• Noding this in my new laptop [[avalokiteshvara]] while visiting [[ZWZ]] :)
  • Last visit before going on a trip, likely starting on Tuesday night.
• Earlier this weekend I spent time with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] and it was wonderful, even though I woke up with a headache (hopefully the last in this cluster) on Saturday morning.

• 7 ~ [[Avalokiteshvara]] in the [[Flancia]] pattern language :)
• Had a great day with [[KM]]! Despite sleeping little and waking up with a strong headache again — unsure at this point if it’s viral or what is called a [[cluster headache]].
• [[Züriberg]]
• [[Intuit]]
• [[Fondue]]
• [[caramel city]]

• [[Oh fuck]]
• [[caramel city]]

• [[Work]] was interesting despite being still half sick.
• [[Social.coop]] was great, we finally shipped [[1k characters limit]] after long! \o/
• [[Collected Poetry]] after long!

• Back noding!
  • I’m writing this in [[Bitwäscherei]]. The [[Agora]] is being demoed live for the first time! And I’ve met lots of cool people as usual :)
  • I spent Friday and Saturday with [[KM]] and it was great despite our health not being tip top at times :)
  • I feel more than lucky; right now, [[blessed]].
• Work has been fine actually; I was oncall this week and was sick two days but I pushed through and felt quite at ease despite sleeping too little.
• [[Las Jaras]] was special as expected!
  • I threw [[7]] * [[2^9]] over five dice, notable.
  • [[2063]] made an appearance
  • I ran [[collect]] after planning to for long and it felt cathartic! The [[chaos stack]] which was a bunch of literal back of the envelopes going back to 2024 was reviewed/distilled into a notebook and thus can be put away (or, as indicated in some of the envelopes as intention, [[burnt]].)
• Came after [[2026-01-31]]
• Saw [[Koch]]! And [[Aaron]] and many others.
• [[return]]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hQIxUfYw98
  • maybe during the week with [[KM]]? :)

• [[Las Jaras]]!
  • We were not completely healthy, [[KM]] and me currently, but I enjoyed living these days together!
  • I was home until midnight with [[KM]] (who went home in the afternoon) and [[Lady Burup]] and then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]] and I loved it.
  • I ran some [[collect]] I had planned for long (more about this tomorrow…).
  • I updated the [[moodboard]].
  • And coded and enjoyed!

2026-01-31

• Trying to finish off [[Emacs Carnival: This year I’ll…]] today.

  • Last day to submit!

• [[Adding shortcuts for entering email addresses in Heliboard]]

• Back to noding!
• Fixed a security vulnerability (to spam) in the Agora.

2026-01-17

• Went to the webinar [[Revisiting The Innovation Delusion — Conversation with Andrew Russell]] held by [[The Maintainers]].

• I met [[Omega Attraktor]] again today in [[ZW]]! Nice to see them, looking forward to listening to their music.
• Work after the break started fine actually, even though today I didn’t sleep that well for some reason I still had enough energy to go through the first meeting-packed day.

• Noding, #noding, [[noding]]…
  • I don’t know precisely how well the streak is going but I’m happy to be back noding at least a bit every day, most days :)

• Personal life is going beautifully, there was a small setback with a health issue affecting a loved one but things are looking up now!
• My trip to [[Napoli]] with friends was amazing.
• It was beautiful to be reunited with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]]!
• I found [[I don’t want my tool to tell me how to think]] very interesting, thank you [[@scalingsynthesis]]!
  • It also inspired me to fix some longstanding Agora bugs with [[canonical wikilinks]] (what we render in [[Agora Server]]…

• Will try to keep up the streak :)
• Saw [[KM]] after the trip and it was lovely! Unfortunately she’s been sick but now feeling better.
• I did [[Return]] day 1 as starting practice for the year and it was great.

• Back home!
• And back journaling, I will try to start a one week streak today :)
• [[Napoli]]
• [[Lady Burup]]
• [[Experimentos]]

2026-01-03

• [[Org Social]] has strong [[IndieWeb]] vibes.

  • P2P, host on your own site, etc.
  • I think it relies more on relays though. I don’t think you could directly mention someone like you would with a webmention.

• I also like that you choose an emoji for reactions, rather than a generic like. Like [[CTZN]] did it.

  • I think that’s a good way to allow reactions while avoiding algorithm pandering.

• Happy new year to all!
• Started the year with friends and loved ones at home; then saw fireworks together from [[Kaferberg]]; then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]] and greeted cool and interesting people.

