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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.
autopull full text search and see what happens? (tm) — found an interesting empty node that had text mentions but no noding, and the Agora was much more interesting after expanding it
We also had fun generating AI videos! Some of them were actually quite eerie, but somehow funny, so they worked. I’m making them with [[Veo 3]]. The fact that they come with generated audio is quite something.
Beautiful [[Las Jaras]] of July (month 7 / [[Avalokiteshvara]]) despite being sick with a fever. Thank you all, my friends and loved ones! And the [[universe]]!
I did AI coding (meaning coding in tandem with Gemini 2.5) both at work and for the Agora/Flancia. I quite enjoy it!
Back home on my free day :) I took the day off to do something with my mum off-peak (meaning not in the weekend). We were going to go to the [[St Beatus Caves]] but due to the weather we changed plans as she wants to go to [[Ikea]] ([[KM]] called it the artificial cave and it’s very fitting!).
I’m typing this on my new small [[RK61]] keyboard and I quite like it! It is a very limited layout as it’s only 61 keys, so maybe not ideal for some use cases, but definitely good enough for doing general purpose writing.
The reference Agora at anagora.org is partly broken and the server it mostly depends on nowadays might be on the way out so further downtime could be expected, I’ll be noding about troubleshooting activities here and posting to https://social.coop/@flancian/114865307000829931. Please excuse any disruption!
I am thinking of my commitment to try to work for the benefit of sentient beings.
Also I am wondering why nvim in [[guanyin]] is sort of broken, extensions that work fine in [[paramita]] and [[tara]] don’t quite behave like I expect here. I suspect a [[chezmoi]] conflict, let’s see…
(These are the sidequests that make up so much of life… I try to enjoy them!)
I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
It is the smallest keyboard I have typed on in very long, but I am happy to report it works! Maybe I wouldn’t use it for coding initially as some key combinations I use are relatively awkward to press (it involves extra modifiers), but it is very pleasant to type prose or [[Agora]] text in which I’m very happy about, and it seems to easily support three bluetooth connections. I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :) I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
(See, [[nvim]] is indenting for some reason when I start a new line while doing outlines… I’m rolling with it for now…)
(OK, I spoke too soon, it turns out that [[paramita]] is broken too! Editing wise. So it could be I have fixed nvim only in [[tara]] and forgot to push that change to [[chezmoi]]…)
Hmm
Yep, it’s fixed in Tara!
How nice to have a working vim based setup for the Agora again ;)
Now to figure out why it’s broken elsewhere \o/
Oh, I was missing bullets.vim in my init.lua! And tara somehow still had it, I think because removing plugins from init.lua doesn’t actually uninstall them (this is good to remember as it means that my nvim is not yet [[fully reproducible]] starting from init.lua).
I spent ten days with my mum in [[Calp]], [[Spain]] — I expected to write and code a lot, as I usually do (expect, not do, during holidays). In the end we mostly spent time in the sea or the pool, spoke, read and played [[Rummy]]. I have no regrets!
As I write this, we are in the [[Alicante]] airport waiting for our flight. I am looking forward to being reunited with [[Lady Burup]]!
Trying to figure out why a pair of Bluetooth headphones was suddenly, randomly, no longer pairing correctly to a laptop running under [[Windows 11]], and I am genuinely surprised how bad the experience is.
Useless error messages. Multiple interfaces to the same operation, unclear why to use one over the other. Different visuals for different config dialogs. Arcane dialogs and squirrelled away options.
This for a device that was clearly built to work on Windows.
The trope that [[Linux]] has a bad user experience vs Windows does not seem accurate.
I wish I could use some of orgrr’s other features, but I think they are mostly predicated on the existence of file links rather than id links.
[[org-node]] looks neat and an improvement over org-roam in many ways.
I haven’t tried it though, as the feature list described ‘separate note piles’ as a won’t fix.
Assuming ‘separate note piles’ means different knowledge bases for different purposes, which I guess it does, then I rely on separate note piles quite heavily.
Reflecting that for almost everything in my life (work, hobbies, my family) I have to consider "How will it be affected by AI?". Whether I want to or not.
Some interesting tidbits from a couple of interviews with [[Bob Doto]]:
Each main note, for Doto, he has max 4 other main notes it links out to.
He says you can have a zettelkasten of 300 main notes and you’ll have enough for writing and connections for 10/15 years.
People get stressed out over whether they’re doing it right. But the most important thing about a system is simply that it works for you for whatever you want it to do.
His rubric for creating zettels: do I want it to interact with other ideas, and am I possibly going to write about it.
"You are a natural explorer, adventurer and builder of new worlds. You love travel and experiencing other parts of the country and other cultures. You are a natural visionary. Instinctively, you can see what needs to be re-built or designed in new ways whether it be environments, ideas, projects or people. You have a natural ability to renew and regenerate yourself and others. People will see you as highly creative, practical and productive, innovative and original, and passionately involved in what has heart and meaning for you."
"At different times in your life you will be very ecologically minded and deeply concerned about the Earth and very active in making the universe a better place in which to live. You may experience yourself questioning the origins of the universe as a whole or contributing towards theories, projects and services that assist universal understanding. National and international work will appeal to you, or travel that allows you and others to value cultural differences as well as honor inherent similarities found within the human species."
"You will find it difficult to be limited, restricted or restrained in any way. With your inherent ability to cut through things and get to the bottom of most situations, you are able to build new worlds internally and externally. The concept of freedom at different times in your life will be very important."
In the latest episode of ‘Neil tries to update something related to Emacs’ (see [[2025-05-27]]):
I thought that I might be able to process org-roam.db on my laptop, as that is faster, and then sync it to my phone.
Two problems: firstly, it doesn’t work. Not sure why but it must be checking something else other than version to check whether it needs processing. Secondly: the DB contains links to file locations, which are different between devices. So, ultimately a no go anyway.
Ho hum. I’ll need to think of a way of doing a full update of org-roam.db on my phone somehow without it taking an eternity / bombing out.
At least I have an updated Emacs on my laptop!
Later: I fixed it by moving the files out of the org-roam dir for the project, then moving them back in and processing then in batches of 1000 at a time.
