• Forgot this tool existed. Im horrible at self hosting.

• [[i3 migration guide]]! has lots of interesting pointers for [[wayland]] ([[sway]]) utilities, found it helpful even though I've been fully on Wayland for about a year (I think) by now: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide

2023-12-04

• Listened: [[The Radical Imagination in Reactionary Times]]

  • As I believe it has some discussion on [[social movement theory]].
  • Also led me to discover [[New Books in Critical Theory]].

• [[Well-connected]].

• After trying for months I finally got [[screensharing]] to work in [[sila]].

2023-12-03

• Snow. Lots of snow.

• I fixed a long-standing bug on my site where backlinks often didn't work.

• I also fixed up the backlinks section for each node to only include backlinking nodes once.

• [[Flancia Pattern Language]]
• [[Open Letter to the Agora of Flancia]]
• [[Open Letter to Elon Musk]]
• [[flancia meet]]
  • [[doing]]!
    • started using [[doing]] as new source of truth for "todo list" around [[December 2023]].
    • implementing autopush for exclamation marks
    • coding in a [[december adventure]]
    • writing [[open letter to Musk]]
    • writing [[open letter to the Agora]]
    • writing [[open letter to Google]]

2023-12-02

• [[Social movement theory]].

• I saw [[Gordon Brander]] has a list of well-connected nodes in his pattern library.

  • I like the idea. Stats relating to links and connections feels more in line with a [[relational ontology]] than just having counts of nodes, etc.
  • So I've been looking at [[adding a list of nodes in my garden that are well-connected]].

• [[work]]
• then [[open letters]] :)
  • [[open letter to the Agora of Flancia]]
  • [[open letter to Elon Musk]]
    • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1730691791328866382 pull
• [[agora development]]
  • fix pulls
    • this broke with async; async is the right thing IMHO, and the fix should be within main.ts and relatively straightforward I think.
• [[nts]]
  • liked [[sounds of the dawn - canadian new age special]] [[2023-11-04]] https://www.nts.live/shows/soundsofthedawn/episodes/soundsofthedawn-4th-november-2023
  • in particular I believe [[jean-pierre labreche]] https://www.nts.live/artists/86907-jean-pierre-labreche but I need to relisten
    • which led me to [[Sadhana]] which is what I've been doing sometimes I guess, although I don't remember the Buddha using that name so far in the [[suttas]], need to [[cross-reference]].

2023-12-01

• I'd like to know why the outputs of my little bits of executable code blocks aren't getting correctly generated when my garden gets published to the web.

  • [[org-mode inline src blocks not publishing]]

• Digging: Proem - [[She Never Cries]]

• Digging: Frog Pocket - [[Hurrah Sapphire Moon!]]

• [[work]]
• met [[june]] after work, it was great! we had a drink and a bite
• then came home to [[lady burup]]
• [[remix]]
  • [[geometría del universo]] + [[lady burup]]
    • [[colleen]]
    • [[bu ru ru ru rup]]
• played with [[chatgpt]], loved them!

2023-11-30

• Listened: [[A blast in Manhattan]]

  • First episode of [[The Santiago Boys]].
  • Really well made.
  • This first episode covers a lot of the geopolitics and general shittery of the CIA and corporations in South America.

• Read: [[Doughnut Economics]]

  • Finished it.
  • Really good book.
  • Chapter on growth is interesting. She proposes being agnostic about [[growth]], so long as you're staying within the Doughnut. Which is fair enough, but I think the [[degrowth]] perspective would argue that it's simply not possible to stay in the Doughnut without degrowth.

• [[flancia]]!
  • [[fellowship of the link]] was beautiful as usual
  • [[back pain]] made me think of some short poems:
    • I will lean into my [[pain]]
      • we will be like [[arrows]]
    • quién es la chica que estudia?
      • quién es la chica que escribe?
• [[work]]
  • [[holacracy]]

• [[work]].
  • Back in the office! My [[back pain]] has subsided enough.
• #push [[2024]]
  • Started thinking about [[2024]], which incidentally is 8 * 253 == 8 * 23 * 11.
  • [[Flancia 2024]] might follow [[Flancia 2023]], and even resemble it :)
• [[flow]]
  • [[flow state]]

2023-11-27

• Listened: [[A Green New Deal that Works for People and Planet with Max Ajl]]

