My experiment with Navidrome is ending. It’s a great idea, but too limiting in comparison to other available options. I also tried Roon; it’s so close yet so far away. I will either stick with Apple Music or go with Vox, which lets me combine and intermingle my own music files with a Qobuz account.

The Cosmic Orange is growing on me and the blue TechWoven case (which is an experiment for me because I’ve never been interested in Apple’s woven cases before) looks really good paired with the device.

This orange is… um… ugly! Not the shade represented in the press photos. Guess I’m running with a case this year.

Update: It’s growing on me.

Giving Navidrome on PikaPods a try. Music files are on their way upstream. (HT: @cory@follow.coryd.dev)

Perplexity AI is giving away a year of Perplexity Pro for free. But if you’d like to upgrade, you can hop on over to Perplexity Max for the bargain price of $200 per month.

Reacquainting myself with DEVONThink.

I think I’m going to use the occasion of a job change to declare bankruptcy on my Obsidian vault and rebuild it from the ground up. I just have to decide the best way to do that. Anybody have any ideas? An approach that’s been helpful?

I just bought my first physical book in probably 15 years or more. I’ve been all digital since I can remember.

Maybe I could come up with a collection of blank text file templates and charge $250.

Every time I get on a self-curated personal music library kick, I am quickly reminded how painful that whole process is.