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

2023-12-02

• [[Social movement theory]].

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

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

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

2023-12-01

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

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

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

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

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

2023-11-30

• Listened: [[A blast in Manhattan]]

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

• Read: [[Doughnut Economics]]

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

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

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

2023-11-27

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

• [[Work Log: 2023-11-27]]

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

2023-11-26

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

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

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

Gone, gone beyond!

All gone to the other shore

Gone kindly

If you have to go

[[Go kindly]]!

• [[Flancia meet]]

2023-11-25

• Read: [[The great carbon divide]]

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

• Listened: [[Movement and Stillness]]

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

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

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

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

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

2023-11-24

• Read: [[Doughnut Economics]]

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

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

• Watched: [[Isle of Dogs]]

2023-11-23

• Reading: [[Doughnut Economics]]

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

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

• Today at work I:

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

2023-11-22

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

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

• Today at work I:

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

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

2023-11-21

• Today at work I:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2023-11-20

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

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

2023-11-19

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

  • Love these [[Tesa Collective]] games.

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

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

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

2023-11-18

• Been enjoying [[Superstore]] of late.

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

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

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

2023-11-17

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

2023-11-16

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

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

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

• Digging Until Here for Years by Proem right now.

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

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

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

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

2023-11-15

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

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

2023-11-14

• Fun, busy [[Repair Cafe]] tonight.

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

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

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

2023-11-13

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• [[Hugo Blanco]] passed away.

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

2023-11-12

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

2023-11-10

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

2023-11-09

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

2023-11-08

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

2023-11-07

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

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

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

2023-11-06

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

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

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

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

2023-11-05

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

• [[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
  • [[Terrain]] is used to get into a [[position]] which raises the [[chance]] of a [[kill]].
  • Successful [[hunting]] is tied to knowledge of local [[terrain]] and how [[animals]] use that terrain.

2023-11-04

• [[Boox handwriting recognition missing whole words out]]

• [[Boox Firmware v3.5]]

• Starting having a go at [[an Iterative Enquiry diagram for digital ecosocialism]]. Definite work in progress.

• Listened: [[Anthony Hodgson, "Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World"]]

• [[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

• Read: [[Thatcherite conservatism is on its last legs. I’ve had a disturbing glimpse of what might replace it]]

  • Why is [[Peter Thiel]] giving talks to Conservatives in the UK? Probably not unrelated to trying to get NHS contracts for [[Palantir]].

• [[Storing my SSH keys in KeePassXC]]

• [[Using SSH keys in Termux for Git]]

• 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]].
• “Wolf-[[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.

2023-11-02

• Listened: [[How We Show Up with Mia Birdsong]]

• [[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

• Listened: [[Today in Focus: ‘We’re totally isolated’: inside Gaza as Israel’s war intensifies]]

  • They speak to a journalist in Gaza who is trapped there along with his family.You can hear the airstrikes happening during the interview.

• [[MermaidJS]] seems to have come a long way recently. Might start using it in conjunction with [[PlantUML]].

• [[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.

2023-10-30

• Read: Meet the Climate Activists Who Moved Cross-Country to Build a New Civilisatio…

  • [[Cooperation Hull]] and [[Cooperation UK]]

• Listened: [[Today in Focus: How a contested history feeds the Israel-Palestine conflict]]

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 🙂
  • 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]].

  • "a tangled knot of crises spanning global systems."
  • https://theconversation.com/polycrisis-may-be-a-buzzword-but-it-could-help-us-tackle-the-worlds-woes-195280

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.

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.

2023-10-25

• Listening: [[What Is To Be Done? with Breht O'Shea and Alyson Escalante]]

• [[Socialism]] is a political philosophy that advocates for [[social equity]], the redistribution of wealth, and the ownership of the means of production.

• [[Ecosocialism]] is a political philosophy that brings together socialist politics and environmental politics. [[Social and environmental issues are interconnected and inseparable]].

• I am an ecosocialist. [[To be a 21st century socialist is to be an ecosocialist]].

• Alternatives to Big Tech that aren't part of a political strategy are just more tech exceptionalism.

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.

2023-10-23

• Continuing from [[2023-10-22]], I use this Google Workspace integration for GDrive to quickly write these daily notes anywhere, alongside this one too.
• From my autistic mental health playlist (as suggested by YT):
  • TBD
  • 5 Things To Know About Passive Suicidal Ideation
  • TBD
  • What is trauma? The author of “The Body Keeps the Score” explains | Bessel van der Kolk | Big Think
  • Codependency and Complex Trauma Part 1
• Casually completing my lectures on ELS

Tags: #dailynotes #daily-notes

<<<<<<< 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.)

• [[agora]]

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.

• I tried [[framatalk]] by [[framasoft]] yesterday and today and I'm liking it a lot.
  • [[jitsi]] based.
  • https://framatalk.org/your-room-name and it drops you straight into a call, beautiful.

2c5b52a413a40d92a8033377f285a8589e4e12e5

2023-10-22

• Listened: [[Jason Hickel]]

• Occurs to me that technology-focused ideas around alternatives to Big Tech, that are not explicitly tied to a broader political programme, are themselves a form of [[tech exceptionalism]]. Hence I think [[digital ecosocialism]] is important.

