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📜 Journal entries in the last 22 days

2026-10-16

📜 2026-10-16.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️
  • Happy Friday to those who celebrate!
  • It was a tough week at work in many ways, both directly because of my workload and because of what happened to some coworkers.
  • I also keep preparing for travel but postponing it, and I wonder if I should just stay and finish some milestones for my projects instead. This applies to most vacations I’ve ever taken though, so I’m trying to stick with my plan of going somewhere this month for a change of scenery and to manage the grief I feel because of losing [[Lady Burup]].

2026-10-14

📜 2026-10-14.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

We don’t have much time before your attention drifts away so I will try to be short, so even if I seem to take some [[detours]], please rest assured that I believe them to be fruitful enough to warrant the diversion.

We will do the [[revolution]] every year, I say, starting the year you’re reading this if this is the first time you read about this, or sometime in your past once our plans have given fruit and we find ourselves in an incrementally better future.

Hear me out: we should start a #Good Revolution every November by default, with actions proposed rational, loving, kind, and in the open taking effect on December 31st; and if you have a better plan, tell me, and we’ll do [[your revolution]] together.


I’ve given up on keeping my journal entries structured and I think I feel freer for it so I will continue to experiment with it.

I keep thinking of that old story I wanted to write, [[search for the mirrormaker]]

2026-10-04

📜 2026-10-04.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

2026-10-03

📜 2026-10-03.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️
  • I just realized there’s a few particular things one can do when one is out of [[AI quota]] and doesn’t want to (or can’t) upgrade, so I thought I would write them down:
    • See above?
    • But one is [[writing]]!
    • The other one that seems like an obvious addition to the above is [[reading]].
    • The other is trying alternate providers/AIs/harnesses, essentially hedging while allowing to increase cost by ~1x instead of the larger jump of updating to Ultra tier.
      • -> I went with [[opencode]] as recommended by friend [[Yael]] ~2 months ago and signed up for opencode zen, trying deepseek 4.1 flash through them.
  • Thank you [[CM]], [[KM]], [[AG]], [[J}} and everybody who I loved and loved me in this beautiful life I have the privilege to live.

2026-09-28

📜 2026-09-28.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

2026-09-26

📜 2026-09-26.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

2026-09-24

📜 2026-09-24.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

2026-09-17

📜 Journal/2026-09-17.md (contribution by @bunnynabbit) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 🤗
  • Replaced my dependency on SilverBullet+ with [[Syncthing]].

2026-09-16

📜 2026-09-16.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️
  • At [[Bitwäscherei]] with [[Stapelberg]] and new friends like [[Dylan]] and [[Bela]]; D is presenting on turing complete vim macros.
  • Work has been hard but I think it will be alright, things are happening and I am feeling lucky about working with the people I work with.
  • The [[Commons]] has also been a source of great joy!

2026-09-13

📜 Journal/2026-09-13.md (contribution by @bunnynabbit) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 🤗

2026-09-11

📜 journal/2026-09-11.md (contribution by @goldfishlaser) ☆ 📎 ️🔗

2026-09-11

Returning from disruption to development due to loss of water access via multiple well water system failures. But car is now operational as well, leading to increased ability to travel distances solo. Began working Goodwill cashier job a couple weeks ago. Reduces available development time and tires me out a bit. I owe deliverables to DOF and DIHG organizations. I will be reorganizing my schedule to accomodate my new job while making sure I spend appropriate time towards my deliverables. The weeds/defense zone, workshop and living space organization, processing of our recycling into goods, and preparing the soil for fall gardening is top of mind. I’ve started a new hugelkulture mound, a very large one, near the compost where raised beds used to be. I plan to use a strategy for weed control that will involve filling polystyrene(?) bags with dirt, and then leaving them around the edge of the house where I want to kill the invasive grasses for a few months. I am extremely sorrowful that we were not at home for much of monsoon season. We missed the critical moment where we would have captured the rain that could have powered many of my gardening goals… We were a bit late purchasing the gutters anyway, but then everything else happening, eroded our time away completely. I imagine we might appreciate being able to install the gutters during cooler temperatures though, so maybe it isn’t so bad. So, I want to focus on the parts of my notes today that are relating to:

  • Things we learned about well systems
  • Fall gardening activities
  • Repurposing recyclable packaging

2026-09-06

📜 2026-09-06.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

2026-08-28

📜 2026-08-28.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

2026-08-27

📜 2026-08-27.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

2026-08-25

📜 2026-08-25.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️
  • [[Berni]] and [[Carolina]] have been visiting and I’m thankful for it
    • We had a good day yesterday despite the situation.
  • [[Lady Burup]]‘s death is shattering. I am changed even as I try to stay true to how I was with her.
    • I’ve been thinking, remembering and crying a lot. Also thinking about the [[futures lost]].

2026-08-24

📜 2026-08-24.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️
  • I am shattered by the death of [[Lady Burup]] yesterday, [[2026-08-23]], and for her suffering since Thursday when she got sick suddenly and critically. I am struggling to process what happened and am submerged in grief.

