• [[silverbullet]]:
  • should open the daily on startup?
  • [[go/daily]] achieves this for me for now ;) e.g. [[go/daily]] or just use the embed in anagora.org/daily.

• going over "old" (and new) notebooks, trying to make sense of the hugely distributed task list they imply :)
  • happy to see that a lot actually happened in the last 1-2 quarters!
  • I’m thinking this could be a nice ‘tradition’ to reinforce on the [[17ths]], being [[Maitreya day]] ;)
• [[do]]:
  • [[numbers]] pull all number-related actions, e.g. [[557]] (example comes from a notebook) pulls [[hex/557]], [[prime/557]] and any others we have in the future.
  • [[today]] should probably pull today’s date instead of redirecting? maybe!
  • next steps on [[activitypub]]
  • define [[equivalence classes]] in the Agora; right now they’re implicit and a bit of a mess?
  • [[oauth]] is mentioned so often in my todos that I wonder how it is I actually haven’t even started on it!
    • I think at some point I wanted to do these flows through [[agora bridge]] instead of [[agora server]]?
    • But that might have been a mistake/complicating stuff needlessly?
  • [[open letters]] show up profusely in the last 1.5 years, yet I have not properly published a single one since (except by default in the Agora, like pretty much everything I write that is not work related)
    • [[Building Bridges]]
    • [[Beyond Markdown and Git]]
    • [[Open Letter to Google]]
    • [[Open Letter to the Agora]]
    • [[Open Letter to the Sangha]]
  • develop [[whisper]] as an action (?)
• "[[Flancia]] is a [[Pattern Language]], the [[Agora]] is a [[Pattern Repository]]" — from a notebook.

2024-05-17

• Read: [[Critique of techno-feudal reason]]

  • Well, sort of read it - actually half listened to it via Wallabag while taking the bubba out for an early walk.
  • Dense and erudite, as you expect from Morozov.
  • Didn’t follow half of it this first time around to be honest, but I take away the basic message that he’s critical of the general idea of [[techno-feudalism]].

• [[There is no capitalism without colonialism]].

• [[work]]
• [[ssc]]

• [[True Names]] == [[343]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]]
  • Which I guess can now be said to contain at least 343 patterns :)
  • [[7^3]] calculated mentally (it might be wrong for all I know!)

• [[15]] means [[Right Effort]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]].
• Tough day at work. I got demotivated yesterday after hearing some bad news and that bled a bit onto today. But nothing terrible :)
• [[Fellowship of the link]] was nice and energizing though.

2024-05-15

• [[Listened]]: [[The dangers of digital capitalism]]
  • Excellent webinar from [[Transnational Institute]].
  • On [[digital capitalism]] and more.
  • Some great speakers, I should find out more about them.
    • I’ve come across [[Jack Qiu]] before from [[Goodbye iSlave]].

• Another [[day]], another [[node]].
  • Or more than one :)
  • I definitely need to work on editing though! On doing more of the actual curation and maintenance of an actual [[digital garden]].
  • In the meantime, thanks for making do with all the rough edges ;)
• Resuming [[Agora development]]:
  • I have a few commits to push to anagora.org this week.
    • -> done, or at least started :)
  • I did some [[verschlimmbessern]] on the index to the [[Agora]] on the flight to the US that I never quite pushed — and better that way :) it needs ‘cherrypicking’ to put it mildly. It suffered a lot in directness.
  • Also added support for [[silverbullet]] style [[attachments]].
• [[social.coop]]:
  • No [[twg]] meeting this week, will try to continue working on onboarding [[evan]] to the group.
  • I "installed" alpha.social.coop using [[coop cloud]] but it’s not up yet.
  • [[upkeep]]:
    • You could call it [[life]] ;)
    • [[nostromo]] was getting broken enough that I decided to update Ubuntu to the latest release to unbreak [[wayland]] and some sites in [[chromium]]. It had been long in the making, it’s a bit like house cleaning, it can be relaxing after work :)
    • I tried taking the occasion to also [[garbage collect]] tabs/try some new organizational principles in [[paramita]], [[guanyin]] and [[sariputta]].
• [[GPT 4o]] was released yesterday and I got access.
  • Impressive.
  • But it failed to analyze a video I attached on desktop meaningfully though.