• Moved out successfully
  • Had to do a bunch of renovations in the room, but now it’s quite cozy
  • Do miss the birds hanging out in the window of the old place
• Finally settled on a [[komorebi]] config
  • Tiling window managers rock!
  • Altho they really don’t play well with some apps like game launchers and such
• Happy new years!
  • Obligatory resolution to make more nodes [[?]]

2025-12-31

• I was trying to set up [[Org Social]].
  • As per the post [[Emacs Carnival: The people of Emacs]], I think it’ll be a good way to be more active in the Emacs community.
  • But it requires Emacs 30.1.
  • I’m only on Emacs 29.
  • Upgrade ahoy!

• [[Berni]] me hizo recordar que quiero convencer a los PMs de Meet para que agreguen un feature en el tier gratuito.

2025-12-30

• I learned about grease.el via [[Emacs News]].
  • Allows file operations by editing a buffer.
  • Then I learned from the comments in that Reddit thread about wdired and similar capabilities.
  • I just tried it, and it’s perfect for solving the problem I have of org-roam’s addition of a timestamp to the front of filenames, and how messy that is when I publish to the web, for those that were created a while ago before I changed how that works. (Or those created on mobile in Doom where I still haven’t changed it).
  • With wdired I can select a rectangle of all those parts of the filenames in the buffer, and delete them, save the buffer, et volia, all the filenames updated! Neat.
  • I have a niggling feeling that one day I may regret removing timestamps from filenames. Some people seem to prefer it that way. But I really don’t like filenames being used to store meta information.

• [[free instruments]]
• I worked from home; spent time with [[Lady Burup]]; played [[Minecraft]] with [[bouncepaw]]; then did grocery shopping for New Years and went to [[KM]]‘s place.

• What a great start to the day in [[Bitwäscherei]], and then what a beautiful day at home with Burup!
  • Coded, wrote, talked with my mum, played with Burup, and just generally tried to flow.

• I had a lovely walk with [[AG]] today and a quick dinner, and then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]].

• Met:
  • Some cool people on the rooftop of [[Zentralwäscherei]], including a girl named something like [[Katja]] and her two cool friends.
  • [[Moritz]] after midnight in [[Bitwäscherei]].
  • I also saw [[Marc]] and [[Aaron]] after long!
  • I’m so glad I came back to [[SGMK]] finally; it just kept slipping because of work and commitments, it seems I needed a long weekend to get pressing things done and reboot priorities :)
• Then slept ~6h roughly from 6am to 12am and woke up rested enough :)
• Played [[Minecraft]] with [[KI]] and it was great!
• Then flowed.
• Ran again into [[What is Life?]] by [[Schrödinger]], decided to actually locate a URL where I could read it.
  • Found [[archive]] https://archive.org/details/whatislifephysic0000schr/page/n5/mode/2up
• [[Feynman x 3]]

• Very nice day at home with Burup :)
• Ended up working 8h on projects and making good progress, which felt great! Pretty much as planned.
• Then in the evening I went back to [[Bitwäscherei]]/[[SGMK]] after long and it felt great as well, I hadn’t been back much since April (?) because of travel/work/personal life and my under-prioritizing. I intend to come back more often now!
• [[2025-12-26]]

• Skipped a few? But I’ve been having fun you could say.
• Work is finally calming down as we go into the [[prod freeze]]! Looking forward.
• Feeling quite free, relieved of burdens.
• Worried about some health issues in the family, but staying optimistic and trying to value what we have.

• I just thought of [[suffering]] and what would amount to [[rational suffering]].
  • Think of the suffering of the beings that die to feed others: some of that suffering is justified inasmuch it enables other conscious beings to subsist and negotiate ethical [[tradeoffs]] of their own.
  • When it is kept to a minimum, of course, we seem to arrive at the ethical optimum.
  • Think of worms getting grown and harvested for feed, but also of the beautiful bird hunted by the cat and the fish who die in the nets of [[fisherpeople]].
  • See also: [[trolley science]].
• I also worked and planned the week and did [[Agora]].
• Two days of Agora journaling in a row? Is such a thing even possible? :)

• I finally finished the migration from ‘main’ to ‘master’ for the Agora root, belatedly :)
• I had a great day on [[2025-12-13]] with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]]. Thank you!
• New Agora signup! Welcome [[@matthieuG]] :)
• I did some [[Agora development]] with Gemini and made what felt like surprising progress on two of the main December objectives:
  • [[Easier signups]].
    • Completed: ‘join with your git repo’ now exists as a form, talks to [[agora server]] and that talks to the (privileged) [[agora bridge]].
  • [[Federation++]]
    • Completed: send /latest subnodes per user to followers we know of.