Still took ages, but didn’t crash and I just let each batch run while getting on with something else.
Found this rather excellent-looking site referencing some of my some of my info on how to publish your site with org-publish: https://drollery.org/build/
As part of the above saga of updates, I will now endeavour to update org-roam to 2.3.0 on spacemacs on my laptop.
That will involve updating packages.
Found this rather excellent-looking site referencing some of my some of my info on how to publish your site with org-publish: https://drollery.org/build/
That means I should probably also update spacemacs itself.
One or both of those will probably break something.
Yeah, already failing when trying to update packages. Sigh. Try to update spacemacs first then.
Now: error message that I need at least emacs 28.2. I’m on 28.1. Sigh.
Tried it from flatpak. That still doesn’t work.
I’m going to try building from source. That worked once before…
OK, it wasn’t that bad to be honest. The compilation, at least. Took about 10/15 minutes?
Now installing 305 packages… annoyingly you can’t just leave it unattended, as occassionally it asks to compile something.
Miraculously, that seems to have worked!
I should find out if there’s a way of pinning packages to particular versions in both Doom and spacemacs, so that:
(a) I can make sure they don’t randomly update and break at a time when I don’t have time to do anything about it.
(b) I can make sure they’re always on the same version between mobile and laptop.
With it I can manage my feeds in an org file, view them in Emacs, and sync the status between devices with syncthing.
Now that some interesting people have moved from X to BlueSky, I can use the BlueSky RSS feeds to follow them.
elfeed-org makes it easy to add feeds and organise them. I’m trying Ton’s way of organising feeds to begin.
All good. But, I had to upgrade Doom. Which upgraded org-roam. Which meant the org-roam DB needed upgrading. Which takes an eternity on my phone. So it’s effectively broken for me until I can solve that. Great.
Good look at various claims that current Big Tech platforms have ‘killed’ capitalism and turned it into something worse ([[technofeudalism]], [[vectoralism]], etc).
Lots happened at work, some of which I dreaded to some small degree without noticing it, most of which went fine and some of which I enjoyed.
And then the evening back home with [[Lady Burup]] was beautiful.
Did [[paperwork]] for the divorce and such, which felt freeing.
In the morning I met [[Eduardo Alberto]] who will do a deep cleaning of my home soon; it’s the first time since I move (I self-clean, and I’m a pretty good "Pareto" cleaner, but don’t do deep very well).
I’ve decided, or realized (or both), that one of the reasons I tend to under perform when writing letters is… because I don’t dedicate enough time to it, as in actually planning for it and making time.
I decided to set a "soft deadline" of [[August 15th]] for writing to Lex, given that it’s his birthday! We’re both from 1983.
That made me look Max Tegmark’s birthday as well and it was recently, on [[May 5th]]. He’s from 1967 so I’ll associate him with 67 (currently meaning also: light and Amitabha).
Today (actually yesterday) I saw a great video on the [[principle of least action]] and it blew my mind a bit. It also introduced me to diffraction grating effects — which I had heard about but hadn’t grokked/seen demonstrated.
The fact that angular momentum is quantized… wow. Also it introduced me to [[diffraction gratings]], which I had heard of only in passing.
And angular momentum has the same unit as action: Joule-second.
This all made me think also of…
Could you use diffraction gratings at astronomic scales to see into the past? E.g. by making visible light from a star that has taken a longer (slower) path to get to us.
The effect that makes lights ‘stretch out’ in one direction in some mediums, like water (think of night lights reflected on a lake) or… the effect that is apparent in my chrome kitchen countertop that is quite something and I sometimes call the [[rainbow folding]]). I’m unsure if these are really related but something about the discussion about the paths that light can take made me think of it.
All in all I really enjoy thinking about [[physics]] as of late.
Noding from work after a while! I spend a lot of time here writing but for obvious reasons I don’t tend to write in the Agora while at it. Still, I would like to take up the habit again of writing more journals so I thought I’d give it a shot.
I met [[Stapelberg]] for lunch as we often do on Mondays and it was great.
Now I have a bunch of meetings upcoming; more than planned (as it tends to happen). I’ll try to make the most of it, and still protect enough time blocks that I can do what I intended to get done during the workday (without going too late into the night).
Fiction by [[Yanis Varoufakis]]. Really enjoying it so far. The plot is obviously a bit forced, a vehicle just to share his political ideas. But it’s a fun way to explore those ideas.
I started this Saturday earlier than usual by waking up at 9am and going to a 10am event in my neighborhood about urban planning :) It was pretty interesting!
Then did some shopping, meditated and now (as of around midday) I’m starting the day in earnest; drinking [[gyokuro]] and planning the day.
I’ll need to give it another listen, as not all of it went in - listening while distracted.
But seemed good. A lot more academic than [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]. The latter was more engaging, but (maybe?) less rigorous. I appreciate this book’s succinctness.
Some things that stuck out from this listen:
It has a good historical overview of where platforms came from and how they came to dominate.
It has a useful typology of platforms.
Platforms primarily gain their advantages from data.
Trying to force platform capitalists to respect privacy is impossible - it’s part of their DNA.
Over time platforms try to control the whole stack.
Over time, platforms slowly converge to offering the same services.
There’s a tiny bit at the end on possible ways to counter platform dominance. Very small, but worth noting.
I just resolved all [[chezmoi]] conflicts in [[paramita]] and it felt a bit like glory honestly. I also cleaned up the repository in a variety of ways. It took about 20 minutes and it felt very freeing.
I then launched [[nvim]] and it worked after being broken in this machine still; all my modules got auto-installed immediately and it felt like living in the future, which of course I do in many ways being very privileged (and remembering [[William Gibson]]…).
And of course I spoke just a little too soon, somehow Markdown mode in [[wikivim]] is not quite perfect for some reason :)
[[2025-05-01]]: [[International Workers Day]] was nice, although I didn’t sleep very well and I had to pack/do things in the house to prepare for travel so I left the festivities relatively early in the afternoon after attending with friends.
As I write this I’m in the [[Zürich airport]] waiting to board my flight to Málaga for a week in southern Spain.
