2025-02-15

• [[Bookmarked]]
  • Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead - marcan.st
  • The free software commons
  • Eight Pro-Social Platforms that Didn’t Work
  • I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You? | Nightingale
  • From Data to Art: Making “Rat Revolution” | Nightingale
  • The populistisation of green politics and the greening of populism: an examination of environmental populism in Europe

• I updated the [[index]] of my garden after long, I think it’s a bit improved.
• I donated 2x early today.
• I also opened a lot of backlogged correspondence, asked for a [[tax return extension]] (until 2025-09-30) and bought some gifts :)

2025-02-01

• Having an absolutely tedious time trying to figure out why the WiFi keeps on dropping out on some of the devices in our house.

2025-01-31

• [[The Word for World is Forest]]

• Lots of interesting people post interesting things on [[LinkedIn]]. If I want to read them, I have to use that platform. Accursed network effects.

• [[bull]] now supports tabs in editing mode :)
  • enjoying it a lot!
  • I am thinking of which other quality of life improvements could easily be added to [[CodeMirror]] if Stapelberg agrees.
  • [[vim mode]] is probably going too far? :)
• I realized I broke links in [[Agora graphs]] when I pushed the update to remove jquery; I know why, I just need to remember to fix it tonight after work.
  • fix it then :)

• Noding this from [[bull]] in today’s page in the Agora, meaning anagora.org/2025-01-27; I wonder if this will create a 2025-01-27.md file or somehow just a ‘bare’ 2025-01-27 file. I’ll know soon enough :)
• Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]] and it was great as usual. We discussed work and open source; bull and the agora.
• I finally bought the tickets for Argentina and Brazil! It feels nice to get that out of the way.
• Work was fine!
• After work, there was a short Social.coop [[TWG]] meeting with [[Dan Phiffer]] and it was great.
• [[Lady Burup]] is very beautiful and a great companion as always!
• Spoke to [[Jack Park]] after a while, I’m glad!
  • [[SenseCraft]] looks interesting.

• I signed up for deepseek.com to try [[deepseek r1]] and I found it quite good to begin with. Then I signed up for its API.

2025-01-26

• I’m on the [[train back to Zürich]] from Bern.
  • I went to a meeting organized by [[Welle]], an organization working in [[human rights in Iran]].
  • Then I met [[LP]] and we had dinner and a long chat, it was great!
• I will try to work on the Agora while I’m on the train, but maybe I will also just write and read and see where it goes :)
• [[Readers of the future]]
  • Unite? :)
• I read about:
  • [[Manuel Rivas]
  • [[Doomsday argument]]
  • [[Rolando Alarcón]]

2025-01-24

• Listening to [[The Word for World is Forest]]
  • From [[libro.fm]].
  • Really enjoying it. The reader is great.
  • [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] mercurial as always.
  • Though, when I say enjoying it… it’s a bit grim. This Don Donaldson character is a nasty piece of work, pure American colonialist.

• [[ideas]]:
  • [[Flancia]]
  • [[Agora]]
  • [[magnets]]

• [[magnets]]

• I went to bed a bit later than expected, at around 3am, but it was a productive night and I still managed to sleep enough so I have no regrets :)
• The [[dishwasher]] repairperson came over, fingers crossed I’ll have a dishwasher again! Not having it (after only a few years of having it) really made me appreciate it specially.
• Then I plan to [[work]] mostly on [[AI]] stuff today.
• Then we might go to [[Manor]] with [[AG]] :)

• [[work]]
• [[social coop organizing circle]]
• [[AG]]: was going to come over but stayed home, we’ll see each other tomorrow :)
• [[bull]]:
  • thanks to https://github.com/gokrazy/bull/issues/8 I’m now running this editor under https://edit.anagora.org/@flancian pull, one incremental step closer to serving editors for other users :)

• I’m writing this from [[sariputta]] projected on the wall in the guest room :)
  • While watching [[3blue1brown]], checking [[essence of calculus]]. I last studied calculus 15+ years ago :)