• Noding from a new computer — [[Guanyin]] :)
  • Now back in [[Nostromo]] after work
• Thought of [[17]], and explored 17 musically as [[13 + 4]] (today it’s the 13th) and [[7 + 10]].
• [[digital capitalism]]
• [[yoga with x]]
• I found two notebooks that I had misplaced, or that had anyhow gotten out of my working context. It felt great, in particular one that I call [[25]].
• [[flaming lips]]:
  • [[summertime]]

• It turns out all my [[silverbullet]] journals were being left out from my [[garden]] — I corrected this and in the process dumped a few tens of journals that had never shown up so far :) Glad I checked and found this!

• Trying [[attachments]].
• [[AG]]
• [[Stapelberg]]
• [[Lady Burup]]
• [[17]]
• [[scc]]

2024-05-13

• [[Listened]]: [[Evgeny Morozov: Competition and Cooperation in Digital Capitalism]]

• Using both [[wiki vim]] and [[silverbullet]] these days, will make a case of checking out how anagora.org renders this and consider improvements
• [[AMITAFO]]

I’ve been living [[Protopianism]] in my personal life; dealing with bed bugs, every iteration across the six months of process for eradication a show of the many small complexities of life, all the while feeling lucky and aware.

After 4x fumigation adding [[diatomaceous earth]] stripes all around (quite ingenious packaging+spilling resistant) the new bed seemed to seemed to give us that additional (feeling of) safety :)

• Started the day with [[AG]] in the [[balcony]] :)
  • We managed to also do a mini bike tour before she went to the [[Mothers Day]] festivities :)
• Now thinking of:
  • [[patterns]]
    • as per usual you could say :)
  • [[patents]] (don’t worry, more in the abstract than anything :)
    • relevant to [[digital capitalism]] surely
  • [[visions]]
  • [[true names]]
• I got a small book by Meister [[Yaw Hwa Chin]] in the Chinese supermarket, I want to check them out.
  • it’s titled [[The wisdom, philosophy and education of Buddha and Chinese]]
  • He writes [[AMITOFO]] just before signing; it turns out it’s the Chinese spelling of [[Amitabha]] ~ [[Amitayus]].

2024-05-12

• After a long hiatus, low-key writing [[Reclaim the Stacks: reflections, May 2024]].

• Reading [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. Introduction to the Special Issue]]

• [[flancia meet]]:
  • [[bouncepaw]]
    • [[pipepunk]] and its evolution
    • [[zine]]

• [[2024-05-10]]
  • I think I prefer dates as ‘flat hierarchy nodes’ overall — this way I can just link to the date and get to the journal entry.
  • Also most generally this makes it so the convention for gathering journals is just ‘look for [[nodes]] whose [[topic]] is a time period show those that fit the current [[context]]’

• [[flancia meet]] with [[bouncepaw]] was great!

2024-05-11

• [[Digital Capitalism online course]]
  • I finished Week 1.
  • (Mostly - not had chance to go through all the further materials yet.)

• Cycled to [[Greifensee]] with [[AG]], it was a beautiful day!
• In the evening we saw [[Episode V]]

• [[Agora development]]:
  • [[Fix the Agora]] :)
  • Make the open letter readable
  • test and iterate on fixes! :)
• [[gone]]

• Back in [[Silverbullet]] on my new work laptop, named after [[Guanyin]].
• Thought about [[Open Letters]] and [[Right Intention]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]]
• [[xkcd machine]]:
  • a [[game]]
  • https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
  • #go https://xkcd.com/2916/
  • uses [[rapier]]:
    • a [[physics engine]]
    • #go https://rapier.rs/
• Working to fix [[agor.ai]]
  • [[hypatia]] ran out of disk at some point and this can really break [[coop cloud]], it seems!

