Sometimes, I just don't know when to quit. I have a pretty solid stack now up
through hardware, and yet my Claude subscription hits the weekly reset and I've
got all these Fable credits to burn. So I start thinking about that whole-home
A/V octopus again.

And I really love Kubernetes, by the way, if you couldn't tell. It's one of my favorite
pieces of software ever. My top four probably go [Linux](https://www.kernel.org/), Kubernetes, [Redis](https://redis.io/), and
[PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/). Tried and true, battle-tested systems with clean abstractions and
ruthlessly focused on performance and stability. In a lot of ways, liken is
my love letter to Linux and Kubernetes.

After the last week or two, there's an up-and-comer that's really got my
attention: [`mpv`](https://mpv.io). What a system! Plays literally anything, and
you can script the UI with [Lua](https://www.lua.org/), and you can drive the play over a domain socket.
It's the perfect foundation for a media system following the Linux and
Kubernetes ethos.