• Yesterday I ended up working on Sunday as planned and I enjoyed it.
  • I also took time to practice, and play, and that made a large difference.
• [[flow state]]:
  • [[flow state radio]]
• I made the move to the office around lunch, now I’m heading into a longish in-office flow session which might last five hours! Wish me luck :)
• [[bull]]:
  • I like the addition of ctrl+s to save a page a lot
  • I’m also using ctrl+e to edit — maybe it would be ideal if it started the editing session at the end of the document instead of the beginning?
  • Alternatively I think ctrl+s maybe should save but not go back to view mode; unsure.
• Researching how to publish [[snippets]] at work from the command line :)

2025-01-13

• Reading [[Not the End of the World]]
  • Hmm, just plainly stated that [[Degrowth]] is wrong.
  • There was a mention of ‘effective’ optimism. Hope that’s not aligned with effective altruism.

Daily Note 2025-01-10 / Holidays + Weekly Dump from 2024-12-21 to 2025-01-12

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Here’s what I been cooking behind the scenes for today, as well as the holidays dump during the break (2024-12-21 to 2025-01-05) and this school week (2025-01-06 to 2025-01-10), as well as the weekends (2025-01-11 and 2025-01-12).

I know it’s a long break from both doing the daily notes and the long-form blog content, mainly because of school and being hit by the burnout bus.

Holidays Dump 2024

Now let’s talk about what in the living hellscape happened I did during the holidays break, which involves High Seas Sticky Holidays:

• literally shipped RecapTime.dev Website before the midnight of January 1, 2025
  • last project to ship before midnight (PH Standard Time): SpinStack - Vinyl Record Manager by Oliver Potter (repo, demo)
• cooking up between HCB Explorer Discord bot and Hack Club Leeksbot behind the scenes
• probably resting between dev work and chores
• switching to NixOS with flake-based setup, alongside using home-manager

School Week 2025-01-06 to 2025-01-10

• preparing for upcoming Work Immersion schedule on February, among other things
• shipped Leeksbot and dotfiles + NixOS configurations, seperated by just a day
• done a lot of voting at the Wonderdome to bring my projects for other to vote, got the sea’s blessings for a extra 20% doubloons

The Weekends 2025-01-11 and 2025-01-12

TODO to self: go write this after [[High Seas]]

• [[doing]]:
  • Copy/pasted from somewhere:
    • [[Demo mode]]:
      • This will slowly but ~surely happen :)
      • Add a toggle
      • Add code that plays a midi
        • -> [[Lady Burup]]
      • Add code that plays an mp3
        • -> [[Heinali]]
      • Add auto-scrolling, auto opening of zippies
    • [[Add users]]
• [[worked]] and I liked it
• [[donated]]
• [[musikino]] is back!
• [[prana]] now documented lightly in the Agora :)
  • as usual you can use e.g. anagora.org/go/prana/6 to do the yoga session for ‘day 6’, whatever that means to you. I usually do one of go/flow, go/move, etc. on rotation :)
• [[Vajradhara]] and [[Vajrasattva]]

• I resigned from the [[Social.coop]] [[Community Working Group]] the day after starting the [[vote to suspend meta]] after much discussion and a quick draft done with/for the community. It felt like it was the right time to disengage after I received criticism yet again for ‘moving too fast’ despite looping in people earlier and doing what I thought was a fully reasonable pro-social action to advance discussion (start a proposal on Loomio). This after concerns were escalated by multiple community members, including to the CWG, about Social.coop feeling like less of a safe space due to our lack of visible response.
  • One of the criticisms I got amounted (paraphrasing for effect) to needing to have more pre-meetings and go slower. I am fine not having pre-meetings or anything of the sort and doing more and talking less in 2025 as far as I can (within reason), so it seemed like a good moment to finish my CWG engagement (after several years) and focus on the Tech Working Group and the Organizing Circle instead. The CWG is now well-staffed so I am not needed there anymore, which I am thankful for to the people who remain!
  • In general the negativity I had gotten used to getting from some members was a bit of an energy drain, and I realized I could use my time more constructively for the community in the other engagements I plan to keep.
• [[Bull]] is looking great! I’m now serving it (for myself only for the time being) at https://edit.anagora.org pull.

