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I bought a Beelink mini PC to replace the cloud VM that hosts a few things for me. I'm tired of resizing my little EBS volumes, and want to store more data. At the discounted price, I should be saving money in about a year with substantially better specs... not including the cost of my time in figuring out backups and all that nonsense.

I only use it as a light tracker of what I've read, but I'm moving to Obsidian for this purpose. The main thing it does for me is be a relatively good way to search up metadata about a book (author, year published, etc). Is there something more open? (Looked at LibraryThings, but its API does not seem to be available currently).

You're in a position where you can comfortably take some time off and explore what to do next. Your spending + assets seem to me like you're comfortably financially independent even factoring in paying your own healthcare, not approaching it.

Go for it. Don't put pressure on yourself to start a business, just take some unstructured time off, experiment and see how you feel.

How are you finding it so far?

I set out to build my own contenteditable based editor and after a couple weeks of banging my head on it, I do appreciate Prosemirror's very rigorous approach. I suspect it might be the best choice for me as well.

Yep, I think this is the fifth? I've lost track honestly. I do use it daily, but I know I can do a lot better. The next one probably will not have any noticeable Trello/kanban heritage.

I will say for those working on their own, I started to make breakthroughs on this when I stopped worrying about what other people might want for the eventual open-sourcing or SaaS and just made exactly what I wanted to.

Fathom has a self hosted open source version which I found to be fine. I checked recently and it looks like commits have slowed down so I'm not sure if it's maintained.

No. It's never been easier to make high quality software. I can run my own cloud environment, make quality user interfaces, integrate with third party providers to trivially do previously highly messy things like accept payments or send text messages, all as a solo developer.

Not because I'm particularly good but because a lot of the foundational work is now available with `git clone`.

There's a lot of crap around of course, but that's always been the case.

> Also, in my exp your manager, boss, lead has alot to do with the amount of stress.

To explicate a little, I've found stress mostly relates to the expectations of people around me, and has very little to do with the difficulty of what I'm being asked to do.

Yes. I just use my own journaling app which I wrote (sorely needs an update). I track some things through there (exercise) and other things using more specialized tools (finances). I do one every Friday, one at the end of the month, and one at the end of the year.

It's pretty valuable.

I've just got a syncthing set up with all my configuration and data.

"Spinning up" a new computer takes me an afternoon, which I doubt I could improve on enough by using more professional tooling to make it worth the time investment.