• Listened: [[Culture, Power and Politics: Ecosocialism and Degrowth]]

• Think the theme of the discursive part of my roundup this month can be around [[ecosocialism and degrowth]], extending that a little bit to an exploration of [[digital degrowth]].

• Yesterday was [[Repair Day]] and it went great. Biggest number of events we've ever listed - pulled in events from quite a few different networks, in particular the [[Journées Nationales de la Réparation]] in France brought in a huge amount.

• We launched the [[UK Repair and Reuse Declaration]]. Asking UK policymakers to introduce repair-friendly legislation.

• Listened: [[Voices of Fixfest UK 2023]]

• Read: [[Most Brits bin electrical items if they break. These 'magic' Repair Cafés are trying to change that]]

• [[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.

• [[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]]!
  • https://github.com/Dimowner/AudioRecorder is open source and seems decent: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dimowner.audiorecorder&pli=1

• [[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]]!
    • I thought of implementing ! as a short for #push, meaning that anything wikilinked and "strongly asserted" behaves the same as push: the following blocks are transcluded in the destination.
    • [[open letters]]!
      • [[open letter to musk]]
      • [[carta abierta a milei]]
    • [[hex]] numbers :)
    • I calculated [[397]] as the 11th hex number, but if you define them naturally (with one ball yielding the first hex number, not the zeroeth) it would be [[469]]
      • Still it was fun to do it in my head :) it took 15'-25' while I was doing yoga.
      • I came away with a renewed appreciation of hex numbers.
    • I then decided to code an hex [[number]] producer :)
      • https://github.com/flancian/garden/commit/3d4e608b6cb78aa55b039cd6ce0716e9d8275e9d just for fun.

• [[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]].

• [[Flancia]]!
  • Thank you [[AG]].
  • Thank you to all my [[friends]]!

• 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!

• Outage from Alcova to South of mountain. [[storymine]]

2023-10-12

• Started reading [[The Internet Con]]. Off to a fiery start!

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.

• [[flancia]]!
  • [[work]]
  • [[fellowship of the link]]
    • [[public ai]]

• Tax benefits of utility company I was working at. [[storymine]]
• Flat tire van using own vehicle for checks. [[storymine]]

• [[flancia]]!
  • [[work]]
    • [[er-ch]] gets intense sometimes
    • still it's a privilege to represent [[zooglers]] and to some extent [[googlers]], meaning my fellow employees
  • [[aldhari]]

2023-10-09

• [[Skipping errors during org-publish]]

• [[The Internet Con]] looks like it'll be a good read.

2023-10-08

• Listened: [[Cory Doctorow on Seizing the Means of Computation]]

• [[flancia]]!
  • [[flancia meet]]
  • #push [[telescopes]] :)
    • [[refractor]] vs [[reflector]]
      • [[reflectors]] require [[collimation]] but are overall more capable
    • [[reflectors]]
      • [[orion skyquest xt6]]
        • hmm, [[orion]] seems to be [[employee owned]]?
      • [[celestron starsense explorer]] is available on [[galaxus]]
• on other definitions of [[pull]] and [[push]]: https://kellanem.com/notes/push-and-pull
• #push [[open letters]]
  • [[17]] [[maitreya]]
  • [[71]] [[musk]]
  • [[97]] [[alphabet]], or should it be [[98]] as [[google]] was founded then?
  • I finally wrote down the list for [[October 2023]] on paper (a post it I'll keep in one of my desks) and above
• [[carta abierta a milei]] se suma a la competición (?)

2023-10-07

• Read: [['Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse']]: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech.

• Listened: [[What Does Class Mean Now?]]

• Read: [[On Technology and Degrowth]]

• Re: [[Reclaim the stacks]]. Varoufakis talks about a "[[cloud rebellion]]". Doctorow talks about [[seizing the means of computation]].

• Listened: [[Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Broke and How to Fix It]]

• [[6]] ~ [[flow]]
• [[open letters]] ~ [[59]]

• today is [[5]] October
  • threw [[27]] which is [[loving kindness]], [[merge and keep merging]], and [[taixu]] in September,
• [[work]]
• [[flancia]]
  • [[AG]]
  • reunited with my [[Lady Burup]]

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

• [[work]]
  • [[er-ch]]
  • meetings
• [[Flancia]]
  • [[Zürich Film Festival]] with [[AG]] :)

• [[work]]
  • meetings with [[er-ch]]
  • [[consultation doc]]
  • [[proposal]]
• [[flancia]]!
  • I've been thinking of [[flancia home]] in the context of [[mohammed]]
  • [[37]]
    • [[bodhi]]

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

A veces extraño el [[español]] 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 :)

• Four hours later, I'm back here after three hours of work and then dinner+yoga.
• [[janet]] made me laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXbYeJKcRf4

• 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...

