home server and how I setup remote access to it from anywhere in the world without using portforwarding.

In November of last year I finished my Software Engineering degree and moved to Wellington to start work at Flux Federation.

Last weekend I wanted to see the latest movie trailers.

For a few years now I’ve been wanting to organise a family photo and video archive.

I have a Raspberry Pi home server that I can remotely access through a tinc VPN tunnel with my VPS.

My parents just got two IP cameras.

My Raspberry Pi is setup as a home server, providing me access and control of my content through several services: A Deluge server for torrent downloads.

I was in need of a server that gives me remote access to my files, can run Plex, torrent and is quiet and efficient enough that it can run 24/7.

Over the summer of 2014 I decided to enhance our home theatre PC’s with a launcher that simplifies the use of media player apps and web content, while saving time and energy.