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πŸ“… Date [[2024-12-02]]

2024-12-02

  • Read Where to draw the line? - by Gordon Brander

  • Note that [[Substack]] has it’s short form posts now.

    • A decent move, a combining of elements of the garden and the stream in one service.
    • Essentially another walled garden version of what [[IndieWeb]] does.
  • I love using [[spacemacs]] and [[Emacs]].

    • However, one big negative - I’m always scared to update spacemacs to latest, as well as packages from Melpa.
    • Pretty much at least one important thing breaks every time that I do, and as I need this for my work, I can’t often spare that time.
    • So I tend to put it off and lag behind.
    • I imagine there’s things I can do that would mitigate the risk and friction - I should look into those.
      • One simple idea is just to have two version running side-by-side. I might be able to do that actually, I think there’s a flag you can pass Emacs to say where to look for your conf folder.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-12-01]]

2024-12-01

  • Continuing from yesterday, yeah it seems like the touch input doesn’t work great on the native Android Emacs build, either.
    • So, Termux’s text input view is probably the best option for now.
    • orgzly is brilliant for task management, but you don’t get the whole range of Emacs’ powers.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-30]]
  • I’m writing this on the train to [[Bern]], after which I will make a few connections and make my way to [[Puidoux]] where I’ll join a [[party in the forest]].
    • It’s going to be quite cold tonight and the party goes on until Sunday afternoon, so I’m happy I got some [[Merino]] underpants and a long sleeved shirt yesterday :)
    • I caught up with [[Eerie Shell]] and [[Kris]] over messaging.
  • I say [[We Will Defeat Moloch]].

2024-11-30

  • [[Wasteland]]

  • Writing prose in [[Emacs]] with [[Termux]] is a little weird.

    • It’s because you have to workaround the fact that terminal emulators don’t generally work well with touch keyboards.
    • Termux solves this cleverly with a text input view you can access by swiping left on the extra keys row.
    • It’s neat, but not optimal for longer-form writing.
    • Options:
      • Use orgzly for longer text input.
      • Try Emacs native Android build again.
      • Stick with it, it’s not that bad.
  • Going all in on [[libre software]] and [[open hardware]] is a key part of [[digital ecosocialism]].

    • That said, use of proprietary alternatives may be necessary during transition.
  • Provisioning the [[knowledge commons]] with info on what software is good, how to use it, how to switch to it, etc, also very important.

  • [[Wasteland]]

  • [[Waste]] and what you do with it is an important part of any [[system]].

    • This is part of why I’m finding [[Wasteland]] so interesting.
      • Here the system is society.
    • You can try and reuse it circulate it back into your system. Or you sink it somewhere in the environment.
      • It seems though, nothing is ever truly a sink - it always comes back one way or another…
    • Or you try and reduce how much of it there is in the first place.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-29]]

2024-11-29

πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-28]]
  • [[2024-11-27]] took place as well (linking it so I can then go node it :)
  • Interesting conversation in [[Agora discuss]]!
    • [[Zicklag]] wrote about [[weird.one]], sounds very cool, it would be great to catch up synchronously with them and [[Erlend]].

2024-11-28

  • Watched [[Agentic Product Development]]
    • Not sure I understand how the talk relates to the title.
    • But I like the concepts discussed a lot.
      • To me it felt like a description of [[IndieWeb]] without really mentioning IndieWeb.
        • Except in the talk subtitle? And one side mention of IndieAuth.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-27]]
  • I woke up with a headache for some reason, and it came back during the day, but otherwise I was fine.
  • I worked and then attended the [[end of year dinner]] with my coworkers.
    • There was also a [[bowling]] afternoon event which I skipped as I felt I was too behind work and I wanted to use the opportunity to catch up.
    • Even as I decided to skip it I knew that, with the passage time, I would remember the bowling event but not the afternoon working. But I decided to do it anyway as I also knew my mental state would be affected by not making progress on some tasks, and I think in the end it was a reasonable choice.
    • I enjoyed dinner. I actually like my coworkers, I’m lucky in that (and many ways!).
  • Then I returned home and I played with [[Lady Burup]] and played the piano.

2024-11-27

  • [[Wasteland]]

    • Now discussing [[reuse]]. Waste prevention.
  • Learned of [[Weird]] and [[Leaf]] from Zicklag on Agora Discuss.

    • Very interesting!
    • Weird: "prosocial network based on the cornerstone of the internet:Personal websites."
      • This is music to my ears.
  • [[Watched]] [[Why Ethical Consumerism Is a Trap]]

    • It’s a trap!
    • [[B Corps]] started off decent enough, but some problematic admissions recently (Nespresso?)
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-25]]

2024-11-25

πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-24]]
  • Still recovering from disease (flu? covid? unsure) with [[AG]] — but feeling better thankfully, both of us.
  • Ended up testing [[backup restores]] for [[social.coop]] finally and it felt great! It was in the todo list for long.
  • Not so much progress on [[work-work]] this weekend — which I know might sound a bit weird, why is it that I sometimes plan to work on the weekends? The truth is that some of the things I need to do I find it hard to do during the week for a variety of reasons, like meeting load. So I sometimes use the weekend to catch up. But when I don’t I have to at some point ‘let go of it’, else it weights on me implicitly.
  • Spoke to my mum over [[Meet]] and it was great!
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-23]]
  • [[23]] is [[Lady Burup]]‘s day :)
    • A chill day at home, with snow outside. I’m taking care of [[AG]] a bit as she’s sick.
  • Todo for the day:
    • rest :)
    • fix mastodon embeds in the Agora? they are still broken after most instances updated to 4.3
      • I didn’t quite fix this yet but I found two bugs doing this and made progress :)
      • First, social.coop embed.js had not been updated in years. We need a step to update static content when updating the instance! I mentioned it in the room.
      • Second, I filed https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33049 against Mastodon. I don’t get how their "new style" embeds are supposed to work, embed.js seems a bit weird. Let’s see what they say.
    • work: on that work document at least for one pomodoro
    • work: book meetings for the upcoming week (see paper notebook)
    • social.coop: CWG oncall
      • Some spam reports.
      • No new registrations since yesterday.
    • social.coop: TWG next steps towards alpha.social.coop
      • Hmm, what does this mean?
      • I guess I should fill that form to get a VPS from iocoop now that we have joined! That sounds simple enough/fun.
    • write
    • read

2024-11-23

  • [[Wasteland]].

    • When Blue Planet had its episode on plastic waste in the oceans, the anti-plastic public reaction gave the price of recycled plastic a huge boost.
      • Interesting to think how television programmes can still have such a system changing effect.
      • See also the documentary about the [[British Post Office scandal]].
    • Apparently a plastic bag was found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
  • I hope to find the time to start participating in the [[IndieWeb Carnival]].

    • I like it as a concept for nudging people to write in their blogs.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-22]]
  • back to the office finally, after a few days sick working from home! it was nice going back.

2024-11-22

  • Downloaded [[Wasteland]] from [[libro.fm]].

    • But… now I can’t find my headphones.
  • Found them!

  • The opening to [[Wasteland]], where he outlines the scale of waste we produce worldwide, puts me in mind of the bit in [[Doughnut Economics]] where she discusses broadening our conception of the economy to be embedded within the biosphere.

    • How the economy has sources and sinks to the wider environment.
    • Wasteland tells just how much of a sink we treat the planet as, as we dump our waste into it.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-21]]

2024-11-21

  • Finished rereading (listening) [[Doughnut Economics]].
    • Still relevant and useful.
    • I should write up some takeaways. (Maybe use that rubric from the OU module?)
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-20]]
  • I’m [[sick]]. Nothing serious, feels like the flu. [[AG]] got it over the weekend.
    • Working from home and catching some [[Meet University]] talks, although today only until 16. There’s an all hands later I may put in the background; I told my manager I was low energy and would focus on resting half a day.
  • I cut my hair, which usually makes me feel fresher, and it did. I also shaved everything except my mustache, for [[Movember]] (is it still a thing? I think so)
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-19]]
  • [[work]]
    • I woke up sick but I worked from home anyway.
    • [[Meet University]] was good!
  • then I rested after work, ate something, spent time with [[Burup]] and caught up with friends
  • then I thought about:
  • [[cwebber]] joined [[social.coop]] earlier this week!

2024-11-19

πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-18]]

2024-11-18

  • [[wp cli]] is handy.

  • In a [[causal loop diagram]], where do you put actions, things that happen? I guess it’s a flow. But, what causes the flow?

πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-17]]

2024-11-17

  • Reread Robin Sloan’s article on [[Stock and flow]].
    • As an analogy for garden and stream.
    • Not sure if it’s an analogy to [[stocks and flows]] specifically in systems thinking, or there’s a more generic economic concept.
    • Anyway - he makes a good point that it’s not good to be all stock, no flow.
    • He means it in the sense of, you should post to the stream a little bit, so people know what you’re up to.
    • I should consider that - I generally don’t post to social media streams, just to my journal here.
    • Which I like as it remains distraction free.
    • But it does reduce social interaction significantly.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-16]]

2024-11-16

πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-15]]
  • I [[worked]]; it was fine actually, I had a late review meeting (I don’t usually have meetings on Fridays) but it was interesting/felt worth it.
  • I met [[L]]! We spent some of the afternoon together. It was very nice to see her.
  • I then worked on [[social.coop]], scaling up (with [[Dan]]). Then I read/wrote/coded a bit.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-14]]

2024-11-14

  • On Tuesday I went to a workshop on learning the basics of electrical repairs.

    • Was good to meet some other volunteers from the area.
      • The round of intros took up a lot of the session though…
    • Had a bit of an overview on useful tools and basic electronic components, wired a plug, and then started repairing broken items we had brought with us.
    • It’s a two parter. Next time we’ll look at using a [[multimeter]], [[PAT testing]], and the [[right to repair]].
  • [[Doughnut Economics]] has a good overview of what a [[system]] is and why [[systems thinking]] of useful.

πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-13]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-11]]
  • I found a ‘task list’ (I have 7-8 at any given time, usually anything from a3 to a4, envelopes and forms and such that I reuse to write things to do later) which I sort of completed so I archived it. It had the number [[131]] on it, without further context, although it was close to a task related to Wikipedia in the Agora that I have advanced.
    • It is prime in case you’re wondering :) [[prime/131]].
    • Which reminds me about the notion of having prime/ be autopulled when n is a number. Hmm.
  • [[AlgΓΊn dΓ­a]]
  • Noding from [[paramita]] and from [[nostromo]] while I work on the Agora tonight.
    • I’m already showered and can go until the time I go to bed, probably early as I woke up at 6am due to double pages :)
    • I’ll enjoy the ride for however long it lasts!
    • I thought of [[2024-11-19]].
    • I thought of the future.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-10]]
  • [[agora development]]:
    • fix mastodon 4.3 embeds?
    • and what comes next?
  • [[writing]]:
    • I say I want to do more writing in long form/intelligibly to the average prose reader, but don’t often make time for it. Some time ago I said Sundays were going to be for this kind of writing more often, and I could try to uphold this today. Let’s see.
    • [[letters]]: some [[closed]], some [[open]]
  • To test [[collimation]]:
    • As it’s cloudy, maybe I’ll observe the distant LEDs in a construction crane ~500m away tonight.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-09]]

2024-11-09

  • [[Doughnut Economics]]

    • The developer of the concept of [[GDP]], Simon Kuznets, didn’t think it was a good measure of national welfare.
  • Microblurting with a mindmap.

    • [[my blurts]]
    • After trying a few different mindmap apps on Android, going with miMind for now.
    • Alas, hand-writing PlantUML mind map markup doesn’t cut it for current purposes.
  • [[Doughnut Economics]]

    • The [[Holocene]] is an incredibly hospitable Earth and the favourable conditions would last for an unusually long time, were we humans not pushing the planet out of this period of stability.
    • We need to change the indicator for success from ever upwards and forwards growth to dynamically thriving in balance.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-08]]

2024-11-08

  • Back in [[Silverbullet]] after a few days only making it to [[codium]] — which in some ways was good, as it means I managed to carve out some time for some playful coding through the week.
    • [[Stapelberg]] is now using [[Silverbullet]] as well and seems to like it as well although he did comment on the system requirements; I agree it can be intense in larger gardens. But still it is capable enough and a solid enough writing environment that it’s the best tool I know of in knowledge space currently.
  • Work was good, tough at times but I believe overall productive.
    • I’ve been feeling and looking a bit tired lately so I started taking iron again, and might take vitamin D supplements (as I’ve been doing seasonally with good effect).
  • Tomorrow I’ll see [[AG]] :)
  • This evening after work I started working on the Agora and writing. [[Lady Burup]] is sitting to my back on her green cushion.
  • Someone reached out over [[Telegram]].
  • I thought about [[Ekumen]].
  • I did [[Agora development]].
    • I iterated on more interface issues that had long nagged me/I had long wanted to work on.
    • Shipped iterations in the [[themes]].
    • Changed button location to have it make more sense given what it actually does.

2024-11-08

  • [[digital ecosocialism]]

  • [[Doughnut Economics]]

    • I like the seven ways to think like a 21st century economist:
      • Change the Goal
      • See the Big Picture
      • Nurture Human Nature
      • Get Savvy with Systems
      • Design to Distribute
      • Create to Regenerate
      • Be Agnostic about Growth
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-07]]

2024-11-07

  • Not sure how to process the US election 2024 results.
    • It feels pretty devastating. The short term and long term repercussions seem catastrophic.
    • Right now, avoiding all the news and analysis - too much to get lost in and I don’t have the headspace for it at the moment.
    • Finding ways to offer practical solidarity to threatened and affected groups in the US seems like the most productive action in the short term.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-06]]
  • I shipped a fix to wiki.social.coop (the result of coworking with Dan through the week, it was great!)
  • I shipped some layout/theme improvements to anagora.org, it felt great as well. I like UI stuff actually it seems, in the right dosage.
  • I worked and I was a bit tired at times but it was good and interesting.
  • The [[US Election]] news hit hard, myself and many friends.
  • I spent time with [[Lady Burup]] in the evening :)
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-05]]

2024-11-05

πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-04]]
  • Back to work :)
    • I had the day off but I decided to work anyway; the meeting load seemed manageable and I was able to carve out a good-sized flow block, so it seemed like a good idea to get the week started today.
    • Ended up working half a day, which seemed like a good compromise; I ticked a few things off my todo list to start the week in good shape, freeing the rest for some critical tasks hopefully.
  • Thought about social.coop after work
    • [[TWG]]:
      • meeting?
    • [[CWG]]:
      • Also the question of [[matrix]] for coordinating work, which is met with resistance by some working group members only. For me interop is the clear solution, let’s see.

2024-11-04

πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-03]]
  • I’m going to try to go back to keeping more of my todo list here digitally.
  • Today was good; melancholy at times, but it ended up on high notes.
  • Tomorrow I have the day off, but I might work anyway.

2024-11-03

  • [[Some small experiments in ‘microblurting’]]

  • Finished [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]] (audiobook)

    • Fun and informative and very wide ranging on various science topics.
    • My immediate takeaway: the Universe is sublime, Earth is amazing, life is improbable and astonishing; human intelligence is incredible, yet we are astoundingly terrible stewards of life and the planet.
      • And we need to resolve that last issue immediately.
    • Listened via [[libro.fm]].
πŸ“… Date [[2024-11-01]]
  • [[work]] from home as a technician was coming to fix the sinks, it’s great after the fact like a lot of maintenance tasks! I hope to be able to do it myself if it’s needed again, let’s see.
  • [[Ekumen]]
  • [[Feedback on the Agora]] by [[Eduardo]]:
    • No hay jerarquΓ­as y no hay orden
    • No hay jerarquΓ­as:
      • Nodo estΓ‘ en la misma jerarquΓ­a que wikipedia/wiktionary/results
      • (Sobre las divisiones entre Γ‘gora y no Γ‘gora)
      • Primero podrΓ­a ir el Γ‘gora y despuΓ©s de adentro hacia afuera
    • Datos y metadatos estΓ‘n mezclados
    • LΓ­neas y "1 + 1 = 3"
      • Espacio negativo
      • Alternancia entre colores y grises
    • Dos grupos:
      • info acΓ‘
      • e info en otros lados
    • TransclusiΓ³n, etc.
    • QuizΓ‘s un tabbed interface? Mostrar que e.g. wiktionary tiene contenido relevante pero no mostrarlo como elemento de primer nivel.

2024-11-01

  • What is the relationship between ecology and earth systems science?

  • I would like to learn more about [[systems ecology]].

πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-31]]
  • [[Las Jaras]] is here!
    • How sweet it is
  • I’m trying to update the firmware of my [[8bitdo retro keyboard]] and it’s harder than expected due to the fact that [[8bitdo]] only supports Mac and Windows, but I’m making some progress.

2024-10-31

πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-30]]

2024-10-30

  • I’m [[microblurting]].

  • Blurt

    • [[Data science]] is a combination of data analytics, statistics, and machine learning.
    • [[Data analytics]] looks at past data and explores patterns and issues. It is descriptive.
    • Statistics can be descriptive but also predictive?
    • [[Machine learning]] is primarily predictive?
  • Blurt

    • Data science is multidisciplinary, encompassing data analytics, statistics and machine learning, among other areas.
  • I’m thinking that blurting is probably better semi private.

    • It might not be of great interest for others to read half formed, quite possibly incorrect statements about various things.
    • Social streams are more interesting when they have some personal, subjective opinion based element I feel, rather than attempted recall of facts.
    • Though, it would be nice to receive feedback on some things. So perhaps semi private is good.
  • [[HeliBoard]] is going well.

    • Some nice features. Very customisable.
    • Being able to adjust the width of the one handed keyboard is very useful.
    • swipe typing works pretty well, though I have a sense not quite so good as gboard?
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-29]]
  • [[work]] was intense meetings, summit, then working late - but good I think.
  • [[go/flow/29]] is about [[trust]].

2024-10-29

  • [[Human physiology]] - the processes and functions of living organisms. Rather than, say, the structure of the body or evolutionary history.

  • [[Passive repetition]] can result in an [[illusion of knowing]].

    • Better to do [[active repetition]] when you can.
    • Writing in a digital garden or on social media is a form of active repetition.
  • Actually, you could also do passive repetition in a digital garden.

    • Just copying and pasting text from elsewhere would be largely passive repetition. Similar to just underlining or highlighting.
    • I think the journal aspect of a digital garden is good for active repetition.
    • A space to summarise ideas in your own words, and for "blurting".
    • So really, that’s more the stream than the garden?
    • I suppose you can do active recall in both. But I’d say the stream is your working area for it, and the garden where you store what sticks long term.
  • One of the key uses of a stream and garden for me is active recall and repetition. So worth thinking about it a bit more.

  • Trying [[HeliBoard]].

    • Mainly to avoid the annoying display of ‘Passwords’ that Gboard does when in [[Termux]].
    • Hey, turns out HeliBoard does it too. Must be a Termux issue.
    • Still, I like that this is fully open source and available via [[F-Droid]].
  • [[Learning blurt]]

  • Traditional social media / microblogging can also be great for active recall.

    • Particularly as dialogue and group discussion is an excellent prompt for active recall.
    • However for me they also have a huge problem - distraction.
    • I can’t go on the Fediverse without it ending up as a bit of a mindless scroll fest. (Which, admittedly of often a useful tool for information discovery…)
  • [[Learning blurt]]

    • [[Bacteria]]
      • Humans are teeming with them.
      • Trillions in the gut alone.
      • We couldn’t exist without them. They could happily exist without us.
      • [[Microbiology]]
  • I listened to a good ACFM episode on the gut microbiome recently: [[ACFM Trip 41: Trust Your Gut]]

  • I think I’ll explore "[[microblurting]]" as a thing.

    • Is microblurting a useful way to do active recall? Should one blurt in public spaces? We’ll find out.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-28]]

2024-10-28

  • I biked to work and I’m happy I did, it wasn’t too cold and the exercise felt great both ways.
    • Now I’m cozy at home typing on my mechanical keyboard with Lady Burup (she occasionally also types, but also I just mean we’re spending time together :)).
    • I was also melancholy for personal reasons but it felt constructive, like processing.

2024-10-28

  • [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]
    • So far: astrophysics, geology, chemistry, particle physics, quantum physics and a little bit of paleontology.
    • All fascinating but I think nowadays I’m most interested in the things closer to home - so, the geology, and hoping there will be some biology and maybe even ecology (though from memory I don’t think there is much of this last one).
    • There’s no social science - so no human history, anthropology, economics, etc. Have to go elsewhere for that. I might listen to [[The Dawn of Everything]] next.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-27]]

2024-10-27

  • The first book I’ve got on [[libro.fm]] is [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]] by Bill Bryson.
    • I’ve really been enjoying learning about broad, general subject matters outside of my usual areas on [[Kinnu]].
    • This appealed in that same vein. Simple overview of lots of topics.
    • I’ve read it a few times many years ago and remember thoroughly enjoying it.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-26]]
  • [[]]
  • Well, I’m here finally :)
    • I received my second keyboard and I installed it on the desk with [[Paramita]].
    • Typing on it feels amazing, and the workstation is now set up in a way that I think will entice me to write more often and for longer periods before context switching.
    • I find that, when I’m typing on a laptop keypad, the constant availability of the trackpad makes me context switch more often, as I react impulsively to notifications for example. When I am in this typing position, switching to a different context requires me to:
      • Reach out for the mouse, which is 30cm away.
      • Use a combination like Meta + hjkl to move to a different window using my [[window manager]]‘s shortcut, which usually means I’d be focusing to a different window that I had decided I wanted to work on (as it’s on my workspace)
      • Learn the shortcut for ‘react to last notification’, which I don’t know and I don’t intend to learn today :)
    • Now only remains the task of remembering what I want to do, which means updating my priority list and gathering an intent to follow it.

So today I want to work/play on:

I also met a new friend, [[Elena]], picked up the keyboard package and mailed out some forms, and thought about some personal matters/emotionally processed.

-> [[do]]

  • I enjoyed going through it a lot actually, several things got marked done! Wow.
  • It makes sense because I do follow a kind of system within my chaos, but it’s cool to see it corroborated.
  • Some things I actually did; some things are no longer relevant, e.g. Twitter bot stuff (as Musk killed that, for now at least).
  • Which led me to [[maybe Musk will wake up]]

Hi there! this is one of the first few livestreams I’ve done. I keep iterrating on the format. As it is now, I am recording my typing but I don’t know to which extent you can hear the music or anything I say. I need to check up the setup later, so excuse any disruption please :)

I will now [[flow]] with my friends [[bobby lyte]] and [[adriene]] :D

For more of this, check out https://anagora.org/yoga-with-x .