• [[uuid]] [[v7]] looks cool
• [[work]]
• [[Flancia]]

• [[Flancia]]!
  • Today is also [[31]] of [[September]] in a way, just as yesterday was the [[0]] of [[October]] :)
  • [[Pure Land]]
    • [[Maitreya]]
      • [[Inner Court]]
    • [[Amitabha]] which I have occasionally written [[Amithaba]] :)
      • Their Pure Land is [[Sukhavati]] or [[Land of Bliss]]
      • Apparently was called [[Dharmakara]] as a [[Bodhisattva]]
        • Although [[Avalokiteshvara]] and [[Vajrapani]] are their disciples
  • [[Agora]]
    • [[agora development]]
      • [[zippies]]
        • maybe move stoas back down? unsure. this might be an alternative to making zippies work.
      • [[autopush]]
        • take a look
      • update agorai
      • [[executable subnodes]] needs cleanup (feature flag)
        • flip it on for anagora.org
  • #push [[Open Letters]]
    • the [[Agora]] is a repository of open letters:
      • [[Taixu]]
        • do I need to start it? or perhaps it's the [[Open Letter to the Agora of Flancia]]?
      • [[Google]]
        • [[Open letter to Google]]
      • [[M]]
        • [[Open letter to Maitreya]]
        • [[Open letter to Mara]]
        • [[Open letter to Moloch]]
        • [[Open letter to Musk]]
        • [[Carta abierta a Milei]]

• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[AG]] :)
  • [[Japan]]
    • [[tickets]] :)
    • [[best japanese movies]]
  • #push [[Taixu]] ~ died 19[[47]], [[57]] years old
    • [[Pure Land]]
      • [[Maitreya]]
        • [[Inner Court]]
      • [[Amitabha]] which I have occasionally written [[Amithaba]] :)
        • Their Pure Land is [[Sukhavati]] or [[Land of Bliss]]
        • Apparently was called [[Dharmakara]] as a [[Bodhisattva]]
          • Although [[Avalokiteshvara]] and [[Vajrapani]] are their disciples
  • [[Agora]]
    • [[agora development]]
      • [[zippies]]
      • [[autopush]]
      • [[executable subnodes]] needs cleanup (feature flag)
  • [[movie]]
    • [[Los Reyes del Mundo]] en [[Filmingo]]

• [[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.
    • I got to this one by whistling a 1547 tone, seeing it in [[spectroid]], then checking https://anagora.org/prime/1547 pull :)

• Thrown so snappily that my balls clapped. [[storymine]]

• [[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]]

• [[work]]
  • [[ER-CH]]
    • [[NTF]]
• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[agora development]]?
• [[RAV]]

• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[work]]
  • [[social coop]] [[twg]]
  • [[omelas]]

• Reducing [[risk]] for the client makes it easier for them to [[decide]] to [[buy]].

• #push [[Flancia]]
  • remember the importance of the [[corpus]].
    • how it is gathered, how it is selected, how it is curated (gardened?) over time.
  • [[Agora]]
    • [[Agora development]]
      • Working on [[prime]], [[executable nodes]] after a 10 month hiatus: I told myself I should go for something very free/open on this Sunday flowing :)
    • [[Mycoverse]]
  • [[space]]
  • [[gloria]]
  • [[avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[trip to x]]
    • [[japan]]
      • [[best japanese movies]]
    • [[sri lanka]]

2023-09-24

• Read: [[The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism]]. By Jason Hickel. Great. First I've seen him explicitly mention [[degrowth]] and [[ecosocialism]] together (quite likely he has before, given his outlook, just first time I've noticed it). The prefix of 'Democratic' is interesting though. Deliberate positioning with [[democratic socialism]] I presume, as opposed to say [[degrowth communism]].

• I'd like to do this: org mode - Org-publish: Ignore errors when publishing and report them later

• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[flancia meet]]
    • Quiet but also nice :) Catching up with messages.
• Yesterday we watched [[Demons in Paradise]] with [[AG]] -- about the civil war in [[Sri Lanka]]. Harrowing stuff.
• What is the name of that nice Python CLI library again?
  • [[click]]?
• [[state of html]] survey seems like a great way to learn about lots of modern [[HTML]] features: https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-html/2023/
• #push [[spaces]]
  • [[fork]]!
    • fork, fork!
    • as we merge we'll fork!
    • [[nostromo]] music
    • [[paramita]] [[revolution against Moloch]]
    • [[sila]] [[letters]]

2023-09-23

• Now Im writing from [[Doom Emacs]] installed in termux on Android! Not got org-roam set up yet though, so cant create links properly. Bit of a downside of org-mode/org-roam to be honest, for digital gardens, that you cant just use straight wikilinks.

• [[Setting up Doom Emacs in termux on Android]]

• Listened: [[W. Brian Arthur (Part 1) on The History of Complexity Economics]]

• Listened: [[What happens to your waste? with Oliver Franklin-Wallis]]

• What is [[ecosocialism]]? The combination of socialist politics and environmental politics. It advocates for policies and programmes that promote planetary stability, social equity and agency and democracy.

