I'm always kind of blown away by experiences like this. Admittedly, I've been using Kubernetes since the early days and I manage an Infra team that operates a couple thousand self-managed Kubernetes clusters so... expert blindness at work. Before that I did everything from golden images to pushing changes via rsync and kicking a script to deploy.

Maybe it's because I adopted early and have grown with the technology it all just makes sense? It's not that complicated if you limit yourself to the core stuff. Maybe I need to write a book like "Kubernetes for Greybeards" or something like that.

What does fucking kill me in the Kubernetes ecosystem is the amount of add-on crap that is pitched as "necessary". Sidecars... so many sidecars. Please stop. There's way too much vendor garbage surrounding the ecosystem and dev's rarely stop to think about whether they should deploy something when it's easy as dropping in some YAML and letting the cluster magically run it.

I also played with this idea of a Memex [1] a few times already, but I always struggle with the actual usefulness of the data. Most of the time, the greatest fun for me is setting up the systems and seeing it all come together in a single database, but I tend to fall behind as soon as it is manual work to keep something updated.

For location, I found that the easiest and most privacy-friendly way of doing this without wrecking the battery of my main phone was to get a cheap used Android phone with dual GPS (a Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite 5G) on which I have PhoneTrack [2] installed and then pipe the GPS points to a PostGIS database on my local network [3] when I am home.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex [2]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.eneiluj.nextcloud.phonet... [3]: https://github.com/gitc23/phonetrack-server

Nice I plan on doing this for a whole year, hopefully 2025, but with lots of sleep data possibly with openBCI components and other devices and see if I can gain insight into some weird health phenomenons I've been experiencing.

> expanding "t" to "the" seems like a no-brainer, just like "st" to "something"

I have jk mapped to escape in vim, and for a key combo that seems like it should never occur naturally, I’m often surprised how often it misfires when I actually need to type “jk”.

Globally remapping hundreds of things like “t” and “st” would actually be quite frustrating I think.

Like imagine you’re emailing your friend about a trip to st petersburg, or about some code containing the variable t, etc.