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Posted on September 30, 2025

Ambivalence is over. Everything is falling apart.

That's a bit dramatic, really just my phone's power button fell out. Lukcily, a quick trip to eBay and my replacement was in the mail. A week later we were good as new again.

Otherwise I've been updating my infra, and Syncthing has been the game changer I had hoped. Now everything is in a single Obsidian repo, synced synced between my phone, laptop, and desktop. Networking is handled through TailScale so it basically all "just" works.

• I can have a todo list in there!
• I can have every note I ever take in here!
• I can write ideas down for later on my phone, then actually follow up once at the computer cuz its the same files
• I can run bash scripts against all these files in almost real time
• I can have every page of this website here! ¹

Tim Update!

There has been very little progress on Tim: The Timekeeper

• A UI component system is effectively functional for displaying things
• Making things react to things is in progress but kinda functional
  • Debug menu is working, and components can register stuff to watch in it.
  • Keypresses, works fairly well
  • Mouse is the next step
  • From there some more complex compnents will be possible,
    • like a button
    • or a text input:

In terms of project thoughts, this is entirely too low level to be worthwhile. I may try Tauri if I want something reasonably and quickly, but for now it being too level is a big part of what makes this specific project fun. Unfortunately it is also what makes it a bit more tiring to work on, so we'll see if pivoting is the move.

Considering

Looking for suggestions on what to do with a bunch of GPU's. Feeling like that'll be a relevant resource that will be available relatively soon and might go wasted if not planned for at this point.

• A second gpu for the gaming pc, allowing for a dedicated GPU accelerated VM for gaming.
• Media encoding, since they probably won't be too out of date to be missing relevant codecs
• 3d modeling and video editing maybe? as a render farm? , which could be useful for games. Pretty sure at this point I won't need a dedicated gpu for it.

Odds are they'll be a decent upgrade to my current computer, but nothing too crazy given the games I play. But in terms of compute there's a lot of potential there that might go to waste, so I'd like to think of some good uses for them. Reach out if you have any suggestions: @ncb@mas.to