• Listened: [[Working Class Voices: Season Two with Emma River Roberts]]

  • Ads says something in it along the lines of [[To be a 21st century socialist is to be an eco-socialist]]

• [[The Nature of Technology]]. Mentioned in the podcast with W. Brian Arthur on complexity economics. Its a book of his. The combination of elements thing sounds not dissimilar to what Gordon Brander talks about in recent posts. (Concept design, [[Fragments: vertebrate technology]])

  • Ha, OK, I was reading it again and he quotes Arthur in that post. Fun when these links happen.

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.

• [[Flancia, or the revolution against Moloch]]

  • [[work]]
  • agora development
  • flancia writing
  • [[agora slides 2023]]
    • presented yesterday to the [[fellowship of the link]] after some technical difficulties
    • received very interesting feedback! I am very thankfull
    • -> [[agora commons]] [[agora platform]]

• research [[Gosinga]]

  • This + Sri Lanka produced no hits but led me to [[Anuradhapura]] somehow on my web search

• #push [[las jaras]]

De quién son [[las jaras]]?

Están las de Maitreya, las de Tara, las de Avalokiteshvara!

• Being called mean in grappling. [[storymine]]
• “A 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

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 😃 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 pull

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.

• creating an app with native script is so much easier than native android development.
  • I'm trying my hand at flutter which isn't much better
    • flutter is actually kinda nice once you get the hang of it. it looks pretty nice
    • the startup time is kinda horrible, luckily it uses hot reload for code changes 
      • 

• 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
        • For a [[laugh]], the thing that is not like the others is at the [[end]].
        • [[Exaggeration]] is only [[funny]] if it's [[clear]] to the [[audience]] that it is an exaggeration.
    • [[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
  • 

• [[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]] :)
  • [[fork]]
    • [[nostromo]] music
    • [[paramita]] [[agora slides]]
    • [[sila]] [[letters]]

• 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

• Listened: [[Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism]]

• Some good [[right to repair]] news lately. What with the Californian repair bill passing state legislature. And the EU ecodesign requirements on smartphones and tablets.

• And also: [[STATEMENT: Google announces 10 years of tech support for Chromebooks]]

• Not all good though: [[Google won’t repair cracked Pixel Watch screens]]

• [[Flancia]]!
  • In [[Flancia]] all weekend!
    • [[53]]
      • [[crema pastelera]]
      • [[creme brulee]]
      • [[crema catalana]]
  • [[Flancia, or the revolution against Moloch]]
    • agora development
    • flancia writing
    • [[agora slides 2023]]
      • [[commons]]
  • research [[Sri Lanka]]
  • research [[Gosinga]]
    • Which Gosinga, I wonder? I thought it would be one in Sri Lanka (reading this on [[2023-09-21]] but it doesn't seem to be the case.

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

• I'll use the busyness of life of late to shift the reclaim roundups to the end of the month that's in their name, rather than the start. So - I've got until end of September for [[Reclaiming the stacks: September 2023 roundup]].

• Maybe eventually I'll just stop making it a monthly thing. I like the format of [[Gordon Brander]]'s Substack, which doesn't seem to have a defined schedule. He just seems to build on previous ideas each time, not in any necessarily structured way, but it's always fascinating.

• I think for me it makes sense to have some structure and defined rhythm while I'm finding my feet. But as it matures maybe I'll improvise a bit more.

• [[Datasette]] might be a good thing for documenting the initiatives in [[reclaiming the stacks]]. I'd heard about it before but never really understood what it does until reading [[The Magic of Small Databases]]. What I quite like about [[Anytype]] though is not needing to explicitly build a DB.

• Read: [[California Lawmakers Unanimously Pass Right to Repair Legislation]]

• Read: [[New EU Rules: Smartphones and Tablets will follow new ecodesign requirements by June 2025!]]

• Playing with svelte native
  • 
• Shiva is both moving and not moving
  • 
• https://thiagoteixeira.dev/blog/typescript-bun-vs-python/
• Playing with https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/

• TIL https://svelte-native.technology/
  • uses https://nativescript.org/
  • I just successfully got my battery status and alarm clock status from android api using svelte. Nice!

• [[lcd soundsystem]]

2023-09-15

• I take back what I said about [[Subconscious]] being completely absent of politics - there is a nod towards them by Gordon in [[Tools for thought: the first 300,000 years]]:

  • "We have planetary challenges ahead: climate change, global pandemics, mass extinctions, increasing geopolitical tension… We need to learn how to think together, with our planet, as a whole planet."
  • Still a bit weak ("let's think together" is not much of a position), but at least there's a recognition of environmental and social problems ("with our planet", "as a whole planet").

• Read: [[Decentralized and rooted in care: envisioning the digital infrastructures of the future]].

  • Coming out of discussions at the recent RightsCon in Costa Rica. Could be a source of another [[qualitative system dynamics model]] for [[Reclaim the stacks]]. Has a good list of initiatives, many from Latin America.

• [[The Magic of Small Databases]] is interesting to me from the perspective of sharing my catalogue of initiatives for [[Reclaim the stacks]].

• [[Digital technologies are an important part of movement infrastructure]]

  • A claim on the [[Numun Fund]] homepage.