• Back here at [[11pm]]!
  • The work day was long (with a gap in the middle) and interesting :)
  • Now doing yoga and thinking.
• [[mexico city]]
• [[AG]]
• [[L]]
• [[Lady Burup]]

• This May I’m trying to get back into writing in [[node club]] — enjoying it so far!
  • This month the default topic is [[digital capitalism]] :)
• I [[meditated]] — I do not usually mention that I meditate 10 minutes in the morning but I do — and it makes a great difference to pretty much any day in my experience/according to my perceptions!
• I [[worked]]
• Then I thought of:
  • [[Avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[Maitreya]]
  • [[Tara]]
  • [[Lady Burup]]
  • [[AG]]
  • my friends in general!
  • [[light]]
  • [[entanglement]]
  • [[magnetism]]
  • [[open letters]]
  • [[open source]]
• I found out today that [[Hannu Rajaniemi]] is Finnish, not "south asian" (?) as I initially thought :)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_Rajaniemi pull born 1978.
• I listened to [[flow state]].

Not necessarily in that order :)

I like [[silver bullet]] but I come back to [[wiki vim]] because it’s on the terminal and that’s where I sometimes want to write.

I like [[senegal town]].

Also: [[mexico city]], [[paris]] :)

• [[BLDGBLOG]]
• Now I’m back in [[silverbullet]]. I’m unsure if I want to unify the journal or not. Probably yes? But I’m curious about e.g. Journal/Month/2024-05 if that exists :)
• [[digital capitalism]]:
  • did a pass over [[Open Letter to Google]], maybe it’s more readable up to… a few paragraphs in? :)
  • I think it is starting to take shape.

• I wonder what a [[quick note]] is meant to be used for in [[silverbullet]] :)

• Back in [[silverbullet]], now using it as a ‘web app’ — meaning after pressing ‘install’ on chromium while visiting edit.anagora.org :) - For now edit.anagora.org only works for this [[flancian]], but I hope soon enough I will be able to offer it to the community.
  • Intend I intend to keep using [[wiki vim]] though, as I value having a terminal client for writing in the Agora - Experimented with a bluetooth keyboard on mobile as a way of having more fluid Agora editing on the go.
  • Tried [[silverbullet]] in firefox mobile and vim mode didn’t quite work :)
  • Also my hardware keyboard is set up to have esc go to the android home screen, which does not go well with vim mode ;)
    • Update: realized I can set the keyboard to [[windows mode]] and it will disable most of what I consider intrusive functionality :)
  • Still the prospect of having a fully featured Agora editor on mobile is thrilling!
• [[agora discuss]]: [[neil]] suggested [[web mentions]] as the ground level on which to build [[agora likes]].
  • I agree it’s an interesting approach; it seems complementary to [[activity pub]] support which I’ve already started working on, inspired by [[bouncepaw]]‘s work on [[betula]].
  • The basic abstraction might be: the Agora publishes, and produces, feeds of social activity in different formats. Their states influence UI elements like emoji reactions and a log of activity.
• A few hours later…
  • [[Winti Tap Jam]]:
    • I’m in [[Winterthur]] in a [[tap dance]] event, against my expectations enjoying it quite a bit! The [[jazz band]] is great, and I didn’t know people could dance like this while interacting with an improvising band. It’s really quite cool.
    • With [[AG]] and [[Nushya]]!
• Really enjoying [[noding from mobile]] quite a bit, it encourages [[live noding]].
• [[open letters]]

2024-05-04

• Read through some of the materials from week 1 of [[Digital Capitalism online course]].
  • What is [[digital capitalism]]?

• [[work]] was fine actually! I finished the weekly todo list I believe to good standard. People at work are great!
  • I keep thinking about the [[python team]] and others of course.
• [[social coop]]:
  • [[cwg]] meeting, it’s great working with both old and new members.
  • discussed onboarding, oncall and [[twg]].
• [[node club]]:
  • [[digital capitalism]]
  • [[cannabis]]
• [[Open Letter to Google]]:
  • read, and [[annotated]], [[the man who killed google search]]
• [[open letter to the Agora]];
  • [[Maitreya]] is the (default) greater warden of the [[Agora of Flancia]]
    • and what this means, in [[node club]] through this [[International Workers Month]] of [[May 2024]] :)
• thinking of [[AG]]

2024-05-03

• I finally managed to start (just as it’s finishing!) the [[Digital Capitalism online course]] from the [[Transnational Institute]].

