Notes for September 29-October 12

I have been rather too busy hopping from project to project to do anything but read and watching a little TV in the evenings, as well as a bit annoyed by more industry disturbances and layoffs.

Despite the lack of long-form posts, I am still (slowly) poking at a few things:

• I updated umcp both as a follow-up to my last post and after fine-tuning the MCP server I use to reformat old posts to a point where I can leave Copilot or aider to convert 10-20 old posts to Markdown with minimal oversight (there are still 3900+ pages in this site with legacy markup).
• I added a note on my Bazzite page regarding enabling Wake-on-LAN, since some people who read my AuBox review were having trouble getting Steam Link to wake up their machines.
• I am again circling the custom keyboard rabbit hole, with the likely outcome being my building a Totem for both ergonomics and portability. And no, ZSA’s voyager isn’t available with either Bluetooth or truly silent switches.
• On that topic, I have found myself revisiting keyboard-oriented window managers and realizing nobody implemented something I really need (shifting focus to an adjacent window by direction), so I spend a while fiddling with Phoenix and came up with this config, which works fine except that in Sonoma and Tahoe Safari is still buggy and delays window enumerations by several seconds…
• I updated my notes on getting a new 3D printer and nearly pulled the trigger on an AD5X (which was briefly on sale, and which I’m partial to for hackability) before noticing that Bambu will be updating the P1S. I am more interested in multi-material and engineering materials than multi-color (I did a little video on modding the SK1 with a carbon fiber part), so I’m going to see what they come up with–I might even opt for getting a discounted older model.
• bun 1.3 came out, so I upgraded a few of my Node-RED instances (bun has almost completely replaced NodeJS for my personal projects)

There are also a few hardware reviews in progress, which have been slowed down by work and my trying to record more video, which makes everything take much longer.