Worked today, essentially half day as I had to get a small surgical intervention — a mole that was growing fast on my face for some reason. Had to send it for biopsy but the doctor said it looked benign.
I was part of the [[Bitwäscherei]]/[[SGMK]][[Easter Hack]] this long weekend and it was great! Met interesting people, and was able to focus well on tasks I had long deferred, partly because of being surrounded by people also focused on their projects.
Also spent Easter Sunday with friends and their family, it was very nice!
It was because when I was logging in as the second user, I wasn’t using a full login shell.
i.e. su neil when I needed to use su - neil.
Windows 10 reaching end of life after 10 years is fine. Windows 11 hardware requirements not supporting a whole raft of perfectly adequate machines is NOT acceptable.
I can even use tab and shift-tab to indent/dedent!
It took a few tries but now vim feels like a nice Agora noding environment again, in particular in the computer where I now have my development environment up — [[tara]].
Back again after sleep :)
I have a nice focus day in front of me; I’ll try to get through a varied task list that I will keep partly here and partly on the back of an envelope that I intend to burn at the end of the day.
Spoke to my mum!
She found some books that belonged to my grandfather, [[Bargalló]].
My [[noding]] has become erratic :) In particular my journaling is less consistent than before.
Introspecting, this seems to be because of a combination of causes (as usual):
I have been spending time in working around computer bugs (like [[karuna]] crashing, my work keyboard being temporarily bricked by a firmware update, etc.) and working.
I lost or temporarily misplaced my [[default environment]], meaning the computer+workspace that I prefer for noding in the absence of temporary factors like being at some other computer.
I have been keeping mental context elsewhere, like [[snippets]] at work and physical papers around the house and the office.
Mi [[mamá]] me contó de la vez en que mi papá le pegó, ella hizo la denuncia en la comisaría antes de escaparse a la casa de los padres y los hijos de puta de la comisería llamaron a mi papá y le avisaron para que la fuera a buscar.
Mi [[tío]] desapareció tres días después de que mi papá (que era de la derecha peronista) lo llevó a un embarcadero de Tigre a una reunión de montoneros.
While (mostly?) tangential to the point of the book, Doto’s referencing of things like [[anarchist theory]] and [[rhizome]]s, and [[Doughnut Economics]] in examples, is further endearing me to it.
It’s clarifying lots of things I’ve been doing a bit unguided.
I’m taking lots of reference notes from it.
I find that statements that start with ‘[[I]]‘ such as ‘[[I am]]‘ or ‘[[I like]]‘ are good ways of starting on a path of making main notes. As you’ll start to make a train of notes to back up why you are or why you like something.
I occasionally have the deep misfortune of ending up on [[Amazon]]. Talk about [[enshittification]]. Endless random brand names, 50 random variations of the same crappy product. ‘Sponsored’ products. This is not a site that cares about its users.
It was a great day all in all, I had enough bandwidth to do what I needed to do and start the week well; did also some planning for the upcoming months.
"So what is a system? Simply a set of things that are interconnected in ways that produce distinct patterns of behaviour – be they cells in an organism, protestors in a crowd, birds in a flock, members of a family, or banks in a financial network. And it is the relationships between the individual parts – shaped by their [[stocks and flows]], [[feedbacks]], and [[delay]] – that give rise to their emergent behaviour"
"Most oil deposits are thought to have been laid down between 10 and 180 million years ago, when dead zooplankton and algae sank to the seafloor and were buried in layers of sediment, before being slowly transformed into hydrocarbons by heat and pressure and time"
[[Life]] wants to be; life doesn’t always want to be much; life goes extinct; life goes on.
I noted that down when listening to [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]], which says something like that - need to go back and find the exact quote.
I’m returning to a bunch of fleeting notes I’ve logged in orgzly over recent months, that haven’t made it to the garden yet.
It turns out there’s going to be a community meetup in Zürich on [[2025-04-01]]!
Maybe I could check it out. For more, see the email from [[2025-03-22]].
I need to do somthing to bring [[todo]], [[do]], [[next action]] and such under control :)
To begin with I think I just need to re-pick one as the ‘root’ and start going through it and try to keep my actual priorities at the top.
It’s going to be painful (because of the amount of stuff I’ve amassed! and the fact that even after all this I won’t be able to have all my todos there because I have a parallel life at work…) but probably worth it, so maybe I should just get right on with it.
-> done! I refactored [[todo]] a bit, and went through very old todos and actually found them even done. Maybe there’s a tune to the chaos I seem to operate in after all, at least some of the time ;)
I think having an offline wikipedia could be nice. Or a language model that I can run locally, albeit slowly, but hey… that will come :)
[[bouncepaw]] told me about [[xremap]] today! it looks great, like it could fix several issues I had in the back of my mind with the input layer in wayland.
New day but I’m working on my todos on [[2025-03-21]] :)
I implemented [[chill]] today (late yesterday) to set the light levels at home to a nice late night/hacking level using [[home assistant]], that was somewhere on my todo list :)
I think his history and overview of how big tech firms got to where they are seems good. And like I said, very well written.
I take the technofeudalism stuff with a pinch of salt. Interesting, but, debatable, and probably doesn’t matter all that much whether it’s something other than capitalism or not. How do we stop it is the most important thing.
write in the [[zine]], I’ve been writing in my head for a while and it’s time to do some actual writing?
fix agora bot, hopefully earlier than the trip though?
I finally got to this on the flight to Durham on [[2025-03-23]] — untested, but at least I made two commits that I think should move the Agora mastodon bot in the right direction.
I cleaned the house in the morning while I was logged onto [[Flancia meet]] (quiet instance, but that’s alright of course) and it felt good to start the weekend that way; I did kitchen and bathroom floors.
We had a tough conversation with [[AG]] today, but I think it was the right thing.
I wrote a script named [[Burup]] to disable the laptop’s keyboard and touchpad so Burup can sleep on it while I continue to use the external keyboard and mouse for browsing/coding :) [[Claude]] helped me find the best way to do this in a 2025 Linux + Wayland install, my first impulse was to reach for xinput but that doesn’t cut it nowadays :) [[libinput]] CLI is reasonable though.
