dlyons

I do the same thing and have bash scripts that run on my server to ingest data I find useful. I use org-roam and org-daily to keep a journal in Emacs, and text from across the web or my life just arrives that is important for that day.

Examples: my likes on Twitter, highlights on the web (highlight something, right click "Import to Readwise", it downloads into Emacs via syncthing), calendar events, etc. I'm always collecting stuff that I can reference later without much effort after the initial setup. It just works.

Having a third machine in the mix is pretty great, I can move from my office upstairs to my laptop downstairs and pick up right where I left off. Sharing Nix configuration between the two machines means that is always in sync too.

It keeps multiple copies of your data on whatever machine is running syncthing. So if you lose data on one machine, it's still safe on another.

Sure if all machines go at once, you're screwed. But I'm not too worried about that, personally. If you have something you absolutely can't lose just stick it in a Backblaze bucket and use syncthing for the rest.

Backblaze is cheap and has both an API and web interface.

You don't host it. It just talks to each of your machines peer-to-peer. Just run it on each machine and it works like magic.

Syncthing. It's amazing. I use it across my NixOS workstation, M1 Macbook, home lab server (acting as an "always on" folder to always fetch syncs), and my Steam Deck.

If you use Nix it's really easy to setup: https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config/blob/main/nixos/...

Sitting in Louisville, KY hacking away on some Python and Typescript this morning. AMA.

Nix makes my dev life on MacOS so much more manageable. The "dirty" feeling has, for the most part, gone away. I'm also able to easily share common config between other machines I use.

Here's my Nix setup for my M1 Macbook using nix-darwin, if it helps anyone: https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config

Yes, and they recently enabled one time emails with your own custom domain, which really helps get around folks trying to identify and prevent this.

This is a killer feature, I love Fastmail.