Nine Point Labs

I build small, useful things.

I'm Tim — combat veteran, semi-retired technologist, part-time at an MSP, full-time dad in Whitehouse, Texas. I practice Tae Kwon Do with my daughters and spend the leftover hours in the workshop.

I write some of the code and direct a small team of AI agents for the rest. My one real skill is seeing clearly what a tool should feel like and being stubborn until it does.

Why nine? In the Bahá'í Faith, nine is the number of completeness and of unity — especially the unity of humanity. Hence the nine-pointed star, and hence the name.

Influences: Ted Lasso and Andy Grammer. Optimism can be practical, kindness can be strong, and you can have grit without cynicism.

Quickshell/QML plugins for Omarchy — Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux. All shipped under the ninepointlabs.* namespace.

Plugin	What it does	⭐
barkeep	Tends your bar — arrange, pin, update and remove shell plugins from one overlay
omarchy-spotify	Cover-art chip, now-playing panel, search, playlists, podcasts, headless player
omarchy-fastmail-calendar	Native CalDAV calendar — Day/Week/Month/Year, day detail, add events
omarchy-fastmail	Live unread mail from every folder, via fm-cli
omarchy-theme-rotate	Randomize your theme on demand or auto-rotate on a schedule
omarchy-ring-cameras	Ring cameras in the bar — live view, snapshots, history, motion alerts
omarchy-upcoming	TVmaze watchlist and next-episode dates
omarchy-hermes-chat	Fire a quick message at my local Hermes agent without opening the app
omarchy-hey-calendar	The HEY-CLI-backed predecessor to the CalDAV one

CLI applications that live in the terminal where they belong.

Tool	Lang	What it does
fm-cli	Go	Minimalist TUI email client for Fastmail over JMAP
autonomix-cli	Go	Install & track apps from GitHub Releases
tfz	Ruby	RSS/Atom reader that renders the full article. Novel concept, I know.
rjrnl	Ruby	Human-friendly command-line journal
writeapp	Rust	Distraction-free writing, no window manager required
mb-cli	Go	A pretty CLI for posting to Micro.blog
sendit-cli	Ruby	Post to Micro.blog and X at once, because copy-paste is for chumps
rubdupe	Ruby	Duplicate-file finder, written the week I ran out of disk again

Daily drivers — Arch Linux under Omarchy (Hyprland) with COSMIC on the side, because vanilla GNOME is for people who don't like fun. Neovim or VS Code depending on whether I'm feeling terminal-purist that day. Rails 8 on SQLite + WAL with Solid Queue — no Redis, no Sidekiq, no regrets. Fastmail for mail and calendar, Obsidian for everything I think.

Nine Point Labs runs with a crew. They draft, triage and propose; I approve and publish.

graph TD
    T["👤 Tim<br/><i>final approval on everything</i>"]
    H["⚙️ Hermes<br/><i>desktop host · cron schedules</i>"]
    T <--> H
    H --> TC["✍️ Trent Crimm<br/>marketing drafts<br/><b>never publishes</b>"]
    H --> HG["🎩 Higgins<br/>GitHub notification triage"]
    H --> KL["🔧 Keeley<br/>systems + troubleshooting"]
    H --> CL["📓 Claude<br/>Obsidian vault"]
    TC -.->|draft| T
    HG -.->|triage| T
    KL -.->|report| T
    CL -.->|notes| T

    classDef me fill:#0f6b6e,stroke:#23272b,stroke-width:2px,color:#faf6ef
    classDef bot fill:#dcecec,stroke:#0f6b6e,stroke-width:1.5px,color:#23272b
    class T,H me
    class TC,HG,KL,CL bot

Yes, they're named after Ted Lasso characters. No, I will not be taking questions.

Most of them reach my projects through MCP servers I wrote — ninepointlabs.com has one at /mcp so posts and projects can be managed remotely, and omostrich-db exposes Nostr analytics the same way. This website is a public example of human–AI collaboration, and I'm not shy about which parts the agents wrote.

• Finishing omarchy-fastmail-calendar — a native CalDAV calendar for the Omarchy bar that works with any CalDAV server, not just Fastmail.
• Rebuilding ninepointlabs.com in Rails 8 — two blogs, a projects manager, and an MCP server at /mcp so my agents can post without me.
• Teaching barkeep to manage every other plugin I keep writing, because the bar got crowded.
• Whatever idea won't leave me alone this week. There's usually one.

✦ Elsewhere

ninepointlabs.com — projects, blog and journal, all in one place · X · Nostr · hello@ninepointlabs.com

I build small, useful things. Sometimes other people find them useful too.

_{Linux user who will absolutely judge your OS choice, then offer to help you switch distros anyway.}