I think I need to also disable the trackpoint (nipple/joystick that comes with Lenovo laptops) as somehow she still was able to move focus while I was typing this :) The situation is already much improved though.
Really enjoying the intro and opening chapter. The personal style is engaging and liking the down to earth way of discussing [[historical materialism]].
Back here something like 22 hours later, on the other side of the night and day and half there over :)
Work including oncall was occasionally heavy but still good, felt productive. Worked late and advanced some threads enough, but not as late as yesterday!
[[Lady Burup]] needs to lose some weight, will continue noding the process in [[burup forever]] :)
I also want to lose 2-3kg or convert them from fat (mostly in my abdomen) to muscle, I’ll try to do this in the following 1-2 months and report back. I currently weigh 76.5kg (I’m ~190cm tall).
Discussed [[2025]] with [[Timur]] in [[Flancia Meet]], also discussed [[Betula]] progress which is very exciting!
Thought about [[Fediverse]] integration, [[auth]] and data providers.
Also about simpler and more opaque stuff like [[autopull for numbers]]: number [[n]] should pull e.g. [[prime/n]] because that’s a related node for all integers.
I enjoyed the process a lot! I hope they enjoy the result, even a subset :)
Thought about:
[[primes]], and again [[prime gaps]], which I now associate with the number #14 because 14 is a first notable prime gap on 113 - 127, and it easily answers ‘prime?’ for an interesting range
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.
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.
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.
Daily Note 2025-01-10 / Holidays + Weekly Dump from 2024-12-21 to 2025-01-12
!!! warning "Hack Club Slack links ahead"
To access them, you must be in the Slack (high schoolers 18 and below if you are not yet there)
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:
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 :)
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 .
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.
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 :)
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.
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)
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 :)
After 15 days spent in the US west coast (working) and then Japan (traveling with friends).
I slept home in Oerlikon alone as I crashed not so long after arriving due to jet lag; [[AG]] will come with [[Lady Burup]] later today.
I woke up at 6am after only 7 hours of sleep due to jetlag despite only getting five hours yesterday and I decided to just get up and start doing things; I’ll try to take a nap later today as needed.
Non-prioritized list of things I want to take a look at now that come to mind and I wanted to jot down:
[[Cline]] — I heard it’s a good AI plugin for [[vscode]] that is not too opinionated/walled-gardeny (is that a word? maybe it should be)
[[Posty]] — something cooked by [[Oliphant]] over at the Fediverse which sounds a lot like something I wanted to build/I wanted to see someone build)
[[social.coop]] activity — some threads on Mastodon, some on Matrix, some on Loomio surely
All in all this is supposed to be a free "jetlag recovery day" so I’ll just try to enjoy it and also spend time offline.
I read [[Alan Watts]]‘s Wikipedia page (again? unsure) and I wondered again about his alcoholism and relatively early death at 58.
I finished [[The Moon is a Harsh Mistress]] today, after starting it and reading most of it yesterday during the flights. I liked it quite a bit! In particular the relationship between the protagonist/narrator and Mike/[[Mycroft]], the AI; and how it went straight into the topic of collaborating with AI towards the revolution.
Writing this on the flight from [[Tokyo]] to [[Copenhagen]] while on my way back to [[Zürich]].
I was (lightly) disappointed to see this flight did not head northwest as I expected, but rather northeast, despite what the map ‘navigation’ promised. This told me two things though:
"Western" planes are avoiding the whole of Russian airspace, likely because of the war. In retrospect I should have known this!
The navigation map available to the public in planes does not reflect in any way the course set by pilots. Instead it seems to just show the [[great circle]] to the destination from the current position. This held true through the trip. Indeed, the ‘projected path’ was roughly orthogonal to the true path at least until we reached the Bearing Strait (which is when I’m writing this).
I was planning on catching up on coding and writing (beyond this short entry), but I forgot to charge my laptop and there are no chargers in economy, so there goes that plan :) Well, I have plenty of reading to do so it’ll be fine.
The [[Hiroshima Museum]], by which I mean the [[Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum]], was very interesting and very shocking — even though I thought I knew what to expect, the effect on me was strong. I could notice it also on other people who were there.
In Osaka I intend to:
Try interesting food (of course) :)
[[Kushikatsu]]? Hopefully there’s a meat-free version.
I just finished [[Story of your life]] and other stories by [[Ted Chiang]], I liked it a lot. I don’t know why I waited so long to read him more intensively after liking some of his short stories I read online.
He likes [[Borges]] (so do I as you might know). This came across most clearly maybe in his [[Golem]] related story, but there’s such an undercurrent in several stories and he uses the adjective [[Borgesian]] (IIRC) once.
I’m flying to [[San Francisco]] to work from [[Sunnyvale]] for a few days. As I write this I’m on a SAS A330 sitting in 51A with the seat next to me empty, the plane being about 70% full.
Now I’ve finally started properly reading the [[Fediversalist Papers]] (I’ve been waiting for such an occasion) and found the report immediately engrossing.
…and finished :) I tried taking good enough notes to then share with the Social.coop working groups and organizing Circle.
I’m still two hours away from San Francisco. Not much more battery left in my laptop, so maybe I’ll just keep reading something else.
I finished reading [[Thich Nhat Hanh]]‘s commentary on the [[Heart Sutra]]. I enjoyed it a lot :) Thank you Thich as usual.
Today I was writing a newsletter. In my ongoing push to do everything in [[Emacs]], I set up org-preview-html to get a nice HTML preview pane as I was writing it in [[org-mode]]. I then copied and pasted from that into Drip’s wysiwyg editor. Worked pretty well.
However, one big negative - I’m always scared to update spacemacs to latest, as well as packages from Melpa.
Pretty much at least one important thing breaks every time that I do, and as I need this for my work, I can’t often spare that time.
So I tend to put it off and lag behind.
I imagine there’s things I can do that would mitigate the risk and friction - I should look into those.
One simple idea is just to have two version running side-by-side. I might be able to do that actually, I think there’s a flag you can pass Emacs to say where to look for your conf folder.