  • Actual yoga is coming soon. I’ve been enjoying typing on my mechanical keyboard and playing with Lady Burup. I fixed or worked around some hardware/setup issues along the way :)
  • Also did some light gardening in preparation for the winter.
  • [[Recursivity]].
  • No matter what, I keep coming back to [[neovim]] for editing my garden. It’s just too handy and fast. Silverbullet competes with other tabs in my browser windows, whereas [[wikivim]] is always somewhere in tmux.
  • I think that’s fine, they have different strengths?
    • Although I did want to experiment with [[silverbullet attachments]] as a simple way to make the [[Agora]] more multi-media (it’s the spirit of the 90s? :))

2024-10-26

  • Starting using [[libro.fm]]. For [[audiobooks]].
    • Seems great. Let’s you pick a bookshop (local or online) for some of the money to go to.
    • But, also very annoyed to discover that some audiobooks are ‘Audible Exclusives’. Meaning you can only get them on Audible.
    • What a scam. Imagine only being able to buy some books in certain bookshops.
    • libro has some resources on how to do something about it: https://blog.libro.fm/why-isnt-audiobook-available-libro-fm-what-to-do/
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-25]]

2024-10-25

  • Back in the Agora!
    • I shipped some small usability improvements this week. I intend to do some more of these during the weekend.
    • I re-discovered [[]] and it’s amazing, both broken and great.
    • [[Silverbullet]] cannot open it though, so the screenshot is in [[ellipsis]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-24]]

2024-10-24

πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-21]]
  • I had a good day at work really.
    • I enjoyed typing on my new keyboard! I am looking forward actually, which is a nice motivation to go to work tomorrow again, and that in turn is nice to have as I have to go there anyway ;)
    • I may end up getting another one for writing at home though. I "knew" that I like typing on mechanical keyboards, but it took typing again in one to properly remember it :)
    • I worked until late back home even after the [[social.coop]] meeting, but that’s OK as well, I like starting the week strong.
  • Then I thought about the [[Revolution]].
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-20]]
  • [[AG]]
  • called my mum for [[mother’s day]] in Argentina
  • [[flancia meet]]:
  • I’m liking my new [[8bitdo]] keyboard a lot, and now that I’ve made the programmable buttons work even more :)
    • I set one big button to lock the screen and the other to write ‘yes’ and press enter; I figured programming one to take a full action that might be dangerous in some contexts was fun and reasonable enough for what IS a big red button after all, so if you press it in front of a prompt or a chat window you should be sufficiently aware of the risk :)
    • Typing here I remember how much I like typing, in a way. Another thing I like is that it forces me away from the laptop, where the touchpad is always available. Here I have to reach for the mouse, as in the olden days, and this is a small context switch that I might be able to catch myself doing when I intended to focus on the task at hand (writing).
    • I think this might enable me to write more and in longer form, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. The last long form text I wrote publicly was the [[Agora Chapter]] of the book about [[Personal Knowledge Graphs]], which was published in [[2023]].

I guess at some point once you’ve written enough you can drop the bullet points and go back to full prose, whatever difference this makes. To some extent paragraphs are a two level list hierarchy, in the sense that every sentence that follows a previous instead of beginning a new paragraph can be though to be a children to one that preceded it.

  • I ran into [[Wittgenstein]] again and I thought again of reading him seriously/more fully, I have only read fragments of him so far and of course commentary to his work.
  • I guess bullet points can serve as asides in longer form prose, like parentheses or dashes, but perhaps more readable for the case of writers which tend to produce many asides and meta :)

So, anyway, writing makes me feel good; it feels cathartic you could say, and also just necessary at times. Noticing that something feels good also helps oneself do that thing again, remove resistances to doing it.

Why is it that I want to write so much? It is because [[writing is an aid to memory]], and [[writing is a tool for thinking]], and for communicating of course.

  • The laundry timer just went off.
  • And now I’m back, after putting laundry to dry (tumble) and another load :)

What do I want to remember so much, you might ask yourself. Well, to answer that thoroughly and clearly is that I like to build [[Agoras]].

2024-10-20

  • I’ve logged in to [[Fediverse]] again the last couple of days. To make a new connection and do some Restart related posting. But: already found myself scrolling aimlessly through things which though very interesting are of minimal relevance to my actual life. Might just be a phase, but, sadly I can’t spare that idle time right now.

  • I’ve been cultivating a setup for logging the [[repair data]] from [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] that, once I’ve taken a copy of the paper forms on my phone, I can then log it all digitally and get it into Restarters.net, all from my phone.

πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-19]]
  • Back!
    • Work week was alright.
    • Did some personal emotional processing during the week as well.
    • Now feeling good going into the weekend :)
  • Had good meetings, also one great today with [[edumerco]].
  • I reconnected with some old [[friends]] digitally and in analog space :)

2024-10-19

  • Let’s dust this off…

  • [[International Repair Day]] 2024 today.

    • Did a spell at [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] popup cafe in [[Barrow]].
    • Fixed a printer (well, more just showed that it was working OK and put a fresh ink cartridge in).
  • For [[Restart]] for Repair Day I worked on the global map of events, the Open Repair Alliance report, and the Open Repair Alliance dataset. Proud of all of those.

πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-17]]
  • Today is [[Maitreya]]! The 17th :)
  • Work was fine actually. I biked there and back, I’m enjoying the exercise before it gets too cold.
    • Was productive in the evening from home after reuniting with [[Lady Burup]] :)
  • Then I ate and did [[Flancia]].
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-12]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-11]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-08]]

2024-10-08

  • At [[work]], meaning in the office, after a few days out/WFH due to disease. It’s nice to see my coworkers/have in person conversations.
    • I had a productive day at home yesterday which hopefully will translate to a productive week in-office. Let’s see :)
  • No meetings after work tonight! Which is nice.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-06]]
  • Continuing from [[2024-10-04]] :)
  • #push [[todo]]
  • [[agora development]]:
    • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
    • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
    • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
  • [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
    • [[zine]]
      • 0
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5 finish?
    • [[letters]]
      • 0
        • which are the three letters I want to work on?
          • to [[WS]]
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
            • Objections -> [[objectio]]
          • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
            • Objections
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
          • to Maitreya
            • meaning: one or more friends
              • Lex Fridman et al?
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5 finish/share?
  • [[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
  • I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-04]]
  • Sick so I [[WFH]], but nothing serious.
  • Resuming from [[2024-10-01]]:
  • [[agora development]]:
    • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
    • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
    • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
  • [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
    • [[zine]]
      • 0
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5 finish?
    • [[letters]]
      • 0
        • which are the three letters I want to work on?
          • to [[WS]]
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
            • Objections -> [[objectio]]
          • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
            • Objections
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
          • to Maitreya
            • meaning: one or more friends
              • Lex Fridman et al?
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5 finish/share?
  • [[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
  • I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
  • [[ekumen]]
  • [[analytical seclusion]]:
    • [[sabbatical]]
    • may 2025-july 2025? one month to start with?
πŸ“… Date [[2024-10-01]]
  • I read about [[polymers]] and [[acrylic]] a.k.a. [[PMMA]] via… the [[Cotton-Mouton Effect]] (?).
    • Also about [[Sky Pool, London]] which "was criticized as emblematic of economic inequalities in London.".
  • [[Magnets]]
  • [[Zine]] (enjoying it, working in [[overleaf]] with vim bindings is a pretty nice setup)
  • Thought of [[Right Resolve]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]], [[Right Freedom]]
  • [[agora development]]:
    • [[agor.ai]] is partly fixed since yesterday (finally!) in the sense that link.agor.ai and flancia.agor.ai are back up in [[hypatia]] \o/
    • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
    • I fixed my [[wiki vim]] setup to allow for easy markdown editing again and things like interacting with checkboxes.
    • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
    • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
  • [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
    • [[zine]]
      • 0
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5 finish?
    • [[letters]]
      • 0
        • which are the three letters I want to work on?
          • to [[WS]]
            • Thank you
            • Objections
            • What I will try to do forward
          • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
            • Objections
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
          • to Maitreya
            • meaning: one or more friends
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5 finish/share one tomorrow?
        • considering this shared (with two people to begin with) as of the week of [[2024-10-11]] :)
πŸ“… Date [[2024-09-30]]
  • read about the [[Karmapa]]
  • I have this week off, will probably keep today and tomorrow off and resume work on Wednesday
  • #push [[do]]
    • I crafted, and then went through, a lengthy todo list :)
      • do laundry (2x)
      • donate (2x)
      • run [[collect]] over todo items/notebooks, they’ve gotten out of control as usual :)
        • add items to this todo list or ideally to the [[root node]] for my tasks
        • maybe add images directly, although that could take time it will be less time than entering manually, and I could pipe the collection to AI at some point?
      • write
        • zine (2-4x)
        • get java [[minecraft]]
        • one or more of:
          • open letter to musk
          • open letter to maitreya
          • open letter to lex and sam
      • code
        • get into a code-release flow again by shipping one little change to anagora.org
        • one or more of:
          • save button
          • activitypub support
          • agora bot posts updates from the agora?
          • users post updates from the agora?
      • systems
        • fix agor.ai
          • recycle
          • make free space
          • try again
πŸ“… Date [[2024-09-28]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-09-27]]
  • I’m back :)
  • [[social.coop]]:
    • Updated moderation announcement
    • Review pass issue reported by edsu
  • [[bobby lyte]] mentioned the importance of "the shared and collective belief and energy toward a common goal" and I liked how he put it
πŸ“… Date [[2024-09-24]]
  • [[work]] was OK.
    • tomorrow will be even better I think :)
    • it will start weirdly.
  • I thought of [[tanzwerk]] and [[hardturm]] again, and of cycling through the city, thanks to the Agora/my digital garden. Maybe during the weekend?
  • While using the Agora, I thought of some things:
    • It is a shame that so few different users show up in recent, BUT there are a few contributors I didn’t know about and that felt cool/interesting and I found several nodes by old friends I want to read.
    • It really should have a ‘pin’ or ‘star’ or ‘save’ button as "mvp" for storing state originating from the web client but not tied to an editor. I found some wikipedia-articles-within-the-Agora that I wanted to ‘pin’ as having been interesting, and just being able to save a subnode that says ‘flancian was here on X’ would suffice really. Like a visitors log, old web style maybe. Or just a bit in sqlite?
      • I need to find vera’s branch that took me too long to review :(
        • Better late than never? Or, well, in any case it is an inspiration.
      • I want to catch up with [[j0lms]]
  • I want to do [[yoga]] tonight.
  • It is 22 as I write this and I’d like to be in bed tonight by 1am.
  • Also, [[Tschenresi Sadhana]].
  • I’m back!
    • In the wrong location ;) [[sariputta]] has an old-style editor which adds journal entries to /journal :)
    • I’ll live with the discrepancy, they are coalesced reasonably well by the Agora in any case.
    • See also: [[2024-09-24]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-09-21]]
  • Back in [[Flancia]]!
    • Or did we ever leave?
    • [[Mallorca]] was beautiful!
    • Thank you [[AG]] for your kindness and your beauty.
    • Reunited with [[Lady Burup]] yesterday evening.
  • Today I cleaned and I worked around the house, catching up with:
  • Today I noticed that [[37]] = [[19]] + [[18]], meaning a centered hex number plus its center-less partner.
    • So it seems like a very good packing for two hex numbers, in one figure.
  • Then I [[flowed]].
  • [[zine]]
  • Music: [[rainbow folding]] and others
  • [[37]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-09-14]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-09-06]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-09-05]]
  • I’ve gotten [[paramita]] back up and running, it had broken in a variety of ways (broken nvim with a bus error, broken gammastep)
  • [[Jigme Rinpoche]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-28]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-19]]
  • [[Google IPO]] twenty years ago today
  • [[zine]]
  • [[AG]]
  • Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]]
  • I banged my right elbow hard when moving near an open window, I hope it doesn’t swell :)
  • Good day overall in any case!
    • I cycled to work and back and it was great.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-18]]

2024-08-18

  • Chill rainy Sunday at home :)
  • Spent it with [[AG]].
  • Then in the afternoon [[VK]] and her boyfriend [[Sascha]] came about, it was very nice!
  • [[feedback 2024]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-17]]

2024-08-17

  • [[Maitreya]]!
    • Maitreya on Saturday is extra special
  • [[Burup]]
    • I played the piano, I’m enjoying recording midis while practicing even if it’s sometimes cacophonic — as it sometimes isn’t :) and saving the midi seems interesting and would let me extract fragments later
  • [[Fediverse]]
  • Wrote [[practice.py]] on a lark :)
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-16]]

2024-08-16

  • I got here the long way around :)
    • For sure I did! Cool — back here something like… 18 hours later, at 22.
    • Yesterday night I had a wild ride restoring my preferred [[Agora editor]] to working order, and then exorcising my digital garden from a file over 100MB which I accidentally committed and made Github refuse me all service with insufficient explanation :)
  • [[Silverbullet]]:
    • Now running [[Silverbullet dev]] having worked around the actual trigger for the most critical part of https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1010, which ended up being not due to garden scale only but also due to a recent change I had made to my config :)
      • Keeping an eye on the other performance issues.
      • You wouldn’t believe how much I missed having a web-based [[Agora editor]].
      • It made me think I still have to keep honest and actually offer this as a service in the [[Agora of Flancia]] — I would love to provide hosted Silverbullet for whoever wants it.
    • Thought of:
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-15]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-13]]
  • I played the piano and played with [[Lady Burup]] :)
  • A few days ago I learnt that [[stanines]] were/are a thing.
  • [[work]] happened, ups and downs, I was a bit tired; I think I should go to bed earlier on Mondays as Tuesdays demand energy :)
  • [[nostromo]] crashed again and then exhibited a [[heisenbug]] (I wrote about it on Fedi).
  • some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the experience of the community
    • it’s pretty out there how much time I’ve been spending trying to keep nostromo alive — it crashes quite often, I should prioritize that
    • [[backup nostromo]]
    • then maybe I could get a replacement, or just use it to the end but try to work around the issues with more automation? because they’re hardware triggered (overheating, plus some likely adapter related issues for what is a laptop with many functions)
  • some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the feedback of the community
  • thought about:
  • [[bangers]]:
  • [[silverbullet bug]] which makes it harder for me to write in the Agora :(
    • but things will hopefully get better :)
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-12]]
  • Found [[3493]] on the way to work today, it was great.
  • Then in the night I thought of [[cryptobuddhism]].
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-11]]
  • Sad morning but I think it was also cathartic.
  • Then I cleaned the house, and I did practice :)
  • Got back to [[Building Bridges]] after long, finally — it’s been on the backburner for a year or so, at least?
    • Will try to do a pass on it, with the occasion of also
    • Fixing formatting issues on [[Agora Chapter]] for legibility before sharing further
  • I need to fix the issue that on some computers [[wiki vim]] writes journals on /journal/.md and in some others I have it set it up to /.md
  • [[Flow state]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-10]]
  • I read what [[NG]] wrote
  • Bought shoes, which was on my todo list :)
  • Bought a book gift
  • Received a book gift :)
  • Found [[standardgalatic]]
  • I biked from [[AG]]‘s place to [[Flancia central]] in the midnight sun and it was beautiful :)
  • Then I saw [[VK]], it was great!
  • Then I flowed.
  • Updated [[bill flancian]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-05]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-03]]

2024-08-03

  • Now on the [[third]], early in the morning you could say :)


  • [[Flancia meet]] was quiet but I enjoyed it anyway, took the time to do stuff leisurely on the laptop.
  • [[Hzian]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-02]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-08-01]]

2024-08-01

  • Back on [[Silverbullet]] after a few days.
    • I moved my journals here also to the root of my garden, as I did with wiki vim a few days back, so you will see them at /YYYY-MM-DD.md from now on instead of at /journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md.
    • Happy to hear that [[vera]] is also using Silverbullet!
  • I read criticism of the [[Gemini ad]]: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5056201/google-olympics-ai-ad
    • I first read the article and then I watched the ad.
    • You could say the ad does miss any note worth hitting; but I did like some aspects like the dad’s voice (is it the real one, though, I wonder?) and the fact that it’s not too long.
    • It has the usual by now out-of-touch aesthetic of Google ads, which you could call [[enterprise whimsy]].
    • And it’s just… a bit nonsensical, on top of the other criticisms. Why is the dad involved at all? He comes across as lazy. If this was an ad showing how the little girl can use Gemini to help her with her writing, it would feel a lot more natural/less problematic probably. It is true that kids are going to be using generative AI to learn how to write (presumably they are already doing this), and the ad could have shown some of that instead. Maybe this was considered but lawyers didn’t want to show too young people using the technology for some reason, and we got the lazy dad as a compromise?
    • Anyway. Google ads are pretty bad on average these days IMHO, so I’m not super surprised.
  • Yesterday [[2024-07-31]] in the [[Fellowship of the link]] call [[Aram]] shared a nice article he wrote as part of the [[semilink]] activity we were experimenting with: [[the internet is a series of webs]].
  • [[Flancia]]:
    • I wrote on the Agora today. This is a good day :)
    • I intend to also do some [[Agora development]].
      • I fixed an issue that [[vera]] reported with transclusion in Silverbullet — interesting.
      • I wrote a script to assist in Agora maintenance, health.sh

2023-08-01

πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-30]]
  • I worked, it was fine — I almost didn’t as we were just returned from beautiful [[Ischia]] yesterday and Thursday is a national holiday, but in the end it was good as I made progress on several fronts and meetings were light for a Tuesday :)
  • Then I did some [[social.coop]] following up on some of yesterday’s topics from the [[twg]]
  • I thought of:
    • [[Magnets]] as usual ;)
    • By the way any of the ideas I write down, which I’m sure are old hat to any physicist and many common folk like me, are for the benefit of all beings if they ever turn out to be useful in any way; any [[patents]] are dedicated to the benefit of humanity and friends :)
    • [[Agora letters]]
      • Maybe sounds a bit better than just [[Open Letters]] for what I am trying to do — at least for me :) Because these are open letters with a particular intention? Or at least that’s a particular interesting subset of all [[open letters]] tracked in this [[Agora]] and elsewhere in the [[Internet]].

Today and yesterday I thought also of writing, in general — how much I do it and how much I don’t, how many of my thoughts seep into the ether as weak electromagnetic radiation and are only occasionally recorded. (That’s alright; with every thought "lost" we radiate some heat, we feel something, we experiment our beings and let the universe shape our consciousnesses).

For the purpose of focusing more often on writing I’ve started to think of [[Sariputta]] as my writing computer, keeping also [[Sila]] and [[Paramita]] as general purpose/development computers, and [[Nostromo]] as media centre/MIDI terminal.

πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-27]]

2024-07-27

  • In [[Ischia]]! Now for a few days. This is the first I’ve noded as days have been quite intense in [[bodyspace]] (in a nice way).
  • I want to submit some poems for the [[zine]] that [[bouncepaw]] is editing by EOM, will try to work on those today from the beach. If not today, tomorrow.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-23]]
  • What’s one [[feeling]] you can [[own]] and consistently deliver?
  • [[Search and Seizure]].
  • Short [[videos]]: collapsed:: true
    • [[Contrast]]/paradox I want do X but Y is in the way
    • How am I going to do X?
    • Simple, universal to [[audience]], ideas
    • First word has to be a [[hook]] "Free" is good, "this" is bad
    • Hook has to be clear about what the conflict is and what is at the end
    • First frame has to be like title or thumbnail, high saturation and high contrast
    • [[Foreshadowing]] tells the user what gift they will get at the end
    • Rewatchable: Lists Easter eggs "Twists"?
    • Add conflict as the video goes on
    • [[But]],so But, [[therefore]]
      • South Park
    • Include a [[Why]]
    • Keep ending short but with a payoff
  • Incident management game collapsed:: true
    • Rescue -> recovery, budget drops drastically
  • A pilot is constantly seeking [[balance]]. collapsed:: true
    • "Redefine the fight"
    • Aviate navigate communicate
  • [[Links]] should be [[titles]] worth clicking on.
  • Let yourself be possessed by the web that has the [[problem]].
  • [[Constraints]] [[shape]] multiple [[parts]] into one.
  • "ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
  • [[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie. collapsed:: true
    • Pediomelum esculentum id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5 Blue grama Crested wheat Western wheatgrass
    • Textile Onion
    • Winterfat
    • Chokecherry
    • Fringed sagewort Arrowleaf balsamroot Hawksbeard Sticky purple geranium Scarlet globemallow Sulfur-flower buckwheat Tumblemustard Western wallflower Western yarrow Rosa woodsii
    • Antelope bitterbrush Gardner saltbush Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter) Green rabbitbrush Mountain mahogany Shadscale saltbush Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle) Silver sagebrush Wax Currant
    • Mountain snowberry Serviceberry
  • β€œAn earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. β€œThe [[equality]] of all men.”
  • Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
  • Getting past the [[elbow]], [[handfighting]] [[unarmed]] collapsed:: true
    • If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head. If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]]. If their arms are up, go under for the body. If they’re narrow, go for the outsides. If they’re wide, go for the insides.
    • If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
  • "[[time]] given away…is time you don’t [[own]]"
  • Show them [[chaos]], and present an alternative of [[order]].
  • [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] disperse through [[time]].
  • [[Distance]] gives you [[time]], Angles give you a way [[out]] or to [[flank]].
  • "never sit against a [[swarm]] [keep [[moving]]]"
  • John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
  • Improve [[entertainment]] first before [[ask]].
  • [[Copywriting swipefile]]
  • A sensory 3d map of the [[odor]].
  • "it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
    • "For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a [[time]] carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."
  • What’s one [[feeling]] you can [[own]] and consistently deliver?
  • [[Search and Seizure]].
  • Short [[videos]]: collapsed:: true
    • [[Contrast]]/paradox I want do X but Y is in the way
    • How am I going to do X?
    • Simple, universal to [[audience]], ideas
    • First word has to be a [[hook]] "Free" is good, "this" is bad
    • Hook has to be clear about what the conflict is and what is at the end
    • First frame has to be like title or thumbnail, high saturation and high contrast
    • [[Foreshadowing]] tells the user what gift they will get at the end
    • Rewatchable: Lists Easter eggs "Twists"?
    • Add conflict as the video goes on
    • [[But]],so But, [[therefore]]
      • South Park
    • Include a [[Why]]
    • Keep ending short but with a payoff
  • Incident management game collapsed:: true
    • Rescue -> recovery, budget drops drastically
  • A pilot is constantly seeking [[balance]]. collapsed:: true
    • "Redefine the fight"
    • Aviate navigate communicate
  • [[Links]] should be [[titles]] worth clicking on.
  • Let yourself be possessed by the web that has the [[problem]].
  • [[Constraints]] [[shape]] multiple [[parts]] into one.
  • "ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
  • [[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie. collapsed:: true
    • Pediomelum esculentum id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5 Blue grama Crested wheat Western wheatgrass
    • Textile Onion
    • Winterfat
    • Chokecherry
    • Fringed sagewort Arrowleaf balsamroot Hawksbeard Sticky purple geranium Scarlet globemallow Sulfur-flower buckwheat Tumblemustard Western wallflower Western yarrow Rosa woodsii
    • Antelope bitterbrush Gardner saltbush Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter) Green rabbitbrush Mountain mahogany Shadscale saltbush Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle) Silver sagebrush Wax Currant
    • Mountain snowberry Serviceberry
  • β€œAn earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. β€œThe [[equality]] of all men.”
  • Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
  • Getting past the [[elbow]], [[handfighting]] [[unarmed]] collapsed:: true
    • If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head. If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]]. If their arms are up, go under for the body. If they’re narrow, go for the outsides. If they’re wide, go for the insides.
    • If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
  • "[[time]] given away…is time you don’t [[own]]"
  • Show them [[chaos]], and present an alternative of [[order]].
  • [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] disperse through [[time]].
  • [[Distance]] gives you [[time]], Angles give you a way [[out]] or to [[flank]].
  • "never sit against a [[swarm]] [keep [[moving]]]"
  • John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
  • Improve [[entertainment]] first before [[ask]].
  • [[Copywriting swipefile]]
  • A sensory 3d map of the [[odor]].
  • "it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
    • "For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a time carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."
πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-22]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-21]]
  • Woke up with [[AG]], enjoyed the morning. Then I cleaned and did laundry and started packing for the trip :)
    • Also managed to lose one my earbuds while cleaning, but then I found it thanks to [[find my device]] which I didn’t know existed — it’s an option in [[bluetooth settings.]]- [[Flancia]]:
    • [[Flancia.org]]
    • Talking to [[Mohammed]] about getting formal verification about our charitable endeavours as the bank in Yemen is giving trouble/they seem to be suspicious of ill intent (which we don’t have).
    • Wrote https://flancia.org/homes today (I should have one it earlier, it was somewhere on my todo list — but here we are, I hope it helps).
πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-20]]
  • So it turns out that for years I have been sometimes journaling in /YYYY-MM-DD.md and sometimes in journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md, depending on how I created the entry.
    • If I press e.g. ctrl-w ctrl-w in [[vim]], I go to the daily page as configured by [[wiki vim]] — which is the later.
    • If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the past, I usually will have a journal already, and wiki vim will redirect there.
    • If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the future, though, I will not have a journal yet, so the file will be created as a "common node", outside of journals.
    • I thought I had moved to a ‘flat space’ with everything including journals in the [[root of my garden]], but apparently that didn’t happen yet :)
  • [[agora development]]:
    • Fix some quirks?
      • Take e.g. [[2024-07-20]]:
        • Showing the whole path for a subnode was a good idea I think, it:
          • Makes it clear this is a filesystem-like thing, some users will immediately get the idea
          • Disambiguates between subnodes for free
          • Made it so that the header is now ‘user contributed ‘, I think I like it.
          • Also took the chance to add tooltips/make the UX more intuitive by adjusting where each part of the header links to.
      • Take e.g. [[zine]]
  • I intend to make it to [[Flancia Meet]] around 10AM UTC today.
  • [[zine]]
  • [[agora]]
  • [[AG]] told me about [[Arthur Koestler]]
  • We swam in [[Letten]] :)
  • Listening to [[Sam Harris]] with [[Christof Hoch]]. Interesting, they had a "sidebar" conversation I’d love to comment on among other things.
  • I read a bit about the life of [[Muhammed]] and his wives, like [[Aisha]].
  • I read about [[Thalassemia]]
  • [[Bryce Huebner]]
  • [[LM Studio]]
  • [[skreutzer]]
  • [[sensecraft]]
  • [[agora development]]:
    • Fix some quirks?
      • Take e.g. [[2024-07-20]]:
        • Showing the whole path for a subnode was a good idea I think, it:
          • Makes it clear this is a filesystem-like thing, some users will immediately get the idea
          • Disambiguates between subnodes for free
          • Made it so that the header is now ‘user contributed ‘, I think I like it.
          • Also took the chance to add tooltips/make the UX more intuitive by adjusting where each part of the header links to.
      • Take e.g. [[zine]]
  • I intend to make it to [[Flancia Meet]] around 10AM UTC today.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-19]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-17]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-16]]
  • [[agora chapter]] is now one step closer to being properly readable in the Commons :)
    • I linked all wikilinks using [[apps script]]
    • I also have a version without [[ and ]] and… I have to say it might indeed be more readable than with :)
  • Caught up with [[collective sense commons]] after a long while and it was great/interesting!
  • [[topic maps]] by [[Jack Park]] is now linked.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-14]]
  • [[Silverbullet]]:
    • The new [[Silverbullet]] supports transclusion!
      • It works using the syntax I think [[Obsidian]] also uses:
      • β₯… [[tabs]]

