After I maxed out the microSD on my iPhone with pictures of my new kid, I found that the experience of using a USB cable to download them to my laptop had a high enough energy barrier that I wouldn't do it regularly enough to protect myself from data loss.<p>I wrote this hacky little thing to make it easier to backup my photos, share them, and free up space on my phone. An iOS app uploads photos to my NAS, where I run a media server that lets us browse photos from other devices. I periodically sync the photos directory on my server to AWS Deep Glacier for redundancy.<p>Paying for iCloud or Google Photos probably makes more sense in terms of time invested: I'll probably end up investing a lot of it migrating from old drives or cloud providers to new ones. However, given the importance I attach to generation-spanning data like baby pictures, I'd rather have a digital solution that's as close as possible to a physical album—something that's always with me in the house.