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post-hospital and recovery thoughts

It's been three weeks since I got out of the hospital after being warded for seven days. I feel better every day.

Looking back, I can see the pattern clearly now. For the last three months or so, I kept getting sick on and off. I was working too much on side projects, vibe coding, learning new things, and staying up late.

So I've been slowing down a lot. I'm focusing more on my health and getting enough sleep. Life feels a little less exciting, honestly.

But a few days ago I started a new project just for fun, and I got excited again.

building a collection of my everyday tools

I use a handful of tools almost every day. At work, while coding, writing, or designing. PDF tools, text tools, image tools.

A few months back I had this thought: what if I listed all the tools I use, built them one by one, and put them in one place? One tab. No logins. No ads. Just tools that make my work a little faster.

The idea kept coming back, so over the last few days I finally started building it.

I'm temporarily calling it fazlitools.

meeting Derek Sivers in person

After reading his books and exchanging emails with Derek Sivers since 2018, we finally met on 27 June 2026 in Kuala Lumpur.

I had a great conversation with Derek. It felt like meeting an old friend.

I'm still reflecting on that meeting, especially since I ended up in the hospital just a few days later.

building

I'm working on new features for two Chrome extensions.

Task in Tab is mostly finished after a month of on-and-off development. Recent additions include card archiving, metadata timestamps, and due date tracking.

Modoji Pomodoro Timer is getting session transition popups and user feedback features. The popup system has been trickier than I expected, so I'm putting it on pause for now.

tinkering

I'm running Hermes Agent on a self-hosted VPS and gradually building a personal operating system around it.

Current projects include a daily email digest, an expense tracker that logs receipts into Google Sheets, cron automations for reporting and reminders, and an LLM Wiki.

The wiki is a personal knowledge base maintained by the agent in Obsidian and synced through GitHub. It's inspired by Andrej Karpathy's idea of letting the LLM handle the bookkeeping so knowledge compounds over time.

tools

Opencode, Codex, Hermes Agent, Claude.