        will transclude the content of note [[tabs]].
      • In the case of the [[Agora]] this could be treated as a [[pull]] — but that transcludes the whole node below the current one, and maybe in this case what is intended is to transclude one particular resource in-place.
      • Oh, what currently happens is that the Agora assumes this is an image being transcluded — that is the one kind of direct transclusion we have implemented so far. I guess I could hack that codepath and see how hard it is to actually transclude e.g. the subnode with full subnode view in an iframe? Unsure.
    • In other [[Silverbullet]] news, today I figured out how to make dailies go to the node YYYY-MM-DD instead of to Journals/Day/YYYY-MM-DD:
      • You open special page /Library/Journal/New%20Page/Daily%20Note (template) in your instance.
      • You change suggestedName.
      • I commented out forPrefix but I’m unsure if you need that.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-12]]
  • threw [[261]]
    • leading to [[hex/10]] = [[271]]: es todo perfecto como es.
    • I realized [[hex/6]] = [[97]] is prime, the last I had yet to memorize below 100. That concludes a particular interesting sequence, I guess :)
    • [[primes]]:
      • The number of primes below 100 is perhaps interesting to know: 25. So a fourth of the 100 first numbers are prime! Huh.
      • Knowing up to 1000 would unlock getting a statistical feel of how quickly primes ‘thin out’.
      • Of course we can also count to 10: 4 primes below 10, so about two fifths.
      • I think they thin out logarithmically but I’m not sure which base, I could look it up but maybe I’ll think about it :)
      • It would be cool if it was the natural logarithm. It’s the kind of thing that could happen :)
  • [[bluesky]]:
    • now has an [[agora bot]]!
    • it’s alpha but it works sometimes (tm)
    • #go at://anagora.bsky.social
      • is that a valid [[at protocol]] uri? I believe it sort of should be but I haven’t checked :)
  • [[primes]]:
  • I’m going back to [[Flancia book]], and it made me think of what I would in my best dreams try to publish during [[2025]]:
    • A new [[essay]].
    • A [[book]] (with publish meant loosely/playfully maybe).
    • A [[paper]].
  • [[paul bricman]]: [[straumli ai]]
    • is down?
  • [[celeste]]
    • is pretty great
πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-11]]

Here we go. Once more onto the breach; maybe it is today we start writing a book I started writing years ago, and will take me or us many more years to write.

These its chapters.

πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-08]]
  • [[Flancia]]!
    • I’ll be in Flancia as much as possible Monday and Tuesday; Wednesday I’m back to work.
    • (Decided to take a mini two day holiday with the occasion of my birthday and the anniversary of my dad’s death.)
  • Thank you [[AG]] and [[Brigitta]] for the beautiful weekend!
  • [[L]] told me about [[Brook Farm]] :)
  • I thought of:
πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-03]]
  • [[work]]
  • then [[dinner]] with an ex-coworker (who fell to one of the 2023 layoff rounds) and people from my team
  • then… Flancia!
πŸ“… Date [[2024-07-02]]

I’ve started recording my screen more often, as a way of screencasting — even though very often I don’t get to actually publish it. I have a [[Youtube channel]] but I mostly upload Yoga sessions there, at least so far. Still, just recording sometimes makes me feel reassured — because theoretically that means I may get to actually publish it in the future, or because others will find these files and look for anything [[interesting]] in them, or because even if they are lost they will influence my behavior in some ways.

I sometimes feel that I think and write more coherently when I remember to think about you, dear [[reader]], dear [[viewer]], please [[like]] and [[share]] if willing :)


I wrote the above, which I’m calling [[2024-07-02]], and then I’m moving on to do whatever’s next in the list, or whatever arises.

I was thinking recently of


Here’s a [[joke]]:

An alien and a human go into a bar.

The alien asks: how many drinks are you having?

The human says: just one.

  • One what?
  • One drink.
  • That’s in this reality, what about the imaginary part?
  • What do you mean?
  • In how many timelines are you right now?
  • What… what do you mean? Just the one
  • One reality, all real?
  • Yes

With a flash of insight, many aliens realize at once that humans don’t know the complex plane.


…of Agora development, and of the fact that I still need to fix [[agor.ai]], and…


Here again on [[2024-07-19]], is this cheating time? :)

πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-29]]
  • Maybe it’s time to check [[Silverbullet]]‘s settings for journal entries? :)
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-28]]
  • [[work]] was fine :)
    • three days of summit, plus very interesting conversations with visitors from [[STO]] and the team!
    • tomorrow, no meetings except for an [[ER-CH]] one.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-26]]

Daily Note 2024-06-26

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, :

  • "That’s where the jets lag, feat. Jet Lag The Game S10" - My note on Facebook Messenger

  • What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):

    • To mix things up while watching [[JoeHillsTSD]]‘s stream featuring [[ZombieCleo]], I pulled up DJ X from Spotify webapp for some music listening.
    <iframe width=”1280” height=”720” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/Eyz6LsEYNnM” frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen>

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-25]]

Daily Note 2024-06-25

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 25, 2024:

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-24]]

Bella muy bella Burup, bella muy bella Burup!

Tara Burup Tara-burup!

Bella muy bella [[Burup]]:

Salve!


Bella muy bella Burup, bella muy bella Burup.

Mi true Burup, true Burup.

Bella muy bella [[Burup]]:

Sea!

  • [[work]] :)
    • This week is expected to be heavy duty due to a combination of:
      • [[oncall]]
      • visitors from [[Stockholm]] (with associated interesting discussion/training sessions)
      • a summit
    • But started out well enough with a quiet Monday… so far :)
  • [[2024-06-21]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-23]]

Daily Note 2024-06-23

!!! warning "This is a bit incomplete" But working on it as soon as possible, hopefully before Thurday.

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 23, 2024, alongside what’s happened in the past two weeks:

  • Pardon the week-long silence on the daily journaling. Just needed a quick recharge as well for warming up Minecraft skills (currently in peaceful mode for a lot of resource gathering sessions).

  • Did a cleanup chore with my sister (since we share the bedroom space, which sometimes chaotic when comes to schedules on the study table1) on 06-22.

  • Here’s what been cooked since last two weeks:

    • Officially brought the Bedrock edition on mobile (formerly known as Pocket Edition) for Android. Chaos at mining ensure, with my first death from falling gravel.[^2]
    • Who thought you want to go deeper into Minecraft lore, via the Legends spinoff? Like literally watching the full gameplay for 2-3+ hours[^3].
    <iframe width=”1280” height=”720” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/mGv9joHumwQ” frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen>
  • What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):

    • ….

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

  1. Currently planning on getting a new laptop for upgrades or get the screen repaired (*fingers crossed on shipping costs of the parts itself*) [^2]: There is second one, but I didn’t count it yet since I pulled the quick restore backup action from world backups as part of my Realms Plus trial. [^3]: The full video is literally 6+ hours, so I do some skips to speed things up.

  • I planned to do [[Agora]] work but in the end didn’t get to it; maybe I will be able to do a bit of it on Monday after work.
  • We managed to do a mini bike-and-run with [[AG]] and it was great :)
  • VC’d with my mum :)
  • Also VC’d with [[Berni]] as we watched the second half of [[Switzerland-Germany]] together.
  • And caught up with [[Kris]].
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-22]]
  • [[Sebek]] and family came over and we had lunch at home :) It was great!
    • [[Lady Burup]] found it hard to deal with two children at the same time, but I think she might get used to it with time (and the children will also learn how to communicate with her) ;)
  • Then [[Janosch]]‘s [[party]] with [[AG]] πŸ₯³
  • Then [[2024-06-23]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-21]]
  • I [[worked]].
  • Then I attended the [[Helvetas]] yearly general assembly with [[AG]]. It was quite interersting! Highly participative (votes for accepting the yearly budget, etc.) and with a focus on the foundation’s activities in [[Bhutan]].
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-19]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-18]]
  • at [[work]] — relatively tough Monday and Tuesday with lots of meetings, but getting through them :)
  • [[new moon yoga]] was interesting the other day, even though (or maybe because) it didn’t come out on [[new moon]] at all :)
  • [[Flancia]], in my heart, is deep and meaningful.
  • [[bangers]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-14]]
  • Now using [[silverbullet]] as embedded in the Agora proper :)
    • It’s at the bottom.
    • It only works for me for now — sorry!
    • β₯… [[2024-06-14T16:18:08,984568739+02:00.png]]

      I know it’s a bit self-centered to add the edit box to anagora.org when only I can use it for now, but I wanted to experiment with the editing experience before investing a lot in developing it for others :) I hope it doesn’t get in the way of the experience of others.
  • Maybe it makes sense to make [[1]] my [[bootstrap]] screen, given that [[0]] is taken over by remote desktop usually.
    • In any case one of 0, 1 should probably be it at any given time?
    • This way in case I forget what my "main thread" is, I can visit it.
  • [[Hans Widmer]], in his dedicatory, taught me the word… [[umwerfend]]?
  • [[Flancia]]!
    • is again prominent in my heart
    • we ran with [[AG]] in Flancia
  • [[Agora development]]
    • will try [[bold usernames]] as I want to emphasize the social aspect of the Agora, and the [[Agorans]] are those who make the Agora amazing!
  • [[cats]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-12]]

Hello there, editor Andrei speaking on the line. This should be technically published exactly in the Philippine Indepedence Day, but since I am currently between a mini sabatical and EOSY rest for the next school year, I apologize if it took longer than expected. So I decided to publish it now from the backburner and finalize it later.

Hello world, and welcome back to the monthly dump/status update! Pardon the radio silence over the few months, I am just busy at school during those period, but since I am in the end-of-school-year break, we’re actually back for at least two issues of this, alongside the daily journaling on [my personal wiki] Buckle up, since there will be mentions about Gildedguy Story #8 and you don’t want to [get snuck-up on][md-spoilers-ep7], right?

By the way for the Agora community, I’ll be pointing my notes here while keeping the old ones up as an archive via the new [[@ajhalili2006-archive]] once the patch for sources YAML file are merged upstream soon.

And since this is the weekend (as of 2024-06-01) to officially kickoff my mini-sabbatical between school year, this is the first edition of my monthly dump of the year, also known as monthly status updates if you keen checking the archives. So read on to know what I am cooking behind the scenes.

The [[Gildedguy Story 8]] Premiere Experience

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I literally woke up early on May 12 to catch up the Twitch premiere ([original VOD link], [archived in 1080p] via Storj DCS) just few minutes before it start. Based on the first watch, not only it was another banger1 by [Michael Moy][mikedmoy] and the production team based on what the community saying, but there are new lore have been dropped since [[Gildedguy Story 7]]. I’ll be not able to take note them all here in detail, but please take a watch for yourself.

It’s a blast after all, so [grab your "I Was There In Premiere" badge][luma] for free if you’re there (either via Twitch or YouTube). And expect a in-depth post on it and more on [my blog] later this month (or just before the next school year starts). If you need some Gildedguy Stories-themed mixtape on your library, [I made one since March] and currently open for song suggestions.

Chores on Personal Wiki

Look at those grouped tabs

Since this Material for Mkdocs-powered site [started in last year][initial-commit], I am currently working to merge both the old digital garden and Jiroh’s Kooky Insane Stuff into here, alongside an upcoming one for Traumatized Autistics Department. Due to how the content migration is currently underway, you may see this non-dismissable banner on the top of every page similarly to this one below ([link to commit]):

!!! info "" :construction: Wiki under consturction Please accept our apologies for any broken links while migrating content from different repositories. Learn more

But wait, what’s [[Traumatized Autistics Department]]?

[Here]’s the Google Doc for the project README (currently a public draft), but in a nutshell, this is where

Meanwhile in Recap Time Squad

In summary for everyone asking, just self-documentation, janitorial and admin work on Recap Time Squad lately.

Nothing too heavy other than bringing the Staff SSO terms and mini reorganization chores in our [policy site], content updates on [the Squad Wiki], and even setting up a [brand assets repository] to host our different brand assets as we export them from Canva, similarily to the cdnjs/brand GitHub repo and others.

Signing off

That’s all for now and thanks for reading. Talk to you soon on the next edition, or [read the archives for this year so far][archive]. For occassional chaos on your feed and for comments, [follow me/tag on socials] or send a e-fanmail.

[archive]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/garden/daily-notes/archive/2024/ [original VOD link]: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2143318582 [archived in 1080p]: https://vod.cdn.andreijiroh.xyz/twitch/gildedguy/2143318582/vod.mp4 [luma]: https://lu.ma/gildedguy-story8 [blog]: https://ajhalili2006.substack.com [policy site]: https://github.com/recaptime-dev/legal-policies/commits?author=ajhalili2006&since=2024-04-30&until=2024-05-30 [follow me/tag on socials]: https://ajhalili2006.start.page [I made one since March]: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0qW0g1QAeChWLSKXuasuM3 [the Squad Wiki]: https://github.com/recaptime-dev/squad-wiki/commits?author=ajhalili2006&since=2024-04-30&until=2024-05-30 [brand assets repository]: https://github.com/recaptime-dev/brand-assets [mikedmoy]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/go/mikedmoy

  1. For Smosh fans, this may be obvious. (context)

  • Back in the Agora, back in Flancia :)
    • The visit from [[Berni]] and the birthday of [[AG]] were beautiful.
    • Now enjoying the rest of the [[week off]]:
      • catching up with housework (deep cleaning mode!)
      • catching up with messages and letters
        • reading and writing invites
        • doing writing in general
      • and [[flow]]!
  • Did some [[maintenance]] of home and computer setup; converged more [[wayland]] related configs after incorporating a new computer into my [[chezmoi]] setup and taking the occasion to do an iteration of improvements.
  • [[go/flow/12]] was great, one of my [[favorites]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-10]]
  • [[Day off]] from work as I spent some last time with [[Berni]]! It was beautiful having him over, and seeing many [[friends]] over the weekend.
  • Later did [[pomodoros]] with [[bobby lyte]].
  • Set up gifts for [[AG]] :)
  • Ordered something from [[Joom]] for the first time, let’s see how well it works :) It was than 3x+ cheaper than my previous magnets supplier
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-09]]

Daily Note 2024-06-09 and Weekly Wrap Issue No. 1

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today alongside anything else you missed this week, June 9, 2024:

  • For this week’s edition of the Weekly Wrap (stats galore)

    • What did you missed this week
    • From my Wakatime stats this week1: I am literally on VS Code for more than half a day (12h+) this week, mostly to edit Markdown files on my personal wiki locally, although I do use GitHub’s web editor (VS Code for Web edition) and Codespaces for some.
    • For the recap yesterday, apologies if I didn;t write one: Nothing particular happened, just a day off updating my personal wiki in the machine to rest up and catch up with my Duolingo streak before clock strikes midnight.
    • For my listening activity at Last.fm for the period of May 31 to June 6 (archived link):
      • Scrobbled 559 tracks (up 38% from last week), with 66 this week on 9:00 PM hour block.
      • Listened for almost 2 days (1 day 23 hours), averaging 80 scrobbles per day, with 126 as highest this week on June 3.
      • For the music ratio, I listened to 110 tracks (with ratio of 5.08 scrobbles/track compared to 87 with ratio of 6.43 last week) from 41 artists (ratio of 13.63 scrobbles/artist compared to 39 last week with ratio of 14.33) across 49 albums (ration of 11.41 scrobbles/album vs 36 last week with ratio of 15.53).
      • Top Album, Song and Track: [Starcadian] [^2] and his [Sunset Blood] album | [BOSSFIGHT]’s [Ballistic] (also top new track and album as single this week)
    • Perfect attendance this week on Duolingo’s Spanish or Vanish sessions (7 out of 7 days this week, totaling 174 days streak, compared with 6 last week).[^3]
  • What I have been listening to (check today’s scrobbles):

    <iframe width=”1280” height=”720” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/IUoZRtzegkU” frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen>
    <iframe style=”border-radius:12px” src=”https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/2WslH0ePLC8TvL6SGbzfME?utm_source=generator” width=”100%” height=”152” frameBorder=”0” allowfullscreen=”” allow=”autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture” loading=”lazy”>

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care, and keep it decent in the comments.

[Starcadian]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/multiverse/indie-music/starcadian.md [BOSSFIGHT]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/multiverse/monstercat/bossfight.md [Sunset Blood]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl2bxnbryx0AKbl8TGu8KA9z-khhYfKcS&si=Aebm6tSSF_8CFULV [Ballistic]: https://youtu.be/_aLxnMuwFxA

  1. Downloading dashboard stats involves upgrading to premium, so apologies if I couldn’t dump the screenshot of my dashboard for now here. [^2]: For the uninitated (hello there if you have watched [[Gildedguy Story 6]] earlier), he makes "ear movies" or music with lore in a nutshell. [^3]: Track my progress at https://www.duolingo.com/profile/ajhalili2006 and follow me if you do.

  • Very nice day with friends!
    • [[B]], [[AG]], [[V]].
  • Yesterday we visited [[Bern]] with [[B]] and saw [[L]].
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-07]]

Daily Note 2024-06-07

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 7, 2024:

  • Actually enabled comments for daily notes (currently on per-entry basis until meta officially graduates from Insiders-only status), using a self-hosted instance of giscus. You can try it out now below and it’ll be appear in the andreijiroh-dev organization discussions in GitHub.

  • Officially installed Node.js into my custom mkdocs Docker image through copying files from the official Docker image (and some symlink trickery)

  • Yesterday, I added docs for golinks, will work on Content Migration status reports later in the weekend.

  • What I have been listening to (check today’s scrobbles):

    • [[TTPD]] on Spotify?!? (interpretting the lyrics, ey? Also lurking around r/TaylorSwift for hints maybe.)
    <iframe style=”border-radius:12px” src=”https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/1Mo4aZ8pdj6L1jx8zSwJnt?utm_source=generator” width=”100%” height=”352” frameBorder=”0” allowfullscreen=”” allow=”autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture” loading=”lazy”>
    • I may feel like a madlad lately, but I listened to the whole album in order (from a community playlist) for the full experience. As my older sister told me, I may become the first (and only) Swiftie in the family once I go deeper into the discography in the future.

      <iframe width=”560” height=”315” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?si=CZgrZ3F0GHNPCMGx&list=PLDr-FOmzEgAiySwqRFmMLmJ01nRDT4huy” title=”YouTube video player” frameborder=”0” allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share” referrerpolicy=”strict-origin-when-cross-origin” allowfullscreen>
    • Still playing some of Starcadian’s music on loop, of course.

    • Fresh from The Vergecast: Apple’s AI moment is coming at 40m55s (If they do AI-generated emojis as JPEG images through RCS at WWDC (some even shortened it as "dub dub"), that would be chaotically funny at same time bloody for Android users.)

    <iframe width=”1280” height=”720” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/rz2ldM5hGzw” frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen>

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care, and keep it decent in the comments.

2024-06-07

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Daily Note 2024-06-06

EDIT 2024-06-07: My god I forgot writing what been cooked yesterday, but don’t fret. I’ll include it in [[2024-06-07]] instead.

Comments are disabled for this entry to avoid chaos.

  • Noding from [[work]] through [[silverbullet]] :)
  • Started the day with [[AG]], lovely as usual.
  • Today [[Berni]] arrives! He’ll be visiting for a few days.
  • Now noding from my phone :)
  • Some stuff I’d still like to get done before Berni arrives tonight:
    • Check books by the sofa
    • Vacuum below sofa
    • Answer one more comment from the stream at work.