2025-01-11

• Reading [[Not the End of the World]]
  • Got it on [[libro.fm]].
    • Intrigued to see how it pans out. Purports to be a data-backed, optimistic approach to tackling [[climate change]].

• I’m writing this with my new mechanical keyboard, a [[keychron q3 max]].
  • I got this for the office because the previous one was a bit too noisy for the office environment; not that I was the only one using a mechanical keyboard, or that the switches were the noisiest you could get, but I felt like I was contributing to a less inclusive than necessary environment by typing loudly with my headphones at times. And I really like typing with my headphones on :)
  • The one that I got, with [[gateron brown switches]], is really quite silent! And I like the tactile feedback enough.
  • I am enjoying the typing experience so I’m glad!
  • The one thing I would add is maybe a palm rest. I don’t usually use one, but this keyboard is high enough that I feel like that could make it more ergonomic.
  • Sometimes it seems to double-register my space bar presses though, which is a bit disconcerting — I hope it’s a matter of adjusting my typing style to the switches and not a hardware issue! I’ll keep an eye on it.
    • Maybe [[NKRO]] is a factor here? Trying the recommendation in https://www.reddit.com/r/Keychron/comments/1ba9vxy/comment/l9bu0ys
• [[ekumen]]
  • [[eduardo mercovich]] me recomendó [[zen browser]]
• [[social.coop]]
  • lots of talk about the Meta change in policies with respect to hateful speech.
  • then more talk.
  • then [[against meta]] went through draft revisions.
  • then the [[vote to suspend meta]].

• I read about/experimented with:
  • [[openai webrtc api]]
  • [[gemini live]]
• [[pipewire]]:
  • [[easyeffects]]
  • [[wpctl]] for [[wireplumber]]

• First time starting a journal node from [[bull]] :)
  • I will be using the opportunity to take notes about the things I would change in Bull over time, as I try to use it as a default [[Agora editor]].
• [[bull bugs]]:
  • I can’t seem to be able to indent blocks :) Pressing tab while editing moves to "view site information" in Chromium, which is surprising.
  • Thankfully ctrl+] works, which is awesome and a life saver, but the default behavior could be improved probably?
  • I’m also missing [[vim keys]], which [[Silverbullet]] has, although ideally that could be solved at the browser level (e.g. by [[vimium]]); maybe it’s an option for the editor module [[bull]] uses?
  • Anyway, better update to head before I file bugs :)
• [[quotes]]:
  • "I have the solution, you just have to believe in it"
• Today I read and wrote about the [[Meta]] terms and policies changes and the [[Fediverse]].
  • It seems social.coop will have a vote on whether to suspend threads.net.
• Work was quite alright actually!

• [[work]]
• [[twg]] roadmap: [[twg 2025]]
• [[mohammed]]
• [[cognacore]]
• [[bill anderson]]

2025-01-06

• Read and finished [[Four Thousand Weeks]]
  • Thick time
  • Max Weber and Calvinism
  • I liked it in general. I’m on board with the general gist of the anti productivity sentiments.
    • Sometimes it came across a bit… wilfully contrary? Not sure.