I’m writing this on the train to [[Bern]], after which I will make a few connections and make my way to [[Puidoux]] where I’ll join a [[party in the forest]].
It’s going to be quite cold tonight and the party goes on until Sunday afternoon, so I’m happy I got some [[Merino]] underpants and a long sleeved shirt yesterday :)
I caught up with [[Eerie Shell]] and [[Kris]] over messaging.
I woke up with a headache for some reason, and it came back during the day, but otherwise I was fine.
I worked and then attended the [[end of year dinner]] with my coworkers.
There was also a [[bowling]] afternoon event which I skipped as I felt I was too behind work and I wanted to use the opportunity to catch up.
Even as I decided to skip it I knew that, with the passage time, I would remember the bowling event but not the afternoon working. But I decided to do it anyway as I also knew my mental state would be affected by not making progress on some tasks, and I think in the end it was a reasonable choice.
I enjoyed dinner. I actually like my coworkers, I’m lucky in that (and many ways!).
Then I returned home and I played with [[Lady Burup]] and played the piano.
I played [[Amores Hallarás]] for the first time in A (what I remembered/whistled) and in B (as per the recording by [[Inti Illimani]]).
All of the above methods of [[waste disposal]] are problematic one way or another. Reduction of production and consumption rates really is the only solution. (i.e. degrowth).
Still recovering from disease (flu? covid? unsure) with [[AG]] — but feeling better thankfully, both of us.
Ended up testing [[backup restores]] for [[social.coop]] finally and it felt great! It was in the todo list for long.
Not so much progress on [[work-work]] this weekend — which I know might sound a bit weird, why is it that I sometimes plan to work on the weekends? The truth is that some of the things I need to do I find it hard to do during the week for a variety of reasons, like meeting load. So I sometimes use the weekend to catch up. But when I don’t I have to at some point ‘let go of it’, else it weights on me implicitly.
A chill day at home, with snow outside. I’m taking care of [[AG]] a bit as she’s sick.
Todo for the day:
rest :)
fix mastodon embeds in the Agora? they are still broken after most instances updated to 4.3
I didn’t quite fix this yet but I found two bugs doing this and made progress :)
First, social.coop embed.js had not been updated in years. We need a step to update static content when updating the instance! I mentioned it in the room.
Second, I filed https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33049 against Mastodon. I don’t get how their "new style" embeds are supposed to work, embed.js seems a bit weird. Let’s see what they say.
work: on that work document at least for one pomodoro
work: book meetings for the upcoming week (see paper notebook)
The opening to [[Wasteland]], where he outlines the scale of waste we produce worldwide, puts me in mind of the bit in [[Doughnut Economics]] where she discusses broadening our conception of the economy to be embedded within the biosphere.
How the economy has sources and sinks to the wider environment.
Wasteland tells just how much of a sink we treat the planet as, as we dump our waste into it.
I’m [[sick]]. Nothing serious, feels like the flu. [[AG]] got it over the weekend.
Working from home and catching some [[Meet University]] talks, although today only until 16. There’s an all hands later I may put in the background; I told my manager I was low energy and would focus on resting half a day.
I cut my hair, which usually makes me feel fresher, and it did. I also shaved everything except my mustache, for [[Movember]] (is it still a thing? I think so)
On Tuesday I went to a workshop on learning the basics of electrical repairs.
Was good to meet some other volunteers from the area.
The round of intros took up a lot of the session though…
Had a bit of an overview on useful tools and basic electronic components, wired a plug, and then started repairing broken items we had brought with us.
I found a ‘task list’ (I have 7-8 at any given time, usually anything from a3 to a4, envelopes and forms and such that I reuse to write things to do later) which I sort of completed so I archived it. It had the number [[131]] on it, without further context, although it was close to a task related to Wikipedia in the Agora that I have advanced.
It is prime in case you’re wondering :) [[prime/131]].
Which reminds me about the notion of having prime/<n> be autopulled when n is a number. Hmm.
I say I want to do more writing in long form/intelligibly to the average prose reader, but don’t often make time for it. Some time ago I said Sundays were going to be for this kind of writing more often, and I could try to uphold this today. Let’s see.
The [[Holocene]] is an incredibly hospitable Earth and the favourable conditions would last for an unusually long time, were we humans not pushing the planet out of this period of stability.
We need to change the indicator for success from ever upwards and forwards growth to dynamically thriving in balance.
Back in [[Silverbullet]] after a few days only making it to [[codium]] — which in some ways was good, as it means I managed to carve out some time for some playful coding through the week.
[[Stapelberg]] is now using [[Silverbullet]] as well and seems to like it as well although he did comment on the system requirements; I agree it can be intense in larger gardens. But still it is capable enough and a solid enough writing environment that it’s the best tool I know of in knowledge space currently.
Work was good, tough at times but I believe overall productive.
I’ve been feeling and looking a bit tired lately so I started taking iron again, and might take vitamin D supplements (as I’ve been doing seasonally with good effect).
I had the day off but I decided to work anyway; the meeting load seemed manageable and I was able to carve out a good-sized flow block, so it seemed like a good idea to get the week started today.
Ended up working half a day, which seemed like a good compromise; I ticked a few things off my todo list to start the week in good shape, freeing the rest for some critical tasks hopefully.
Also the question of [[matrix]] for coordinating work, which is met with resistance by some working group members only. For me interop is the clear solution, let’s see.
I’ve recently read it, but seemed like a good choice to revisit - big ideas but palatably presented.
Also I consider it reasonably [[ecosocialist]] in outlook. The combo of social foundation and planetary boundaries. Even though it presents itself somewhat apolitically.
Fun and informative and very wide ranging on various science topics.
My immediate takeaway: the Universe is sublime, Earth is amazing, life is improbable and astonishing; human intelligence is incredible, yet we are astoundingly terrible stewards of life and the planet.
And we need to resolve that last issue immediately.
[[work]] from home as a technician was coming to fix the sinks, it’s great after the fact like a lot of maintenance tasks! I hope to be able to do it myself if it’s needed again, let’s see.
I’m trying to update the firmware of my [[8bitdo retro keyboard]] and it’s harder than expected due to the fact that [[8bitdo]] only supports Mac and Windows, but I’m making some progress.