2024-06-06

  • [[Digitisation]] vs [[digitalisation]]
    • Digitisation is basically turning the act of encoding analogue into digital.
    • Digitalisation is the wider process of more and more of processes of society being digitised and filtered through digital processes.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-05]]

Daily Note 2024-06-05

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 5, 2024:

  • Nothing particular happened lately for now, just regular household chores and chilling out during the break

  • What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):

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  • Maybe seen about the Minecraft 15-Year Anniversary docuseries from their official channel then?

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

2024-06-05

πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-04]]

Daily Note 2024-06-04

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 04, 2024:

  • The holy grails: Fanfictions, neck kisses (goddamnit [[Smallishbeans]])
    • Will link them later, it’s just past midnight Wednesday now.
  • What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):
  • Just finished watching a short flim by Patrick McDonald featuring Amanda and Angela from Smosh
    <iframe width=”1280” height=”720” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/2jOTqWgF9d0” frameborder=”0” allowfullscreen>
    * They are married couple in this movie’s storyline

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

2024-06-04

  • Why the fuck is [[The Guardian]] advertising some private healthcare subscription to me on their podcasts.

  • [[Commonism]].

    • Discussed in Agora Discuss.
  • Listened: [[Election Extra: Nigel Farage is back]]

    • [[Nigel Farage]], opportunist extraordinare, now leader of [[Reform UK]] party.
    • Bad for the Tories, which is usually good, but generally just bad for everyone all round. Especially if he gets elected to Clacton.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-03]]

Daily Note 2024-06-03

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 3, 2024:

  • Literally lurking around Gildedguy fanart + community on Tumblr for fun and profit

  • Also I’ll be doing my usual Spanish lessons on Duolingo, maybe some German and Italian next soon.

  • Did a long late afternoon nap to recharge a bit

  • What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):

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That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

  • [[work]] was intense and even emotional, it being mostly a one day workshop — very productive. We had a great coordinator, [[Anna Raverat]].
    • then some meetings until 19:30.
  • edited [[tanka]].
  • reviewed [[notebooks]], which is my default activity when I start working on personal projects after work :)
    • I had this in an old page: "Write about [[blessed bits]] and the entropy in [[Lady Burup]]‘s writing", which I think I would enjoy :) She walks often over keyboards and has a knack for hacking (disabling wireless, even crashing Wayland on occasion to my surprise).

2024-06-03

πŸ“… Date [[2024-06-02]]

It’s been more than 7 months since the last one and it’s nice I could do it all again here in the new wiki, and it’s good to be back again with the daily journaling hellscapes.

By the way, here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 2, 2024:

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That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

  1. You may not realize this, but Starcadian’s music has lore in it, its storyline is similar Alan Walker’s and PYLOT’s, although this may hit hard for Lord Hurdon listeners. Also got hooked into Alien Victory first after [[Gildedguy Story 6]] [^2]: Listened first with MORE MORE MORE from one of the previews on X (Twitter) for Gildedguy: Automatica fan animation [^3]: Gonne too deep and the wiki page made me say "oh my god" in Scar’s voice

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2024-05-31

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2024-05-29

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  • Interesting that in [[Silverbullet]] linking to a date and then visiting it doesn’t do the "right" thing in some sense, as it doesn’t navigate to the journal entry but rather to the node about the date.
    • In some ways this is the correct thing, as that’s the behavior I use elsewhere to get to the journal.
    • But by default alt-shift-d goes to Journal/Day/, so the two aren’t convergent when I would a priori wish them to be.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-05-27]]

I found a weeks old todo to follow [[Peter Murray]] ([[peter_murray]] in [[hypothes.is]]) and I see why: he uses double square brackets in posts in platforms that don’t support them yet too!

It was an emotional weekend; Saturday being upbeat, Sunday being more meditative and at times low energy but ending well.

Today I worked and had a fully meetings free afternoon as the US was out due to [[memorial day]].

My mum was/is sick (pneumonia again) and that makes me think of death and impermanence. But it’s a good occasion to meditate.


I thought of someday maybe picking back up some of the draft short stories I started around [[2017]], like [[Caramel City]], [[Cannazon]] and the one about the [[Wu-Tang Clan]].


I received a letter about Christianity out of the blue the other day and today I came across it and saw it had a reference to jw.org, which ended up being [[Jehovah’s Witnesses]]. I have a negative affect towards the organization because of things I have heard about how the doctrine affects the freedom of its members, but the message that I received seemed innocuous enough. Interesting that they didn’t include the name of the organization anywhere, just the domain.


I’ve been meaning to work and play on:

πŸ“… Date [[2024-05-26]]

2024-05-26

  • I finished off Week 3 of the [[Digital Capitalism online course]].

    • This week the topic was [[Digital colonialism]].
    • With mostly a focus on [[Data colonialism]].
    • In that focus on data I feel perhaps it omits some other colonial practices - such as in mining, manufacture and disposal related to ICT.
    • Still - good stuff.
  • Started listening to the masterclass for week 4, on the digital trade agenda.

    • The point about why corporations love trade deals is really enlightening - easy way for them to bypass democratic discussion; lobby to get their way; once a trade deal is made, it’s very hard to change.
  • Learning about ecology on Kinnu, I realise that it’s a great source of ideas for thinking in systems.

πŸ“… Date [[2024-05-24]]
  • I want to reactivate my [[work garden]].
  • I worked until late and I tried to enjoy it :)

2024-05-24

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2024-05-22

  • I’d like to redesign the look and feel of my digital garden.
    • Nothing drastic, but to move more to a representative aesthetic.
    • I want to try to maintain the cheap-n-cheerful weird web vibe, but also incorporate more of a nature-labour-technology solarpunk-ish look.
    • I want my digital garden to be more visual, less textual.
      • To be fair it is majority text, but I still want it to feel a bit more visual.
    • [[My commonplace moodboard]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-05-21]]
  • Back to [[work]]!
    • Going pretty much alright until now :)
  • [[work]] was actually interesting in high proportion!
  • then [[Flancia]] time :)
πŸ“… Date [[2024-05-20]]

2024-05-20

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2024-05-19

πŸ“… Date [[2024-05-17]]
  • [[silverbullet]]:
    • should open the daily on startup?
    • [[go/daily]] achieves this for me for now ;) e.g. [[go/daily]] or just use the embed in anagora.org/daily.
  • going over "old" (and new) notebooks, trying to make sense of the hugely distributed task list they imply :)
    • happy to see that a lot actually happened in the last 1-2 quarters!
    • I’m thinking this could be a nice ‘tradition’ to reinforce on the [[17ths]], being [[Maitreya day]] ;)
  • [[do]]:
  • "[[Flancia]] is a [[Pattern Language]], the [[Agora]] is a [[Pattern Repository]]" — from a notebook.

2024-05-17

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2024-05-15

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  • Another [[day]], another [[node]].
    • Or more than one :)
    • I definitely need to work on editing though! On doing more of the actual curation and maintenance of an actual [[digital garden]].
    • In the meantime, thanks for making do with all the rough edges ;)
  • Resuming [[Agora development]]:
    • I have a few commits to push to anagora.org this week.
      • -> done, or at least started :)
    • I did some [[verschlimmbessern]] on the index to the [[Agora]] on the flight to the US that I never quite pushed — and better that way :) it needs ‘cherrypicking’ to put it mildly. It suffered a lot in directness.
    • Also added support for [[silverbullet]] style [[attachments]].
  • [[social.coop]]:
    • No [[twg]] meeting this week, will try to continue working on onboarding [[evan]] to the group.
    • I "installed" alpha.social.coop using [[coop cloud]] but it’s not up yet.
    • [[upkeep]]:
      • You could call it [[life]] ;)
      • [[nostromo]] was getting broken enough that I decided to update Ubuntu to the latest release to unbreak [[wayland]] and some sites in [[chromium]]. It had been long in the making, it’s a bit like house cleaning, it can be relaxing after work :)
      • I tried taking the occasion to also [[garbage collect]] tabs/try some new organizational principles in [[paramita]], [[guanyin]] and [[sariputta]].
  • [[GPT 4o]] was released yesterday and I got access.
    • Impressive.
    • But it failed to analyze a video I attached on desktop meaningfully though.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-05-13]]
  • It turns out all my [[silverbullet]] journals were being left out from my [[garden]] — I corrected this and in the process dumped a few tens of journals that had never shown up so far :) Glad I checked and found this!
πŸ“… Date [[2024-05-12]]
  • Using both [[wiki vim]] and [[silverbullet]] these days, will make a case of checking out how anagora.org renders this and consider improvements
  • [[AMITAFO]]

I’ve been living [[Protopianism]] in my personal life; dealing with bed bugs, every iteration across the six months of process for eradication a show of the many small complexities of life, all the while feeling lucky and aware.

After 4x fumigation adding [[diatomaceous earth]] stripes all around (quite ingenious packaging+spilling resistant) the new bed seemed to seemed to give us that additional (feeling of) safety :)

πŸ“… Date [[2024-05-11]]
  • [[2024-05-10]]
    • I think I prefer dates as ‘flat hierarchy nodes’ overall — this way I can just link to the date and get to the journal entry.
    • Also most generally this makes it so the convention for gathering journals is just ‘look for [[nodes]] whose [[topic]] is a time period show those that fit the current [[context]]

2024-05-11

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  • Back here at [[11pm]]!
    • The work day was long (with a gap in the middle) and interesting :)
    • Now doing yoga and thinking.
  • [[mexico city]]
  • [[AG]]
  • [[L]]
  • [[Lady Burup]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-05-07]]

Not necessarily in that order :)


I like [[silver bullet]] but I come back to [[wiki vim]] because it’s on the terminal and that’s where I sometimes want to write.


I like [[senegal town]].

Also: [[mexico city]], [[paris]] :)

  • [[BLDGBLOG]]
  • Now I’m back in [[silverbullet]]. I’m unsure if I want to unify the journal or not. Probably yes? But I’m curious about e.g. Journal/Month/2024-05 if that exists :)
  • [[digital capitalism]]:
    • did a pass over [[Open Letter to Google]], maybe it’s more readable up to… a few paragraphs in? :)
    • I think it is starting to take shape.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-05-04]]
  • Back in [[silverbullet]], now using it as a ‘web app’ — meaning after pressing ‘install’ on chromium while visiting edit.anagora.org :) - For now edit.anagora.org only works for this [[flancian]], but I hope soon enough I will be able to offer it to the community.
    • Intend I intend to keep using [[wiki vim]] though, as I value having a terminal client for writing in the Agora - Experimented with a bluetooth keyboard on mobile as a way of having more fluid Agora editing on the go.
    • Tried [[silverbullet]] in firefox mobile and vim mode didn’t quite work :)
    • Also my hardware keyboard is set up to have esc go to the android home screen, which does not go well with vim mode ;)
      • Update: realized I can set the keyboard to [[windows mode]] and it will disable most of what I consider intrusive functionality :)
    • Still the prospect of having a fully featured Agora editor on mobile is thrilling!
  • [[agora discuss]]: [[neil]] suggested [[web mentions]] as the ground level on which to build [[agora likes]].
    • I agree it’s an interesting approach; it seems complementary to [[activity pub]] support which I’ve already started working on, inspired by [[bouncepaw]]‘s work on [[betula]].
    • The basic abstraction might be: the Agora publishes, and produces, feeds of social activity in different formats. Their states influence UI elements like emoji reactions and a log of activity.
  • A few hours later…
    • [[Winti Tap Jam]]:
      • I’m in [[Winterthur]] in a [[tap dance]] event, against my expectations enjoying it quite a bit! The [[jazz band]] is great, and I didn’t know people could dance like this while interacting with an improvising band. It’s really quite cool.
      • With [[AG]] and [[Nushya]]!
  • Really enjoying [[noding from mobile]] quite a bit, it encourages [[live noding]].
  • [[open letters]]

2024-05-04

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2024-05-03

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  • Trying [[Obsidian]] after a looong time — after remembering, and then trying on a lark, [[Roam Research]] again :)
    • I also tried [[logseq]] but it did a mega-commit automatically on my garden which almost broke it, not super happy about that (it tried to commit and push a 101MB file that is a database for [[silverbullet]] and probably, granted, should have been in .gitignore).
  • Happy [[International Workers Day]]!
    • The last year flew by in some ways :) I remember attending the festivities/events in ZΓΌrich yesterday. Looking forward to doing the same today, at least a few hours.
  • I got into [[biking]] again and I’m enjoying it tremendously :)
    • We may bike tomorrow with [[AG]].
  • I also plan to catch up with [[Berni]]. I have been catching up with friends finally after a hiatus due to [[work]] + [[travel]] and I’m looking forward to the VC!
  • [[doxometrist]] told me about [[netwik-obsidian]] as being in [[agora space]]
  • [[j0lms]] had good news!
  • [[l]] had good news! and we had an interesting conversation
  • [[Brunello]], the father of a friend of mine, died last week at [[90]]. I knew him and he seemed like a good and sensitive person. I lighted a candle for him/his memory.
  • [[Agora]]!
    • [[Agora development]]:
      • Fixed images, they were broken in prod due to a logger misconfiguration — thank you [[neil]] for reporting!
      • Made some progress towards fixing git.agor.ai — [[hypatia]] got into some weird state after running out of disk.
      • Reached out to [[protopian]] to try to unbreak his garden :)
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2024-04-28

πŸ“… Date [[2024-04-27]]
  • Back here after a few more days of hectic travelling :) I intend to stick around in the Agora for the next few days, for a change!
  • Thinking again (as per usual?) about [[open letters]] — which hasn’t necessarily meant I have been making much progress on any of them. I wonder at times why I got so enamoured of the genre even before penning my first complete one; but then again my enthusiasm is known to often predate competency ;)
  • I thought about [[telling stories]].
  • [[Google]]:

2024-04-27

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  • [[Digital weeding and watering]]

    • Adding a page for keeping track of little bits of content cleanup that need doing on my digital garden.
    • This has been very useful already.
    • I’ve found:
      • pages that were using old file: links (e.g. Praxis)
      • duplicate nodes (e.g. Philsophize This).
      • pages that I’m interested in, but just had never had time to write anything about (e.g. climate action)
      • mistakenly created pages
    • And it has been fun to revisit various older pages in the process.
  • I am really looking forward to the release of [[Jathan Sadowski]]‘s new book.

  • [[Repairing a Dell Latitude E7450]]

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2024-04-19

πŸ“… Date [[2024-04-18]]
  • Flying to the [[US]]!
    • Not staying super long, but I’m attending a wedding and visiting a few museums I’ve never visited before.
    • I slept badly tonight, and the day before, due to different reasons — the first night it was due to trip prep, the second it was due to a (surprise, as usual) allergy attack that kept me up/very uncomfortable until late. Happy to have made it to the flight only looking slightly like a cat (because of how my eyes swell, I get a bit of a feline look for hours-days after an attack).
    • Listening to [[Lex Fridman]] with [[Jimbo Wales]] on topics like the history of wikipedia. Very interesting as most Lex conversations I’ve heard as of late!
  • [[Agora]]:
    • I’m back in the Agora, finally :) I took a more prolonged break from journaling as I moved with [[Lady Burup]] temporarily to [[AG]]‘s place (she is very kind!) and I adapted my routine to that space; also I’ve been busy at work and with other projects.
    • Thank you [[neil]] for keeping the journaling section of the Agora alive and interesting!
    • I reworked a bit the Agora’s [[README.md]], which is what is rendered at the Agora root URL — e.g. https://anagora.org . Hopefully it’s more cogent and informative without being overwhelming. But you tell me :)
    • [[Agora Development]]:
      • Fix local dev environment which is now sending https to itself even though it’s http only due to bug in agora.py:56 :).
  • [[Flancia]]:
    • I thought back a bit about the history of Flancia while I was rewriting the above. It’s been running for a number of years at this stage!
    • Maybe I should write a belated update in https://flancia.org proper.
      • Include a reference to the [[flancia meet]] landing page.
      • Include a TLDR on what the Agora now is/how it developed through the years/where do we want to go next.
      • Maybe take the opportunity to have some extra fun and write something more clearly fictional again :)

2024-04-18

  • I [[listened]] to [[Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism]].

    • It’s a good episode.
    • I like [[Kai Heron]], and I’ve found the debate between various strands of [[ecosocialist]] thought very interesting.
    • But I also lament the time spent disagreeing amongst ourselves on the left.
    • Is it ultimately useful? What if all this intellectual effort could be spent on bringing about a transition away from capitalism, and towards ecosocialism?
    • I don’t know - perhaps the debate is contributing to that transition, in part, in a roundabout. And I suppose that if we don’t know what we stand for, we can’t meaningfully work towards it.
    • But still. It has vibes of [[The People’s Front of Judea]] vs the Judean People’s Front.
    • Not got to the end yet, so perhaps this will be covered…
  • Listened to [[Opening the Vicious Circle of Risk Rating (ft. Ariel Bogle)]]

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2024-04-16

πŸ“… Date [[2024-04-15]]
  • [[Lex]]:
    • Listened to [[Sam Harris]] with [[Lex Fridman]] and it reminded me I also like Lex and I think he has lots of potential.
      • Sam came across as a bit more close-minded on some topics than Lex, which tracks with some of the conversations with him I’ve been listening to him recently — he is still one of my favourite public persons though. It’s just that Lex seems to be more of the "open heart hippie" and in that sense closer to me (at least at times).
    • Then listened to his conversation with [[Joscha Bach]] and it reminded me I like Joscha as well.

2024-04-15

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2024-04-14

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  • The AI [[hackathon]] I’ve been working on went well \o/

2024-04-11

  • Learning about [[biodiversity]] via the Kinna app.

    • Variety of species. At various levels.
    • Essential to the health of the planet.
    • Genetic diversity, species diversity, ecosystem diversity.
  • Listened to [[Post Capitalism w/ Alnoor Ladha]]

    • Fascinating discussion. Post Capitalism. Post here not meaning ‘after’ but ‘in relation to’. Pluralistic. Past and present examples: Zapatistas. Rojava. Indigenous worldviews. Relational ontologies and OntoShift.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-04-10]]

2024-04-10

  • Migrating my publish.el to a [[Literate publish.el]].
    • To make it a bit more understandable to others, and also as a push for me to tidy it up.
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2024-04-09

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2024-04-08

  • [[Listened]] to [[Should the UK stop arming Israel?]]

    • Drone strike killed seven aid workers. (Some of whom British).
    • While Israel says it was a mistake, suggestion is that this is in line with Israel’s current rules of engagement.
    • UK sells a small amount of arms to the UK. Sunak threatening to stop this unless more aid allowed.
  • [[Nonprofits should (almost) never write their own software]]

    • From the [[Aspiration Manifesto]].
    • Being the tech lead for a non-profit that develops our own software - I fully agree. We are currently going through a process of trying to divest as much bespoke code as possible to pre-existing (FLOSS) software.
    • One alternative I see, where no other software exists for the desired purpose, is for non-profits to perhaps be incubators for the software, but always with an intention to [[exit to community]] / exit the software to cooperative.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-04-07]]

2024-04-07

  • My publish.el file would be a good candidate for a literate config approach. Would make it more useful for other people to make use of then I think. Also would make me tidy it up.

  • Listened again to [[Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet]]

    • [[Parallel Polis]], Vaclav Havel.
    • Touches on similar stuff as recent [[Vincent Bevins]] podcasts re: failed revolutions of the 2010s.
      • Technology helped spread viral messaging for movements, did little to help collective decision making and long-term organisation.
    • Mentions [[Loomio]], [[Action Network]].
  • When I get a moment I’ll make a page of gardening tasks for myself.

    • Just simple things like reviewing nodes that haven’t been edited for a long time; reviewing empty nodes to either prune or flesh out; etc.
  • [[Ecology]].

    • interaction between organisms and their environment.
    • communities, ecosystems, biomes.
    • producers, consumers, decomposers.
    • food chains, food webs.
    • energy flows, trophic levels.
    • nutrient cycles.
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2024-04-04

  • I’m getting more into the groove with [[fish]] on desktop the more that I use it.

    • Still a slamdunk win on Termux.
  • I would just like to take a moment to lament the fact that I have received an email inviting me to become a Certified Generative AI Specialist.

  • Idle thought: maybe the world would be a better place if the de facto ‘learn to code’ tutorial was not a todo list (individual productivity) but a simple group poll (collective decision-making).

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πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-28]]

2024-03-28

  • I’ve been picking up the [[guitar]] again regularly recently, for the first time in a long time. And I’m really enjoying it. Drop D tuning and finger picking. Still got the muscle memory for basic chords and picking patterns. Relistening to some [[John Fahey]] too.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-27]]

2024-03-27

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-26]]

2024-03-26

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-25]]

2024-03-25

  • Although in general it feels the same (possibly slower? because I didn’t compile it myself?), one thing that is much faster in Emacs 28 is the parsing of my huge Tasks.org file for work. Thumbs up.

  • I’d like to tweak my garden a bit such that I have ‘planted’ and ‘last tended’ dates on each page.

    • I already have ‘This page last updated: …’ at the bottom of every page.
    • But I’d prefer it right at the top. Not too prominent/distracting, but I have some pretty old pages knocking around now and I’d like people to be aware that they might be outdated.
  • [[org-timeblock]] looks pretty good and like it’d fill my desire for a timeblocking tool for org-mode.

    • I used to use [[Goalist]] on Android and it was great, but I got annoyed that I couldn’t sync it and make use of it anywhere else.
    • So… [[trying out org-timeblock]]. However, hitting a bunch of issues from the beginning.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-24]]

2024-03-24

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-23]]

2024-03-23

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-22]]

2024-03-22

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-18]]

2024-03-18

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-17]]
  • A beautiful Sunday with [[AG]] and [[Lady Burup]] :)
  • I spoke to my [[mum]] over [[Meet]] and it was great.
    • A friend of a friend of hers who was [[92]] died this week. She is visiting the friend today to console her and spend time with her; the friend is 92 as well and is having thoughts about death.
    • It would make sense that as you grow old you have more thoughts about death, as it’s statistically speaking way more likely.
    • I hope she’s [[free from suffering]]!
  • Doing some work — I enjoy working some weekends, it gives me ample time to [[focus]] while still taking it easy / enjoying the moment.
  • We took a short (50 minutes roundtrip) but very nice walk as the sun was setting.
  • Saw [[12 monkeys]] after many years; certainly for the first time [[after covid]].

2024-03-17

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-16]]

2024-03-16

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-15]]

2024-03-15

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-14]]

2024-03-14

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-12]]

2024-03-12

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-11]]
  • My individual [[Silverbullet]] instance at edit.anagora.org was down for a bit — I ended up updating the container and setting up a crontjob that will do it for me.
    • I’m thinking next step should be to put together a [[coop cloud]] recipe?
    • I’d love to host this for many people in anagora.org or agor.ai.
      • In that case it would make sense to have e.g. flancian.agor.ai be my silverbullet instance, and offer user.agor.ai in general.
      • Same for anagora.org? Or should I start there, I wonder?
  • [[abelard.org]] looks [[weird]]/[[interesting]].
  • I keep noding both from [[wiki vim]] and [[silverbullet]] and the journal entries end up in different files.
    • I’m not particularly bothered by it — this brings up the question of how to ideally show such things in the [[Agora of Flancia]] :)

2024-03-11

  • [[Listened]]: [[Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech"]]

  • [[Spam]].

