diff --git a/home/server.nix b/home/server.nix
index 0e030f9..4d9f4cc 100644
--- a/home/server.nix
+++ b/home/server.nix
@@ -7,35 +7,12 @@
 {
   home.stateVersion = "25.11";
 
-  # User-level tools installed outside Nix (PinchTab, pi wrapper, etc.).
+  # User-level tools installed outside Nix (pi wrapper, etc.).
   home.sessionPath = [
     "${config.home.homeDirectory}/.local/bin"
     "${config.home.homeDirectory}/.local/libexec"
   ];
 
-  # Keep the browser control plane alive across SSH logout and reboots.
-  # PinchTab itself is installed outside Nix because its upstream release
-  # binary is dynamically linked; the local NixOS-compatible build lives in
-  # ~/.local/libexec/pinchtab.
-  systemd.user.services.pinchtab = {
-    Unit = {
-      Description = "PinchTab browser control plane";
-      After = [ "dbus-broker.service" ];
-    };
-    Service = {
-      ExecStart = "%h/.local/libexec/pinchtab server";
-      Restart = "on-failure";
-      RestartSec = 5;
-      Environment = [
-        "HOME=%h"
-        "PATH=/run/current-system/sw/bin:/home/mikl/.npm-global/bin:/home/mikl/.local/bin:/home/mikl/.local/libexec"
-      ];
-    };
-    Install = {
-      WantedBy = [ "default.target" ];
-    };
-  };
-
   home.file.".local/bin/pi" = {
     executable = true;
     text = ''
@@ -61,6 +38,9 @@
     # Редактор
     vim
 
+    # Node.js runtime for the user-installed pi CLI and extensions
+    nodejs
+
     # Git
     git
     tea             # Forgejo/Gitea CLI
diff --git a/hosts/heather/arion-compose.nix b/hosts/heather/arion-compose.nix
index b52cc5e..fd12d9b 100644
--- a/hosts/heather/arion-compose.nix
+++ b/hosts/heather/arion-compose.nix
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ in
     #   /var/lib/tuwunel-secrets/tuwunel.toml  (root:docker 0640, bind-mount ro)
     # Cinny config: /var/lib/tuwunel-secrets/cinny-config.json (bind-mount ro).
     tuwunel = {
-      service.image = "ghcr.io/matrix-construct/tuwunel:v1.7.1";
+      service.image = "ghcr.io/matrix-construct/tuwunel:v1.9.3";
       service.container_name = "tuwunel";
       service.restart = "unless-stopped";
       service.volumes = [
@@ -231,6 +231,12 @@ in
       service.image = "teableio/teable@sha256:04c0c041c79564de7c06fc005d5560f9553161557a776caf1ed36c9c38ea8600";
       service.container_name = "teable";
       service.restart = "unless-stopped";
+      # Teable previously had no cgroup limit and helped trigger the host-wide
+      # OOM on 2026-09-24. Keep its startup/runtime spike from taking down
+      # SSH, Caddy, and the rest of the server.
+      # Arion 0.2.2 does not expose mem_limit as a typed option; use its
+      # raw output escape hatch so docker-compose gets the cgroup limit.
+      out.service.mem_limit = "2g";
       service.ports = [ "127.0.0.1:2345:3000" ];
       service.volumes = [
         "teable-data:/app/.local-storage"
diff --git a/hosts/heather/caddy.nix b/hosts/heather/caddy.nix
index 28104de..d3d1b4b 100644
--- a/hosts/heather/caddy.nix
+++ b/hosts/heather/caddy.nix
@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ Allow: /" 200
         reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8890
       '';
 
+      # Nick timer prototype. Public timer pages; creation has no auth for now.
+      "timer.michaotic.space".extraConfig = ''
+        reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8787
+      '';
+
       # File explorer (directory listing) для раздачи файлов через браузер.
       # browse включает Caddy's built-in directory listing. Корень /var/www/pub.
       # Без auth — класть только публичные файлы.
diff --git a/hosts/heather/default.nix b/hosts/heather/default.nix
index caad7c1..2d3851a 100644
--- a/hosts/heather/default.nix
+++ b/hosts/heather/default.nix
@@ -21,17 +21,31 @@
     ./syncthing.nix       # sync + relay
     ./tuwunel-admin.nix   # matrix admin web UI (systemd, статический бинарник)
     ./paseo.nix           # paseo daemon (web UI для CLI-агентов, systemd + npm global)
+    ./nick.nix            # Nick timer prototype (systemd, localhost:8787)
     ./jupyter.nix         # JupyterLab (systemd, localhost:8890, лимиты)
     ./mesh-clients.nix    # Sol-style client pool (wg-clients1)
     ./mesh-egress.nix     # Sol-style selected-destination egress policy
   ];
 
+  # Heather has 8 GiB RAM and runs several containers. Keep a 4 GiB
+  # swapfile so a transient application spike does not take down the host.
+  swapDevices = [
+    {
+      device = "/var/swapfile";
+      size = 4096;
+    }
+  ];
+
   # First server-to-server WireGuard backbone link: heather ↔ hyacinth.
   # The private key is generated on the live host and stays outside the flake.
-  # Chromium для PinchTab: отдельный headless-браузер для agent automation.
-  environment.systemPackages = [
-    pkgs.wireguard-tools
-    pkgs.chromium
+  # Basic diagnostics/admin tools must be available even in non-login SSH
+  # sessions (and not depend on a stale Home Manager profile).
+  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+    wireguard-tools
+    tmux
+    jq
+    wget
+    python3
   ];
 
   # NixOS uses scripted networking here (not systemd-networkd), so create the
diff --git a/hosts/heather/nick.nix b/hosts/heather/nick.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8427012
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hosts/heather/nick.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Nick timer prototype.
+# Source is deployed separately to /home/mikl/sideprojects/other/nick.
+# Caddy terminates TLS; the app only listens on localhost.
+
+{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:
+{
+  systemd.services.nick-timer = {
+    description = "Nick timer prototype";
+    after = [ "network-online.target" ];
+    wants = [ "network-online.target" ];
+    wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+
+    serviceConfig = {
+      Type = "simple";
+      User = "mikl";
+      Group = "users";
+      WorkingDirectory = "/home/mikl/sideprojects/other/nick";
+      ExecStart = "/home/mikl/.nix-profile/bin/python3 /home/mikl/sideprojects/other/nick/app.py";
+      Restart = "on-failure";
+      RestartSec = 5;
+      NoNewPrivileges = true;
+      PrivateTmp = true;
+    };
+
+    environment = {
+      TIMER_HOST = "127.0.0.1";
+      TIMER_PORT = "8787";
+      TIMER_DB = "/home/mikl/sideprojects/other/nick/data/timer.db";
+    };
+  };
+}