• [[free instruments]]
• I worked from home; spent time with [[Lady Burup]]; played [[Minecraft]] with [[bouncepaw]]; then did grocery shopping for New Years and went to [[KM]]‘s place.

• What a great start to the day in [[Bitwäscherei]], and then what a beautiful day at home with Burup!
  • Coded, wrote, talked with my mum, played with Burup, and just generally tried to flow.

• I had a lovely walk with [[AG]] today and a quick dinner, and then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]].

• Met:
  • Some cool people on the rooftop of [[Zentralwäscherei]], including a girl named something like [[Katja]] and her two cool friends.
  • [[Moritz]] after midnight in [[Bitwäscherei]].
  • I also saw [[Marc]] and [[Aaron]] after long!
  • I’m so glad I came back to [[SGMK]] finally; it just kept slipping because of work and commitments, it seems I needed a long weekend to get pressing things done and reboot priorities :)
• Then slept ~6h roughly from 6am to 12am and woke up rested enough :)
• Played [[Minecraft]] with [[KI]] and it was great!
• Then flowed.
• Ran again into [[What is Life?]] by [[Schrödinger]], decided to actually locate a URL where I could read it.
  • Found [[archive]] https://archive.org/details/whatislifephysic0000schr/page/n5/mode/2up
• [[Feynman x 3]]

• Very nice day at home with Burup :)
• Ended up working 8h on projects and making good progress, which felt great! Pretty much as planned.
• Then in the evening I went back to [[Bitwäscherei]]/[[SGMK]] after long and it felt great as well, I hadn’t been back much since April (?) because of travel/work/personal life and my under-prioritizing. I intend to come back more often now!
• [[2025-12-26]]

• Skipped a few? But I’ve been having fun you could say.
• Work is finally calming down as we go into the [[prod freeze]]! Looking forward.
• Feeling quite free, relieved of burdens.
• Worried about some health issues in the family, but staying optimistic and trying to value what we have.

• I just thought of [[suffering]] and what would amount to [[rational suffering]].
  • Think of the suffering of the beings that die to feed others: some of that suffering is justified inasmuch it enables other conscious beings to subsist and negotiate ethical [[tradeoffs]] of their own.
  • When it is kept to a minimum, of course, we seem to arrive at the ethical optimum.
  • Think of worms getting grown and harvested for feed, but also of the beautiful bird hunted by the cat and the fish who die in the nets of [[fisherpeople]].
  • See also: [[trolley science]].
• I also worked and planned the week and did [[Agora]].
• Two days of Agora journaling in a row? Is such a thing even possible? :)

• I finally finished the migration from ‘main’ to ‘master’ for the Agora root, belatedly :)
• I had a great day on [[2025-12-13]] with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]]. Thank you!
• New Agora signup! Welcome [[@matthieuG]] :)
• I did some [[Agora development]] with Gemini and made what felt like surprising progress on two of the main December objectives:
  • [[Easier signups]].
    • Completed: ‘join with your git repo’ now exists as a form, talks to [[agora server]] and that talks to the (privileged) [[agora bridge]].
  • [[Federation++]]
    • Completed: send /latest subnodes per user to followers we know of.

• A lovely Saturday with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] at home. Relaxing and interesting. With [[KM]] we did a nice walk in Zürich in the cold weather, knowing it will just keep getting colder.
• The week was pretty brutal at work (3x presentations, 2x reviews, plus planning and some ad hoc meetingsd) — it feels great now that it’s in the past though. I feel I ‘survived’ the last tricky week of the work year; things should quiet down from now on as people start going into holidays mode.

2025-12-07

• Christmas 10k run 2025.
  • Completed!
  • My [[Christmas 10k run playlist]].

2025-12-03

• I should check out [[org-gtd]].
  • From a quick first glance, it looks like a formalised way of doing much of what I’m already doing.
  • So it could be quite useful.
  • I’m wary of two things though:
    • Might be too formalised? Perhaps you can easily customise / extend.
      • The README suggests it written for someone who doesn’t want to be bothered with org-mode’s complexities. Hmm.
    • I tie heavily into org-roam for project reference material. I wonder how org-gtd works with that aspect of GTD.
  • Definitely worth looking further.

