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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]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-14]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-13]]
  • Yesterday I ended up working on Sunday as planned and I enjoyed it.
    • I also took time to practice, and play, and that made a large difference.
  • [[flow state]]:
  • I made the move to the office around lunch, now I’m heading into a longish in-office flow session which might last five hours! Wish me luck :)
  • [[bull]]:
    • I like the addition of ctrl+s to save a page a lot
    • I’m also using ctrl+e to edit — maybe it would be ideal if it started the editing session at the end of the document instead of the beginning?
    • Alternatively I think ctrl+s maybe should save but not go back to view mode; unsure.
  • Researching how to publish [[snippets]] at work from the command line :)

2025-01-13

  • Reading [[Not the End of the World]]
    • Hmm, just plainly stated that [[Degrowth]] is wrong.
    • There was a mention of ‘effective’ optimism. Hope that’s not aligned with effective altruism.
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-12]]
  • [[doing]]:
    • Copy/pasted from somewhere:
      • [[Demo mode]]:
        • This will slowly but ~surely happen :)
        • Add a toggle
        • Add code that plays a midi
        • Add code that plays an mp3
        • Add auto-scrolling, auto opening of zippies
      • [[Add users]]
  • [[worked]] and I liked it
  • [[donated]]
  • [[musikino]] is back!
  • [[prana]] now documented lightly in the Agora :)
    • as usual you can use e.g. anagora.org/go/prana/6 to do the yoga session for ‘day 6’, whatever that means to you. I usually do one of go/flow, go/move, etc. on rotation :)
  • [[Vajradhara]] and [[Vajrasattva]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-11]]
  • I resigned from the [[Social.coop]] [[Community Working Group]] the day after starting the [[vote to suspend meta]] after much discussion and a quick draft done with/for the community. It felt like it was the right time to disengage after I received criticism yet again for ‘moving too fast’ despite looping in people earlier and doing what I thought was a fully reasonable pro-social action to advance discussion (start a proposal on Loomio). This after concerns were escalated by multiple community members, including to the CWG, about Social.coop feeling like less of a safe space due to our lack of visible response.
    • One of the criticisms I got amounted (paraphrasing for effect) to needing to have more pre-meetings and go slower. I am fine not having pre-meetings or anything of the sort and doing more and talking less in 2025 as far as I can (within reason), so it seemed like a good moment to finish my CWG engagement (after several years) and focus on the Tech Working Group and the Organizing Circle instead. The CWG is now well-staffed so I am not needed there anymore, which I am thankful for to the people who remain!
    • In general the negativity I had gotten used to getting from some members was a bit of an energy drain, and I realized I could use my time more constructively for the community in the other engagements I plan to keep.
  • [[Bull]] is looking great! I’m now serving it (for myself only for the time being) at https://edit.anagora.org .

2025-01-11

๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-10]]
  • I’m writing this with my new mechanical keyboard, a [[keychron q3 max]].
    • I got this for the office because the previous one was a bit too noisy for the office environment; not that I was the only one using a mechanical keyboard, or that the switches were the noisiest you could get, but I felt like I was contributing to a less inclusive than necessary environment by typing loudly with my headphones at times. And I really like typing with my headphones on :)
    • The one that I got, with [[gateron brown switches]], is really quite silent! And I like the tactile feedback enough.
    • I am enjoying the typing experience so I’m glad!
    • The one thing I would add is maybe a palm rest. I don’t usually use one, but this keyboard is high enough that I feel like that could make it more ergonomic.
    • Sometimes it seems to double-register my space bar presses though, which is a bit disconcerting — I hope it’s a matter of adjusting my typing style to the switches and not a hardware issue! I’ll keep an eye on it.
  • [[ekumen]]
  • [[social.coop]]
    • lots of talk about the Meta change in policies with respect to hateful speech.
    • then more talk.
    • then [[against meta]] went through draft revisions.
    • then the [[vote to suspend meta]].
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-09]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-08]]
  • First time starting a journal node from [[bull]] :)
    • I will be using the opportunity to take notes about the things I would change in Bull over time, as I try to use it as a default [[Agora editor]].
  • [[bull bugs]]:
    • I can’t seem to be able to indent blocks :) Pressing tab while editing moves to "view site information" in Chromium, which is surprising.
    • Thankfully ctrl+] works, which is awesome and a life saver, but the default behavior could be improved probably?
    • I’m also missing [[vim keys]], which [[Silverbullet]] has, although ideally that could be solved at the browser level (e.g. by [[vimium]]); maybe it’s an option for the editor module [[bull]] uses?
    • Anyway, better update to head before I file bugs :)
  • [[quotes]]:
    • "I have the solution, you just have to believe in it"
  • Today I read and wrote about the [[Meta]] terms and policies changes and the [[Fediverse]].
    • It seems social.coop will have a vote on whether to suspend threads.net.
  • Work was quite alright actually!
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-06]]

