added blog post 2026/0208

src/routes/+layout.svelte

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src/routes/blog/2026/0208.md

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+Lately, I've not been able to do the things I'd like to do. I've had plenty of time, don't get me wrong – I finished my university assignments back at the start of January, cleaned my entire flat after coming back from my abroad semester, haven't been employed for months (though I'll soon have a job again) and university doesn't start again for me until April. And even then, I only have a single course left to take until October to finish my bachelor's.
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+Yet, I've made little progress on many of my projects and project ideas. [My game](/projects/projectn5) has been dormant for, at this point, almost two months, even though I've been thinking about it almost every day. Electronics projects I've been meaning to start, like a portable Raspberry Pi Zero 2W music player, I have barely begun working on. My 3D printer has seen almost no use even after I returned. I used to make music for a decade but now it's been 5 years since the last time I wrote a song.
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+I'm also still invested in trying to learn 3D modelling. How to model human characters, environments, items. Texturing. Rigging. Animation. There are studios employing entire teams for **each** of these fields, and I am trying to do all of them by myself.
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+And then there are the things I *do* spend time on currently, like updating my website. Maintaining my web server and learning how to use `systemd` and `docker-compose`. Moving over to self-hosted services and Linux to lessen big tech's grip on my data. At one point, I even tried things like writing a `REST` API in `Go` (a language I have never used before), and I was thinking of building my own Matter server for smart home stuff up until very recently too. I'm also still trying to configure a Raspberry Pi as a backup server. And if you wanna go that far, you may even include Cities: Skylines here, because trying to learn how to build a functioning city is an amount of work that could span a combined bachelor's and master's programme.
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+Now that I've started trying to learn [how to draw](/blog/2026/0205), I wonder: am I picking up too many hobbies all at once? Am I even able to create fulfilling work in all these hobbies? I'm just one human being, after all, and it's starting to feel a little overwhelming.
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+Maybe I should learn to reduce. Put some things on pause. It's difficult to decide to stop pursuing hobbies, but maybe by making a clean cut instead of having them linger on, I can make time (and space in my mind) for the things I'd rather do.
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+So I'm deciding now:
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+- I want to spend more time on my game. That's staying. It should become my main priority, in fact.
+- My server is running fine, it doesn't really need constant maintenance. Some things I would like to change before I leave it to be though, like trying to use Docker for my Nginx install to make the installation more portable. I'm also considering getting rid of my Nextcloud installation and instead embracing copyparty for files and using my email provider for task synchronisation. Maybe set up an integration so that my website auto-updates whenever I push to Gitea. Saves the extra SSH login.
+- I do like updating my website but I should settle on the current style (it looks pretty decent now anyway) and focus on adding content.
+- Electronics projects are on pause.
+- Playing around with random languages (like the `GO` API thing) is gonna go.
+- I want to 3D print a coat hook for my flat door, so I'll do that and then not touch FreeCAD for a while.
+- Trying to develop a music album is pretty difficult, and I already have a game to take care of. Music is officially on pause from now on (not that I could install FL Studio natively on Linux anyway...).
+- And maybe I'll play games other than Cities: Skylines for for now.
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+And then there's drawing... cynical me wants to put that on hold too. But I do think that it could help me in developing my game. My idea is to be able to draw concept art, sketch down ideas instead of having them vanish before I manage to create them in Blender. Also, if I actually manage to take this to a level I can be somewhat happy with, I believe that drawing can serve as a fulfilling small hobby, in contrast to gamedev, which is a much bigger task where ideas take longer to come to fruition.
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+To sum up, I will focus on:
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+- Project N5
+- Website
+- Learning to draw
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+Let's see where this takes me :)

src/routes/blog/posts.ts

@@ -30,6 +30,17 @@ export const posts: BlogPostLink[] = [
 	// 	title: "Portsmouth Postmortem",
 	// 	description: "",
 	// }],
+	{
+		key: "2026/0208",
+		post: {
+			date: "2026-02-08",
+			time: "17:45",
+			banner: "sadstick.webp",
+			bannerAlt: "A curved stick from a tree with some dry leaves attached. Its form resembles an entity with two legs, a spine, and no arms, leaning over and looking sad.",
+			title: "Am I doing too much?",
+			description: "I'm trying to pursue too many hobbies all at once and it's a struggle.",
+		}
+	},
 	{
 		key: "2026/0205",
 		post: {