Traditional social media / microblogging can also be great for active recall.
Particularly as dialogue and group discussion is an excellent prompt for active recall.
However for me they also have a huge problem - distraction.
I can’t go on the Fediverse without it ending up as a bit of a mindless scroll fest. (Which, admittedly of often a useful tool for information discovery…)
I biked to work and I’m happy I did, it wasn’t too cold and the exercise felt great both ways.
Now I’m cozy at home typing on my mechanical keyboard with Lady Burup (she occasionally also types, but also I just mean we’re spending time together :)).
I was also melancholy for personal reasons but it felt constructive, like processing.
So far: astrophysics, geology, chemistry, particle physics, quantum physics and a little bit of paleontology.
All fascinating but I think nowadays I’m most interested in the things closer to home - so, the geology, and hoping there will be some biology and maybe even ecology (though from memory I don’t think there is much of this last one).
There’s no social science - so no human history, anthropology, economics, etc. Have to go elsewhere for that. I might listen to [[The Dawn of Everything]] next.
I received my second keyboard and I installed it on the desk with [[Paramita]].
Typing on it feels amazing, and the workstation is now set up in a way that I think will entice me to write more often and for longer periods before context switching.
I find that, when I’m typing on a laptop keypad, the constant availability of the trackpad makes me context switch more often, as I react impulsively to notifications for example. When I am in this typing position, switching to a different context requires me to:
Reach out for the mouse, which is 30cm away.
Use a combination like Meta + hjkl to move to a different window using my [[window manager]]‘s shortcut, which usually means I’d be focusing to a different window that I had decided I wanted to work on (as it’s on my workspace)
Learn the shortcut for ‘react to last notification’, which I don’t know and I don’t intend to learn today :)
Now only remains the task of remembering what I want to do, which means updating my priority list and gathering an intent to follow it.
I also met a new friend, [[Elena]], picked up the keyboard package and mailed out some forms, and thought about some personal matters/emotionally processed.
Hi there! this is one of the first few livestreams I’ve done. I keep iterrating on the format. As it is now, I am recording my typing but I don’t know to which extent you can hear the music or anything I say. I need to check up the setup later, so excuse any disruption please :)
Actual yoga is coming soon. I’ve been enjoying typing on my mechanical keyboard and playing with Lady Burup. I fixed or worked around some hardware/setup issues along the way :)
Also did some light gardening in preparation for the winter.
No matter what, I keep coming back to [[neovim]] for editing my garden. It’s just too handy and fast. Silverbullet competes with other tabs in my browser windows, whereas [[wikivim]] is always somewhere in tmux.
I think that’s fine, they have different strengths?
Although I did want to experiment with [[silverbullet attachments]] as a simple way to make the [[Agora]] more multi-media (it’s the spirit of the 90s? :))
I enjoyed typing on my new keyboard! I am looking forward actually, which is a nice motivation to go to work tomorrow again, and that in turn is nice to have as I have to go there anyway ;)
I may end up getting another one for writing at home though. I "knew" that I like typing on mechanical keyboards, but it took typing again in one to properly remember it :)
I worked until late back home even after the [[social.coop]] meeting, but that’s OK as well, I like starting the week strong.
I’m liking my new [[8bitdo]] keyboard a lot, and now that I’ve made the programmable buttons work even more :)
I set one big button to lock the screen and the other to write ‘yes’ and press enter; I figured programming one to take a full action that might be dangerous in some contexts was fun and reasonable enough for what IS a big red button after all, so if you press it in front of a prompt or a chat window you should be sufficiently aware of the risk :)
Typing here I remember how much I like typing, in a way. Another thing I like is that it forces me away from the laptop, where the touchpad is always available. Here I have to reach for the mouse, as in the olden days, and this is a small context switch that I might be able to catch myself doing when I intended to focus on the task at hand (writing).
I think this might enable me to write more and in longer form, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. The last long form text I wrote publicly was the [[Agora Chapter]] of the book about [[Personal Knowledge Graphs]], which was published in [[2023]].
I guess at some point once you’ve written enough you can drop the bullet points and go back to full prose, whatever difference this makes. To some extent paragraphs are a two level list hierarchy, in the sense that every sentence that follows a previous instead of beginning a new paragraph can be though to be a children to one that preceded it.
I ran into [[Wittgenstein]] again and I thought again of reading him seriously/more fully, I have only read fragments of him so far and of course commentary to his work.
I guess bullet points can serve as asides in longer form prose, like parentheses or dashes, but perhaps more readable for the case of writers which tend to produce many asides and meta :)
So, anyway, writing makes me feel good; it feels cathartic you could say, and also just necessary at times. Noticing that something feels good also helps oneself do that thing again, remove resistances to doing it.
I’ve logged in to [[Fediverse]] again the last couple of days. To make a new connection and do some Restart related posting. But: already found myself scrolling aimlessly through things which though very interesting are of minimal relevance to my actual life. Might just be a phase, but, sadly I can’t spare that idle time right now.
I’ve been cultivating a setup for logging the [[repair data]] from [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] that, once I’ve taken a copy of the paper forms on my phone, I can then log it all digitally and get it into Restarters.net, all from my phone.
Fixed a printer (well, more just showed that it was working OK and put a fresh ink cartridge in).
For [[Restart]] for Repair Day I worked on the global map of events, the Open Repair Alliance report, and the Open Repair Alliance dataset. Proud of all of those.
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]].
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]].
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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 :)
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.
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
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
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 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.
I worked, it was fine — I almost didn’t as we were just returned from beautiful [[Ischia]] yesterday and Thursday is a national holiday, but in the end it was good as I made progress on several fronts and meetings were light for a Tuesday :)
Then I did some [[social.coop]] following up on some of yesterday’s topics from the [[twg]]
By the way any of the ideas I write down, which I’m sure are old hat to any physicist and many common folk like me, are for the benefit of all beings if they ever turn out to be useful in any way; any [[patents]] are dedicated to the benefit of humanity and friends :)
Maybe sounds a bit better than just [[Open Letters]] for what I am trying to do — at least for me :) Because these are open letters with a particular intention? Or at least that’s a particular interesting subset of all [[open letters]] tracked in this [[Agora]] and elsewhere in the [[Internet]].