2025-01-06

  • Read and finished [[Four Thousand Weeks]]
    • Thick time
    • Max Weber and Calvinism
    • I liked it in general. I’m on board with the general gist of the anti productivity sentiments.
      • Sometimes it came across a bitโ€ฆ wilfully contrary? Not sure.
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-04]]
  • [[pure land buddhism]] -> [[universal gate chapter]]
  • [[chilliad]]
  • [[secrets]]
  • love [[bitwascherei]] already
  • [[gotosocial]]:
    • Brought up social.agor.ai provisionally, considering which domain to run this on — and whether to do a [[split domain deployment]].
    • Which one is better as a handle for the Agora bot and a user?
      • @agora@agor.ai?
      • @flancian@agor.ai?
      • @agora@social.agor.ai?
      • @flancian@social.agor.ai?
      • @agora@flancia.agor.ai?
      • @flancian@flancia.agor.ai?
      • @agora@anagora.org?
      • @flancian@anagora.org?
      • They mean different things, of course. All but @agora@social.agor.ai while ‘allocating’ social.agor.ai require a split domain deployment as per the current setup I’m running for Agoras. It doesn’t sound too difficult to try split domains using traefik, I could give it a try. But in that case, should I run these in @agor.ai (shorter/cooler?) or in @flancia.agor.ai (most correct as I’m planning on having this instance handle the usernames in flancia.agor.ai or anagora.org?
    • Update (after discussing with people): I think I’m going with the simplest thing that might work, meaning social.agor.ai is one instance that different people and agoras can use for social services, and handles are foo@social.agor.ai.
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-02]]

2025-01-02

  • Planning to update spacemacs to latest.
    • As noted recently, usually something breaks in this process.
    • So I’ll look at ways to do this with minimal disruption.
    • I think trying to do it using multiple config directories seems a good approach.
      • That’ll be useful for if I ever want to run spacemacs and Doom side-by-side, too, for example, or my own vanilla Emacs.
    • One issue to resolve first - you need Emacs 29 for the โ€“init-directory flag. I’m still on 28.1.
      • OK, I’ll try and tackle that first.
  • [[Updating to Emacs 29 on Linux Mint]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2025-01-01]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2024-12-29]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2024-12-28]]
  • [[j0lms]]: [[plurality]]
  • [[flancia meet]]
    • was quiet but it still felt good to be ‘back’ :)
  • had coffee with my neighbours, it was great!
  • cleaned the house a bit
  • talked to my mum, I enjoyed it and it was great seeing her
  • started a new notebook (ha), this one is a square with a pixel grid — a gift from the [[nintendo museum]] by [[mpd]]
  • share photos
  • run collect over notebooks and papers, this usually makes me feel better (I have a lot of context all around, putting it back in one place/pile usually helps manage it/consolidate)
  • [[december 2024 adventure]]
  • [[agora writing]]
  • had interesting conversations in the [[fediverse]] about:
    • [[ai]]
    • [[sustainability]]
    • leading to [[ilich]], who I still haven’t read — will try to set up his book in my [[kobo]] to read it tonight/soon
  • I read about [[recursively enumerable]] sets and languages — I remembered these were some of my favorite back when I studied computer science when I was 27 or 28. This led me to read again about complexity classes, hierarchies and then [[diophantine]] sets :)
  • Also had a great time playing with [[Lady Burup]], and we even watched [[3blue1brown]] together! Pictures likely in the Fediverse :)

