From WordPress to Astro, on My Own NAS
Why I moved twenty years of blog posts off WordPress onto a static Astro site served from my own NAS, and what AI did and could not do along the way.
A collection of 5 entries.
Humans are always building something — physically, mentally, with a clear purpose or a wandering mind. Big or small, the right tool at the right moment can quietly change the colour of your everyday life.
Why I moved twenty years of blog posts off WordPress onto a static Astro site served from my own NAS, and what AI did and could not do along the way.
Images were swelling my Obsidian vault. How they moved from Imgur to a self-hosted MinIO server on a Synology NAS, including the two failed attempts before it.
I became a Mac user by accident in 2005 and mostly stayed. After an iPad, a Chromebook, a Surface and some Linux-only tools, the question is no longer which is better. It is what the work needs.
I tried Evernote, OneNote, Notion, Bear, Joplin and Logseq over fifteen years. Why Obsidian finally stuck — and why the tool mattered less than the habit it forced me to change.
a record of change from blogger