CodeMash 2026

It’s hard to believe CodeMash 2026 has already come and gone! As always, it was a fantastic conference, and I’m truly humbled to have had the opportunity to speak. A special thanks to everyone who attended my talk—especially those who stayed for the final session on Friday afternoon. I’m thrilled with how it turned out and hope you all came away with some useful insights.

While sessions weren’t recorded this year, both the slides and demos are available on my GitHub. If you have any questions, feel free to open an issue on the repo. I’d love to hear from you!

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I previously wrote about the hardware I bought for my new NAS. In this post, I’m going to go through the choices I made for the operating system and filesystem layout.

Operating System

Every great server starts with an operating system. For my NAS, I picked Ubuntu 24.04.

While there are a lot of great choices, this one seemed like a natural fit for me. I’ve been using Ubuntu for a long time, almost 20 years, so I’m familiar with it. That version is also an LTS version, so I’ll get plenty of life out of it before I even need to contemplate upgrading.

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