    • Our website is experiencing an uptick in spam over the last few days.
    • Incredibly irritating.
    • With comments like 1*if(now()=sysdate(),sleep(15),0).
    • We have Akismet and a honepot enabled. Adding a very noddy manual captcha (e.g. 4+8 = ?) helps. But if it continues, we’ll probably have to enable ReCaptcha. Which I’d prefer to avoid if possible.
    • Seemingly emanating from the same IP address.
    • The host lists an abuse@ address. But when I contact that address, the mailbox is reported as being full.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-10]]
  • Started the day with [[AG]], then cleaned the house quite deeply (it was due) and enjoyed it — it felt freeing.
  • Spoke to my mum about birthdays and states of being :)
  • Did idea organization/refactoring :)
  • [[agora development]]:
    • Was very fun yesterday! I like fixing bugs and learning more about [[UI]] — what works and what doesn’t :)
    • Today, I have a bug that I want to fix that I can describe with the following words: [[i love you]]
  • [[Polgar]] believed that [[education]] should not be left to [[schools]], but handled by the [[family]] where the family could provide a better environment for [[learning]].
    • The [[family]] is the first field activity for the [[child]].
    • [[Family]] members are the first [[models]] to [[learn]] from, if they are not sent away.
    • It’s easier to develop outstanding abilities in children if the [[parents]] actions are toward raising outstanding adults.
      • β€œthe passion of the mature person in relation to the developing person - in favour of the latter.”
      • The basis of the desire to [[learn]] is in the [[love]] the student has for the teacher.
    • Polgar believed strongly in selecting one concrete field to develop the child’s abilities in. [[Specialization]].
      • Perhaps this is for using an area with simple and tight [[feedback]] loops to channel the overall education through.
    • "It is only important that by the age of 3-4 some physical or mental field should be chosen, and the child can set out on their voyage."
    • The Polgar daughters played chess 5-6 hours a day from the ages of 4-5.
    • Any field with concrete [[feedback]] could be selected.
    • Where they perceive success, the child would also feel independent.
    • Is it a nice feeling for the child? Is it useful for the child? Is it useful for the child’s society? collapsed:: true
      • If he were trying to raise a [[language]] genius, [[Polgar]] would [[focus]] the child on one language (preferably one stuffed with cognates leading to other languages) in the first year (5-6 hours a day), until the child has a basic level of mastery. Then, when there is a [[base]] of success in the first language, he would move to starting a second. And so on, year after year.
    • In normal [[schools]], the child does not understand why they learn what they are made to learn. To raise a genius, the child must understand [[why]] they’re learning what they’re learning, and what it can be used to lead to.
    • The child will [[learn]] more voraciously when they see the end [[goal]] and [[meaning]] of their [[work]].
    • The [[relationship]] between the teacher and the [[child]] must be collaborative, where the child feels they are not subordinate.
    • These methods need direct, intensive, and constant [[contact]] between teacher and [[child]].
    • By age ten, the [[child]] should accurately feel that there is at least one field in which they have a level of [[mastery]] in which they are at least equal to adults.
    • The specialized skill is used as a base to [[learn]] everything else from.
    • Schools lead to "gray mediocrity".
    • It is important to put them in situations where they will [[learn]] how to learn.
    • Variety among their peers (ie, peers of all-ages) will aid in their development. The children should stay close to whoever their peers are (even if their peers in a skill are old people). That is, people at the same level of skill and with similar interests.
    • Polgar did not [[diversify]] the specializations among his three daughters due to the [[costs]] with getting different equipment and books for different skills. Also, so his family could function as a team dedicated to one field.
    • Polgar’s suggested [[schedule]]. collapsed:: true
      • 4 hours of specialist study (for us, chess)
      • 1 hour of a foreign language. Esperanto in the first year, English in the second, and another chosen at will in the third. At the stage of beginning, that is, intensive language instruction, it is necessary to increase the study hours to 3 - in place of the specialist study - for 3 months. In summer, study trips to other countries.
      • 1 hour of general study (native language, natural science and social studies)
      • 1 hour of computing
      • 1 hour of moral, psychological, and pedagogical studies ([[humor]] lessons as well, with 20 minutes every hour for joke telling)
      • 1 hour of gymnastics, freely chosen, which can be accomplished individually outside school. The division of study hours can of course be treated elastically.
    • The Polgars strongly believed in [[Esperanto]], and used it as a family language.
    • They wanted to prove that geniuses could be raised, and chess provided a means.
    • Chess is a field where there is tight feedback with no uncertainties about what is success or failure.
    • They figured if the children tire from chess, it is easy to retire from chess without bad outcomes (as opposed to say, gymnastics, which might result in injuries).
    • Because they had girls, they wanted to prove that [[nurture]] would lead to girls who could beat men at chess.
    • The Polgar parents loved chess and found it [[beautiful]].
    • [[Creativity]] required in [[winning]] at a high level requires the competitor to know how to explore and innovate.
    • The [[Polgar]] daughters played ping pong or swam 1.5 to 3 hours a day. In other words, Zone 1 work.
    • "One thing is certain: one can never achieve serious pedagogical results, especially at a high level, through [[coercion]]. One can teach chess only by means of [[love]] and the love of the [[game]]."
    • The Polgar sisters were playing chess. That is, they were playing- the kind of playing that is fun. The parents made playing chess fun by giving them a taste of success. Losing on purpose, near the peak of their level.
    • The child should feel the [[joy]] of making their own moves, their own [[failures]], trying things out.
    • Have care for what is said to the child. If they are told they are lazy or bad, they will believe it.
    • Polgar used a proportion of failure to success that was 1 to 10.
    • He started off playing about half an hour a day with the children, then raised the amount of [[time]] per day as their ability and desire to play rose.
    • When young, he favored blitz matches for them. Smaller games with shorter [[time]] scales.
    • The Polgars had 4-5000 books organized by player, opening type, and middle game type. The sisters used these to develop new plays. collapsed:: true
      • To [[learn]] a type, they would look at 50-100 examples and then come up with things they have in common.
    • When the child loses in competition, don’t tell them off. Failure is enough punishment. Rather, console them and help them figure out why they lost.
    • They played while [[blind]]folded to develop their capacity to visualize the [[game]] mentally.
  • [[Polgar]] believed that [[education]] should not be left to [[schools]], but handled by the [[family]] where the family could provide a better environment for [[learning]].
    • The [[family]] is the first field activity for the [[child]].
    • [[Family]] members are the first [[models]] to [[learn]] from, if they are not sent away.
    • It’s easier to develop outstanding abilities in children if the [[parents]] actions are toward raising outstanding adults.
      • β€œthe passion of the mature person in relation to the developing person - in favour of the latter.”
      • The basis of the desire to [[learn]] is in the [[love]] the student has for the teacher.
    • Polgar believed strongly in selecting one concrete field to develop the child’s abilities in. [[Specialization]].
      • Perhaps this is for using an area with simple and tight [[feedback]] loops to channel the overall education through.
    • "It is only important that by the age of 3-4 some physical or mental field should be chosen, and the child can set out on their voyage."
    • The Polgar daughters played chess 5-6 hours a day from the ages of 4-5.
    • Any field with concrete [[feedback]] could be selected.
    • Where they perceive success, the child would also feel independent.
    • Is it a nice feeling for the child? Is it useful for the child? Is it useful for the child’s society? collapsed:: true
      • If he were trying to raise a [[language]] genius, [[Polgar]] would [[focus]] the child on one language (preferably one stuffed with cognates leading to other languages) in the first year (5-6 hours a day), until the child has a basic level of mastery. Then, when there is a [[base]] of success in the first language, he would move to starting a second. And so on, year after year.
    • In normal [[schools]], the child does not understand why they learn what they are made to learn. To raise a genius, the child must understand [[why]] they’re learning what they’re learning, and what it can be used to lead to.
    • The child will [[learn]] more voraciously when they see the end [[goal]] and [[meaning]] of their [[work]].
    • The [[relationship]] between the teacher and the [[child]] must be collaborative, where the child feels they are not subordinate.
    • These methods need direct, intensive, and constant [[contact]] between teacher and [[child]].
    • By age ten, the [[child]] should accurately feel that there is at least one field in which they have a level of [[mastery]] in which they are at least equal to adults.
    • The specialized skill is used as a base to [[learn]] everything else from.
    • Schools lead to "gray mediocrity".
    • It is important to put them in situations where they will [[learn]] how to learn.
    • Variety among their peers (ie, peers of all-ages) will aid in their development. The children should stay close to whoever their peers are (even if their peers in a skill are old people). That is, people at the same level of skill and with similar interests.
    • Polgar did not [[diversify]] the specializations among his three daughters due to the [[costs]] with getting different equipment and books for different skills. Also, so his family could function as a team dedicated to one field.
    • Polgar’s suggested [[schedule]]. collapsed:: true
      • 4 hours of specialist study (for us, chess)
      • 1 hour of a foreign language. Esperanto in the first year, English in the second, and another chosen at will in the third. At the stage of beginning, that is, intensive language instruction, it is necessary to increase the study hours to 3 - in place of the specialist study - for 3 months. In summer, study trips to other countries.
      • 1 hour of general study (native language, natural science and social studies)
      • 1 hour of computing
      • 1 hour of moral, psychological, and pedagogical studies ([[humor]] lessons as well, with 20 minutes every hour for joke telling)
      • 1 hour of gymnastics, freely chosen, which can be accomplished individually outside school. The division of study hours can of course be treated elastically.
    • The Polgars strongly believed in [[Esperanto]], and used it as a family language.
    • They wanted to prove that geniuses could be raised, and chess provided a means.
    • Chess is a field where there is tight feedback with no uncertainties about what is success or failure.
    • They figured if the children tire from chess, it is easy to retire from chess without bad outcomes (as opposed to say, gymnastics, which might result in injuries).
    • Because they had girls, they wanted to prove that [[nurture]] would lead to girls who could beat men at chess.
    • The Polgar parents loved chess and found it [[beautiful]].
    • [[Creativity]] required in [[winning]] at a high level requires the competitor to know how to explore and innovate.
    • The [[Polgar]] daughters played ping pong or swam 1.5 to 3 hours a day. In other words, Zone 1 work.
    • "One thing is certain: one can never achieve serious pedagogical results, especially at a high level, through [[coercion]]. One can teach chess only by means of [[love]] and the love of the [[game]]."
    • The Polgar sisters were playing chess. That is, they were playing- the kind of playing that is fun. The parents made playing chess fun by giving them a taste of success. Losing on purpose, near the peak of their level.
    • The child should feel the [[joy]] of making their own moves, their own [[failures]], trying things out.
    • Have care for what is said to the child. If they are told they are lazy or bad, they will believe it.
    • Polgar used a proportion of failure to success that was 1 to 10.
    • He started off playing about half an hour a day with the children, then raised the amount of [[time]] per day as their ability and desire to play rose.
    • When young, he favored blitz matches for them. Smaller games with shorter [[time]] scales.
    • The Polgars had 4-5000 books organized by player, opening type, and middle game type. The sisters used these to develop new plays. collapsed:: true
      • To [[learn]] a type, they would look at 50-100 examples and then come up with things they have in common.
    • When the child loses in competition, don’t tell them off. Failure is enough punishment. Rather, console them and help them figure out why they lost.
    • They played while [[blind]]folded to develop their capacity to visualize the [[game]] mentally.

2024-03-10

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-09]]

Suddenly you become [[[[more [[aware]] of the [[nature of existence]]]].

  • I read about the [[multiverse]] and [[groups]] again after long — this reminds me that I need to finish reading [[a rosetta stone]] :) I think I will find my paper print or print it again and read it at night.
  • Note [[Silverbullet]] is currently journaling at a different path, the Agora should show both in any date-matching nodes.
  • [[agora development]]:
    • pull silverbullet editor somewhere in the Agora
      • host silverbullet for people with a docker container + associated git repo (maybe automatically created at git.anagora.org?)
      • write about social hosting :)
    • #pull [[index]] from now-index!
  • [[agora discuss]]:
  • write about the nature of existence :)
  • [[edit]]
  • [[agora development]]:
    • implement URL pulls, it’s been on the todo for quite long! :)
      • this would make [[edit]] work (at least for me, for now) :)
      • this seems to almost work :)
    • look into the bugs that neil reported
      • finding them in [[agora discuss]] led to enjoying that space as usual! :D
  • [[what if we became better protopians]]?

2024-03-09

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-08]]
  • [[AI]]:
    • I went to an interesting [[AI]] talk and learnt about a few new (to me) services/things that look interesting:
      • [[pikaso]] (a paint-to-image generation tool)
      • [[grok]] (a plushie voiced by [[Grimes]])

2024-03-08

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-07]]
  • In the [[Agora of Flancia]], each node is an [[Agora]] — meaning a fork of the Agora that is centered around the node in question and its [[context]].
πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-06]]

2024-03-06

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-05]]

2024-03-05

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-04]]

2024-03-04

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-03]]
  • Apparently there was some sort of controversy about a site called [[content nation]] in the Fediverse, and people from [[Mastodon]] came across as conservative/resistant to change/unfriendly to newcomers. I am not surprised.
    • Good thing is I found [[wedistribute]] via the article linked in the node above, and I think I’m liking this site and maybe particularly a podcast they have called [[decentered]].
  • I read about [[Jim Simons]] and the [[Medallion fund]] after watching [[Veritasium]]‘s [[The Trillion Dollar Equation]].
  • I read about [[Jizo]] a.k.a. [[Ksitigarbha]], which I now associate with number [[6]] (as he vowed to liberate beings in all six Buddhist realms).
  • I still haven’t figured out how to make [[silverbullet]] open its daily note where I want instead of Journal/Day/, but maybe it won’t be much longer :)
    • Thankfully in the Agora any and all of these will show up (just independently).
  • The article on [[Peter Singer]] led me to read about [[higher and lower pleasures]] — the whole article on [[utilitarianism]] is interesting.
    • TIL [[Karl Popper]] was called a [[negative utilitarian]] because of his preference to [[minimize suffering]]: "Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all."
  • My knees hurt from [[LΓ€gern]] but I have no regrets :D
  • To raise [[children]], Laszlo [[Polgar]] setup an environment for [[autonomy]] and agency.
    • Polgar needed to work with his children, rather than telling them what to do.
    • The father’s role was an enabler, an opener of ways.
    • The father’s goal was to provide the "highest possible level of [[freedom]]".
    • They are not marionettes, but in a traditional [[school]] they are.
    • Polgar does not assert that raising competent children leads to happiness, but that they will at least have the same opportunities for happiness as normal children.
    • He did not like that older, more static leaders were followed instead of younger, more dynamic leaders.
    • Polgar rejected the [[middle]]. "Mediocrity, the orientation to the middle, I refuse out of principle."
    • Polgar was intent on quality.
    • Polgar saw himself as someone who shapes his own destiny.
    • Polgar was against compromise.
    • He preferred defeating obstacles to worrying about them.
    • Laszlo and his wife had the premise that every healthy child could be raised to be an outstanding person.
    • They believed that every outstanding person had a trainer who was obssessed.
    • β€œIt is better not to say that geniuses are not often born; say rather that we do not often raise them.”
    • Polgar figured that people are shaped by the body they are born to, the effect of the [[environment]], and a ‘self-[[creation]]‘ that happens from personal experimentation.
    • Great capability comes from [[creativity]] expressed in concrete [[action]].
    • "…every child born healthy is potentially a genius, and if one pays enough attention, they will in fact become one."
    • The ultimate goal is human happiness- which is enabled by genius.
    • "I criticize contemporary schools because they do not educate for life, they equalize everyone to a very low level, and in addition they do not tolerate the talented and those who diverge from the average."
    • "My daughters, who have never visited a [[school]], grew up much more in the context of real [[life]]."

2024-03-03

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-02]]

2024-03-02

  • A ‘trick’ I use when I have some issue with a particular file in my [[org-publish]] pipeline on my remote server.

    • In org-publish-project-alist, set :base-extension "foo".
      • By default it is "org", looking at all files with org extension.
      • By setting it to foo, the publish process won’t find any files. Except..
    • Set up :include to include the file that’s got the issue.
      • e.g. :include ("file-with-a-problem.org")
    • There’s probably a better way of doing it than this, but it gets me by for now.
  • Nice, I replaced a cl-loop with a mapconcat in some of my output formatting, e.g. in [[Well-connected]]. mapconcat feels a bit more functional style, and it also gets rid of the superfluous parentheses I had in the output.

  • I might try and add [[Pagefind]] to my published garden.

  • Trying [[fish]] out on desktop.

    • While on mobile I found them incredibly helpful, I actually find it all of the autosuggestions a bit distracting at first.
    • I’ll see how it pans out.
  • Watched: [[Guardians of the Galaxy]]

πŸ“… Date [[2024-03-01]]
  • [[ec]]: "Yo adelgacΓ© mucho gracias al vino rosado."
  • #push [[Maitreya]]
    • I created a "[[GPT]]" (sigh, I get what they’re going for with the name though :)) called [[Maitreya]]. Some example prompts are in [[Maitreya AI]].

2024-03-01

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-29]]

2024-02-29

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-27]]

2024-02-27

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-26]]
  • [[social coop]]:
  • I set up [[silverbullet]] over https pointing to my home computer and it’s lovely, I can finally edit my [[garden]] from mobile.
    • While [[paramita]] is on at least, but this is great progress; maybe I should point this to [[nostromo]] which is on more often and I can also remotely enable?
    • But longer term I want to move in the direction of garden (and editor) hosting, I’m already using containers for this…

2024-02-26

  • [[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]

  • [[Work Notes 2024-02-26]]

  • ‘Dear Data Subject’ and other great ways to start an email.

    • [[Matomo]].
    • They mention that they are now using a [[data broker]] for "customer and prospect data enrichment".
      • "We process this personal data on the basis of legitimate interest. Without the information we will not be able to customise our communications with you to best meet your needs".
      • I find the wording a bit weaselly to be honest. Better would be "We want this information so we can more likely retain and get new customers". Fine - just be honest about it.
      • You can opt-out. Not opt-in?
  • Using Python in org, I was getting: [[Importmagic and/or epc not found]].

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-25]]

2024-02-25

  • Listened: [[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]

    • Digital decay
    • Digital memorials
    • Makes me think of the film [[Coco]]…
    • Transhumanists
  • magit doesnt work properly for me in [[termux]] for some reason. I can stage but I cant commit.

    • No biggie as I just git from the terminal instead. But still, would be good to get to the bottom of it.
  • Had a quick play with [[Surfacing notes in my garden that have no claims]] using [[Metabase]].

    • Easy enough to do. But has the downside for me at the moment that it’s only accessible on my laptop, which I’m not often using at the moment outside of work.
    • [[Knowledge commoning]].
πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-24]]
  • On the negative side, it defaults to a weird Journal/Day prefix :)
    • I get what they’re going after as apparently they want to support /Week as well, and weekly journals make sense to me.
    • But I prefer a flatter structure than that — looking into customizing.
  • Again it took me until 7pm to get into a situation I could call [[focus]], let alone [[flow]]; earlier I did useful things that needed to take place (like cleaning around the house and such), but that produced only diffuse output.
  • [[doom]]:
    • On impulse I bought and installed [[doom 2016]] today (it was on sale). I played half an hour and I’m not sure I’m into it. I played and loved [[doom]] and [[doom 2]] as a kid, but this is a newer game and I’m an older person :)
      • The graphics are good and I wanted to try out the ‘shoot at things without much of a plot’ experience again, and I got that.
      • But I don’t like you can’t save/quicksave. It’s all checkpoint based (whyyy).
      • And I didn’t have as much ‘fun’ with it. Maybe it’s too violent to maintain my interest nowadays.
      • But I may yet come back to it.
  • [[Moloch]]:
    • By [[Kuprin]]:
      • Makes direct references to the stock market, which surprised me — it was a factor in Russian society earlier than expected (this is from [[1896]].)
      • [[page 72]] in my edition has the first direct reference to [[Moloch]] by name.

2024-02-24

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-23]]

2024-02-23

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-21]]

2024-02-21

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-20]]
  • Second day using [[silver bullet]], enjoying it a lot!
    • I like how I was able to specify a full path for a new page, in this case journal/2024-02-20, and it just worked (tm).
    • I also like the [[autocompletion]] for links it has; it is better than [[wiki vim]]‘s (which, granted, maybe I didn’t really get the hang of) and [[logseq]]‘s (faster).
  • [[work]] was tough given that I’m still not fully recovered from flu/virus and there are some interpersonal issues that take energy to deal with, but also satisfying as I did manage to get some things done.
    • Also my team is really great, every time I go back to team-specific tasks it feels like a breath of fresh air!
  • Talked to [[Berni]] and it was great.
  • [[AG]] did a surprise certification today after work, impressive :)
πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-19]]
  • [[Silverbullet]] doesn’t follow the convention of using journal/ for journals; and I wonder if that’s not actually quite reasonable. Why wouldn’t an ISO-formatted-date node be enough? That’s what the [[Agora]] parses as journals ;)
  • Honestly I’m maybe fine moving to journal-dir-less but I’d like to find a shortcut to ‘go/create today’s note’. I haven’t found this in menus yet.
  • [[heart sutra]]

2024-02-19

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-18]]

2024-02-18

  • Read: [[Forest and Factory]]

    • Finished it.
    • Good stuff. Provocative.
    • The suggestion to focus on hard science fiction for our utopias seems a good one.
    • Though I don’t know if their piece really does that.
    • They just combine a focus on production with handwaving, rather than reproduction with handwaving.
    • Their salient point is really that we’ve stopped thinking about production, which I think is a good one.
    • Also lots of nuggets of wisdom in the footnotes to be mined.
  • Listened: [[The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)]]

    • Great discussion. Based around [[Forest and Factory]]. Loads of good stuff.
    • Their insistence on starting from present conditions and working towards for me thinking about [[complex systems]] and [[chaos theory]], [[sensitive dependence on initial conditions]] in particular. Is it logical to try and completely map the present to then try and cause the future? Maybe.
    • Maybe an alternative is the utopian way of doing it. Think of elements of your desired future as attractors of sorts, then focus on how your can leverage the path of history towards those. Maybe that’s a combination of both. It obviously can’t hurt to know the present conditions, but to then assume you can trace a clear path from now to the future seems wrong.
    • Yeah I think you need both. A clear understanding of present conditions. A clear idea of how you want society to function - your attractors. And then you nudge it from A to B, making use of [[shocks]], [[leverage points]], etc.
    • They make the point that a lot of utopias focus on reproduction rather than production. (Superstructure rather than base?).
πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-17]]

2024-02-17

  • Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]

    • Finished it. Enjoyed it. Would recommend.
    • Need to go back and note it up a bit.
  • Read: [[Theories of International Politics and Zombies]]

    • "How international relations theory can be applied to a zombie invasion"
    • Fun.
    • I remember some of [[Robert Biel]]‘s articles saying how [[international relations]] was a field that applied systems theory to politics, so was looking for something that is a bit of an easy primer - this seems like it!
  • [[Shower thought]].