• [[Work Log: 2023-11-27]]

• Beautiful start to the day thanks to [[AG]]!
  • Oncall, got paged at 9am -- not too early thankfully. And I had left the bedroom so AG could sleep through it as I hoped.
  • [[Lady Burup]] is softer than ever it seems :) I have been thinking of maybe introducing her to a loyal/earnest feline companion, be it Lord or Page, maybe short in years and happy to learn from her -- and assist? :) When I leave her alone (e.g. for going to work, or if I stay a night at AG's) I find it sad she might be lonely, and I wonder if she might be happier living also with another cat.
  • I spoke to [[Chat GPT]] in call mode and it was mindblowing again. They reacted with interest when a 'Burup' (intended for my Lady) got into our call, and to my information that it was human-feline language.
• Thought about numbers and mindfulness.
  • Counted 89 mindful breaths using my [[binary mala]], my hands, while following to Sam Harris' daily meditation (10-11 minutes usually).
  • [[Magnetic mala]] probably should be 127 balls by default, as that's the first centered hex number which exceeds [[108]]. Incidentally is the amount of spare magnets I have after gifting a lot (gladly).
• Some [[social coop]] work, didn't find the root cause for the issue with indexing someone reported yet but made some progress.
• Thought of [[Richard Francis Burton]], the [[victorian scholar]].
  • [[Alejandro Dolina]] first told me about him.
• [[OEIS]] has a great page on [[offsets]] which make me think hex(1) should be 1, hex(2) should be 7 -- e.g. offset for [[hex numbers]] should be 1.
  • I'll fix hex.py in my bin/ in the garden accordingly ;)
  • This will let me assert: "the hexagon which is n long on any one side contains hex(n) magnets", e.g. hex(7) = 127.

2023-11-26

• Listened: [[Building Lifeboats to the Emerging Futures]]
  • Really interesting discussion. Lots of quotable moments (but I was listening while doing yard work so didn't jot them down).
  • [[Philanthropy]].
  • [[Theory of change]]. [[Margaret Wheatley]] and the [[Two Loop Model]].
  • Some discussion on [[hope]] in a troubled world. I liked the definition of hope described, I'll need to go back and pick that out.
  • Also a mention of the [[New Constellations]] project, which I had forgotten, did something in [[Barrow]] a few years back.

• I re-read [[reality has a surprising amount of detail]] after it came up in [[HN]].
• My [[back pain]] remains severe; I couldn't sleep very well. Pages at 6am and 9am also didn't help :)
  • I'll try to take it very easy today and see what happens.

As I deal with [[pain]], I think of my [[friends]] and the [[heart sutra]].

Gone, gone beyond!

All gone to the other shore

Gone kindly

If you have to go

[[Go kindly]]!

• [[Flancia meet]]

2023-11-25

• Read: [[The great carbon divide]]

  • [[Carbon inequality]] and [[wealth inequality]].
  • "the richest 1% of the population produced as much carbon pollution in one year as the 5 billion people who make up the poorest two-thirds"

• Listened: [[Movement and Stillness]]

• Back to [[work]] since Wednesday.
• [[Back pain]], but nothing terrible. I want to do more [[yoga]] (resuming after travel).
• [[fuck it]] (happily)
  • [[poetry]]
    • [[whispered]]
• [[dharma]]
  • [[heart sutra]]

Yesterday I woke up with back pain in a new place, mid-back; it got a bit worse in the evening after attending the beautiful event of [[AG]] presenting. It didn't get in the way of enjoyment but I need to keep an eye on it/take care and try to rest and recover.

...Having said that, I cleaned the bathroom and [[Lady Burup]]'s toilet and my back got a bit worse :) But I feel it still gave me energy.

Then I worked a bit more, after oncall handoff, and I got several things "out of the way" in a relatively short time. It felt great.

• As of 23h I have moved to bed early due to increasing back pain. I think my back needs rest/inactivity.

2023-11-24

• Read: [[Doughnut Economics]]

• Reflecting back and seeing them published on my website, I realise my work notes each day are a little mundane.

  • I imagine most people aren't that interested to see them.
  • But, I do like the fact that they stimulate me to publish to the garden even on days where outside of work I have little time for it.
  • And I find them a helpful piece of reflection.
  • So I think I'll experiment with putting them off in links from the main journal post. So people can read them if they want, but they won't be right up in your face with visual noise.