  • "6 week essential course for activists to understand how digitalisation is shaping our world"
  • The first week of which is titled ‘What is digital capitalism?’
  • I’m most looking forward to week 6 - titled ‘What’s the alternative? The digital world we want to live in’

• And the [[tripleC]] special issue on digital capitalism just came out.

  • [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis]].

• Apropos of the above, for [[node club]] (AKA [[Homebrew Commons Club]]) I’m going to write about [[digital capitalism]].

• Trying [[Obsidian]] after a looong time — after remembering, and then trying on a lark, [[Roam Research]] again :)
  • I also tried [[logseq]] but it did a mega-commit automatically on my garden which almost broke it, not super happy about that (it tried to commit and push a 101MB file that is a database for [[silverbullet]] and probably, granted, should have been in .gitignore).

• Happy [[International Workers Day]]!
  • The last year flew by in some ways :) I remember attending the festivities/events in Zürich yesterday. Looking forward to doing the same today, at least a few hours.
• I got into [[biking]] again and I’m enjoying it tremendously :)
  • We may bike tomorrow with [[AG]].
• I also plan to catch up with [[Berni]]. I have been catching up with friends finally after a hiatus due to [[work]] + [[travel]] and I’m looking forward to the VC!
• [[doxometrist]] told me about [[netwik-obsidian]] as being in [[agora space]]
• [[j0lms]] had good news!
• [[l]] had good news! and we had an interesting conversation
• [[Brunello]], the father of a friend of mine, died last week at [[90]]. I knew him and he seemed like a good and sensitive person. I lighted a candle for him/his memory.
• [[Agora]]!
  • [[Agora development]]:
    • Fixed images, they were broken in prod due to a logger misconfiguration — thank you [[neil]] for reporting!
    • Made some progress towards fixing git.agor.ai — [[hypatia]] got into some weird state after running out of disk.
    • Reached out to [[protopian]] to try to unbreak his garden :)

• [[eminems]]

• Listening to [[Brad Mehldau]].
• Worked with [[jet lag]] — it was alright :)
• [[Pattern Language]]:
  • [[3]] [[7]] [[10]] [[11]] [[12]] [[17]] [[21]] [[23]] [[51]]
• [[Open Letters]]
  • [[Open Letter to Google]]
    • I’ll just quit stalling and write two letters I guess, or continue writing them, as I started years ago by now :)

2024-04-28

• [[Ecology]]

  • [[Keystone species]]

• I should put more images in my garden.

  • I stumbled on the page on [[Jean Baudrillard]], which has no text. But the picture is fun.

• Finally finished watching [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]].

  • National Working Miners Committee. David Hart.
  • Arthur Scargill. Sequestration of funds. Connection to Al-Zulfikar and Colonel Gaddafi for financial support.
  • Ultimately that negative press seemed to be the final nail in the coffin of the strike.

• Read [[Palestine speaks for everyone]]

• Back here after a few more days of hectic travelling :) I intend to stick around in the Agora for the next few days, for a change!
• Thinking again (as per usual?) about [[open letters]] — which hasn’t necessarily meant I have been making much progress on any of them. I wonder at times why I got so enamoured of the genre even before penning my first complete one; but then again my enthusiasm is known to often predate competency ;)
• I thought about [[telling stories]].
• [[Google]]:
  • [[Letter from the Founders]]
  • [[2004 update]]
  • [[2019 update]]

2024-04-27

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• [[Digital weeding and watering]]

  • Adding a page for keeping track of little bits of content cleanup that need doing on my digital garden.
  • This has been very useful already.
  • I’ve found:
    • pages that were using old file: links (e.g. Praxis)
    • duplicate nodes (e.g. Philsophize This).
    • pages that I’m interested in, but just had never had time to write anything about (e.g. climate action)
    • mistakenly created pages
  • And it has been fun to revisit various older pages in the process.

• I am really looking forward to the release of [[Jathan Sadowski]]‘s new book.

  • [[The Mechanic and the Luddite]]

• [[Repairing a Dell Latitude E7450]]

2024-04-26