• The qualitative system dynamics model used in [[A leverage points analysis of a qualitative system dynamics model for climate change adaptation in agriculture]] was built using a triangulation process from individual models. I'll read more about that, seems kind of what I'm trying to do in [[Reclaim the stacks]].

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.

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."

• [[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 🤷‍♀️

• In the [[Flancia pattern language]], [[10]] stands for:
  • [[2]] * [[5]], meaning for example [[fork your focus]]
  • [[right view]] (10 .. 17 hold the eightfold path)
  • [[may you be free from suffering]] (as it comes after [[9]])
• [[Agora development]]
  • Yesterday I pushed to anagora.org ("prod") after merging a few PRs, it was great.
  • Apparently this broke topline search (redirecting to searching at e.g. Google), will now look into why and
    • fix it
• #push [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]
  • [[The Language of the Night]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_of_the_Night pull
• [[trip to X]]
• [[magnetic]] [[3d printing]]
  • -> [[magnetic 4d printing]]
• [[agora slides]]
  • [[agora slides 2023]] :)
    • enjoyed the process!
    • I've wanted to add a 'WTF' button to the Agora of Flancia for some time, I think I may go ahead and base it around this node ;)
    • thought of [[4k.agor.ai]], an Agora that could default to the dimensions in a full screen 4k monitor.
      • embedding 2x2 iframes would result in the approximate 4-browser-tiles format that seems like a solid default for such a resolution.
      • more generally of course this should be implemented as a reactive layout where display resolution (default) and users specify the tiling shape.
  • [[darius kazemi]] [[server forking should be easy]] https://runyourown.social

• 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.

• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[Flancia meet]] with [[j0lms]]
  • [[prompting of creativity]]
  • #push [[agora plan]]
    • support for new formats:
      • [[txt]]
      • [[mp3]]
  • #push [[kfaraday]]
    • an [[artist]].
  • #push [[2023-09-20]]
    • [[fellowship of the link]] :)
    • Working (playing with) the presentation I could ask the fellowship feedback on
    • Forked [[agora slides]] (2021) into [[agora slides 2023]] today.
  • wrote [[You will see me tonight]]
    • [[Tara Burup]], [[Taraburup]] :)

2023-09-09

• A [[qualitative system dynamics model]] focuses on the structure of a system and the qualitative relation between system components.

  • What's meant by the structure of a system?
  • What's the qualitative relation between system components?

• [[Gordon Brander]] quotes [[Donella Meadows]] from [[Thinking in Systems]] a lot in his latest newsletter. ([[Fragments: vertebrate technology]] - on components, modularity, and [[hierarchy]]).

• Undoubtedly a major figure in systems thinking, but [[Robert Biel]] relates that Meadows had somewhat dubious / liberal-minded political views on some things, to which she applied systems thinking.

• I just forked a rust library and turned it into a native nodejs module. It's a fun practice with neon
  • rust->nodejs bridge utility
  • https://github.com/codegod100/PassMeRust/blob/main/passme.test.js
  • using chatgpt to generate git commit messages in vscode
    • https://github.com/codegod100/PassMeRust/commit/b27b3123152dece8af0571aa4102ecc591b99c32

• [[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.

• Watching bun.sh 1.0 release video
• I'm liking https://www.skeleton.dev/ UI component library for sveltekit, cool name.

• [[Flancia]]!
  • significa que todo lo que escribo acá está en #Flancia por defecto :)
• Flancia is a [[collection]] of [[computational environments]].
• #push [[Agora 2023]]
  • [[Agora priorities]] for the rest of [[2023]]:
    • merging [[sqlite]]
    • [[activitypub]]
    • [[oauth]]
    • [[votes]]

• Watching bun.sh 1.0 release video

• TIL bun can compile typescript/javacsript to executable files
• TIL https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/05/bharat-g20-invitation-fuels-rumours-india-may-change-name

• 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

• [[AG]] :)
• [[work]]
• [[Olof]] recommended https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DurPqcBkI4g for when I learn [[Swedish]] :)
• #push [[poems]]
  • [[deep]]
• #push [[todo]]
  • [[autopush]], finally?
• trying out [[wlvncc]], which I will try to remember as [[WayLand VNC Client]], also for machine-to-machine connections -- so far I was only using it for [[portal]], the script that I use to have a recursive view into a computer I'm using.
  • it works very well but it doesn't have 'raw keyboard mode', which I need to be able to forward [[sway]] events to the target host that is also running sway.
  • commented on https://github.com/any1/wlvncc/issues/24

• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[Taixu]]
    • [[Kropotkin]]
      • [[Kropotkin New Villages]]
    • [[Haichaoyin]] ~ [[Sound of the Ocean Tide]]
    • [[May Fourth]]
    • [[Tang Dayuan]]
      • [[Establishing a new Pure Land]]
  • [[Agora]]
    • [[Agora development]]
      • See [[Flancia Meet]] yesterday and the journal, [[2023-08-02]].
  • [[Mohammed]]
    • Checked state of bank transfers, they take longer than expected but I am still hopeful this will work.
  • [[EC]]
    • Did a videoconference after long!

• 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

• 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) pull 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]]?

