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๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-27]]

2025-03-27

๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-23]]
  • Traveling to the US today!
  • Yesterday I thought again quite a bit about:
    • [[light]]
      • led me to read [[photon]] in Wikipedia, very nice article!
    • [[momentum]]
    • [[entropy]]
    • Quiz: what do momentum and entropy have in common?
  • [[Waking up]]:
    • It turns out there’s going to be a community meetup in Zรผrich 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 :)
  • I enjoyed reading [[The discrete charm of the Turing machine]] by [[Greg Egan]]. This was in [[Instantiation]]; previously (in February) I read [[The Best of Greg Egan]], a selection of his short stories, and enjoyed them a lot!
    • He’s definitely one of my favorite living writers.
  • Now I’m giving [[Binding Chaos]] a taste, after finding it on my [[Kobo]] and also mentioned in my long term todo mentioned above.
  • Travel day!
    • As I write this I’m on the second plane today, about to tale off from Heathrow towards Raleigh.
  • Ladu Burup’s day as I leave — I will miss her! She’s in good hands though.
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-22]]
  • [[nostromo]] died today!
    • after almost dying many times.
    • I thank them for their service! beautiful computer.
    • [[paramita]] was ready to take its spot.
  • [[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 read about [[router7]] by [[stapelberg]].

2025-03-22

  • [[Astronomy]].

  • [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

    • 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.
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-21]]
  • [[todo]]:
    • I started packing for the [[us]]:
    • Things I want to do during the upcoming trip:
      • 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.
      • do some small FR for [[bull]]? which one?
      • fix [[betulagora]]
      • finish packing for the trip
      • check in

2025-03-21

๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-20]]
  • I met [[smurp]] today!
    • It was great!
    • I got a [[cal]] after seeing it at his smurp.com/cal and previously.
  • [[zine]] -> [[us]]

2025-03-20

๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-19]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-18]]

2025-03-18

๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-16]]

2025-03-16

๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-15]]
  • 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.
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-14]]
  • I found the card of a barista who once made a good coffee for me somewhere in Osaka: [[Kota Ikenaga]].
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-13]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-12]]
  • Move the Incubator meeting to US-friendly
  • Check PM AI chatroom
  • go/detectr — hold it until US takes it, or Gavin?
    • done (later), then Hao plus maybe Abi?
  • My new wireless router arrived and it’s already a great improvement in digital quality of life at home :) I hope it continues to work without fuss!
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-11]]
  • Loved the [[15 minutes]] flow
  • Played [[The Reluctant Groom]], plus [[Lady Burup]]‘s song :)
  • 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!
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-10]]
  • [[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).
    • So we’ll do it together, I say! :
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-09]]
  • I’m back!
    • In [[computer space]] (and time!)
    • Travelling was great but I’m looking forward to catching up with projects.
  • [[Agora]]:
    • 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.
    • Hmm, what was by [[root node]] again…? :)
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-03-03]]
  • Picked up my laptop after long. This has been quite an offline vacation!
  • In [[Buzios]] this week, reading about:
  • Also reading a compilation of short stories by [[Greg Egan]] :)
  • After a day by the beach, we went on a walk with [[AG]] to a lookout point near [[Ferradura]].
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-02-09]]
  • Back noding in [[neovim]] to make sure I keep my travel setup running.
    • I could also move to running [[bull]] locally in [[guanyin]] while I travel…
  • Started the day nicely with [[AG]].
  • Then did [[Sadhana]], things around the house, and advanced on many threads :)
    • During the week I finished the two trivial bull PRs I wanted to get in.
    • Now I’m thinking of shifting to a different PR (which?) and to [[Betula]], [[Social.coop]] and [[Agora]] work.
    • Sending something to the [[M&Ms]] :)
      • 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
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-02-05]]
  • 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 :)
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-02-01]]

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.
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-31]]

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.

๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-28]]
  • [[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 :)
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-27]]
  • 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!
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-26]]
  • 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.
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-25]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-24]]

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 itโ€ฆ it’s a bit grim. This Don Donaldson character is a nasty piece of work, pure American colonialist.
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-17]]
  • 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]] :)
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-16]]