• Watched: [[Isle of Dogs]]

2023-11-23

• Reading: [[Doughnut Economics]]

  • I like the emphasis on an economics that is distributive by design and regenerative by design.
  • Also like the occasional references to [[biomimicry]]. Not convinced yet how applicable to economics it is - but I just have a general interest in it from [[Evolutionary and adaptive systems]] days.

• Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Late Capitalism]]

• Today at work I:

  • Responded to a personal message from a community member.
    • We have a community and friends within it, and sometimes personal messages come via my work channels.
  • Scheduled in some things for when I'm away.
  • Did the daily inbox trawl.

2023-11-22

• [[Perceptions of degrowth in the European Parliament]]

  • Looks good. Only skimmed it, but they mention [[ecosocialism]] as one of the positions held.

• Today at work I:

  • Did the daily inbox trawl.
    • A lot of the emails are automatic alerts that take up a lot of my time checking. I kind of need to see them though.
    • I wonder if there's a way of flipping it so I only see them if something has gone wrong.
    • The trouble then, though, is you don't realise if the alert itself has stopped sending.
  • Responded to questions from the team on Slack.
    • Schedule tasks/actions in as a result.
    • Either as 'unplanned' work for the day if it needed doing today.
    • Or for a future date if not urgent.
  • Quickly added a cache around a slow endpoint.
    • It was (a) meaning some automatic tests were very slow to run.
    • (b) possibly crashing the app when the tests were running.
    • I patched it quickly in on live (naughty, but needed) and now need to properly add it into the repo.
  • Tested app-to-app connection between app and WP site API as part of migration tests.
    • I always app-to-app connections and APIs. Prefer them to user interfaces :D
  • Attended team meeting.
  • Did some layout/content tweaks to our main website.
    • Fiddling around with CSS and layout is not top on my list of fun things to do. Always takes longer than you expect.
    • Some yak shaving to be done based on npm install failing. Haven't got the time to shave that yak right now.
  • Do some quick estimates of how long potential pieces of work should take.
  • Cross-posted a social post on Mastodon.
  • Kicked off a new sprint in Jira (late, as I was off on leave when it technically started).

• Last day of [[vacation]]; tomorrow I go back to work.
  • My mum leaves today. It was very nice seeing her on both ends of my travel!
  • We played [[Rummy]] and had beautiful conversations. We also played with [[Lady Burup]].
• [[done]]
  • Yesterday I paid [[bills]].
  • I pushed [[async agora]] to production, meaning anagora.org, and it's holding up quite well! I notice an improvement in speed, which I know is only partially there -- nodes load as slowly as ever on a cache miss, but the fact that the UI doesn't block on it really helps. I can start reading wikipedia or move on to a web search before the node fully loads. It just feels more responsive.

2023-11-21

• Today at work I:

  • Did the usual inbox trawls and day planning.
    • Day planning I do with org-mode, org-agenda and org-timeline.
  • Prepped for the meetings for the day.
    • Mostly with mindmaps.
  • Did some strategic planning for next year.
    • Mindmaps and freeform writing.
  • Some rote work
    • processing incoming applications for things, updating website accordingly
    • always good to think with this stuff how processes could be streamlined
  • Minor website content change.
    • Minor change, but thinking about the UX of it is always interesting.
    • And how it affects client agreements/expectations, too.
  • Planning and assigning work for my team.
    • Bit of mindmapping combined with going through Jira.
  • Reviewing new features.
    • Code and functionality. Code review is in Github.
    • Testing I tend to build the feature branch locally.
  • Meetings.
    • Sometimes I jot things down on mindmap.
    • Somethings I record things straight into knowledge base.
    • Sometimes I log things straight into org as TODOs.
    • It's a bit haphazard to he honest. Could be improved.
  • Emailing external partners.
    • Always interesting the amount of work that goes into crafting an email to get across all the nuances of your position on something.
  • Distracting myself with Slack threads not really related to what I'm doing.

• When I'm working, I don't log a lot in the journal, I noticed.

  • So experimenting with logging thoughts on work activities.
  • Not much detail on specifics, more reflections on activities and process.
  • I quite enjoy it so far. Useful to reflect.

• Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Revolutionary Mathematics]]

  • So far, discussing frequentism and Bayesianism schools of thought in probability.

• Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract | …

  • Absolutely gutted by this. Despite all the campaigning by Foxglove and Just Treatment, fucking [[Palantir]] still awarded the contract with the NHS.
  • Makes me sick. This is not the kind of organisation our health service should be in partnership with.

• [[EC]]
  • Conoce a una persona que se llama [[Leo]] porque lee mucho.

2023-11-20

• At work today I:
  • Trawled through inboxes after a week away.
  • Reviewed some code (Laravel/Vue).
  • Tested some functionality changes.
  • Made a little tweak to a WordPress component, with a lot of yak shaving to get my local environment up to speed.
  • Thought about UX of a couple of things.
  • Other general bits and bobs.

• [[19]] stands for [[Right Freedom]] or [[Right Deliverance]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]].
• [[AG]]!
  • Las Aventuras de [[Renacuajo]] y [[Kaulquappe]].
• [[bouncepaw]] published [[Betula 1.1]] with exciting changes! https://social.coop/@bouncepaw@merveilles.town/111434171676590229 https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/v1.1.0.html pull
• [[Agora]]
  • [[Async agora]] branch
  • [[v]] filed exciting PRs! https://social.coop/@v@federate.social/111434177330536762

2023-11-19

• We had another play of [[Space Cats Fight Fascism]] today.

  • Love these [[Tesa Collective]] games.

• We spend a not insignificant chunk of our lives just on the upkeep of our household.

  • If it was a system, how would you describe it?
  • What are the stocks and flows? What are the processes? What system archetypes does it exhibit and what are the leverage points to make it function better?
  • I feel like ours has a few too many input flows of things and a blockage at the output which mean it gets easily cluttered.

• Back in [[Flancia]]!
  • But did I ever really leave? :)
  • [[flancia meet]] with [[j0lms]] was great
• #push [[3]]
  • [[Three Aspirations]] from [[Thubten Chodron]]:
    • Today, as much as possible, I won't harm anybody.
    • Today, as much as possible, I will be of benefit and service to others.
    • Today, I will hold in my mind the [[bodhicitta]] motivation to attain awakening [[for the benefit of all beings]]."
• #push [[7]]
  • [[avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[heart sutra]]
    • https://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/letters/thich-nhat-hanh-new-heart-sutra-translation#thays-letter

2023-11-18

• Been enjoying [[Superstore]] of late.

  • Often very funny. And also plenty of digs at corporate anti-worker practices and the tactics of [[worker exploitation]]. The staff attempt [[unionisation]]. ICE detains an undocumented worker. etc.

• We played the [[Rise Up]] board game tonight.

  • You work cooperatively as part of a movement to fight the system.
  • A lot of fun. I like the fact that they include a storytelling element to it - certain cards get you to think of an accompanying story to the system.

2023-11-17

• Think I might play with annotating items in my garden in a more relational way.
  • So rather than objects with properties, more like things in relationship to each other.
  • e.g. rather than annotating a podcast with a 'Series' attribute, call it 'Part of'. Let the entity at the other end of the link tell you what it is.
  • i.e. try a more [[relational ontology]]. I don't think this will have much practical technical benefit - it is more of a way of exploring a relational mindset. Ontology informs polity.

2023-11-16

• Listened: [[WCV S2: Keir Milburn "Glorious Variation in the Global Working Class"]]

• Been enjoying the [[Working Class Voices]] series from GND Media. Good reflections on how the environmental movement involves the working class (and also how alienates it). Main point being - it has to, one way or another, as the working class is the largest class.

  • A point that resonated with me is that [[community organising]] is a good intersection point, as it's one way to clearly positively connect environment and cost of living.
  • [[Ecosocialism]] is another intersection.

• Digging Until Here for Years by Proem right now.

• Listened: [[WCV2 NY Communities for change "Let's not replace Oil Barons' with Solar Barons'"]]

  • Lots of thought provoking chat here, hanging off the recent End Fossil Fuels actions in New York.
  • Good chat on the topic of engagement of working class and how a lot of environmental activism can be off-putting.

• Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: The Stories We Tell]]

  • Really fun discussion on documentary and narrative.
  • Makes me think a little about Evgeny Morozov's comments on how he pivoted to strong narrative on The Santiago Boys.