• [[1]] means, maybe unsurprisingly, [[Flancia]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]] :)
• [[work]]
• [[seehüsli]] :)

• 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

• [[Flancia]]!
• [[31]]
  • is [[Las Jaras]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]] :)
  • is a [[mersenne prime]].
• [[work]]
• [[AG]]
• [[four pomodoros]]
• [[birthdays]]

• 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 fair  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.

• [[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]]
  • [[jitsi instances]]

• 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

• [[work]]
  • was fine :
• [[Flancia]]!
• [[next23]]
• [[yoga]]

• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[work]] until 22 with a break in the middle for [[social coop]] [[twg]] meeting :)
  • then did [[yoga]], [[go/move/28]] followed by [[10 minute breathwork]]
  • Thank you [[AG]] :)
  • Thank you my [[friends]] :)

• 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

• [[Flancia]]!
• [[flancia meet]] very shortly
• Then a walk through [[La-Chaux-de-Fonds]] :)

• someone implemented C in 4 functions https://github.com/rswier/c4
  • wtf?!

• I'm moving to the next floor this week. I might have a roomate though so it actually might be worse. We'll see.
• Some random dude came up to me today and starting talking for like an hour and a half. He was a really interesting guy. He had a giant gash in his head though.
• I saw today in my ai newsletter that llama released code llama
  • LLMs aren't the best at generating code from scratch, but I find them indispensible for evaluating and refactoring existing code.
• edited journal.vera.pink to only write markdown to disk
• "Then from the eyebrows of the goddess arose Kali, terrible to behold, with disheveled hair, her mouth dripping with blood, her tongue lolling out, her eyes red with fury, her teeth like fangs, her hands smeared with blood, and her body covered with dust."

• [[lcdf]]
  • :D
• [[bags of holding]]
• [[Gracias]]
  • Gracias Buda!
  • Gloria a las maravillas del universo!
• Después de literalmente años logré conectar un tecladito pequeño a [[nostromo]], la pc de la tv que siempre corro a mis espaldas.
  • Tuve que recurrir a usar [[bluetoothctl]]
  • Se sintió como ganar acceso a [[conocimiento arcano]]!
  • Y me liberó de algo; completé un pro asdfyecto después de años, aunque haya sido pequeño!

• [[coconut take-aways]]
• [[work]]
• [[FA]] showed me [[oblique strategies]], a kind of card-based [[pattern language]], and I loved it immediately.
• [[Flancia]] in the evening!
• [[rtc sre playlist]]

2023-08-23

• Listened: [[Trip 33: Comedy]]

• I'm trying a new tactic. I'm create a minimal docker image for build environment and then a separate docker image for actually building source.
• • e.g. I'm creating an environment for bun and then using that to run bun stuff rather than downloading bun and building source in one step
• TIL you can ping n number of times with ping -c N HOST
• TIL debian doesn't come preinstalled with ping

• [[Flancia]]!
• [[work]]
• [[info hazards]]

• [[Stories]] were mostly used for assistance in [[navigating]] [[land]]- so the obstacles were once literal.

• discovered https://codeberg.org/kytta/share2fedi today, it's like tootbooster. Glad I'm not the only one with this idea
• found https://github.com/midrissi/func-loc today for finding the file location where function are defined.
  • useful for libraries where internals are hidden in node_modules folder
• found https://github.com/gornostay25/svelte-adapter-bun which is nice, bun is still prerelease so some stuff isn't fleshed out yet

2023-08-21

• Previously on [[2023-08-19]], note that time and date are in Philippine Standard Time as I write this, although you do you use UTC for simplicity.
  • Mostly [[Lackadaisy]] webcomic reading madness, now clocking at #141¹
• Last hand laundry before the next school year
• OSS work at [[recaptime.dev]]
  • Did some workspace image customization chores: https://github.com/gitpodify/workspace-images/issues/5
• Across the interwebs
  • The Wayland Book

Tags: #dailynotes #daily-notes

• [[fan made adventure games]]
• really loving [[chip player]]
• enthusiastic about [[gitpod]]!

• realizing that subnode content may exceed mastodon message limit.
  • gave me an idea to return error message on tootbooster on fail
• working on an idea I'm calling structured links
  • basically instead of having well defined structure on objects in a graph, the objects are simple while the links between them are well structured
  • based on ontic structural realism where objects don't even exist. only our relationships between them are real
  • for example lets say I look at a bottle of orange juice. my experience is that it's orange, but what I'm really experiencing is the light between me and the orange juice hitting my eyes.
    • the taste is the same thing, it's the molecules in the orange juice interacting with my taste receptors chemically.
    • orange juice looks and tastes like it does because we can have a shared universe of discourse because animals have similar sense organs and therefore similar sense experiences

• Found [[chip player]] and had found re-listening to some [[midis]] from the 90s.

• How to instill a sense of [[yearning]] in the [[reader]]?
• What [[reasons]] get this person to take [[action]]? What [[moves]] them?