• [[I sometimes feel]]:
  • as if I’m [[struck by lightning]]
  • as if I’ve caught fire
  • we will go together until the dark of night
  • (do you know what I mean…?)

Busy working and happy; I’ve been told I look tired at times but recently got some good sleep through the holidays and I feel with high energy levels.

2025-11-30

• [[Emacs Carnival: org-babel]]

• [[albricias]]

2025-11-22

[[Digital colonialism]] is the use of digital technology for political, economic, and social domination of another sovereign country or people

– [[Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival]]

2025-11-21

• Christmas Pudding 10k.
  • I ran 7k in 43 minutes last night.
  • Playlist
    • Beach House – Myth
    • Proem – She Never Cries
    • Closer Musik – Piraten
    • Vessels – Glass Lake
    • Frog Pocket – Hurrah Sapphire Moon
    • Sieren – Blue Memories
    • The The – This Is the Day
    • Maps – Heya Yaha

• [[testing meet]]

• [[journals]] test
  • Now only accepting a hyphen as separator
  • Previous nodes didn’t show because I was using an underscore as separator
  • Mystery solved!
• Trying out [[jujutsu]]
  • Seems like the workflow is more harmonious with agents than regular [[git]]
  • Also has a really cool name
• Made a buggy yet functional version of a [[event highlighting]] system for [[tidalcycles]] on [[emacs]]
  • The word functional doing a lot of heavy lifting there
• Also reading some [[kenzaburo oe]]
  • A quote of his taken from [[wikipedia]]¹ has a certain vibe

2025-11-11

• I’m enjoying my new approach to quick access to [[Emacs]] in my work environment.

  • Not quite as intuitive or fun as using [[Guake]], but having GUI Emacs feel like an improvement.
  • I like running the terminal version of Emacs but felt like missing out on a few too many niceties that way.
  • Interesting to observe that other people either take a ‘one frame to rule them all’ or multiple frames approach.
  • I’ve currently gone for one frame, using [[Spacemacs]] layouts to switch between different contexts. I’ll see how that pans out.
  • [[Updating my approach to window management and Emacs]]

• Hmm, interesting, whatever slowness I was experiencing regarding [[org-agenda]] rebuilding seems to have gone away with the switch back to using the GUI Emacs.

  • Or maybe it’s because I’m just running one instance again?
  • Either way, but for that to have gone away.

• Sometimes, because I had separate multiple frames, I’d end up editing the same file in two separate frames and get conflicts around changes to the file.

  • Particular when using org-capture to add to my Tasks.org file, then editing that in another frame.
  • Avoiding this issue is a handy perk of using one frame with layouts - all the buffers are present in all layouts (I assume?), just hidden from view.
  • Noting that probably this conflict would also be avoidable if running different frames from the same server instance of Emacs.

2025-11-10

• I’m kind of declaring org-agenda bankruptcy.
  • (In the sense of kind of starting over - not stopping using it!)
  • Removing scheduled and deadline dates from a whole load of accumulated tasks.
  • From a re-reading of GTD, experimenting with that only things that need to happen on an actual date should be scheduled.
  • This removes a large amount of psychic cruft of tasks that I haven’t done for a long time reappearing regularly in my agenda.
  • I was just scattering them, which was kind of fun, but seeing them come back again in their tens is a bit daunting when planning a day out.
  • Of course I need to feel comfortable that I will see them again at some relevant point in the future. To be determined…
  • But for now - just working with NEXT actions on active projects.

2025-11-09

• I’m rekindling my relationship with Getting Things Done at the moment. Listening to Making It All Work.
  • Life is quite full on recently. I find GTD beneficial to getting some sense of control and perspective.
  • At the same time, I find the idea of ‘personal productivity’ kind of problematic. As a goal in itself, at least. It has neoliberal tones.
  • From that perspective, I like the notion of Four Thousand Weeks.
  • Maybe there’s a happy medium.

2025-11-01

• The [[Emacs Carnival]] for November is on the topic of [[org-babel]].
  • I have some good stuff to talk about there.
  • I’ll get started on the post earlier this time…