• A lovely Saturday with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] at home. Relaxing and interesting. With [[KM]] we did a nice walk in Zürich in the cold weather, knowing it will just keep getting colder.
• The week was pretty brutal at work (3x presentations, 2x reviews, plus planning and some ad hoc meetingsd) — it feels great now that it’s in the past though. I feel I ‘survived’ the last tricky week of the work year; things should quiet down from now on as people start going into holidays mode.

2025-12-07

• Christmas 10k run 2025.
  • Completed!
  • My [[Christmas 10k run playlist]].

2025-12-03

• I should check out [[org-gtd]].
  • From a quick first glance, it looks like a formalised way of doing much of what I’m already doing.
  • So it could be quite useful.
  • I’m wary of two things though:
    • Might be too formalised? Perhaps you can easily customise / extend.
      • The README suggests it written for someone who doesn’t want to be bothered with org-mode’s complexities. Hmm.
    • I tie heavily into org-roam for project reference material. I wonder how org-gtd works with that aspect of GTD.
  • Definitely worth looking further.

• [[I sometimes feel]]:
  • as if I’m [[struck by lightning]]
  • as if I’ve caught fire
  • we will go together until the dark of night
  • (do you know what I mean…?)

Busy working and happy; I’ve been told I look tired at times but recently got some good sleep through the holidays and I feel with high energy levels.

2025-11-30

• [[Emacs Carnival: org-babel]]

• [[albricias]]

2025-11-22

[[Digital colonialism]] is the use of digital technology for political, economic, and social domination of another sovereign country or people

– [[Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival]]

2025-11-21

• Christmas Pudding 10k.
  • I ran 7k in 43 minutes last night.
  • Playlist
    • Beach House – Myth
    • Proem – She Never Cries
    • Closer Musik – Piraten
    • Vessels – Glass Lake
    • Frog Pocket – Hurrah Sapphire Moon
    • Sieren – Blue Memories
    • The The – This Is the Day
    • Maps – Heya Yaha

• [[testing meet]]

• [[journals]] test
  • Now only accepting a hyphen as separator
  • Previous nodes didn’t show because I was using an underscore as separator
  • Mystery solved!
• Trying out [[jujutsu]]
  • Seems like the workflow is more harmonious with agents than regular [[git]]
  • Also has a really cool name
• Made a buggy yet functional version of a [[event highlighting]] system for [[tidalcycles]] on [[emacs]]
  • The word functional doing a lot of heavy lifting there
• Also reading some [[kenzaburo oe]]
  • A quote of his taken from [[wikipedia]]¹ has a certain vibe

2025-11-11

• I’m enjoying my new approach to quick access to [[Emacs]] in my work environment.

  • Not quite as intuitive or fun as using [[Guake]], but having GUI Emacs feel like an improvement.
  • I like running the terminal version of Emacs but felt like missing out on a few too many niceties that way.
  • Interesting to observe that other people either take a ‘one frame to rule them all’ or multiple frames approach.
  • I’ve currently gone for one frame, using [[Spacemacs]] layouts to switch between different contexts. I’ll see how that pans out.
  • [[Updating my approach to window management and Emacs]]

• Hmm, interesting, whatever slowness I was experiencing regarding [[org-agenda]] rebuilding seems to have gone away with the switch back to using the GUI Emacs.

  • Or maybe it’s because I’m just running one instance again?
  • Either way, but for that to have gone away.

• Sometimes, because I had separate multiple frames, I’d end up editing the same file in two separate frames and get conflicts around changes to the file.

  • Particular when using org-capture to add to my Tasks.org file, then editing that in another frame.
  • Avoiding this issue is a handy perk of using one frame with layouts - all the buffers are present in all layouts (I assume?), just hidden from view.
  • Noting that probably this conflict would also be avoidable if running different frames from the same server instance of Emacs.