• setup journal.vera.pink on railway.app which is a cool platform for managing deployment to different environments.
  • It automates a docker container and automatically runs build toolchain on changes.
  • The starter version is like 5 bucks a month. Look pretty cool. Might use it for a few things
• tootbooster.com is now running on railway
• sveltekit + railway is a pretty awesome setup. 
• I'm waiting for bun to reach 1.0 It's such a fast runtime
• created agora-server instance on railway using a fork of the Dockerfile and entryfile

2023-08-19

WARNING - BREACHING NET FUCKED BY 2050: MAY CONTAIN BLOODY SPOILERS, READ AT OWN RISK! Trying to hide some emotional baggage because of this.

• Previously on [[2023-08-18]], note that time and date are in Philippine Standard Time as I write this, although you do you use UTC for simplicity.
  • Anything that done during the night (between 22:00 and 05:00 the next day)
• OSS contributions
  • https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/18557 (past midnight cut-off but still)
• Across the interwebs
  • From the #ReleaseRadar: MURDER DRONES - Episode 6: Dead End - CW: MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH!¹[^2]
    • 'From "Yet, I still feel nothing" to "Uzi, I trust you," that's some character development right there.' (comment)
    • Cyn were also there, attempting to take over Uzi. Or maybe Doll?
  • Also happened during the permiere: UPDATE LINK TITLE SOON

Tags: #dailynotes #daily-notes

• [[Flancia]]!
  • In the [[Flancia pattern language]] #19 stands for [[Right Freedom]]... and [[Revolution]].
• Visiting [[Bern]] today.
  • Writing this on the train there. It's very hot today but I think it will be nice.
  • Also trying to decide between going to [[Romandie]] or [[Paris]] next week.
• I read about [[htmx]] again during the week and I'm wondiering if I should give it a try for [[agora server]]. Right now most of its (limited) interactivity is hand-coded artisanal JS and DOM updates, and it could be nice to replace that with a better supported (yet not too opaque/cumbersome) alternative.
  • [[berner waldland]] with [[LP]], it was beautiful.
  • I got to [[Platform 10]] on time, just fine :)
  • [[Gracias]]!
  • [[Agua]]
  • [[Collected Poetry]]
  • [[AG]] :)
• [[PJ]] told me he was part of the original [[Chrome]] team back in 2009! Very cool.
  • https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/google-chrome-making-cross-platform-browser
• [[ajhalili200]] said in a journal:

  • I'm getting more comfortable using Foam alongside Obsidian, especially inside a Gitpod workspace.

  • This makes me want to check out [[Gitpod]] -- it makes sense that you could have hosted [[vscode]] with extensions like [[foam]]. I tried to have this previously but the [[foam]] extension was not supported in whichever vscode environment I tried; it's cool Gitpod has it.
  • [[gitpod garden]]

• How do branches differ based on where [[trees]] are in relation to the [[sun]]?
• How did the [[place]] [[sound]]? What noise does the [[wind]] make when it passes through here? How does it [[change]] the [[smell]]?
• Without a [[map]], it becomes important to [[measure]] the [[distance]] between [[land]] [[marks]] in [[time]] rather than [[space]].
• When intensely [[awake]], a [[path]] to flourishing [[life]] is the only path present.

2023-08-19

• Thinking about [[Taking fleeting notes with koreader]].

• going to daughters taekwondo class today
• feeling kinda sick but not too bad
• I have no private area except my bunk, might find a cafe to work in during the day again. my back is starting to hurt
• bought a domain for tootbooster

YYY-MM-DD

• Previously on [[2023-08-17]], note that time and date are in Philippine Standard Time as I write this, although you do you use UTC for simplicity.
  • Reading some articles from Vox about Maui wildfires: https://www.vox.com/climate/2023/8/14/23831460/hawaii-fires-maui-wildfires-death-toll-search-rescue-missing and https://www.vox.com/climate/2023/8/9/23826015/maui-fire-2023-lahaina-hawaii-cause
  • From PARANOiD DJ's Liquid Gold (see [[2023-08-06]] for context), I did some U-turn to

Tags: #dailynotes #daily-notes

2023-08-18

• Backnoded from [[2023-08-19]] :)
• Writing this on [[foam]] again after long! Thanks [[ajhalili2006]] for the tip about foam working on [[gitpod]]!

• got a haircut today
• been working in my goals journal
• went to a self esteem group
• talked to my peer support about housing stuff

2023-08-17

• Previously on [[2023-08-16]], note that time and date are in Philippine Standard Time as I write this, although you do you use UTC for simplicity.
  • Updating my releases key behind the scenes btw
• I'm getting more comfortable using [[Foam]] alongside [[Obsidian]], especially inside a Gitpod workspace.
• Reading some more Lackadaisy webcomic, clocking at #77
• Across the interwebs
  • From an [[Lackadaisy]] fanfic on AO3: "Zib didn’t like him, and [[Freckle]] could understand why. He couldn’t even hold it against him, really. He didn’t like himself much, either: a gunslinging outlaw maniac, masquerading as a sweet, innocent, harmless lamb; a cold-blooded killer, disguised as a humble, obedient child of the Lord. He’d committed pretty much every sin in the Bible, and worst of all, he didn’t even have the integrity to own up to it. He hid his true self from his mother, from his girlfriend, from the law—everyone but God and the Devil. Oh, and [[Rocky]], of course."
  • Are We Fucked, LTT Edition: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1526561-what-do-we-do-now
  • Meanwhile in Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/thecyberfurrylynx/725360245421031424/me-on-my-bedroom-thinking-of-a-good-vikdecai?source=share (CW: shipping hell)

Tags: #dailynotes #daily-notes

• Someone in [[hacker news]] called the [[Casio GW-M5600]] a [[perfect watch]].