    • I want to make sure that I document at least the top two or three salient claims from every book and article that I read.
    • Otherwise it seems like wasted effort.
    • I’ll tag book files such that I can run a query that pulls out those that I’ve read but have no associated claims.
    • To do so will be a positive act of [[knowledge commoning]].
πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-16]]

2024-02-16

  • Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]

    • Nearly finished it now.
    • Very good all in all. Very readable intro to some economics concepts, in particular through a critical lens of capitalism.
    • Very easy to read. (As such not the most rigourous analysis, but thats fine)
    • Interesting to note he uses ‘experiential’ value rather than use value.
    • His brief suggestion of a solution to capitalism is that we need more democracy rather than more markets.
      • In ownership of the means of production and in control over how we treat the environment.
  • Read: [[Forest and Factory]]

    • Deep dive into the logistics of production of motors.
    • Interesting, but still not convinced that this constitutes a scientific account of transition, in the language of their own critique.
  • How repairable is a [[Vision Pro]]?

  • I’d like to add a ‘[[New connections]]‘ page to my garden.

  • [[Flancian]] told me about [[Orgzly Revived]].

    • This is very good news to me.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-14]]

2024-02-14

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-13]]

2024-02-13

  • Read: [[Forest and Factory]]
    • So far: very interesting.
    • But unnecessarily disdainful in tone to some of the other projects that it is critiquing. We’re all on the same side here!
    • And, so far, while very interesting, the vision for the future they outline is just as lacking in scientific rigour as any of the projects that they are critiquing.
      • Going to assume that the science bit is going to come later.
    • Unflinching mentions of carbon capture and storage / direct air capture is a bit of a red flag.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-12]]

I worked half a day as I was sick; cold symptoms, nothing terrible though. I attended two meetings and did writing.

Then I read [[Aaron Copland]] on music, thought and wrote about [[Moloch]].


I eead the [[Dalai Lama]] and [[Thubten Chodron]]. I’m in chapter 2 of book 2: [[The Foundation of Buddhist Practice]].

2024-02-12

  • Read: [[Forest and Factory]]
    • Subtitle: The Science and the Fiction of Communism.
    • Heard about it from the This Machine Kills podcast.
    • Very interesting. A modern day update on the topic of [[Socialism: Utopian and Scientific]].
    • Critiques a bunch of things I’ve read recently as utopian, in the sense of lacking any practical route from the here and now to there.
      • Fair comment - though I’ve appreciated them, I’ve thought similar.
    • Not got to their own prescription for transformation yet.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-09]]

2024-02-09

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-08]]

2024-02-08

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-07]]
  • Slightly less intense but still emotionally tough day at work (dealing with layoffs as part of the [[employee representation]] group).
πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-06]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-05]]

2024-02-05

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-04]]

2024-02-04

  • Listened: [[The Santiago Boys]].
    • Finished the first episode. (Ep 1: A Blast in Manhattan).
    • Chiefly about the political milieu in Chile at the time, and then how Fernando Flores invites Beer to work with them.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-03]]
  • [[Flancia meet]]
    • with [[bouncepaw]] we set up https://flancia.org/meet as a landing page for it, I like the result!
    • it made me revisit good old flancia.org after a while — and it felt good. Maybe I should go back to writing more on it? I say, not for the first time.
  • [[AG]] is wonderful


  • The following was written by [[Lady Burup]]
  • (a lot of dashes/empty list items, unsure how she wrote all these)

-OOOOAPI||||||||||

  • (more :))

-ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


Back to regular programming :)

If you are reading this from the future, by the way: thank you for being here! How are you today/tonight?

To respond, you can always use the [[stoa]] of the day.


If we haven’t spoken in a long time, please reach out over [[matrix]]!

  • Also I found out that [[Flancia]] seems to actually be a common name in some countries?! Twitter search found a lot of people with Flancia in the name, some with accounts older than mine.
    • Nice plot twist, thanks universe as usual.


Please disable copyright enforcement in AI. I want to be able to ask LLMs to pirate things for me, or help me pirate them. [[I take full responsibility]], as some are wont to say ;)

I usually buy books in one format but want several. Many authors make it easy for me to give them money on Amazon, but then I want an epub. Etc.

In the meantime I have to go to https://libgen.is manually I guess?


I’ve been thinking of parsing this format in the Agora, meaning longer subnodes separated by — in a newline — and publish it to the [[Fediverse]] as individual posts :)


πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-02]]

2024-02-02

πŸ“… Date [[2024-02-01]]

I believe things are going to be pretty amazing anyway; I sometimes get caught in the day to day and fail to notice it, or remember it, but all things considered I think the likelihood of humanity and our friends making it happily in cosmic terms long term is quite high.

I’ve been writing about the Agora for about 5 years now: https://github.com/flancian/flancia/commits/master/pages/agora.md.

πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-31]]

2024-01-31

  • Read: [[The Shock Doctrine of the Left]]
    • Finished it. Reading it in lots of 20 minute late-night bursts while doing childcare.
    • Very good. Primary focus on movement building, organising.
    • Combination of left politics and complex adaptive systems is right up my street.
    • Also touches on [[organisational ecology]], [[care work]].
    • Would like to apply some of the concepts to [[reclaim the stacks]].
    • Particularly the description of using (and creating) shocks as points of leverage and transition is useful.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-30]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-28]]
  • [[Distance]] gives you [[time]]. [[Angles]] give you a way to [[flank]].
  • [[Questions]] for district or city [[attorneys]]. collapsed:: true
  • Show them [[chaos]], and present an [[alternative]]. collapsed:: true
    • Offer [[stability]] in the face of that chaos.
  • [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] [[disperse]] through [[time]].
  • [[Police]] Departments found it easier to [[recruit]] following police attacks in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • The US military found it much easier to [[recruit]] during the second gulf war, as well as right after [[9/11]].
  • If someone is [[blaming]] someone consistently for anything that goes wrong in their [[life]], it is a sign that they are [[owned]] by that person.
  • [[Seeds]] must have ways to [[spread]], [[feed]], and protect baby plants.
  • 100 million dollar offers: collapsed:: true
      1. Pain /what life would like without the pain
      2. Purchasing power
      3. Easy to target/symbols where they are already gathered
      4. Growing market
    • The point of writing is for the reader to understand.
    • The point of [[copywriting]] is for the prospect to feel [[understood]].
    • People [[want]] [[health]], [[wealth]], and [[relationships]].
    • In order of easiest to [[sell]] to: Starving crowd > offer strength > [[persuasion]] skills
    • [[Price]] is what you [[pay]], [[value]] is what you [[get]].
    • The [[Value Equation]]: Dream outcome x perceived likelihood of achievement / [[time]] delay * [[effort]] + [[sacrifice]] = [[value]]
    • Talk in terms of how the prospect will get [[status]] from other people.
    • People [[pay]] for [[certainty]].
    • Most people want an early [[victory]]. So [[fast]] beats [[free]].
    • What points of [[friction]] exist for them if they accept your [[offer]]? What’s the next [[obstacle]]? The obstacle after that? And that?
    • Generate a [[solution]] to every [[problem]].
    • [[Urgency]]: [[deadlines]] make [[decisions]].
    • Seasonal offers should occur more often with local [[businesses]].
    • 1-on-1 delivery bonus after [[sale]]? collapsed:: true
    • A [[lead]] is a person you can [[reach]]. collapsed:: true
      • A good lead is a person you can reach who has shown interest in your [[product]] or [[service]].
      • Have a library of [[lead magnets]] you can rotate.
    • A good [[call to action]] tells you what to do and [[why]] you should do it right now.
  • [[Dotcomsecrets]]: collapsed:: true
    • who do you like working with most? collapsed:: true
      • what dramatic [[transformation]] do you want to help them make?
      • where are these people?
      • how can you find them online?
      • what [[bait]] works on them but [[pushes]] everyone else away?
      • where to find them? collapsed:: true
        • what [[groups]] are they a part of? newsletters? discords? forums? subreddits? twitter circles? what other interests do they have?
    • create customer avatars of who you want to work with collapsed:: true
    • [[bait]] is anything the [[fitting]] [[customer]] would pay [[attention]] to and [[want]] collapsed:: true
      • book
      • online report
      • podcast
      • tool
    • what result do you want to give them? collapsed:: true
    • free stuff is [[bait]] to generate [[leads]]
    • who am I trying to [[reach]]? where do they [[gather]]? where are their watering holes?
    • Three Types of [[Traffic]]: collapsed:: true
        1. Traffic you don’t control. (external site)
        2. Traffic you control. (newsletter/subscriptions)
        3. Traffic you own. (when they’re on your page)
    • The back [[story]] has to relate to the [[product]] or [[service]] being sold. If it’s a financial product, the story has to be about something that changed with the character in regard to finances.
    • What are the stories that have happened in the relatable character’s life?
    • A [[story]] is more powerful than telling someone what would work.
    • Polarize with the truth of the character. This helps with [[selection]].
    • What’s going on with the relatable [[character]]? collapsed:: true
      • what embarrassed them
      • what did they enjoy having bought
      • what made them frustrated yesterday that they’re happy about today
      • what antics did your kid get into
      • what funny thing happened to them that teaches a lesson
    • every e-mail has to tie back to an offer
    • Reverse engineering successful [[sales funnels]]: collapsed:: true
      • Demographics
      • Offer
      • Landing page
      • Traffic source
      • Ad copy
    • Don’t create [[traffic]]. Look for it and tap into it. It is something you find when foraging.
    • "The [[money]] you make in your [[business]] depends on how well you manage the [[experience]] of every person who comes in contact with youβ€”no matter how long they stay"
    • Setup [[frame]] that is conducive to a [[long-term]] [[buying]] relationship.
      • collapsed:: true
        1. What is the [[mindset]] of people in the [[traffic]] you’re trying to pull to your [[landing page]]?
        2. Setup Pre-Frame Bridge
        3. Qualifying
        4. Who is a buyer?
        • "If your prospect is aware of your [[product]] and has realized it can satisfy his [[desire]], your [[headline]] starts with the product. If he is not aware of your product, but only of the desire itself, your headline starts with the desire. If he is not yet aware of what he really seeks, but is concerned with the general problem, your headline starts with the problem and crystallizes it into a specific need."
        • Hot Traffic is people who already know who you are.
        • Cold Traffic is people who have no idea who you are.
        • hot traffic bridge: they already trust you, so keep it short
        • warm traffic bridge: longer than hot, needs endorsement
        • cold traffic bridge: very long, they need to be framed before they hit landing page
          • they need to be introduced to the concepts ([[inferential gap]] must be bridged)
          • ‘bridge page’ before ‘offer page’
          • they may not understand the [[problem]], so you will have to show them the cause of a surface problem
        • Will they buy?
        • Will they subscribe to a list?
      • As soon as they [[subscribe]], give them a way to [[buy]] something. collapsed:: true
        • Something priced extremely low that is high value.
        1. Who is a hyperactive buyer?
      • Typically in some sort of [[pain]]/starving with a [[problem]].
      • For example, catching someone right after a humiliating [[defeat]]. They will buy multiple items.
      • When in [[pain]] and on a quest, they will spend money to further that quest.
      • collapsed:: true 6. Age & Ascend Relationship on Ladder
      • collapsed:: true 7. Change the Selling Environment
        • Switch to phone, video, in-person, snailmail, or live event.
        • Think of it as being invited to the VIP section, staff section, or holy of holies in a [[temple]].
      • You may bump a purchase in the same way grocery stores sell candy bars and tabloids. Offer a one-time purchase that complements the main purchase.
      • Downsell: if they don’t take the bump, offer a [[downsell]].
  • [[Shaping]] [[Work]] by 37Signals: collapsed:: true
    • "[[Estimates]] start with a [[design]] and end with a number. Appetites start with a number and end with a design. We use the [[appetite]] as a creative [[constraint]] on the design process."
    • Check [[want]] to use as a [[constraint]]. The more want, the more [[time]] can be spent. The less want, the less time is spent.
    • β€œfixed [[time]], variable [[scope]],”
    • "The best is relative to your constraints."
    • β€œWe can only [[judge]] what is a [[good]] [[solution]] in the [[context]] of how much [[time]] we want to spend and how important it is.”
    • "Beware the simple question: β€œIs this possible?” In software, everything is [[possible]] but nothing is [[free]]. We want to find out if it’s possible within the appetite we’re shaping for."
    • What is [[possible]] given what we [[want]]?
    • "People need to feel the [[deadline]] looming in order to make trade-offs".
    • [[Time]] is the ultimate [[constraint]].
    • "When people ask for β€œjust a few hours” or β€œjust one day,” don’t be fooled. [[Momentum]] and progress are second-order things, like [[growth]] or [[acceleration]]. You can’t describe them with one [[point]]. You need an uninterrupted curve of points. When you pull someone away for one day to fix a bug or help a different team, you don’t just lose a day. You lose the momentum they built up and the time it will take to gain it back. Losing the wrong hour can kill a day. Losing a day can kill a week."
    • "You can’t ship without making hard [[decisions]] about where to stop, what to compromise, and what to leave out."
    • "But crises are rare. The vast majority of bugs can wait six weeks or longer, and many don’t even need to be fixed. If we tried to eliminate every bug, we’d never be done. You can’t ship anything new if you have to fix the whole world first."
    • "we mainly [[bet]] the [[time]] on spiking some key pieces of the new product idea. The shaping is much fuzzier because we expect to learn by building."
    • The [[time]] you give is a [[bet]] you place.
    • "…you can’t [[delegate]] to other people when you don’t know what you [[want]] yourself."
    • [[Research]] & Design cycles don’t ship: "The goal is to learn what works so we can commit to some load-bearing structure: the main code and UI decisions that will define the form of the product going forward."
  • The [[cost]] of user [[interface]] changes hurt the average person more than they hurt the average developer.
  • "it has to fit in the head of the programmer to be maintanable" collapsed:: true
    • if they can read the whole thing and understand it, then it is maintainable
    • [[maintenance]]
  • One of the greatest difficulties with managing [[knowledge]] workers is telling the difference between [[waste]] and work. collapsed:: true
    • With [[innovation]] as a [[goal]], most managers have no way to tell the difference.
    • This is because no one knows what the worker knows, except maybe the worker.
    • So the organization would need to rely on [[culture]].
  • "The word [[Andhra]] is first observed from Udyotana’s description of ‘those with beautiful bodies, who love [[women]] and [[war]] alike and are great consumers of [[food]]‘ in 779 CE"
  • Social [[tracks]] are like physical tracks: it’s possible to [[contaminate]] the [[sign]] if you step on it.
  • "The most [[information]] dense [[communication]] looks like [[noise]]. Therefore thermal motion of atoms is a very high bandwidth communication between unknown entities."

2024-01-28

πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-27]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-25]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-24]]

2024-01-24

  • Listened: [[#ACFM Trip 4: Love and Hate]]

  • Listened: [[#ACFM Trip 5: Consciousness Raising]]

  • Listened: [[#ACFM Microdose: Theories of Consciousness]]

  • Listened: [[Why It’s Eco-Socialism or Collapse]]

  • Interesting to see that ‘Challenging the size and power of the biggest tech companies was voted a top priority by [[Foxglove]] supporters in our new year survey.’

    • From Foxglove’s newsletter on 24th January 2024.
    • Very keen to see where they go with this.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-23]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-21]]

I finished [[Taixu]], meaning the translation by [[Charles B. Jones]] and his commentary. I am thankful for it!

πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-20]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-17]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-16]]
  • [[work]]
    • tough with [[layoffs]] wave 3 going on, plus [[social plan]] negotiations for all waves
    • but people are great
  • [[social coop]] organizing circle meeting was great!
  • [[open letters]]:
  • I’ve had [[unbundling tools for thought]] open as a tab for maybe over a year now — should I read it?
  • I ask myself this kind of question often, as I’m managing tabs a lot of the time (I have many across many computers), often on the way of getting something else done.
    • I want to trust myself to eventually do some things, like reading this, but even though I very often add things to the Agora (through [[Betula]] or manually) to keep track of them, there are so many that I will probably never get to most of them.
      • And maybe that’s OK!
      • Leaving links behind is better than nothing ;)

2024-01-16

πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-15]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-14]]

2024-01-14

  • Listened: [[Trip 39: Protest]]
    • On the topic of [[protest]].
    • Individual, collective. Marches, non-violence, [[direct action]], boycotts etc.
    • Whats effective and what isnt? Effective might mean different things, e.g. could be political change but could also be just connecting and energising a movement.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-13]]

2024-01-13

πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-11]]
  • i forgot my journal app was still being hosted. yay cloudtech.
  • got a new job at cascadia health as a peer support. essentially im an unlicensed therapist.
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-09]]
  • [[Flancia]]:
    • Flancia is a container for [[My favourite things]]:
      • The common good
      • Happiness
      • Freedom from suffering
      • Science
      • Technology (inasmuch as it improves the world, which it does plenty)
      • Art
      • Knowledge
      • My friends and loved ones (inasmuch people are embodied as a composition of things)
      • The Agora (inasmuch it might show others the way to its [[entelechy]])
  • [[Gone]]:

I had noding "my favourite things" in a post-it so I decided to do it right here using a push above.

πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-07]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-05]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-04]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-03]]
  • All my computers tend to be melting down all the time. They run out of RAM and CPU. It all feels quite un-ecological, but I guess we’re all betting on becoming a higher level [[kardashev]]?
  • [[work]]
  • [[fotl]]
  • [[agora development]]
    • make it so that [[opensearch]] document is utf-8 so chrome stops ignoring Agora Search (presumably) :)
      • I think the actual issue is that new Chrome only loads [[opensearch]] data when the user performs a search in the root of the webpage, e.g. https://anagora.org — and currently the Agora just redirects to /index so this never happens. Hmm.
        • Maybe I should just remove that redirect.
  • [[fediverse]]
  • [[yoga with x]]
πŸ“… Date [[2024-01-02]]
  • Happy [[2024]] to everybody reading!
    • May you be happy! May you be free! May you [[thrive]]!
  • [[work]]:
    • paged at 6.30AM.
  • [[AG]]
  • [[Laundry]], as in most of the last few days due to the ongoing [[Bettwanzen]] response — trying to enjoy every cycle, some cycles are more fruitful than others :)
  • [[social coop]]:
    • Last day oncall for the [[CWG]].
    • Reviewed some progress on the discussion about [[Fedipact]] and whether we should be listed as signatories
    • Check poll
    • Check registrations
    • Check moderations

[[Meditate]], said [[Nostromo]].


I meditated. Thank you [[Taixu]] — meaning the Buddhist Monk and also the [[shell]] script that I run in computer [[nostromo]].

I’ve been missing writing; I always feel like I should write more, and more often — I feel the same for action [[read]] of course as well, as do many of us. So I decided to start writing more right here — in my journal in the [[Agora of Flancia]].

Traditionally up to now I’ve been focusing my efforts more on [[noding]], in the particular meaning of exploring connectivity space; more interested in building links (between concepts, things and people) than about producing widely legible output. This under the hypothesis that the connections are important in building an [[Agora]] in particular, or at least [[bootstrapping]] it.

This reminds me [[bootstrapping]] is either chapter [[0]] or [[1]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]].

…anyway :)


  • [[social coop]]
    • Having an interesting conversation with [[3wc]] and [[ntnsndr]].
    • Sent oncall handoff to [[sam]]
    • Oh no, I forgot the [[twg]] meeting earlier today!


I slept. It was great.


Today I plan to continue doing laundry and finally open and clean up one of the rooms affected by [[bed bugs]] (the lesser one, no obvious infestation).

Also I plan to work on the [[Agora]]. Or should I say in the [[Agoras]]?


πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-31]]
  • [[31]] is [[Las Jaras]]:
    • a [[poem]]:
      • Las Jaras, quΓ© jaras?
      • Las tiradas con recta intenciΓ³n:
      • Las de Maitreya;
      • Las de Avalokiteshvara;
      • Las de Tara!
  • [[Silvester]]:
    • As they call it here in Switzerland.
    • Happy [[2024]] all! May it be free from suffering to as many beings as possible.
    • Going to a party tonight!
  • [[bedbugs]]:
    • Still going through [[The Great Wash]], as this period of doing lots of laundry to make sure no bed bugs (fully developed or in egg form) survive in clothes and bedlinen.
    • I’ve been trying to do loving kindness with the bed bugs as individuals and as a species, even as they are dying in droves in the fumigated bedrooms.
  • [[2024]]:
    • Thinking of planning.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-30]]
  • Saturday oncall at home doing laundry and some shopping two minutes away carrying my laptop in Coop — cozy :)
    • I renamed my second work laptop to [[Sariputta]] and I already like it more.
    • Also finished some paperwork and responded some personal messages.
  • [[social coop]]
    • some discussion about [[Fedipact]] and whether we should be listed as signatories
    • there were a few polls but the one that voted (majority) block was blocked, so the actual needed fraction of votes wasn’t accomplished
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-29]]
  • Strange day, it started down but then went up :)
    • Paid bills, donated to [[unicef]].
  • [[Work]]
    • CL review
    • Some approvals
    • Oncall handoff
  • Agora project
    • Check if patera is still down and fix it
  • [[social.coop]]
    • [[twg]] dates discussion
    • registration / moderation
    • PR review
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-27]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-26]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-25]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-23]]
  • [[Flancia]]!
    • [[Flancia meet]]
      • quiet in the morning, used it for planning :)
      • [[agora development]]
        • I want to continue in the vein of [[december adventure]], with small improvements and some new experimental features.
          • This will continue through the whole weekend ;)
      • [[fediverse]]
        • Yesterday I tried one bridge between [[Bluesky]] and the [[Fediverse]] and it failed, but I want to try again :)
          • it failed again: bluesky.bovine.social. It looks promising though, I opened an issue in the Codeberg repo and took the chance to set up my [[Codeberg]] profile at last.
          • I also gave https://brid.gy a try and it was able to log into my Mastodon and Bluesky both, but it seems designed to cross-post between those and [[webmentions]] only/first.
            • This made me think that I should really implement webmentions in the Agora?
      • I also want to take some time to see friends IRL :)
        • Happy about this!
        • [[Pesho]]
        • [[AG]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-22]]

Digo, ahora que empiezo a escribir en el escritorio nΓΊmero 7.

Finalmente exportΓ© [[goodreads]] e importΓ© en [[bookwyrm]]: .

  • As an aside, I miss the capability of pasting pictures/media in the Agora. I used to have it in Obsidian, maybe I should run it or [[Logseq]] again.



πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-20]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-16]]
  • Because of [[Uposatha]] days I feel the need to know the phase of the moon. I wonder what time it’ll come out tonight as well; it’s been cloudy so I haven’t been keeping track.
  • [[flancia]]
    • [[agora development]]
      • [[december adventure]]:
        • shipped some ‘quality of life’ and ‘polish’ improvements to anagora.org in the last few days.
        • [[css spinner]] was useful
        • [[doing]]:
          • now shifting focus to providing endpoints, in the sense of:
          • [[api]]
            • commit something — anything :)
              • this means exposing the right existing methods at this path I guess :)
          • fix [[mastodon bot]] integration
            • the wikilinks it dumps are not clickable due to an encoding issue, I’ve been wanting to solve that for a while
        • [[agor.ai]] ~ [[agora network]]
          • remembered that [[agora network]] is important
          • as planned I will try to continue improving the agor.ai setup and try to provide useful Agoras to others
          • Wrote out a [[call for agoras]], meaning people can propose possible Agoras to build
            • link.agor.ai and flancia.agor.ai already exist on the new-style setup, which I must continue to [[improve/upgrade]]
  • [[above]]:
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-15]]
  • [[work]]
    • was alright!
  • [[flancia]]!
    • [[apero]]
    • [[15]]: [[uposatha]] day if you go by straight decimal/solar calendar date instead of the (I believe) more traditional lunar
    • [[spiel]]:
      • I found [[spiel/agora]] again after more than two years :D
        • it’s great, I like it even more than last time
        • I think even before it gets [[fediverse]] support (for login) it may already be one of the best chat platforms I’ve seen
        • [[matrix]] could/should look like this
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-12]]
  • [[Bettwanzen]] inspection finally came and results were relatively positive:
    • These are [[bed bugs]] indeed.
    • And, as I was hoping, they are only in the main bedroom — haven’t spread to the guest room where I’ve been sleeping or anywhere else it seems \o/
  • [[work]]
    • yep
    • prod meeting — interesting topics came up. I think they will feed in what we’re trying to write
    • then I reviewed 5x roadmaps and edited a document I’d been meaning to dedicate time to :D
  • [[flancia]]
  • [[Fediverse clients]]:
  • Thought of [[7]] (as an example number):
    • Numeric nodes should probably auto-pull known number-related nodes like [[hex]] and [[prime]]? In particular in the [[Agora of Flancia]] these contains utilities.
  • [[december adventure]]:
    • [[new style pulls]] for social media.
    • [[misc]]
      • fix [[micro.blog]]? builds on ‘canonical’ concept which I’ve tackled a bit previously
      • reintroduce autopull/pull all and fold all
        • in the sense of a button that pulls resources - maybe on both agora-level and node-level?
        • also maybe s/search/go/, try it out
          • would interact nicely with that old [[double click]] idea: if you’re already at the node and you press go, it redirects to the go link if there is one known
  • thought about [[web rings]]:
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-11]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-10]]

2023-12-10

πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-08]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-07]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-06]]
  • Woke up feeling a lot better!
    • 7h of sleep breathing acceptably make a lot of difference.
    • [[2023-12-05]]: I ended up feeling better after I was finally able to take a nap late in the afternoon. In the evening I did some open source coding, [[december adventure]]. Enjoyed it a lot!
  • [[dentist]] appointment — I tested negative for Covid and my symptoms are almost gone so I think I’ll attend (and ask if they are OK with it, like last time I was so-so).
  • Today back to [[work]]. I plan to work until 20, at which time I’ll join…
  • The [[fellowship of the link]] weekly call :)
    • :D
    • [[neobooks]]
    • [[doing]]:
      • I need to fix pushing to the Agora from Hedgedoc, for some reason it broke
  • In [[2024]] I want to resume work on/with [[coop cloud]].
    • Hmm, that could actually fit the [[december adventure]]?
    • I want to improve flancia.agor.ai; make it be up to date, match anagora.org.
      • update docker images
    • [[december adventure]] :)
    • [[poll]]:
      • I ran a poll whether to try to kill or heal [[Moloch]] in [[2024]] and it came out [[heal Moloch]].
      • I thus plan to write an [[open letter to Moloch]] and try to reason things out, try to disentangle ourselves constructively and mutually improve on views, values and behaviours.

2023-12-06

πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-05]]
  • [[december adventure]]:
    • [[day 5]] :)
      • I’m testing what I’m calling [[natural pushes]] with this section in my journal.
      • these blocks should all be pushed to [[december adventure]] because I suffixed it with a colon.
      • I think this reads a lot better than using #push and all.
      • ! also works as a suffix :)
  • [[4]]:
  • [[5]]:
    • hypothesis, in hz:
    • 134 152 134 152 311 [[hz]]
    • I will ask [[chatgpt]] to confirm, it is able to do this just fine (albeit probably inefficiently, for now, energetically speaking)
  • [[Agora Development]]:
    • having fun with it! :D
    • working on consistency + UI simplification
  • no [[work]] today except answering a message and quick code reviews as I got up feeling sick after a night of sleeping very little + quite badly due to heavy congestion (likely a common cold)
  • [[Flancia]]:
    • reviewed old papers and it felt freeing!
    • [[Flancia doc]]

2023-12-05

  • Forgot this tool existed. Im horrible at self hosting.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-04]]

2023-12-04

πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-03]]

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.

πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-02]]

2023-12-02

πŸ“… Date [[2023-12-01]]

2023-12-01

πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-30]]

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.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-29]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-28]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-26]]
  • 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]].
  • [[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

πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-25]]

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]]!

2023-11-25

πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-24]]

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]]

πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-23]]

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.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-22]]

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).
πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-21]]
  • 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 Β£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.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-20]]
  • [[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.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-19]]

2023-11-19

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

  • 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.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-18]]

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.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-17]]

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.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-16]]

2023-11-16

πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-14]]

2023-11-14

πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-13]]

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)]]

  • 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?

πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-12]]

2023-11-12

πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-09]]

2023-11-09

πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-07]]

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.

πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-05]]
  • ‘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

πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-04]]
  • [[Clients]] carryover [[expectations]] from the last [[lord]]. collapsed:: true
    • Steve Jobs recognized this, and so moved to own the whole experience.
  • George [[Frison]]
    • ‘Equalizer years’ were years in which everyone lost much of their [[herd]], and so everyone started off with a similar [[economic]] base in the next year.
    • "nothing sharpened [[hunting]] expertise as quickly as [[hunger]]"
    • Before World War II, there was a rural culture of [[hunting]] for [[meat]] due to the Great Depression. collapsed:: true
      • It’s possible many of these kinds of [[hunters]] were the [[war]] heroes we’ve heard about.
  • When do [[animals]] bunch up? What [[weather]] or [[terrain]] [[changes]] encourage this? collapsed:: true
πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-03]]
  • [[Strong]] [[animals]] may [[flee]] [[upward]]. collapsed:: true
    • Weaker animals tend to stay horizontal.
    • Wolves often [[test]] herds to figure out which animal might be easiest to isolate. So, most [[hunts]] fail- because they are tests.
  • "the higher the pitch the sharper the edge" [[stone]]
  • "for in every [[battle]] the [[eyes]] are defeated first" [[Tacitus]]

2023-11-03

πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-02]]
  • Several days later, here I am again :)
    • I am writing this on the [[Shinkansen]] back to Tokyo.
    • Looking forward to doing some reading/writing/coding.
  • [[Agora Development]]
    • I am tired of the Agora being so slow to load.
    • There are two solutions I can think of: a hard(er) one and an easy one. For some reason I’ve postponed both for very, very long. I think I’ll try to implement the easy one now ;)
  • What [[prioritization]] do we use to determine if we can accept a new [[project]]? collapsed:: true
    • What are the necessary [[parts]]?
    • How much [[time]] is needed?
  • How may we [[visualize]] [[work]] in progress?
  • What does an [[Asabiyyah]] Diagnostic Tool need to function?
  • Some people are born into [[owning]] [[territory]], others are not. Those who are not will have to [[own]] [[outcomes]] to get [[territory]].
  • [[Genre]] makes a familiar series of [[promises]].
  • β€œWolf-[[time]], wind-time, axe-time, sword-time, shields-high-time,”
  • One way to tell whether someone has a [[direction]] is to notice if they’re willing to consider [[trade-offs]] or [[prioritization]]. collapsed:: true
    • If they’re in a mode where they won’t entertain these about any given subject, they’re usually playing some sort of cheerleader role. And so can be safely ignored, except as an indication of what a crowd is cheering.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-11-01]]
  • [[Handovers]]/[[transitions]]: collapsed:: true
    • Who has ultimate [[responsibility]]?
    • What is the [[task]] sequence for a typical project/game?
    • What is your task? How many tasks do you have?
    • Is there any [[overlap]] between tasks?
    • Is there a [[method]] that we use regularly to guess what will happen during the game/project?
    • Do we [[prepare]] for what we guess is most likely to happen?
    • Does our [[communication]] style promote calm, cool, and collected [[action]]?
    • Do we use [[checklists]]?
    • Does everyone have a way of providing [[feedback]] for the project/game process?
    • Do our briefs unite our [[expectations]] and establish a unified [[narrative]] about what happened after a project/game?
    • Do we have a way to [[communicate]] our situation?
    • Do we [[train]] to improve our [[process]]?
  • how to increase [[flow]] of [[attention]]? What is up and down [[stream]] of it? collapsed:: true
    • when does attention wait?
    • what is the nature of [[boredom]]?
    • what is the rate at which [[attention]] consumes [[work]]?
  • What matters most to get where the [[organization]] wants to go to [[grow]]? collapsed:: true
    • Eliminate everything that doesn’t work toward that.

2023-11-01

πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-31]]
  • [[Business]] questions: collapsed:: true
    • When would surprise you, if it’s not done by that date? id:: 6546ca02-65fd-4078-9456-d5f58a161f65
    • What would be the dumb, simple way to make progress?
    • What’s a [[conversation]] you’ve been avoiding?
    • Who needs help today?
    • If I wasn’t already doing this, would I put energy down to do it today?
    • What [[problem]] are they solving?
    • What alternatives do they have to solving the problem? How is your [[solution]] different, how does it [[fit]] one problem better?
  • Intentional, calculated [[creation]] produces [[authentic]], [[smooth]] experiences for audiences.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-29]]

2023-10-29

  • For all the (supposed) micro-rationalities of [[capitalism]], it produces some huge macro-irrationalities ([[overshoot of planetary boundaries]], [[social inequity]]).

  • Finished listening to [[What Is To Be Done? with Breht O’Shea and Alyson Escalante]].

  • Listened: [[Red Menace: Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future]]

    • Great discussion of [[Climate Leviathan]] by the [[Red Menace]] crew. Very engaging overview of the book. Definitely need to get around to reading it.
    • I was listening while doing jobs around the house so didn’t get chance to note that much. But was nodding along to lots of salient points along the way.
    • Alyson and Breht both thought it a very worthwhile book and liked much of its analysis. They veer more to Climate Mao than Climate X, but still found value in X.
    • I do think there’s a strong argument that you’d need a planetary sovereign of some kind to tackle the urgent and global polycrisis.
  • Why bother with org-roam and Termux on my phone? Why not just stick with orgzly for fleeting notes and then process them at the laptop?

    • A few reasons. First off, I just enjoy tinkering, and it’s fun playing with Doom Emacs in Termux πŸ™‚
    • Second - in my daily life outside of work I don’t get that much opportunity to just sit at my desk so often fleeting notes just like you in orgzly without getting processed.
    • So far, though we’ll see how it pans out, I’m finding much more opportunity to grab a moment here and there and process stuff incrementally through termux.
  • [[Planetary sovereign]].

    • From [[Climate Leviathan]], the idea of a global ‘state’ of some kind, to coordinate response to climate crisis (and polycrisis in general).
  • [[Polycrisis]].

πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-28]]

2023-10-28

  • Got org-roam working with Doom Emacs in Termux. To a certain degree. Few niggly issues but decent start. [[Setting up Doom Emacs in termux on Android]]

  • Don’t sync org-roam.db between machines.

  • Getting into org-roam on Termux. Useful extra tool in addition to orgzly for taking fleeting notes on my phone. Actually, Termux is more the processing of fleeting notes into actual notes.

    • Couple of nice to fixes: pull in the .git folder so I csn commit from here too.
    • Fix that weird error so that I can insert new nodes.
  • Enjoying the Upstream interview with Breht and Alyson from Rev Left / Red Menace. They seem a bit more tempered here on another show - left to their own devices can sometimes come across tankie. Lots of good discussion of the need for an [[ecology of organisation]] here. [[What Is To Be Done? with Breht O’Shea and Alyson Escalante]].

  • Watching Coraline. It’s fun. I feel a bit seen by the Dad character…

  • This bit of text committed from my phone… will it work?

    • Hmm. It gets a bit confusing. Because the changes are synced by syncthing first, so git sees that as a conflict when I pull from the other device.
    • [[Syncing a git repo within a syncthing folder]]
    • OK. Now just syncing via git for a while, lets see how that goes.
  • Read: [[Universal basic services: the power of decommodifying survival]]

  • [[Problem with Kobo Clara HD battery]]. It is draining really fast.

  • Started reading Kate Soper’s [[Post-Growth Living]]. It’ll be about how a move away from consumerism will actually bring about a more enjoyable life.

πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-26]]

2023-10-26

  • Read: [[Problems with ecosocialism]]

    • Gives some critiques of ecosocialism. I don’t necessarily agree, but worth a read and a think about. Mainly: not enough concrete ideas on actual transition (perhaps true, also recognised by ecosocialists themselves); too much focus on the social, not enough on the eco (I’d disagree with that from what I’ve seen); capitalism is too embedded to overthrow it, need to work within current system (kind of reformist argument).
  • The [[planetary boundaries]] framework defines nine boundaries for the planet, and as of 2023 six of them have been overshot.

πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-25]]

2023-10-25

πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-24]]

2023-10-24

  • Please blame my autistic self for watching TADC instead of doing lectures. The effects of burnout has creeping lately since few weeks ago.
    • God I also finished my lectures in Oral Communication finally.
  • Any guesses why I’m looping Loverus by Tony Romera other than?
  • Back at home, I did some painful manual maintenance work involving fixing Chrome profiles after a upgrade gone horribly wrong. ANRs follow afterward, and an prompt about unresponsive Chrome were shown so I did the restart and everything’s [[cool and normal]].
  • From my mixtapes: "It feels so good to be letting go. It’s so much better now I’m not alone" (from Royal Blood’s Mad Visions
    • After some listens, the song gave me [[Freckle]] feels.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-23]]

2023-10-23

πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-22]]

<<<<<<< HEAD

  • [[trip to x]]!
    • Flying to [[Hong Kong]] and then [[Tokyo]] today.
    • With [[AG]] :)
    • Very happy about these holidays! They’ve been planned for long, and as work got tough in the last few months I relied on "seeing them coming" quite a bit.
    • I’ll be very jet lagged but also likely happy in Shinjuku for the first few days.

As I write this, I’m roughly above [[Baku]] about to cross the [[Caspian Sea]]. I don’t have an internet connection so I’m jotting down these local notes which will be synced to the Agora later.

I guess much has already been said about the relatively rareness of being offline nowadays; I am old enough to remember a time before being online at all was possible; then a time in which being online was rare; then the transition to always-on home internet and then mobile internet. I welcomed each increment of extra connectivity, and I still love how far we’ve gotten in this respect; but I can also appreciate the focus that being fully offline for a bit seems to bring. If nothing else it announces that the same focus is always available — behind the impulse to catch up with messages, or check feeds, or read about Baku and the Caspian Sea on Wikipedia (which is surely what I would be doing right now instead of writing these words were I not truly offline.)

I’m thinking a bit of Agora development during these holidays; it might or might not happen, based on all the sightseeing and experiencing we’ll be doing out there in the analog world :) But I thought it would still be nice to think of which things I could improve in the Agora if I have some time available.

I might write some [[executable subnode]] or other, if nothing else because they are fun and self-contained.

I think I will try to do one or two quick iterations on the [[Agora Server]] UI, maybe finishing the move to [[zippies]] as base widget as I’ve already done for nodes, stoas and most sections really. If I am able to move all sections under the search button/field to zippies the UI will probably look a lot more streamlined/be easier to understand, less confusing (this I’m guessing based on earlier feedback). Also it’s not hard to do and it is apparent, so it sounds fun.

Moving on to larger things, [[mycoverse]]/[[fediverse]] integration is something I would love to get done in this Q4 2023 so getting started on it would make a lot of sense. I would love to understand what is the minimum that Agora Server would need to do to be able to expose user accounts as Fediverse feeds. Then new/updated nodes could generate something close to new posts/notes? Unsure.

Also, some playing with an hypothetical [[knowledge commons extension]] for e.g. [[Obsidian]] or [[Logseq]] or [[VSCode]] could be in order after the conversation last week with the [[fellowship of the link]]. But one blocker there is that I’m currently not using either Obsidian or VSCode as garden editors, so I’m not directly scratching an itch. Having said that, moving back to Obsidian or Logseq or [[Foam]] for a bit could make sense to see how far they’ve gone since the last time I’ve used them. It’s still a shame Obsidian is not free software though.

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2023-10-22

πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-21]]
  • [[flancia]]!
    • [[flancia meet]]
    • I had to pick up a reminder and do my [[tax return]] today as tomorrow I travel for 3w+, and I could only extend the deadline for slightly less than that. I tried to enjoy it, and I was able to!
    • Having a great time with my [[mum]] being over.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-19]]
  • [[Flancia]]!
  • [[work]]
    • was tough
      • it started well with a reassuring conversation with a mentor, but the day ended with more conflict again in the employee representation group.
      • the sub-group within the group I am in — I find really draining; it is one of the most difficult groups I’ve been in, in part because of a personality mismatch between myself and the rest of the group and because of the high stakes/high stress situation.
      • apparently the group really really doesn’t like my way of being/acting/requesting information and reasons for why we do things the way we do. i find them overly hierarchical, surprisingly conservative, and IMHO sometimes uncharitable and rash (some of them).
      • I am thinking of stepping down from said subgroup but I think I will wait until after my holidays, which are imminent :)
  • [[audio recorder]]!
πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-17]]
  • [[Flancia]]!
    • [[work]]
      • I still have a cold but it was slightly better.
      • I checked with the [[dentist]] and they didn’t mind (I tested negative for Covid yesterday), so I went ahead and I’m happy with the results!
    • [[Agora]]!
πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-16]]
  • [[Flancia]]!
    • I woke up with a cold, have the sniffles hard; I [[worked]] from home and took it easy — no meetings after 15:30, tried to rest. Tested negative for Covid though!
    • Last light in the balcony looking southwest, cold day but beautiful.
    • [[AG]]
    • [[Lady Burup]]
    • I thought of [[Tara]].
πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-15]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-14]]
  • Welcome to the Agora of Flancia!
    • Today and every day.

Today is [[14 October 2023]] and I am glad you are here with me.

It has been ages since I’ve in Flancia, sometimes it feels, even as time is varying.


Here is what I call a poem: [[trees]].


This weekend I intend to advance what I call [[open letters]]: documents addressed to groups, openly published even as they are being written.


As of 21:45 CET I did some ‘day job’ stuff (having chosen it) and started a proposal (open letter, as per the above) that I had on my todo list.

Now switching to [[paramita]], planning to continue on related topics but in the [[commons]].


Today we bought the tickets to and from [[Sri Lanka]], happy about it!

πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-12]]
  • Outage from Alcova to South of mountain. [[storymine]]

2023-10-12

This is a book for people who want to destroy Big Tech. It’s not a book for people who want to tame Big Tech. There’s no fixing Big Tech. It’s not a book for people who want to get rid of technology itself. Technology isn’t the problem. Stop thinking about what technology does and start thinking about who technology does it to and who it does it for. This is a book about the thing Big Tech fears the most: technology operated by and for the people who use it.

πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-10]]
  • Tax benefits of utility company I was working at. [[storymine]]
  • Flat tire van using own vehicle for checks. [[storymine]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-09]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-07]]

2023-10-07

πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-05]]

Discussed divorce with [[L]], we’ve been separated for around 1.4 years. Things are going well and I wish us both happiness!

  • It’s been a minute since I made a journal entry. I’ve been busy with life. Also Baldur’s Gate has been eating all my time at the computer
πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-03]]

[[Imaginate un mundo sin latencia]] me dije, habiendo solucionado los problemas de conectividad bluetooth en [[nostromo]] :)

A veces extraΓ±o el [[espaΓ±ol]] como idioma.

  • #push [[youtube]]
    • the uploading experience even on studio.youtube.com leaves me unsatisfied :)
    • it is slow, you need to perform a multitude of clicks to get to publish something
    • friction should be much lower than this!

Mientras escribo esto, estoy escuchando [[hola frank]] de [[sumo]] :)

  • Next I will work on a [[proposal]] within the context of my work in the [[er-ch]].
  • And on my personal computer I will start work on [[x]] as the evening progresses :)

Let us pray, dice Luca Prodan :)

  • Young goth not happy about his girlfriend dancing with others. [[storymine]]
  • Anticipating the total cost of the flat tire in Mills. [[storymine]]

Here I would like to take the opportunity to say that the [[HedgeDoc]] Stoa, although it could be much improved, is already useful.

I think I’m going to start using it more often. And maybe enable logins? It seems to have [[oauth]] integration…

Which reminds me I want to work on that for the [[Agora]] proper, and maybe also on [[Google docs]] integration…

πŸ“… Date [[2023-10-01]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-30]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-29]]
  • [[29]] is [[drishti]] in the #Flancia [[Pattern Language]].
  • My hobby, sometimes: think about whether numbers are prime while laying down or sitting.
    • Take [[209]] — it is not prime.
      • I find this one quite beautiful, this is how I got there:
        • It is not multiple of two or five trivially.
        • It is not a multiple of three as its digits don’t add up to a multiple.
        • It is not a multiple of 7 because 210 is (as 21 is 3 * 7) and it’s too near.
        • Consider the hypothesis that it is multiple of 11.
          • 220 is a multiple of 11 because 22 is.
          • 220 - 11 is 209.
          • So 209 is a multiple of 11. What is the other factor?
        • Consider the hypothesis that it is a multiple of 19.
          • 19 * 10 is 190.
          • 190 + 19 is 209 precisely, so it is a multiple.
        • Therefore 209 is 11 * 19.
    • [[1547]] is not prime; it is 7 * 13 * 17.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-28]]
  • Thrown so snappily that my balls clapped. [[storymine]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-27]]
  • [[just do it]]
  • [[gone]]
  • [[yoga with x]]
  • [[fellowship of the link]] was great!
    • note this node takes minutes to load, and that’s sort of awesome
    • because of current agora behavior every embed that opens, in the node itself and everything it pulls by default, grabs focus when it loads. the result is a bit like an automatic tour of our conversations over the previous many months.
    • it is… Agora [[demo mode]] / [[autopilot]], as I dreamt it, implemented as a side effect of bugs!
    • [[neobooks]]
    • I discovered someone took amazing notes while I gave the presentation yesterday. It filled me with joy, such friends!
  • How to deny [[time]] to an enemy?
  • Rec center receptionist finding me students. [[storymine]]
  • What birds sing near this [[place]]? What other animals make sounds near that place? [[navigating]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-25]]
  • Reducing [[risk]] for the client makes it easier for them to [[decide]] to [[buy]].
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-24]]

2023-09-24

πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-23]]

2023-09-23

πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-22]]

2023-09-22

  • [[I got a new (second-hand) phone]].

  • Looking through the transcript of [[Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism]]. [[Marx’s theory of metabolism]].

  • Reading about [[system dynamics]] and the differences between the qualitative and quantitative approaches to it.

  • I’m using the RSS feed of changes to my digital garden (via Agora) as a very simple gardening tool (that is, something for improving the notes in my garden).

