KvZ - TechBlog

The Synology ships with a Download Station but it's not remotely as advanced as SABnzbd. What I mostly miss is automatic par & unpacking of it's downloads. Here's how to fix that.

I recently bought a NAS so my data is safe & available, with the benefit of being low power / noise / heat. I've considered Netgear, QNAP, but decided to go for a Synology as it was affordable, still had a big community, decent reviews & Time Machine support.

This article in 50 words: I used to prefer spaces vs tabs, now I don't care so much, think it's more important that you can easily switch on a per-project basis. Have some thoughts on how conventions should be established, and I'll demonstrate bash code that can convert your codebase to a new standard.

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." - Edsger W. Dijkstra. As our experience grows, we learn from past mistakes and discover what's truely important in reliable systems. When designing systems, simplicity is an often heard mantra, but it isn't getting applied nearly as much as spoken off. I'm guilty of this too. I think it's mainly because engineers love to, well, engineer : ) and will naturally try to outsmart problems by throwing more tech at it.