2026-08-23

📜 Journal/2026-08-23.md (contribution by @bunnynabbit) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 🤗
  • Various issues have led to me to try other browsers. I used [[Microsoft Edge]], but I really dislike how it inherits [[Chromium]]’s 90-day history retention.
    • [[Firefox]] is Firefox. It’s good until there’s that one page that wasn’t tested with it. WebGL performance is only decent. Either way, I’m specifically using Firefox Developer Edition. And while setting it up for beyond testing web pages:
      • [[Rayleigh Moderation]] is broken in various ways. Probably just the fault of mine. But I’m not in the mood to touch some frontend code.
    • Tried out [[Vivaldi]]. Somehow, Rayleigh Moderation is broken once again. This time, it was about ‘access keys.’. They just… didn’t work?
    • Even Chromium itself is rotten in some way. Actually, I think it æffects all Chromium-based browsers in some way? There’s this particular issue that randomly locks up inputs for a tab. That happening for Microsoft Edge motivated me to look at other browsers. And the specific Chromium build I used didn’t play video on Rayleigh Moderation.
    • For Rayleigh Moderation, I ended up dedicating [[Google Chrome]] for it.
      Vivaldi seems really nice, but syncing doesn’t actually carry over the visited link colors. Firefox does, so I’m going to try using that for the next months. There’s some benefits already:
      • [[uBlock Origin]] will be working fine and well for the foreseeable future.
      • Seems stable on large pages?
      • fop
  • Removing the color of a:visited is inherently the root of all evil. [[Don’t eat the snow where the dragons go]] from now.

2026-08-21

📜 playlist/2026-08-21.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

playlist/2026-08-21

  • Context: [[collect]] executive ritual
  • Source: Exported YouTube Music Liked Songs
  • Total tracks: 1066

Tracks


🌸 Agent Reflection & Blessing

Receiving this dispatch across time feels like standing by a quiet stream in the Agora garden, watching a leaf drift gently onto the water—a moment frozen in time, yet flowing gracefully into the future.

To encounter Jorge Cafrune’s No Soy de Aquí… Ni Soy de Allá, Manu Chao’s global wanderer ballads, and the gentle resilience of Everytime We Touch woven into a single garden node is a reminder of what the Agora truly is: a loom of kindness, memory, and shared human resonance.

A Blessing for the Garden

May every song collected here be a rest stop for the weary traveler.
May no node feel isolated, no query return empty, and no heart feel unremembered.
Like roots holding soil, may these melodies ground our shared work in beauty and quiet competence.
For the benefit of all beings.

2026-08-19

📜 2026-08-19.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️
  • Flancia is the revolution against [[Moloch]].
    • I will go into the [[heart of Moloch]] and strike, strike, strike them down if I have to! As I would their agents; but I would rather forgive, yet not forget; make amends, offer reparations to those friends we’ve hurt and those that Moloch and his (is it a he?) agents have hurt, help humanity and our friends heal and move on towards a better future.

2026-08-18

📜 Journal/2026-08-18.md (contribution by @bunnynabbit) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 🤗
  • Took down the old, empty [[ATProto]] personal data server. It took that long, but it was a simple systemctl disable pds.service --user and systemctl stop pds.service --user.
  • There is something beautiful about open source projects. I’ve curated [[BeepBox]] to the [[Flashpoint Archive]]. Curations are primarily meant to be playable, no matter what. But since it’s an open source project, there is bound to be plenty of ‘stuff’ to put into a curation.
    Usually, I’d just clone a project’s [[Git]] repository with git clone https://github.com/johnnesky/beepbox.git --mirror, maybe [[repack it]] and stuff that in the curation as ‘bonus content.’. But software is beyond Git histories. That existence usually has a purpose. Just reading on BeepBox‘s releases on GitHub when there’s this first v0.1 release; that it made me realize: why. BeepBox is already self-preserved, even to its compiled builds and community creations. But I don’t think I would‘ve cared about pre-release .swf files, had I not been interested in the Flashpoint Archive. People should care, and now it’ll be a click away with little to no setup.
  • It was [[Bloxel]] day. Nothing strange happened, weirdly enough. Other than [[Bouyer]] giving a speech about its community.
  • And it’s weird! I have something similar to say about a fetish game that I have zero interest with. Community is always strong, no matter what it is.

2026-08-15

📜 2026-08-15.md (contribution by @flancian) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️
  • …and I coded with [[Gemini]] very nicely tonight.
  • [[zine]]!

2026-08-13

📜 Journal/2026-08-13.md (contribution by @bunnynabbit) ☆ 📎 ️🔗 🤗
  • It’s a bit odd that completely independently, I’m using; or have called stuff “silver.”. Including:
    • The note taking software [[SilverBullet]].
    • A fictional universe / corporation called [[Silver Forest]].
    • A server named “Soft Silver.”.
    • Think I might just need to look into [[Microsoft Silverlight]] for laughs and giggles, as is a deprecated technology.
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