The Devlog

I’ve never kept a devlog before, and I’ll try my best to keep this up as development goes on. I’ve backfilled parts of the journey that I could remember. I got Claude’s help on some of the sequencing. The truth is that I’ve become a little obsessed with this project. It’s crowded out other hobby pastimes for now, but it thoroughly integrates quite a few of my interests at once.

This project will be a long-term pursuit of mine, because it’s currently running my home systems, and thus I must continue pursuing it. It also keeps paying back in utility the more I develop it, which is not true of many of my side projects. It is how I felt about Docket. That has to be a good sign.

Taking the day to establish this devlog and renew a commitment to daily writing feels like a further investment in the project’s long-term health as well.

While there’s still more iteration and polish to do on the media-operator, I can already feel the gravity well of a library browser and management system to rival the venerable Jellyfin. It’s just obvious this is where I’m heading to very soon.

There’s also a wildcard detour I could take with Spotify Soloist to take a swing at music and supplanting Music Assistant. I’m not sure which direction is pulling me more strongly. The wonderful thing about sitting at this vantage point is that I can see so many places to go: whole home media library and playback, a camera-operator to build a K8s-native NVR system, or taking a fresh swing at an autonomous agent built directly into the k3s cluster.