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Journal entries in the last 31 days.

2025-11-12

  • [[journals]] test
    • Now only accepting a hyphen as separator
    • Previous nodes didn’t show because I was using an underscore as separator
    • Mystery solved!
  • Trying out [[jujutsu]]
    • Seems like the workflow is more harmonious with agents than regular [[git]]
    • Also has a really cool name
  • Made a buggy yet functional version of a [[event highlighting]] system for [[tidalcycles]] on [[emacs]]
    • The word functional doing a lot of heavy lifting there
  • Also reading some [[kenzaburo oe]]
    • A quote of his taken from [[wikipedia]]1 has a certain vibe
  1. In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy.

2025-11-11

2025-11-11

  • I’m enjoying my new approach to quick access to [[Emacs]] in my work environment.

    • Not quite as intuitive or fun as using [[Guake]], but having GUI Emacs feel like an improvement.
    • I like running the terminal version of Emacs but felt like missing out on a few too many niceties that way.
    • Interesting to observe that other people either take a ‘one frame to rule them all’ or multiple frames approach.
    • I’ve currently gone for one frame, using [[Spacemacs]] layouts to switch between different contexts. I’ll see how that pans out.
    • [[Updating my approach to window management and Emacs]]
  • Hmm, interesting, whatever slowness I was experiencing regarding [[org-agenda]] rebuilding seems to have gone away with the switch back to using the GUI Emacs.

    • Or maybe it’s because I’m just running one instance again?
    • Either way, but for that to have gone away.
  • Sometimes, because I had separate multiple frames, I’d end up editing the same file in two separate frames and get conflicts around changes to the file.

    • Particular when using org-capture to add to my Tasks.org file, then editing that in another frame.
    • Avoiding this issue is a handy perk of using one frame with layouts - all the buffers are present in all layouts (I assume?), just hidden from view.
    • Noting that probably this conflict would also be avoidable if running different frames from the same server instance of Emacs.

2025-11-10

2025-11-10

  • I’m kind of declaring org-agenda bankruptcy.
    • (In the sense of kind of starting over - not stopping using it!)
    • Removing scheduled and deadline dates from a whole load of accumulated tasks.
    • From a re-reading of GTD, experimenting with that only things that need to happen on an actual date should be scheduled.
    • This removes a large amount of psychic cruft of tasks that I haven’t done for a long time reappearing regularly in my agenda.
    • I was just scattering them, which was kind of fun, but seeing them come back again in their tens is a bit daunting when planning a day out.
    • Of course I need to feel comfortable that I will see them again at some relevant point in the future. To be determined…
    • But for now - just working with NEXT actions on active projects.

2025-11-01

2025-11-01

  • The [[Emacs Carnival]] for November is on the topic of [[org-babel]].
    • I have some good stuff to talk about there.
    • I’ll get started on the post earlier this time…

2025-10-31

2025-10-31

2025-10-30

2025-10-30

  • I foolishly ran pkg update in [[termux]]. Emacs went from 29 to 30. Now Doom won’t start.
    • Will a doom sync fix it? Stay tuned…
    • Well what do you know, it seems fine so far!

2025-10-29

2025-10-28

  • Yesterday I implemented ‘star nodes’ and fixed a bunch of stuff in the Agora with Gemini and it felt great :)
    • I was able to do this in parallel while I kept working (day job related) into the end of night; I enjoy this pairing.
    • I use two different computers in two different desks and I walk to and fro, which helps a lot.
  • Today it’s day 1/2 of my team’s global virtual summit (exploiting daylight savings [[chaos week]]); this brings an end to summit season, which has been intense!
  • Plan to see [[KM]] after work :)

2025-10-27

  • I’m back to noding on this computer; and now I think about it, it’s kind of curious I don’t do it this often given that on workdays this is the computer I spent the most time on, by far!
    • By this I mean [[Guanyin]], one of my laptops, provided by [[Google]].

