Fall was five minutes ago it seems, and yet it’s centuries later. The change in the world at large is obvious to everyone, and the change my small world is just as transformative.
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I moved wholesale from Mac OS back to Linux
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I rebuilt my main machine to 76GB VRAM 3x GPU 128GB RAM Core i9
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I’ve got 3x Thinkcentre m93p minis running NAS and AI agents, all new
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My job has become about 75% managing AIs
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And the benefits provider has changed, which transforms 401ks and health and vision and dental and all of that
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My whole photo workflow has moved from Lightroom to DigiKam + Darktable
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Dog is old enough now that I’ve returned to working in the home office for the first time in two years
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Kids are so teenage now that I rarely see them even when they’re here
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Other switches include: web host 20i -> 101, password manager Lastpass -> 1Password, notes database DevonThink+Joplin -> Obsidian, even boots Blundstone -> Redback
I know all of this will sound minor or obscure to people but the point is: in terms of the minute-by-minute and the weekend-by-weekend, very few things in my life bear any similarity to what they looked like six months ago, and if you go back three years, almost nothing overlaps at all. You never see the rebirth coming until it’s already done.
It is such a wild moment. In some ways, everything old is new again—I was an OG Linux evangelist from 1993 to 2009, and I used to be the guy always on the bleeding edge, and I used to be hosted at 101 from like 2003 to 2023, and I used to wear Redbacks… So there is this weird sense of retro me and/or revival—and yet it’s mixed in with all kinds of crazy new, like father of driving-age teenagers and coding LLM models running on my own metal, which is now in a truly massive case to hold the massive vGPU cards.
This is just a post to placehold an inflection point, in case I wonder about it later.
It was here, and it felt wild, especially with what’s going on in the wider world right now. Who’s unmoored? I’m unmoored!