28-FEB-2025

Some days, all you can manage is an update to a log.

Dropped those AI subscriptions, I find that qwen on the local P40 is more than enough for my relatively limited LLM use. Not having Copilot adjacent autocomplete has been a little rough on the hands but ultimately isn’t really costing time.

I think my next project for the editor is probably to pare down the number of plugins, set up more autocomand/language specific configuration, and continue to improve the ergonomics a bit. I’d like to get all my keybindings centralized and documented as well, as right now they’re pretty ad hoc from years of accrual.

For the lab, I think the next projects include geting the k3s ‘production’ cluster up and running, and starting to helmify all my various service-level stuff. That gets me a good balance, more ‘permanent’ services can live as full vms in NixOS, then I can take my smaller services and use either OTS docker containers or DIY nix-based containers. K8s can handle distributing across multiple machines.

Ideally I want to build in autoscaling/migration, so that my projects are run in a container on my ‘main’ development machine w/ remote storage backing them. In the evening when I finish working, I want those containers to migrate (without losing any internal state) to a single, low power machine, so that I can shut off all my other machines. Then in the morning I can have them automatically scale up a bit before I need them.

The idea is that – during peak hours of the day I want to have the full horsepower available, but once the family is asleep I don’t need most of the services running at all. I should be able to turn off a good chunk of the infrastructure so that I’m only using it when I’m generating the maximum from my solar roof. Combined with a off-grid battery system and I think it should be possible to get all the horsepower I want out of the 730s as compile-farm machines, while more or less not using any grid-power for them.

Dare to dream.

Anyway, it’s a rough day here, hopefully it’s better for you.