skimm

Neat project!

While this might not solve all of your use cases, did you consider a tool like mise?

Theres a number of other options out there such as asdf-vm and others who’s names I can’t recall. I recently moved from asdf to miss but its a great way to install things on different machines and track it with your dotfiles, or any other repo you want to use. Mise has tons of configuration options for allowing overrides and local machine specific versions.

It won’t tie into apt for your upgrades but you could just alias your apt update to include && mise up.

Since I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, I’ve been using Soft Serve on my server. Just a git server with terminal UI and easy to manage.

I’m a big fan of BuriedBornes. Great little old school rpg to pick up and play. Lots of in depth mechanics and replayability.