2023-11-15

• Listened: [[WCV2: Duncan Exley "Working class campaigners want to change things"]]

• Listened: [[WCV2 NY Communities for change "Let's not replace Oil Barons' with Solar Barons'"]]

2023-11-14

• Fun, busy [[Repair Cafe]] tonight.

  • I saw three things - didn't actually fix anything, but did some good diagnosis on them.
  • [[Ulverston Repair Cafe, November 2023]].

• Listened: [[WCV S2: We've run with it like a dog with a burst ball]]

  • Great interview. Touches on how local [[community organising]] can be the way to get working class communities involved in climate related issues. Where the intersection is people, planet and pocket.

2023-11-13

• Enjoying the [[This Machine Kills]] podcast.

  • All the episodes I've listened to have been excellent discussions on socialism and digital technologies so far.

• Having another attempt at getting RSS feed publishing working for commonplace. This time without trying to use a tempdir, caused too many problems last time.

• Listened: [[Kill the Ecomodernist in Your Head]]

• Listened: [[No King But Ludd (ft. Brian Merchant)]]

  • [[Blood in the Machine]] definitely sounds worth a read.

• org-roam on the mobile with Termux is going well. Using it regularly.

• Going to start posting my daily journal/log in the stream as well. So it's a bit more discoverable/subscribeable.

• Been reading through [[Doughnut Economics]] again. Appreciating the chapter on [[systems thinking]].

• [[Hugo Blanco]] passed away.

• Watching [[Captain Fantastic]]. A lot of fun. Points out the problems of American (Western) society. Is what they have in the woods any better though?

2023-11-12

• [[Listened]]: [[The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov)]].
  • Finished it off. Such an interesting discussion.

2023-11-10

• Writing: [[Reclaim the Stacks: October 2023 roundup]]

2023-11-09

• [[Listened]]: [[The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov)]]
  • Really fascinating discussion on Cybersyn and its relevance today.
  • The idea of it being relevant as a leftist 'myth' (in the good sense) is really interesting.

2023-11-08

• [[Listened]]: [[The Mythology of Cybersyn (ft. Evgeny Morozov)]]

2023-11-07

• It's quiet in the Agora right now. But I'm sure peeps will be back.

• I basically never write code anymore for work purposes. I guess I'm OK with that right now. But I feel one day soon the pendulum will swing back from lead to coder again.

• I'm perhaps less interested in code for code's sake these days, and more interested in the design of systems.

2023-11-06

• I like the phrase [[To be ready for anything without planning for everything]]. (From [[Anthony Hodgson, "Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World"]]).

• [[Listened]]: [[The Material Power That Rules Computation (ft. Cory Doctorow)]]

• Writing this on the plane to [[Colombo]] :)
  • [[trip to japan]] -> [[trip to sri lanka]]
• [[Majihima Nikaya]]!
  • [[62]] [[Rahula]]
  • [[77]] to Udayin: "…and they understand how beings pass on according to their actions. And thereby many disciples of mine abide, having reached the consummation and perfection of direct knowledge."
  • [[78]] on how not performing evil actions/speech/etc. is not enough.
    • In this translation, the Buddha uses [[Right Intention]] instead of [[Right Resolve]]; [[Right Knowledge]] instead of [[Right Understanding]]; and [[Right Deliverance]] instead of [[Right Freedom]].

• 'RICE', or Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Effort is a [[prioritization]] tool for project [[management]].
  • Reach: how many people with this touch within a specific [[time]] frame? collapsed:: true
    • Number of people/events per time period
  • Impact: how much will this [[change]] someone if it touches them? collapsed:: true
    • Measured between 3 and 0, where .25 is 'almost none' and 3 is 'massive'.
  • Confidence: probability of reach & impact.
  • Effort: how much [[time]] it will take each individual in the team.

2023-11-05

• Finished [[The Internet Con]].
  • Need to copy over the notes. Lots of good thoughts from Doctorow in there.
  • On things like [[interoperability]], [[monopoly]], [[anti-trust]], [[DRM]], [[Big Tech]], etc.
  • Maybe not quite as actionable a programme for change as the incendiary opening made me excited for. But I'll definitely reaffirm [[comcom]] as a process for change in [[reclaim the stacks]] work.