Today and yesterday I thought also of writing, in general — how much I do it and how much I don’t, how many of my thoughts seep into the ether as weak electromagnetic radiation and are only occasionally recorded. (That’s alright; with every thought "lost" we radiate some heat, we feel something, we experiment our beings and let the universe shape our consciousnesses).
For the purpose of focusing more often on writing I’ve started to think of [[Sariputta]] as my writing computer, keeping also [[Sila]] and [[Paramita]] as general purpose/development computers, and [[Nostromo]] as media centre/MIDI terminal.
In [[Ischia]]! Now for a few days. This is the first I’ve noded as days have been quite intense in [[bodyspace]] (in a nice way).
I want to submit some poems for the [[zine]] that [[bouncepaw]] is editing by EOM, will try to work on those today from the beach. If not today, tomorrow.
Just completed the [[shutdown]] ritual from [[Cal Newport]]‘s [[Time Block Planner]] and I think the system is totally working out for me so far (a few weeks in). Feeling happier at work and productive.
Woke up with [[AG]], enjoyed the morning. Then I cleaned and did laundry and started packing for the trip :)
Also managed to lose one my earbuds while cleaning, but then I found it thanks to [[find my device]] which I didn’t know existed — it’s an option in [[bluetooth settings.]]- [[Flancia]]:
Talking to [[Mohammed]] about getting formal verification about our charitable endeavours as the bank in Yemen is giving trouble/they seem to be suspicious of ill intent (which we don’t have).
Wrote https://flancia.org/homes today (I should have one it earlier, it was somewhere on my todo list — but here we are, I hope it helps).
So it turns out that for years I have been sometimes journaling in /YYYY-MM-DD.md and sometimes in journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md, depending on how I created the entry.
If I press e.g. ctrl-w ctrl-w in [[vim]], I go to the daily page as configured by [[wiki vim]] — which is the later.
If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the past, I usually will have a journal already, and wiki vim will redirect there.
If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the future, though, I will not have a journal yet, so the file will be created as a "common node", outside of journals.
I thought I had moved to a ‘flat space’ with everything including journals in the [[root of my garden]], but apparently that didn’t happen yet :)
In the case of the [[Agora]] this could be treated as a [[pull]] — but that transcludes the whole node below the current one, and maybe in this case what is intended is to transclude one particular resource in-place.
Oh, what currently happens is that the Agora assumes this is an image being transcluded — that is the one kind of direct transclusion we have implemented so far. I guess I could hack that codepath and see how hard it is to actually transclude e.g. the subnode with full subnode view in an iframe? Unsure.
In other [[Silverbullet]] news, today I figured out how to make dailies go to the node YYYY-MM-DD instead of to Journals/Day/YYYY-MM-DD:
You open special page /Library/Journal/New%20Page/Daily%20Note (template) in your instance.
You change suggestedName.
I commented out forPrefix but I’m unsure if you need that.
Here we go. Once more onto the breach; maybe it is today we start writing a book I started writing years ago, and will take me or us many more years to write.
I’ve started recording my screen more often, as a way of screencasting — even though very often I don’t get to actually publish it. I have a [[Youtube channel]] but I mostly upload Yoga sessions there, at least so far. Still, just recording sometimes makes me feel reassured — because theoretically that means I may get to actually publish it in the future, or because others will find these files and look for anything [[interesting]] in them, or because even if they are lost they will influence my behavior in some ways.
I sometimes feel that I think and write more coherently when I remember to think about you, dear [[reader]], dear [[viewer]], please [[like]] and [[share]] if willing :)
I wrote the above, which I’m calling [[2024-07-02]], and then I’m moving on to do whatever’s next in the list, or whatever arises.
I’m thinking I usually want Mastodon embeds to be auto pulled in nodes, will probably try that default/to make it work again. Currently you have to press ‘Pull All’.
So I guess the simplest fix would be to locate the code that is supposed to click that button and check for its running condition.
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
A bit of catching up on Jet Lag: The Game series while waiting for the Season 10 finale.
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
!!! warning "This is a bit incomplete"
But working on it as soon as possible, hopefully before Thurday.
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 23, 2024, alongside what’s happened in the past two weeks:
Pardon the week-long silence on the daily journaling. Just needed a quick recharge as well for warming up Minecraft skills (currently in peaceful mode for a lot of resource gathering sessions).
Did a cleanup chore with my sister (since we share the bedroom space, which sometimes chaotic when comes to schedules on the study table1) on 06-22.
Here’s what been cooked since last two weeks:
Officially brought the Bedrock edition on mobile (formerly known as Pocket Edition) for Android. Chaos at mining ensure, with my first death from falling gravel.[^2]
Who thought you want to go deeper into Minecraft lore, via the Legends spinoff? Like literally watching the full gameplay for 2-3+ hours[^3].
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
Currently planning on getting a new laptop for upgrades or get the screen repaired (*fingers crossed on shipping costs of the parts itself*)
[^2]: There is second one, but I didn’t count it yet since I pulled the quick restore backup action from world backups as part of my Realms Plus trial.
[^3]: The full video is literally 6+ hours, so I do some skips to speed things up.↩
[[Sebek]] and family came over and we had lunch at home :) It was great!
[[Lady Burup]] found it hard to deal with two children at the same time, but I think she might get used to it with time (and the children will also learn how to communicate with her) ;)
Then I attended the [[Helvetas]] yearly general assembly with [[AG]]. It was quite interersting! Highly participative (votes for accepting the yearly budget, etc.) and with a focus on the foundation’s activities in [[Bhutan]].
I know it’s a bit self-centered to add the edit box to anagora.org when only I can use it for now, but I wanted to experiment with the editing experience before investing a lot in developing it for others :) I hope it doesn’t get in the way of the experience of others.
Hello there, editor Andrei speaking on the line. This should be technically published exactly in the Philippine Indepedence Day,
but since I am currently between a mini sabatical and EOSY rest for the next school year, I apologize if
it took longer than expected. So I decided to publish it now from the backburner and finalize it later.
