I Ditched Obsidian Sync and Built My Own — Here's What Actually Happened

2026-05-31

Obsidian Sync costs $8/month. That’s $96/year to sync markdown files — plain text — across your devices. I already pay for a VPS. I already run Docker. And I was already staring at a bill for a note-syncing service that, fundamentally, moves .md files between computers. So I asked myself: how…

I Just Wanted to Review My Chess Games. I Built a Multiplayer App Instead.

2026-05-31

I lose a chess game. I want to know why. Lichess and Chess.com both have analysis boards, but they’re cluttered, slow to load, and I don’t control my data. I just want to paste a PGN — the standard text format chess games are saved in — and step through my moves on a clean board.…