• [[pure land buddhism]] -> [[universal gate chapter]]
• [[chilliad]]
• [[secrets]]
• love [[bitwascherei]] already
• [[gotosocial]]:
  • Brought up social.agor.ai provisionally, considering which domain to run this on — and whether to do a [[split domain deployment]].
  • Which one is better as a handle for the Agora bot and a user?
    • @agora@agor.ai?
    • @flancian@agor.ai?
    • @agora@social.agor.ai?
    • @flancian@social.agor.ai?
    • @agora@flancia.agor.ai?
    • @flancian@flancia.agor.ai?
    • @agora@anagora.org?
    • @flancian@anagora.org?
    • They mean different things, of course. All but @agora@social.agor.ai while ‘allocating’ social.agor.ai require a split domain deployment as per the current setup I’m running for Agoras. It doesn’t sound too difficult to try split domains using traefik, I could give it a try. But in that case, should I run these in @agor.ai (shorter/cooler?) or in @flancia.agor.ai (most correct as I’m planning on having this instance handle the usernames in flancia.agor.ai or anagora.org?
  • Update (after discussing with people): I think I’m going with the simplest thing that might work, meaning social.agor.ai is one instance that different people and agoras can use for social services, and handles are foo@social.agor.ai.

• [[AG]] :)
• [[worked]]
• [[Kris]]
• [[Avatamsaka sutra]]
• [[stormy weather]]

2025-01-02

• Planning to update spacemacs to latest.
  • As noted recently, usually something breaks in this process.
  • So I’ll look at ways to do this with minimal disruption.
  • I think trying to do it using multiple config directories seems a good approach.
    • That’ll be useful for if I ever want to run spacemacs and Doom side-by-side, too, for example, or my own vanilla Emacs.
  • One issue to resolve first - you need Emacs 29 for the –init-directory flag. I’m still on 28.1.
    • OK, I’ll try and tackle that first.
• [[Updating to Emacs 29 on Linux Mint]]

• [[New Years Eve]] was great, [[2025]] started great!
  • Party at [[AG]]‘s
  • Then at a friend’s
  • Then at [[Zentralwäscherei]], where I met some old and new interesting people!
  • -> [[Bitwäscherei]]
• [[Yi Jian Mei]] is stuck in my head (in the sense that it comes up spontaneously every day or so) and I don’t mind

2024-12-30

• [[Bookmarked]]
  • Charity Digital - Topics - Digital inclusion: A year in review

• Checking out [[bull]] by [[stapelberg]]!

• [[j0lms]]: [[plurality]]
• [[flancia meet]]
  • was quiet but it still felt good to be ‘back’ :)
• had coffee with my neighbours, it was great!
• cleaned the house a bit
• talked to my mum, I enjoyed it and it was great seeing her
• started a new notebook (ha), this one is a square with a pixel grid — a gift from the [[nintendo museum]] by [[mpd]]
• share photos
• run collect over notebooks and papers, this usually makes me feel better (I have a lot of context all around, putting it back in one place/pile usually helps manage it/consolidate)
• [[december 2024 adventure]]
• [[agora writing]]
• had interesting conversations in the [[fediverse]] about:
  • [[ai]]
  • [[sustainability]]
  • leading to [[ilich]], who I still haven’t read — will try to set up his book in my [[kobo]] to read it tonight/soon
• I read about [[recursively enumerable]] sets and languages — I remembered these were some of my favorite back when I studied computer science when I was 27 or 28. This led me to read again about complexity classes, hierarchies and then [[diophantine]] sets :)
• Also had a great time playing with [[Lady Burup]], and we even watched [[3blue1brown]] together! Pictures likely in the Fediverse :)

2024-12-28

• Reading [[Four Thousand Weeks]]
  • The efficiency trap - the more efficient you get, the more things you will fit into to do list, ultimately not gaining any time.
  • Productivity techniques are a way of facilitating avoidance of making hard choices.
    • By claiming you can get more efficient and fit more in, you can avoid having to decide what not to do.
  • Pay yourself first.
  • Keep three things in progress.

• [[maqna]] looks cool
• [[open letters]] is making a comeback? :)
• like [[december 2024 adventure]], late but surely and with gusto
• [[maybe]]

• Walked to [[Glattpark]] with [[AG]] going by [[Katzenbach]], it was very nice. We enjoyed the sun.
• Read further about [[prime gaps]] and [[twin primes]].
  • Also about the [[gamma function]].
  • Also about [[holomorphic]] and [[analytic]] functions. And [[Brook Taylor]].

2024-12-26

• [[My answers to Sophie’s questions about digital gardens]]