Monthly Roundup: August 2025

12 Sep, 2025

How It Went

August was a rollercoaster of emotions. Many moments of random exclamations of "God abeg!", countless sleepless nights, and the sense of impending doom that ever hung above my head as the 25th of August approached. The exams started and there was no sleep to be had, although I'm sure I slept more than some of my classmates did (2 hours of sleep a day? Could never be me!)

I did manage to do some things that weren't school-related, so here you go.

What I Listened To

• Crimson, Skott

What I Did

• Wrote my first Gum-powered shell script. It's a pomodoro timer of sorts, and I'm very proud of it even though there are many problems with it.
• Did a few more backups of my Obsidian vaults to git via Codeberg. Need to mirror them to Gitlab/Github.
• Switched back to Nord (Desert Teal Blue XFCE theme + Nordzy icons). Initially used a neon dark theme at the beginning of the month, but it wasn't helping me relax or concentrate. Nord to the rescue!
• Switched to Shantell Sans as the font for my main obsidian vault, inspired by Lumen
• Obsidian Bases is finally in public access! I wanted to wait to try it out after my exams were over, but I was just deceiving myself.
  • I was right; it is faster than Dataview if your query results in a long list of files.
  • Unfortunately, there's only the Table and Cards views for now, so I can't replace the Projects plugin yet.
  • I can't replace Dataview completely either, since stuff like grouping results by certain characteristics isn't yet implemented in Bases. I can live with that; I'm just happy I no longer have to deal with Dataview freezing Obsidian whenever I open a note with a lot of results from a dataview query.

What I Played

• Didn't play games much, but I got like 4 hours over the whole month in Sunless Seas: Zubmariner
  • finally got my zubmarine¹! The view at the bottom of the zee¹ is less interesting than on the surface, but it's still nice to discover what's under there
  • and on the bright side, I can just surface instead of fighting and vice versa
• Discovered Clues by Sam, a Wordle-like logic game where you pick out the innocents and criminals based on each person's statements. A tip: no one lies, not even the criminals. Sometimes figuring out a solution makes me wonder if the logic actually makes sense, but it always does in the end.

Previous Next

#roundup