2024-12-28

  • Reading [[Four Thousand Weeks]]
    • The efficiency trap - the more efficient you get, the more things you will fit into to do list, ultimately not gaining any time.
    • Productivity techniques are a way of facilitating avoidance of making hard choices.
      • By claiming you can get more efficient and fit more in, you can avoid having to decide what not to do.
    • Pay yourself first.
    • Keep three things in progress.
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2024-12-27]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2024-12-26]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2024-12-24]]
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2024-12-23]]
  • Back home!
    • After 15 days spent in the US west coast (working) and then Japan (traveling with friends).
    • I slept home in Oerlikon alone as I crashed not so long after arriving due to jet lag; [[AG]] will come with [[Lady Burup]] later today.
    • I woke up at 6am after only 7 hours of sleep due to jetlag despite only getting five hours yesterday and I decided to just get up and start doing things; I’ll try to take a nap later today as needed.
  • Non-prioritized list of things I want to take a look at now that come to mind and I wanted to jot down:
    • [[Cline]] — I heard it’s a good AI plugin for [[vscode]] that is not too opinionated/walled-gardeny (is that a word? maybe it should be)
    • [[Posty]] — something cooked by [[Oliphant]] over at the Fediverse which sounds a lot like something I wanted to build/I wanted to see someone build)
    • This [[talk by Dan Dennett]] who passed away this year.
    • [[social.coop]] activity — some threads on Mastodon, some on Matrix, some on Loomio surely
  • All in all this is supposed to be a free "jetlag recovery day" so I’ll just try to enjoy it and also spend time offline.
  • I read [[Alan Watts]]‘s Wikipedia page (again? unsure) and I wondered again about his alcoholism and relatively early death at 58.
  • I finished [[The Moon is a Harsh Mistress]] today, after starting it and reading most of it yesterday during the flights. I liked it quite a bit! In particular the relationship between the protagonist/narrator and Mike/[[Mycroft]], the AI; and how it went straight into the topic of collaborating with AI towards the revolution.
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2024-12-21]]
  • Writing this on the flight from [[Tokyo]] to [[Copenhagen]] while on my way back to [[Zรผrich]].
    • I was (lightly) disappointed to see this flight did not head northwest as I expected, but rather northeast, despite what the map ‘navigation’ promised. This told me two things though:
      • "Western" planes are avoiding the whole of Russian airspace, likely because of the war. In retrospect I should have known this!
      • The navigation map available to the public in planes does not reflect in any way the course set by pilots. Instead it seems to just show the [[great circle]] to the destination from the current position. This held true through the trip. Indeed, the ‘projected path’ was roughly orthogonal to the true path at least until we reached the Bearing Strait (which is when I’m writing this).
    • I was planning on catching up on coding and writing (beyond this short entry), but I forgot to charge my laptop and there are no chargers in economy, so there goes that plan :) Well, I have plenty of reading to do so it’ll be fine.
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2024-12-15]]
  • I’m writing this on the [[Shinkansen]] from [[Hiroshima]] to [[Osaka]].
    • The [[Hiroshima Museum]], by which I mean the [[Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum]], was very interesting and very shocking — even though I thought I knew what to expect, the effect on me was strong. I could notice it also on other people who were there.
    • In Osaka I intend to:
      • Try interesting food (of course) :)
        • [[Kushikatsu]]? Hopefully there’s a meat-free version.
      • Visit new neighborhoods, like [[Shinsekai]] and [[Den Den Town]].
๐Ÿ“… Date [[2024-12-13]]