2025-11-10

• I’m kind of declaring org-agenda bankruptcy.
  • (In the sense of kind of starting over - not stopping using it!)
  • Removing scheduled and deadline dates from a whole load of accumulated tasks.
  • From a re-reading of GTD, experimenting with that only things that need to happen on an actual date should be scheduled.
  • This removes a large amount of psychic cruft of tasks that I haven’t done for a long time reappearing regularly in my agenda.
  • I was just scattering them, which was kind of fun, but seeing them come back again in their tens is a bit daunting when planning a day out.
  • Of course I need to feel comfortable that I will see them again at some relevant point in the future. To be determined…
  • But for now - just working with NEXT actions on active projects.

2025-11-09

• I’m rekindling my relationship with Getting Things Done at the moment. Listening to Making It All Work.
  • Life is quite full on recently. I find GTD beneficial to getting some sense of control and perspective.
  • At the same time, I find the idea of ‘personal productivity’ kind of problematic. As a goal in itself, at least. It has neoliberal tones.
  • From that perspective, I like the notion of Four Thousand Weeks.
  • Maybe there’s a happy medium.

2025-11-01

• The [[Emacs Carnival]] for November is on the topic of [[org-babel]].
  • I have some good stuff to talk about there.
  • I’ll get started on the post earlier this time…

2025-10-31

• I managed to cobble together a post for the October [[Emacs carnival]]: [[Emacs Carnival: Praise the patchers]].

2025-10-30

• I foolishly ran pkg update in [[termux]]. Emacs went from 29 to 30. Now Doom won’t start.
  • Will a doom sync fix it? Stay tuned…
  • Well what do you know, it seems fine so far!

2025-10-29

• [[Emacs blog carnival: Maintenance]]

• Yesterday I implemented ‘star nodes’ and fixed a bunch of stuff in the Agora with Gemini and it felt great :)
  • I was able to do this in parallel while I kept working (day job related) into the end of night; I enjoy this pairing.
  • I use two different computers in two different desks and I walk to and fro, which helps a lot.
• Today it’s day 1/2 of my team’s global virtual summit (exploiting daylight savings [[chaos week]]); this brings an end to summit season, which has been intense!
• Plan to see [[KM]] after work :)

• I’m back to noding on this computer; and now I think about it, it’s kind of curious I don’t do it this often given that on workdays this is the computer I spent the most time on, by far!
  • By this I mean [[Guanyin]], one of my laptops, provided by [[Google]].

• [[KM]] :)
• Planning a trip to Italy!
• Also trying to advance today:
  • [[work]]
  • [[social.coop]]
  • [[agora]] development questions, like: how exactly to prioritize all the features and bug fixes I have backlogged with the ground level/key refactor between [[agora server]] and [[agora bridge]].
• Doing [[tab cleanup]] here in [[tara]] (my personal development computer) after a while, I thought (and posted) about [[gamification]].
• [[Macedonio Fernández]]

2025-10-26

• [[The electronic left]]
  • I enjoy this, as a term. Has a pleasingly 90s feel to it.
• Bookmarks
  • Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism | Critical Switch
    • [[Permacomputing]], [[Anti-capitalism]]

• [[79]]:
  • I was unsure what number I had associated [[Sadhana]] with, but today I saw it in the whiteboard.
  • It was the first prime that seemed "available" on a certain date :) And I think it still is; next up [[83]] is currently yours truly (as I was born on that year), then we only have [[89]], [[91]] and [[97]] left before the hundreds.
  • Before it, I thought [[37]] could be it as I currently associate it with [[Yoga]] which is also a [[spiritual practice]].
• I worked until late and enjoyed it.
• Attended an [[AI summit]] Tue-Thu and I enjoyed it quite a bit! Today I was a bit low energy as I slept only five hours (exceptional occasion) but overall the week was great so far. Actually looking forward to working tomorrow.
• [[KM]]
• [[Macedonio Fernández]]

• [[Moloch’s bargain]]

• I’m back!
  • (says the guy who’s back all the time…)
• My [[todo]] list for this ‘long weekend’:
  • Book hotel in [[Turkey]].
  • Order [[tea]].
  • Read [[El museo de la novela de la eterna]]
• [[97]]

• Most of what I write in the Agora nowadays seems to be [[poems]] :)
• Aside from that I’ve been mostly focusing on [[Agora development]] when I dedicate time to the #Agora directly.
• I have been enjoying the addition of AI to the developer’s toolset, have been going through bug fixes and old wishlist items with much more speed. I am thankful for the opportunity.
• In other news I am happy with [[Lady Burup]] and [[KM]] and life in general!
• I have also been dedicating a large amount of time to work and trying to enjoy it, to more success than before.

• Go go
  • