• Sick so I [[WFH]], but nothing serious.
• Resuming from [[2024-10-01]]:
• [[agora development]]:
  • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
  • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
  • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
• [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
  • [[zine]]
    • 0
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish?
  • [[letters]]
    • 0
      • which are the three letters I want to work on?
        • to [[WS]]
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
          • Objections -> [[objectio]]
        • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
          • Objections
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Maitreya
          • meaning: one or more friends
            • Lex Fridman et al?
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish/share?
• [[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
• I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
  • 0 gather all [[receipts]]
  • 1 fill details and deal with [[concur]]
  • will be flowing with [[bobby lyte]]
• [[ekumen]]
• [[analytical seclusion]]:
  • [[sabbatical]]
  • may 2025-july 2025? one month to start with?

• I read about [[polymers]] and [[acrylic]] a.k.a. [[PMMA]] via… the [[Cotton-Mouton Effect]] (?).
  • Also about [[Sky Pool, London]] which "was criticized as emblematic of economic inequalities in London.".
• [[Magnets]]
• [[Zine]] (enjoying it, working in [[overleaf]] with vim bindings is a pretty nice setup)
• Thought of [[Right Resolve]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]], [[Right Freedom]]
• [[agora development]]:
  • [[agor.ai]] is partly fixed since yesterday (finally!) in the sense that link.agor.ai and flancia.agor.ai are back up in [[hypatia]] \o/
  • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
  • I fixed my [[wiki vim]] setup to allow for easy markdown editing again and things like interacting with checkboxes.
  • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
  • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
• [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
  • [[zine]]
    • 0
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish?
  • [[letters]]
    • 0
      • which are the three letters I want to work on?
        • to [[WS]]
          • Thank you
          • Objections
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
          • Objections
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Maitreya
          • meaning: one or more friends
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish/share one tomorrow?

• read about the [[Karmapa]]
• I have this week off, will probably keep today and tomorrow off and resume work on Wednesday
• #push [[do]]
  • I crafted, and then went through, a lengthy todo list :)
    • do laundry (2x)
    • donate (2x)
    • run [[collect]] over todo items/notebooks, they’ve gotten out of control as usual :)
      • add items to this todo list or ideally to the [[root node]] for my tasks
      • maybe add images directly, although that could take time it will be less time than entering manually, and I could pipe the collection to AI at some point?
    • write
      • zine (2-4x)
      • get java [[minecraft]]
        • server url
        • I visited [[Plitnyakovo]] for the first time today on [[2024-09-30]]. Thank you [[Ishmael]]!
      • one or more of:
        • open letter to musk
        • open letter to maitreya
        • open letter to lex and sam
    • code
      • get into a code-release flow again by shipping one little change to anagora.org
      • one or more of:
        • save button
        • activitypub support
        • agora bot posts updates from the agora?
        • users post updates from the agora?
    • systems
      • fix agor.ai
        • recycle
        • make free space
        • try again

• [[flancia]]
• [[sadhana]]
• [[dhyanas]]
  • I read about the two first [[immaterial states]], very interesting.
• [[zine]]

• I’m back :)
• [[social.coop]]:
  • Updated moderation announcement
  • Review pass issue reported by edsu
• [[bobby lyte]] mentioned the importance of "the shared and collective belief and energy toward a common goal" and I liked how he put it

• [[work]] was OK.
  • tomorrow will be even better I think :)
  • it will start weirdly.
• I thought of [[tanzwerk]] and [[hardturm]] again, and of cycling through the city, thanks to the Agora/my digital garden. Maybe during the weekend?
• While using the Agora, I thought of some things:
  • It is a shame that so few different users show up in recent, BUT there are a few contributors I didn’t know about and that felt cool/interesting and I found several nodes by old friends I want to read.
  • It really should have a ‘pin’ or ‘star’ or ‘save’ button as "mvp" for storing state originating from the web client but not tied to an editor. I found some wikipedia-articles-within-the-Agora that I wanted to ‘pin’ as having been interesting, and just being able to save a subnode that says ‘flancian was here on X’ would suffice really. Like a visitors log, old web style maybe. Or just a bit in sqlite?
    • I need to find vera’s branch that took me too long to review :(
      • Better late than never? Or, well, in any case it is an inspiration.
    • I want to catch up with [[j0lms]]
• I want to do [[yoga]] tonight.
• It is 22 as I write this and I’d like to be in bed tonight by 1am.
• Also, [[Tschenresi Sadhana]].

• I’m back!
  • In the wrong location ;) [[sariputta]] has an old-style editor which adds journal entries to /journal :)
  • I’ll live with the discrepancy, they are coalesced reasonably well by the Agora in any case.
  • See also: [[2024-09-24]]

• Back in [[Flancia]]!
  • Or did we ever leave?
  • [[Mallorca]] was beautiful!
  • Thank you [[AG]] for your kindness and your beauty.
  • Reunited with [[Lady Burup]] yesterday evening.
• Today I cleaned and I worked around the house, catching up with:
  • [[Mohammed]]
  • [[UNICEF]]
  • [[Mum]]
  • [[Friends]]
    • :)
  • [[AG]]
• Today I noticed that [[37]] = [[19]] + [[18]], meaning a centered hex number plus its center-less partner.
  • So it seems like a very good packing for two hex numbers, in one figure.
• Then I [[flowed]].
  • [[Social Coop]]
  • [[Ekumen]]
  • [[KPT]] and paperwork review
• [[zine]]
• Music: [[rainbow folding]] and others
• [[37]]
  • [[yoga]]
  • [[Zelazny]]

• [[I’m back]]!
  • I spent the week in [[Stockholm]] for work.
  • Flew back to [[Zürich]] on Friday and reunited with my [[Lady Burup]], it was lovely.
  • Now writing these lines on the train to [[Paris]], where I’ll reunite with [[AG]] before we move on to some other destination for five days of further enjoyment.
  • We will reunite once more with my [[Lady Burup]] on the [[20th]] if everything goes according to plan.
  • Back to work on the [[23rd]].
• Donated to:
  • [[Medico International Schweiz]]
• [[Fediverse]]:
  • [[On the internet, nobody knows you’re old]]

• Today I finished the one week course with [[Lama Jigme Rinpoche]]. He was kind and inspiring.
• It is nearly time, I think?
  • [[Open Letter to Elon Musk]]
  • [[Open Letter to Maitreya]]
  • [[Open Letter to Moloch]]

• I’ve gotten [[paramita]] back up and running, it had broken in a variety of ways (broken nvim with a bus error, broken gammastep)
• [[Jigme Rinpoche]]

• [[master plan]] -> [[main plan]] :)
• Thank you [[Jigme Rinpoche]] and [[Dhagpo Switzerland]].
• [[Chenrezig practice]]
  • [[37 practices of Bodhisattvas]]
• [[Flancia]]
• [[Agora development]]
• [[Friends]]

• [[197]]
• [[jigme rinpoche]]:
  • [[chenrezig]]
  • [[bodhisattva]]
  • [[maitreya]]?

• [[OGM]]:
  • Jerry says:8am PT, in my usual Zoom:
  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09

• Maybe things will turn out to be [[funny]] in retrospect
  • I have been told that [[Flancia]] seems to lack humour, even though it started as a well-meaning joke! I guess I lost/deprioritized that along the way…
• [[work]] has been tough since last Thursday and I realize that has made it so that I haven’t noded much here for a while.
• [[fellowship of the link]] :)
• [[2024-08-29]]: Jerry says:8am PT, in my usual Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09
• [[storm]]

• [[entropy]]
• [[divisibility rules]]
• [[sucederá]]
• [[maitreya]]!

• [[Google IPO]] twenty years ago today
• [[zine]]
• [[AG]]
• Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]]
• I banged my right elbow hard when moving near an open window, I hope it doesn’t swell :)
• Good day overall in any case!
  • I cycled to work and back and it was great.

2024-08-18

• Chill rainy Sunday at home :)
• Spent it with [[AG]].
• Then in the afternoon [[VK]] and her boyfriend [[Sascha]] came about, it was very nice!
• [[feedback 2024]]

2024-08-17

• [[Maitreya]]!
  • Maitreya on Saturday is extra special

• [[Burup]]
  • I played the piano, I’m enjoying recording midis while practicing even if it’s sometimes cacophonic — as it sometimes isn’t :) and saving the midi seems interesting and would let me extract fragments later
• [[Fediverse]]
  • Had a conversation with [[foolishowl]]
• Wrote [[practice.py]] on a lark :)

2024-08-16

• I got here the long way around :)
  • For sure I did! Cool — back here something like… 18 hours later, at 22.
  • Yesterday night I had a wild ride restoring my preferred [[Agora editor]] to working order, and then exorcising my digital garden from a file over 100MB which I accidentally committed and made Github refuse me all service with insufficient explanation :)
    • I had to do a [[git rebase]], which didn’t work, and (re-) learn about [[git filter-repo]] and such
• [[Silverbullet]]:
  • Now running [[Silverbullet dev]] having worked around the actual trigger for the most critical part of https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1010, which ended up being not due to garden scale only but also due to a recent change I had made to my config :)
    • Keeping an eye on the other performance issues.
    • You wouldn’t believe how much I missed having a web-based [[Agora editor]].
    • It made me think I still have to keep honest and actually offer this as a service in the [[Agora of Flancia]] — I would love to provide hosted Silverbullet for whoever wants it.
  • Thought of:
    • [[Agora demo]]
    • [[AG]]

• "I’ve seen what will happen, many a time".
• [[Work]] was alright, looking forward to tomorrow actually :)
• I spent time with:
  • [[AG]]
  • [[Lady Burup]]
• I thought of:
  • [[Avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[Maitreya]]
  • [[Tara]]
  • [[Candles]]
  • [[Magnets]] (as usual) :)
  • [[WS vision]] ;)
  • [[Flow]]

• I played the piano and played with [[Lady Burup]] :)
  • The smell of [[Petrichor]] in the balcony.
• A few days ago I learnt that [[stanines]] were/are a thing.
• [[work]] happened, ups and downs, I was a bit tired; I think I should go to bed earlier on Mondays as Tuesdays demand energy :)
• [[nostromo]] crashed again and then exhibited a [[heisenbug]] (I wrote about it on Fedi).
• some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the experience of the community
  • it’s pretty out there how much time I’ve been spending trying to keep nostromo alive — it crashes quite often, I should prioritize that
  • [[backup nostromo]]
  • then maybe I could get a replacement, or just use it to the end but try to work around the issues with more automation? because they’re hardware triggered (overheating, plus some likely adapter related issues for what is a laptop with many functions)
• some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the feedback of the community
• thought about:
  • [[forking]]
  • [[merging]]
• [[bangers]]:
  • [[banger]]
• [[silverbullet bug]] which makes it harder for me to write in the Agora :(
  • but things will hopefully get better :)

• Found [[3493]] on the way to work today, it was great.
• Then in the night I thought of [[cryptobuddhism]].

• [[Building Bridges]] then :)
  • Between [[platforms]], between [[formats]], between different resources in one [[garden]] or [[Agora]] :)
• [[donna haraway]] has interesting/surprising (to me) contents!
  • [[A Cyborg Manifesto]]
• I thought of the question of defining [[canonicity]].