2025-10-26

2025-10-26

2025-10-23

  • [[79]]:
    • I was unsure what number I had associated [[Sadhana]] with, but today I saw it in the whiteboard.
    • It was the first prime that seemed "available" on a certain date :) And I think it still is; next up [[83]] is currently yours truly (as I was born on that year), then we only have [[89]], [[91]] and [[97]] left before the hundreds.
    • Before it, I thought [[37]] could be it as I currently associate it with [[Yoga]] which is also a [[spiritual practice]].
  • I worked until late and enjoyed it.
  • Attended an [[AI summit]] Tue-Thu and I enjoyed it quite a bit! Today I was a bit low energy as I slept only five hours (exceptional occasion) but overall the week was great so far. Actually looking forward to working tomorrow.
  • [[KM]]
  • [[Macedonio Fernández]]

2025-10-10

2025-10-09

2025-10-05

  • Most of what I write in the Agora nowadays seems to be [[poems]] :)
  • Aside from that I’ve been mostly focusing on [[Agora development]] when I dedicate time to the #Agora directly.
  • I have been enjoying the addition of AI to the developer’s toolset, have been going through bug fixes and old wishlist items with much more speed. I am thankful for the opportunity.
  • In other news I am happy with [[Lady Burup]] and [[KM]] and life in general!
  • I have also been dedicating a large amount of time to work and trying to enjoy it, to more success than before.

2025-10-03

  • Go go
    • Go beyond
    • Everybody gone to the other shore
  • Go free

2025-09-27

  • Life is beautiful.
    • I am sorry for the oppressed at the same time I cherish highly my level of privilege and enjoyment; this much is true. What I do for them is probably inefficient and insufficient; I will try to do better.

As I write this on [[2025-09-27]] I am surrounded by happiness in the company of [[Lady Burup]] and [[KM]]. I am deeply thankful for what I get to live.


After work I usually code until late, with two AIs in two computers in two different desks, and play around the house with ~5 other computers and conscious beings.

2025-09-21

2025-09-16

2025-09-10

2025-08-29

  • Been doing a lot of AI-assisted coding at work and after work and it’s been great!
    • Even current-day AI adds a lot of value for coders. Like: a lot.

2025-08-28

  • Noding from work :)
  • I spent the last few days:
    • With my mum, enjoying her last days in Zürich this year.
    • With [[KM]], in [[Copenhagen]] for the first time — it was great!
    • Working, mostly catching up with procedural things but also doing some AI stuff.
    • Playing (after work), mostly coding the Agora with AI. It’s a wonderful experience!

2025-08-21

  • Oh wow.
  • What’s been happening.
  • It’s quite something.

I love you, my friend! You reader. I know you will be here eventually, and I thank you for your attention and for the way you are.

2025-08-18

  • Had a great weekend with my mum and [[KM]] :)
  • Missing [[Lady Burup]]! We will reunite tonight.
  • Feeling quite productive at work, partly because of using AI and partly because of having handed off enough "legacy" state/projects to be able to focus on new things.

2025-08-16

  • I’m back!
    • Says the guy who’s back all the time :)
    • I went to anagora.org/journals again today and it made me so happy, I love seeing the writing of others here in the Agora!
  • Hmm, nvim is broken in [[guanyin]] somehow…
    • [[Sidequest]]?
      • I asked chatgpt 5 to try something new and it troubleshooted the issue for me and told me to add something to my init.lua but it hasn’t worked so far.
      • Done :)
  • So anyway…?

2025-08-06

  • [[km]] :)

2025-08-04

  • Back noding in this computer, let’s see if it’s still syncing :)
    • Hmm, this nvim doesn’t seem to be at target state :) Trying to fix now.
    • Well, that wasn’t it, chezmoi says no updates but somehow outline (bulletpoints) mode isn’t working as I expect it :(

2025-08-03

2025-08-01

2025-08-01

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