• Busy day today (yesterday) beginning of new UTC day but still previous day locally
• Made a list of things I want to get done. Was satisfying to write it down. I've been using a paper journal someone gave to me
• Been writing some code lately. I don't have a desk so it's a bit straining but it also limits my time on the computer which is probably actually good for me in a lot of ways

2023-08-16

Note to self: Update this later this morning.

• Previously on [[2023-08-14]], note that time and date are in Philippine Standard Time as I write this, although you do you use UTC for simplicity.
  • Guess nothing because I forgot to do notes then.
• Did some sort of spring cleaning before fresh school year starts on yesterday.
  • Declutter some of my stuff from the physical archives, including some paperwork during the school years under blended learning.
• More [[Lackadaisy]] stuff!
  • Stopped at #71 on 00:50
  • Who thought watching some from the stream archives go horribly wrong?
• Ironing out on [[recaptime.dev]]'s issue trackers, especially on things like SECURITY and CONTRIBUTING lately.

Tags: #dailynotes #daily-notes

• [[flancia]]!
  • [[AG]] :)
• [[work]]
• [[fellowship of the link]]
  • [[five minute universities]]
  • [[the great transformation]]
  • [[timelinety]] is a plugin for [[eleventy]] by [[Aram Zucker-Scharff]]
• [[llamagpt]]: https://github.com/getumbrel/llama-gpt

• This heat is getting annoying
• I have meeting with job development specialist to go over Job interview questions tomorrow
• Reading last chapter of miracle of mindfulness
• Matrix gets on my nerves sometimes. I'm really happy that it exists but I can't help feeling that it might be a bit overengineed and that seems to create a vector for a lot of bugs
• Thinking about checking out fellowship of the link today
• Today I have therapy
• Debian is 30 years old today. I've been a long time fan. Really a great distro

2023-08-15

Catch up the daily update on [[2023-08-16]], this file was used for redirects.

2023-08-15

• Listened: [[Trip 34: The Outdoors]]
  • I really enjoy #ACFM podcasts. They take fairly everyday things and look at them through a leftist lens, and throw a bit of music in too.
  • I like hiking, so listening to the political history of [[right to roam]] is fun.
  • The [[National Clarion Cycling Club]] sound great: to "combine the pleasures of cycling with the propaganda of Socialism"

• Previously on [[2023-08-13]], note that time and date are in Philippine Standard Time as I write this, although you do you use UTC for simplicity.
  • Holy bananas, I'm started to read the [[Lackadaisy]] webcomic from the top. Currently at #21
• OSS work at [[recaptime.dev]] or whatever
  • Other than ironing some stuff at
• Personal side projects
  • Doing some notes wrangling across my digital garden behind the scenes in the morning
  • Some BTS chores on blog and personal website after literal months of procrastinating being in rest vacation from burnout and school.
• Across the interwebs
  • Who's digging through the voice recording session archives? Holy shit, I found two of them.

• [[work]]
  • [[OL]]
    • recommended [[who rules the earth]]
• [[Flancia]]
  • [[AG]] told me about the [[1918]] [[Landesstreik]]: https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/016533/2012-08-09/

2023-08-14

• Repaired: [[Repairing a Cat Mate C500 automatic pet feeder]]

• [[Global boiling]]

• Listened: [[Trip 35: The Internet]]

  • Touches a bit on [[Attention economy]], [[The Californian Ideology]], [[Free software]], [[Commons-based peer production]], [[Capitalism]], [[Commons]], [[Linux]].
  • [[Jeremy Gilbert]] says he suggested a policy for the Corbyn Labour Party that the government would sponsor turning Ubuntu into a proper rival for Windows or MacOS.

• org-timeblock and calfw-blocks look worth a look. I'm currently using org-timeline, one of these might be better (although it works well enough for me).

• I like mondays because it feels like the world comes back to life after sleeping for the weekend. I need consistency in my routine for my mental health and the weekends throw a wrench into that

• Previously on [[2023-08-12]], note that time and date are in Philippine Standard Time as I write this, although you do you use UTC for simplicity.
  • TODO: Update this soon if hyperfixation/hyperfocus don't make me forget to take notes here.
• Gonna do some hand laundry later the day
• OSS work at [[recaptime.dev]] or whatever
  • Anything you done so far, among other things
• Personal side projects
  • Nothing to see here.
• Across the interwebs
  • I forgot I have the multifandom multiverse mixtape over at Spotify, gonna reorganize shit later at YouTube side.
  • Actually installed Telegram Dekstop via Flatpak, because why not?