• Sad morning but I think it was also cathartic.
• Then I cleaned the house, and I did practice :)
• Got back to [[Building Bridges]] after long, finally — it’s been on the backburner for a year or so, at least?
  • Will try to do a pass on it, with the occasion of also
  • Fixing formatting issues on [[Agora Chapter]] for legibility before sharing further
• I need to fix the issue that on some computers [[wiki vim]] writes journals on /journal/.md and in some others I have it set it up to /.md
• [[Flow state]]

• I read what [[NG]] wrote
• Bought shoes, which was on my todo list :)
• Bought a book gift
• Received a book gift :)
• Found [[standardgalatic]]

• I biked from [[AG]]‘s place to [[Flancia central]] in the midnight sun and it was beautiful :)
• Then I saw [[VK]], it was great!
• Then I flowed.
• Updated [[bill flancian]]

• [[zine]]

• [[zine]]:
  • [[bella burup]]
  • [[lady burup]]

• I [[whistled]]:
  • and then used [[spectroid]]
  • and played the [[piano]] :)
  • a very fun combination

• [[don’t worry eat curry]]

2024-08-03

• Now on the [[third]], early in the morning you could say :)

• [[Flancia meet]] was quiet but I enjoyed it anyway, took the time to do stuff leisurely on the laptop.
• [[Hzian]]

• I found [[burning chrome]] and I thought it could be a good Agora demo node.
  • It links to [[burning chromium]], which I started (barely) long ago and I immediately felt like continuing/fixing up :)
• [[Work]] was alright — I did what [[bobby lyte]] does and tried to do the day’s worth of work in one hour, and it sort of worked believe it or not
• I posted about the [[magnetic projector]] I made to the [[Fediverse]] :)
• I had an amazing meeting with [[Eduardo Mercovich]] about the [[Fediverse]], the [[Web]], and [[Sutty]] and the [[Agora]] and [[Confluencia]].
• I [[flowed]] :)

2024-08-01

• Today is [[National Day]] in [[Switzerland]] and I don’t work. So I plan to do some Agora :)

• Back on [[Silverbullet]] after a few days.
  • I moved my journals here also to the root of my garden, as I did with wiki vim a few days back, so you will see them at /YYYY-MM-DD.md from now on instead of at /journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md.
  • Happy to hear that [[vera]] is also using Silverbullet!
• I read criticism of the [[Gemini ad]]: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5056201/google-olympics-ai-ad
  • I first read the article and then I watched the ad.
  • You could say the ad does miss any note worth hitting; but I did like some aspects like the dad’s voice (is it the real one, though, I wonder?) and the fact that it’s not too long.
  • It has the usual by now out-of-touch aesthetic of Google ads, which you could call [[enterprise whimsy]].
  • And it’s just… a bit nonsensical, on top of the other criticisms. Why is the dad involved at all? He comes across as lazy. If this was an ad showing how the little girl can use Gemini to help her with her writing, it would feel a lot more natural/less problematic probably. It is true that kids are going to be using generative AI to learn how to write (presumably they are already doing this), and the ad could have shown some of that instead. Maybe this was considered but lawyers didn’t want to show too young people using the technology for some reason, and we got the lazy dad as a compromise?
  • Anyway. Google ads are pretty bad on average these days IMHO, so I’m not super surprised.
• Yesterday [[2024-07-31]] in the [[Fellowship of the link]] call [[Aram]] shared a nice article he wrote as part of the [[semilink]] activity we were experimenting with: [[the internet is a series of webs]].
• [[Flancia]]:
  • I wrote on the Agora today. This is a good day :)
  • I intend to also do some [[Agora development]].
    • I fixed an issue that [[vera]] reported with transclusion in Silverbullet — interesting.
    • I wrote a script to assist in Agora maintenance, health.sh

2023-08-01

• Back on [[Silverbullet]] after a few days.
• Today is [[National Day]] in [[Switzerland]] and I don’t work. So I plan to do some Agora :)

• I read this [[Gemini ad]] criticism: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5056201/google-olympics-ai-ad
  • I first read the article and then I watched the ad.
• [[movies]]