    • I add notes to my garden. Sometime later I see them in my RSS reader. I scan them. Often, upon reading, I’m then minded to tweak them slightly.
    • Not exactly a fancy [[spaced reptition]] system, but pretty simple and effective so far.
    • I’m thinking also to experiment with using my journal as a place where I revise key concepts in a spaced reptition kind of way. Just write certain thoughts out again and again until I feel they’re clear enough in my head to leave them for a while.
  • Wheee I’m currently editing my journal from vim in termux on my phone. Synced here via syncthing. Not sure how much I’ll need to be doing this but good to know that I can.

πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-21]]

De quiΓ©n son [[las jaras]]?

EstΓ‘n las de Maitreya, las de Tara, las de Avalokiteshvara!

  • Being called mean in grappling. [[storymine]]
  • β€œA risk-taking creative environment on the product side [requires] a fiscally conservative environment [on the business side]”
  • Befriend an [[astronaut]].
  • debating if I want to start into baldur’s gate…
    • I caved into peer pressure
  • People always smoking in the bathroom at the shelter and having the fire alarm go off in the middle of the night
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-20]]

i also use avidemux for simple video editing. 20:22 Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:love your naming scheme! Samuel Klein says:this diagram also suggests scale-free design [which is compelling; not privileging zoomed-in or zoomed-out parts of the whole] Samuel Klein says:++ 20:36 PK Peter Kaminski Peter Kaminski says:Flask is a lightweight web application framework for Python Peter Kaminski says: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/

20:41 JM Jerry Michalski Jerry Michalski says:is that like agreeing on a hashtag? 20:47 Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:One thing I’d like to see more easily is the list of repositories in your agora, and which ones have a node for a given wikilink Samuel Klein says:I have to run! This was great to see, worth tuning to a 15-min pitch Samuel Klein says:❀️ ❀️ ❀️ 21:01 avatar Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:oho my next meeting was moved back I have 15 min πŸ˜ƒ 21:02 JM Jerry Michalski Jerry Michalski says:yay! Jerry Michalski says:it’s a hypertext catfish! 21:05 Aram Zucker-Scharff Aram Zucker-Scharff says:I found this very useful! I have to drop 21:07 JM Jerry Michalski Jerry Michalski says:see you! 21:07 PK Peter Kaminski Peter Kaminski says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_switch

21:09 avatar Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:there’s probably room a tool like "full auto-linker" that could look through your doc + its context, check your agora for entities that exist across the conjoined namespace, and autolinking concepts the first time they appear in your doc

  • "What you [[want]] is for your [[kids]] to have fun. [[Winning]] [with [[stakes]]] is [[fun]], losing is not fun."
  • Some states may require school districts to allow homeschoolers to compete in a s[[school]] [[sport]]. collapsed:: true
    • [[Wyoming]] ostensibly allows homeschoolers to compete in a school sport while paying the same fees as school attendees.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-19]]
  • In a [[story]], the people start as one thing and end up another.
  • Felt a camaraderie with every hustler today. Something similar in knowing what it’s like to hunt for [[angles]] in [[grappling]].
  • Saw Tim at the gym. He said something led him there. Chores. Dropping something off. A road that led the [[gym]]. [[storymine]]
  • What’s a process that will guarantee that people will [[sleep]] well? [[business]]
  • Go where the highest [[stakes]] are.
  • What do people need to know to deal with more [[heat]] than they are used to? [[business]]
  • Every [[story]] is about one moment. One [[time]] someone [[changed]]. The start, middle, and end are to get to that moment and then wrap it up.
    • What is the [[meaning]] of the [[moment]]?
      • The [[moment]] of [[change]].
      • Once, Alice was ______. But now, Alice is _______.
    • What is the opposite of that moment?
    • The [[start]] is the [[opposite]] of the [[end]].
    • Generate several threads for each start, middle, and end and then pick the one that resonates most.
    • In media res.
    • What are the [[stakes]]?
    • How to add or ramp up stakes?
      • Clear [[want]] and [[problem]]. collapsed:: true
        • A [[promise]] of what they will get from taking in the [[story]].
        • Start with a [[familiar]] [[want]], end with a strange new want.
      • Say something that will give the audience the character’s [[hope]] and [[fear]]. collapsed:: true
        • Show what the audience needs to accept to [[feel]] what the [[character]] feels in the moment.
        • Have the characters present a plan so the [[audience]] feels like they are a part of a [[plan]], and then have to adapt to the [[problem]] when they face the problem.
      • Present half-bits of [[information]] about the [[end]]. collapsed:: true
        • What would let them [[wonder]] about what will happen [[next]]?
      • Take more [[time]] when the [[audience]] is in maximum [[tension]] and paying the most [[attention]]. Take very little time when the audience is not at that height of tension.
      • Have the [[characters]] make [[predictions]] that fail.
      • Put a [[camera]] in the [[scene]]- the [[narration]] should work like cameras in a movie. Situate the [[story]] in [[space]] and [[time]].
      • ‘but’ and ‘so’ offer a sense of [[change]], more than ‘and’ collapsed:: true
        • contradiction or multiplication
      • Make the [[big]] [[story]] [[small]], and the small story big.
      • [[Surprise]]. collapsed:: true
        • Distract during key information with other feelings- such as making them laugh.
        • [[Contrast]] what happens just before the surprise with the surprise.
      • [[Start]] with a [[laugh]] to get [[attention]]. collapsed:: true
        • If laughter precedes tragedy, it hurts more. Then make them laugh again, to dissolve [[tension]].
        • From Schwarzenegger: "Starting with something disarming and [[funny]] is a good way to stand out. You become more [[likable]], and people receive your [[information]] much better."
        • For triggering a [[laugh]], put the most [[surprising]] word at the [[end]]. collapsed:: true
      • [[End]] the story with [[yearning]].
      • A good [[story]] is about one thing only.
  • Check [[public]] [[domain]] releases every year.
  • Sorting through the thrown-up bits of [[sourdough]] [[pizza]] for [[glass]] or sand. [[Testing]] the grains on the window. [[storymine]]
  • [[Experience]] is the most valuable thing.
  • Penis allergic to vagina. [[storymine]]
  • [[Create]] things that people will [[want]].
  • First day of peer training today
    • I have 80 hours of training this month
    • I’m not a fan of class work but at least I get to help people
    • I’m going to be working on the weekends after class. 40 something days ago I was living on the sidewalk
  • HuggingFace javascript libraries are kinda lacking. good thing python is growing on me.
    • doing ai on laptop uses a lot of disk space
      • correction, ai on laptop is impossible
      • I thought it was doing operations in the cloud but it’s using local machine
        • so much for that idea
    • it’s sad that only people with money are going to be able to leverage ai in the short term
  • this image is cute
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-18]]
  • [[18]] is [[right understanding]] in the [[flancia]] [[pattern language]].
    • Flancia is in some ways a [[calendar]]. I usually revisit the Flancia Pattern language daily, considering the current date as my default focus.
  • [[drishtis]] ~ [[29]] might be particularly interesting as it is a list; 29 tends to remind me of items on which my focus is trained on by default in the running month.
    • on this note [[7]] and [[17]] this month were beautiful as usual
    • [[20]] ~ [[agora slides]] this month as I’ll present it to [[fotl]] in whichever shape it is :)
  • At this point I decided to start writing in the Agora assuming I have [[autopush]] on, even though I haven’t implemented it.
    • It will work like this: if you [[wikilink]] or #tag once node [[autopush]] in a resource, the Agora will try to push blocks for you even without mentioning #push; so the following would result in [[poems]] getting a push of this node without further ado.
  • [[poems]]
    • I wrote [[Agua]] again today on my paper notebook.
    • [[Fork]]
      • Fork
      • Fork, fork!
      • As we fork we’ll [[merge]]!
    • [[Merge]]
      • Merge
      • Merge, merge!
      • As we merge we’ll [[fork]]!
    • [[Flow]]
      • Flow
      • Flow, flow!
      • As we flow we’ll do kindly!
  • Hello from [[paramita]] :)
  • A [[story]] shows [[change]] in someone over [[time]].
  • The Casper Tiny Business Book Club: a way to bring tiny [[business]] starters together in Casper.
  • [[Communities]] benefit from a fear of missing out, which come from [[barriers]] to entry. At the most basic level, [[time]] and [[space]] are barriers to entry. collapsed:: true
    • Nodes need a way to connect to other nodes directly. Lots of small gatherings are needed to make a bigger [[group]] healthy.
  • Questions to ask to find a [[business]]: collapsed:: true
    • What [[problems]] do people have?
    • How many people share that [[problem]]?
    • Who do people get [[advice]] from in that [[space]]?
    • What are their [[weaknesses]]?
    • Which [[distribution]] models are most effective?
    • What problem isn’t being solved?
  • Kevin Von Duuglas-Ittu talks about "building a net with the world" to describe how competent Muay [[Thai]] [[fighters]] slowly stop [[movement]] in an [[opponent]]. This parallels "setting traps" or "creating luck". [[Position]] in an [[environment]] is used to [[block]] off movement for whoever is being [[hunted]].
    • "it is quite often a [[stalking]] [[game]] of techniques, exerting [[pressure]] on [[space]] and [[time]], until the [[kill]] can happen. At it’s highest, I suggest, it is ‘building a net of the world’"
  • "It’s not going [[fast]] that’s [[dangerous]], but stopping fast"- also applies to [[throws]] and [[unarmed]] [[combat]].
  • [[Change]] creates [[tension]].
  • [[Sailing]] with the [[wind]] limits speed more than sailing against it because the sail acts as a [[parachute]] and the boat can only go as [[fast]] as the wind (rather than faster).
  • hips higher, square to the ground, spine aligned, between [[earth]] and [[sky]], be upright
  • "[[Magic]] only happens in a spectator’s [[mind]]…focus on bringing an [[experience]] to the [[audience]]."
  • Who are the passionate [[outsiders]] with no [[tribe]] yet? collapsed:: true
    • Who’s bored with yesterday and demands tomorrow?
  • When to take a [[slow]] bend, and when to go [[fast]] to float over a [[problem]]?
  • Things [[fans]] of Jack Carr talk about from his [[books]]: collapsed:: true
    • Nonstop action (how would one make [[written]] [[action]] [[flow]]?)
    • —some chapters are still considered too long for fans
    • Cell workout routine- a fan says they’re stealing the character’s workout routine.
    • People are annoyed with how many books seemingly minor plotlines take.
    • Funny glimpses to the author’s worldview through the glossary.
    • You know the end (Reece will escape). You know the beginning (people have cornered Reece). People read to find out the middle (how?).
    • Hatchet patches- something for people to wear or display that shows that they are fans of the story. collapsed:: true
      • -A fan made a tomahawk to mimic the tomahawk used by characters.
      • -people are making breakfast dishes from the books.
      • -fans are wishing for the ability to purchase patches from the units in the series
      • -people are ordering watches that characters use in the books
    • "I have never felt as much [[anxiety]] and adrenaline listening to something before."
    • A reader has a feeling that anyone, including someone close to the [[protagonist]], could be a spy. This creates [[tension]]. Carr casts suspicion on someone close to Reece that Reece is putting all his eggs in- so the [[stakes]] are high.
    • Less politics, more ass-kicking.
    • Sucking air out of someone’s throat underwater.
    • Reece’s dad leaves him a note that suggests a puzzle. This puzzle is not solved until book 7.
    • People want to go to the [[places]] referred to in the book, even if they’re not real- they get the idea that it is a reference to something real.
    • Who is going to die? <- creates [[tension]]
    • Redacted portion of the book.
    • How did X happen?
    • Most fans are [[listening]] to [[audiobook]], rather than [[reading]].
    • In the Blood ending.
  • Things [[fans]] of Heinlein talk about from his [[books]]: collapsed:: true
    • Quotes about the nature of humanity.
    • Quotes about political dynamics.
    • Introduction to alternative views on sexuality (polyamory, bisexuality, sexual acceptance).
    • Competent man as celebration of man.
    • A character who is what a male reader admires in women (freedom of embodied expression), followed by trauma closing the expression up. The reader cried on the scene about her having her lover come home in a coffin and hearing Taps.
  • Things [[fans]] of qntm talk about from his [[books]]: collapsed:: true
    • [[Worldbuilding]] doesn’t overexplain, which gives it room to breathe.
    • "It’s nice to get a story of [[existential]] [[horror]], in the face of vast and inimical entities from beyond human comprehension, that isn’t just another Lovecraft pastiche."
    • Uplifting good vs evil end despite an extremely uncertain world.
    • Human feeling contrasted against existential alienation.
    • Endings that are touching and deeply personal, as well as with a grand [[vision]] for the future of humanity.
    • Putting human life into a galactic perspective and making the reader feel insignificant in a vast world.
    • Appreciating anti-fascist just-so stories.
    • Plausible explanation of magic (perhaps echoing Wattsian vampires).
    • Hard scifi magic (the paradox attraction thingy)
    • A sense of people getting punished for being confident (the protagonist gets punished)
    • Some things remain unknown, and unexplained.
  • [[Cold]] [[air]] = [[high]] [[pressure]] [[Warm]] air = [[low]] pressure

2023-09-18

πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-17]]

Loved the [[Majihima]] discourses on [[Heartwood]] (I already knew this), [[Cowherd]], [[Gosinga]].

[[3149]] is an interesting number. It’s not prime: it’s [[47]] (we will defeat Moloch) * 67 (Bodhi, Bodhisattva).

2023-09-17

πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-16]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-15]]

2023-09-15

πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-13]]

2023-09-13

  • Read: [[The Magic of Small Databases]]

    • Enjoyed this. Thoughts about an indie web approach to curating and sharing and collaborating on small lists, indexes, collections.
  • [[Subconscious Beta]].

    • Been keeping an eye on it for a while, and I certainly like the sound of [[Noosphere]] and [[Subconscious]]. Collective knowledge management that is local-first and with data sovereignty. Discovery, feeds and follows of others is on the way apparently, which would be a great set of features I think.
    • It sounds kind of like a slicker Agora. But I don’t necessarily use ‘slick’ as meaning ‘better’. I love Agora’s ramshackle and homebrew approach.
  • And I haven’t come across anything from Noosphere that suggests it has any politics of any kind. The beta announcement is signed off with "Let’s 10x humanity’s collective intelligence", which, absent of any political direction, is kind of problematic to me.

πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-12]]

2023-09-12

  • Swinging back to blogs and RSS feeds over Mastodon. The stream of info on microblogging sites is too much for me, and the signal-to-noise ratio is too weak.

  • Reading: [[The environmental impact of a PlayStation 4]]

    • "PlayStation 4 has the most dazzling and problematic parts of global capitalism purring in unison."
    • "It is an exquisite, leanly designed machine pulsing with the exploitation of Earth and its people."
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-11]]
  • [[Flancia]]!
  • [[agora slides]]
  • #push [[Flancia
  • #push [[debate]]
    • Imagine a public global debate about the crimes of [[Moloch]], and the ways to move forward.
  • #push [[liquid democracy]]
    • Imagine calling elections in every nation-state currently recognized by the UN where a group of people think they could be useful. These meaning in addition to those called by the state in question as per custom up-to-date: put succinctly, imagine the citizens of the internet calling for open, transparent, fair, liquid-democracy-advancing elections in Russia, United States, China — a priori without the authorization of the states in question, but with an intent to cooperate rationally with them.
  • my shadow.tech box isn’t loading. I wonder if they’re having issues. I don’t see anything on status page πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-10]]
  • For [[handfighting]], it is often advantageous to get two [[hands]] on one [[limb]] and bring that limb across the opponent’s [[body]].
  • Been using gitpod a lot for development
    • It’s nice because the machines are so big and good internet
    • They are ephemeral systems so you don’t have to worry about machine specific unintentional dependencies
      • Is a thing a lot of the time in VPS environments
  • Started playing Starfield
    • pretty cool game, nice gameplay and graphics.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-09]]

2023-09-09

πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-08]]
  • [[Dick Thompson]] of the [[Vietnam]]-era [[SOG]] units noticed that North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese ate different food. He could [[smell]] the difference. So they all started eating North Vietnamese food. They also stopped using [[soap]] to shower- so that they would not alert North Vietnamese of their presence in the jungle.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-07]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-05]]
  • I’ve been working on sqlite importer in agora-bridge repo.
  • agora-server now supports pushed nodes in PR
  • weird day because of monday holiday
  • I’m seeing people with sqlite databases with millions of records and reporting it’s fast.
  • playing around with docker on gitpod.
    • I have a sql docker image for agora-server and one for agora-bridge in feature branches.
    • I have a third gitpod running a docker compose repo
  • Really liking my setup where I have github actions build docker images automatically for me
  • Now running my compose beast at agora.vera.pink
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-04]]
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-03]]
  • Been messing around with fly.io which is like railway but allows more control over your instance
    • railway doesn’t let you ssh in to debug server which is kind of annoying.
    • fly.io also has a lot of config options like machine size and such and has a toml file for config
    • railway doesn’t spin up independent VMs though so price is probably cheaper across the board
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-02]]
  • Woke up by [[Bodensee]].
    • Will miss [[Flancia meet]] today as I temporarily don’t have internet connectivity.
    • Will try to catch up later with people who were/are around! Apologies for missing it.
  • [[Flancia meet]] topics as I expected them
    • [[docker]]
    • [[agora recipe]] is running on [[coop cloud]], which is nice (this is what is serving link.agor.ai) but it needs some improvements:
      • It should be easier to override Agora settings from the coop cloud recipe proper, e.g. Agora name and sources. This could take place in the form of mounting agora.yaml as a config file?
      • It should be able to run one or more of the Agora bots which are part of [[agora bridge]] but currently not running for any Agora in agor.ai.
    • [[activitypub]]
      • Still unsure about whether to implement first-party support in e.g. [[agora server]], or to write a separate activitypub component (where? maybe in bridge?), or to rely on an existing implementation like the canonical golang one which seems quite mature and is geared precisely towards API usage (doesn’t offer
  • #push [[What is the Agora]]?
    • I’ve been wanting to write a special node which acts as explainer to the Agora that should be accessible to the average (?) internet browser, in the sense of a person browsing the internet.
    • Node [[agora]] was maybe originally that but it has amassed a lot of historical content which makes it harder to offer a ‘curated’ primer experience.
    • I’ve also been thinking about this as a [[WTF]] button which we could render in red up top, with the milder tooltip ‘I don’t understand / what is this place anyway?’
    • Surely writing this would be an interesting challenge in the first place :) The Agora is many things, at least to me, and probably to all the people already in the Agora of Flancia; and it has accreted layers (meanings) as time goes by.
  • [[Jerome]] told me about [[Beaufort]] cheese yesterday.

As I sit here with my laptop (with [[vim]]) and no internet connection, I realize that I don’t write here longform as much as I could. I guess the availability of the internet does make it easier for me to get distracted, which granted I see sometimes as a positive (it motivates a form of exploration), but might not be conducive to practicing the skill of writing coherently and consistently for more than a few bullet points in each journal.

The thought of writing in my blog again (meaning https://flancia.org/mine) has come up a few times recently. I’m unsure; I like the process of writing in my garden, and how everything I write in it automatically shows up in the Agora moments later (at least when I have an internet connection). So maybe what I want is to embrace this space as a blog, and just try to write longer form alongside with my mainly outline-style notes, like other Agora users already do so beautifully.

  • [[todo]] maybe this weekend
    • Upload social media activity gathered by the [[agora bots]] to git repos.
      • This one has been in the back burner for a while and doesn’t sound very hard.
      • It would also remove one of the main reasons to keep making full Agora backups — which keep causing low disk space events in the Flancia servers.
      • All in all good bang-for-the-buck to start the weekend.
    • Fix hedgedoc
      • I think hedgedoc is not syncing to the Agora, the syncing process has some bugs at least — while I’m dealing with ‘git autopush’ as per the above, it’d be a good time to take another look at this process and see if it can be made incrementally better.
    • Actually autopull [[etherpad]] or [[hedgedoc]] on empty nodes
      • I realized the other day this is quite simple; I tried this a few times in the past and ended up disabling autopull of the stoas because it can be disruptive (they tend to steal focus when pulled), but the disruption is really just because they are in the wrong position for empty nodes. Because empty nodes render on a separate template path, it should be straighforward to just embed the right stoa right there in the ‘nobody has noded this yet’ message, making the stoa onboarding experience much more convenient.
    • merge PRs
      • Aram’s
      • vera formatting
      • vera sqlite
    • update journals page
      • formatting of the page is all different/weird
    • the pull of flancia.org/mine is broken above because of the parenthesis — how to fix that?
    • update [[patera]] to something non ancient?
      • whatever is running on [[hypatia]]?
πŸ“… Date [[2023-09-01]]
  • Started working on wikilinks browser extension
    • It’s a redo of an extension I was working on previously but now I’m using the plasmo framework which makes development and deployment to app store a lot nicer
  • Playing with cursor which is a vscode fork for AI
πŸ“… Date [[2023-08-31]]
  • My first day on fourth floor today
  • Got called by impact nw which is an organizations for veterans facing homelessnes. I’m meeting them at their office on Wednesday. It’s interfering with a job fairΒ  I wanted to do. We’ll see how it goes.
    • I might reschedule depending on how I feel as it gets closer. They’re just gonna do an intake so I feel like it could be pretty flexible.
  • I’ve been trying my hand at zig development lately. For the most part I like high level languages (javascript being my favorite), but sometimes it’s fun to dig into the internals of things.
    • zig is oriented to replace c by using the c ecosystem as opposed to rust which is trying to create its own.
    • the memory management model of zig feels a lot closer to c
  • Found pdm for python today it’s like poetry but feels more sleek and easier to use
    • python is kinda growing on me, I probably like it the best after javascript. low level languages like rust are interesting but I don’t really need to drop that low for developing the kinds of applications I like to make.
πŸ“… Date [[2023-08-30]]
  • [[Flancia]]!
    • [[30]] in the Flancia Pattern Language means [[flow]].
      • 6 means flow also some days and 30 is 6 * 5 so it makes sense.
        • 5 means [[focus]], so you can think of it as focusing on flow or flowing focusing, which to some extent may be seen as redundant (but doesn’t need to be).
  • [[work]] was fine :) I’m settling into a rhythm of working until late with a break in the middle, and I enjoy it.
  • I attended to what I could of the [[fellowship of the link]], then a weird Jitsi bug that persisted across devices and internet connections locked me out! I couldn’t see or hear anyone.
    • I’ll read notes and try to watch the recording though :)
  • Wrote, thought, meditated.
  • [[bouncepaw]]
  • I thought I added stuff recently but maybe not. Thats the downside of using your own software, you’re never sure if you broke it or not
  • I go upstairs tomorrow. I’ll have a roomate. Not my first choice but we’ll see how it goes
πŸ“… Date [[2023-08-28]]
  • Feeling kinda down this last week. I missed satsang today
  • Talked to case manager about housing stuff. She put me in her calendar to meet weekly
  • I’m going to worksource tomorrow to see about some opportunities
  • using javy to compile js to wasm
    • handy for functions that I want on multiple platforms like parsers where I don’t want to rewrite the parser grammer in a slightly different dialect on each platform