Hello world, and welcome back to the monthly dump/status update! Pardon the radio silence
over the few months, I am just busy at school during those period, but since I am
in the end-of-school-year break, we’re actually back for at least two issues of this,
alongside the daily journaling on [my personal wiki]
Buckle up, since there will be mentions about Gildedguy Story #8 and you
don’t want to [get snuck-up on][md-spoilers-ep7], right?
By the way for the Agora community, I’ll be pointing my notes here while keeping the old ones
up as an archive via the new [[@ajhalili2006-archive]] once the patch for sources YAML file
are merged upstream soon.
And since this is the weekend (as of 2024-06-01) to officially kickoff my mini-sabbatical between
school year, this is the first edition of my monthly dump of the year,
also known as monthly status updates if you keen checking the archives.
So read on to know what I am cooking behind the scenes.
I literally woke up early on May 12 to catch up the Twitch premiere ([original VOD link],
[archived in 1080p] via Storj DCS) just few minutes before it start. Based on the first watch, not only
it was another banger1 by [Michael Moy][mikedmoy] and the production team based on what
the community saying, but there are new lore have been dropped since [[Gildedguy Story 7]].
I’ll be not able to take note them all here in detail, but please take a watch for yourself.
It’s a blast after all, so [grab your "I Was There In Premiere" badge][luma] for free
if you’re there (either via Twitch or YouTube). And expect a in-depth post on it and
more on [my blog] later this month (or just before the next school year starts).
If you need some Gildedguy Stories-themed mixtape on
your library, [I made one since March] and currently open for song suggestions.
Chores on Personal Wiki
Since this Material for Mkdocs-powered site [started in last year][initial-commit],
I am currently working to merge both the old digital garden and Jiroh’s Kooky
Insane Stuff into here, alongside an upcoming one for Traumatized Autistics Department.
Due to how the content migration is currently underway, you may see this
non-dismissable banner on the top of every page similarly to this one below
([link to commit]):
!!! info ""
:construction: Wiki under consturction Please accept our apologies for any broken links while migrating content from different repositories. Learn more
[Here]’s the Google Doc for the project README (currently a public draft), but in a nutshell, this is where
Meanwhile in Recap Time Squad
In summary for everyone asking, just self-documentation, janitorial and admin work on Recap Time Squad lately.
Nothing too heavy other than bringing the Staff SSO terms and mini reorganization chores in our [policy site],
content updates on [the Squad Wiki], and even setting up a [brand assets repository] to host our different
brand assets as we export them from Canva, similarily to the cdnjs/brand GitHub repo
and others.
Signing off
That’s all for now and thanks for reading. Talk to you soon on the next edition, or
[read the archives for this year so far][archive]. For occassional chaos on your feed
and for comments, [follow me/tag on socials] or send a e-fanmail.
Did some [[maintenance]] of home and computer setup; converged more [[wayland]] related configs after incorporating a new computer into my [[chezmoi]] setup and taking the occasion to do an iteration of improvements.
I dropped some templates for reduced complexity, e.g. [[sway.conf]].
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today alongside anything else you missed this week, June 9, 2024:
For this week’s edition of the Weekly Wrap (stats galore)
What did you missed this week
The week starts with The Return of Daily Notes and ends with Friday Mixtape Hellscape, featuring Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department and support for comments on these via giscus and GitHub Discussions APIs.
From my Wakatime stats this week1: I am literally on VS Code for more than half a day (12h+) this week, mostly to edit Markdown files on my personal wiki locally, although I do use GitHub’s web editor (VS Code for Web edition) and Codespaces for some.
For the recap yesterday, apologies if I didn;t write one: Nothing particular happened, just a day off updating my personal wiki in the machine to rest up and catch up with my Duolingo streak before clock strikes midnight.
Scrobbled 559 tracks (up 38% from last week), with 66 this week on 9:00 PM hour block.
Listened for almost 2 days (1 day 23 hours), averaging 80 scrobbles per day, with 126 as highest this week on June 3.
For the music ratio, I listened to 110 tracks (with ratio of 5.08 scrobbles/track compared to 87 with ratio of 6.43 last week) from 41 artists (ratio of 13.63 scrobbles/artist compared to 39 last week with ratio of 14.33) across 49 albums (ration of 11.41 scrobbles/album vs 36 last week with ratio of 15.53).
Top Album, Song and Track: [Starcadian] [^2] and his [Sunset Blood] album | [BOSSFIGHT]’s [Ballistic] (also top new track and album as single this week)
Perfect attendance this week on Duolingo’s Spanish or Vanish sessions (7 out of 7 days this week, totaling 174 days streak, compared with 6 last week).[^3]
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care, and keep it decent in the comments.
Downloading dashboard stats involves upgrading to premium, so apologies if I couldn’t dump the screenshot of my dashboard for now here.
[^2]: For the uninitated (hello there if you have watched [[Gildedguy Story 6]] earlier), he makes "ear movies" or music with lore in a nutshell.
[^3]: Track my progress at https://www.duolingo.com/profile/ajhalili2006 and follow me if you do.↩
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 7, 2024:
Actually enabled comments for daily notes (currently on per-entry basis until meta officially graduates from Insiders-only status), using a self-hosted instance of giscus. You can try it out now below and it’ll be appear in the andreijiroh-dev organization discussions in GitHub.
Officially installed Node.js into my custom mkdocs Docker image through copying files from the official Docker image (and some symlink trickery)
I may feel like a madlad lately, but I listened to the whole album in order (from a community playlist) for the full experience. As my older sister told me, I may become the first (and only) Swiftie in the family once I go deeper into the discography in the future.
Still playing some of Starcadian’s music on loop, of course.
Fresh from The Vergecast: Apple’s AI moment is comingat 40m55s (If they do AI-generated emojis as JPEG images through RCS at WWDC (some even shortened it as "dub dub"), that would be chaotically funny at same time bloody for Android users.)
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care, and keep it decent in the comments.
Maybe seen about the Minecraft 15-Year Anniversary docuseries from their official channel then?
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
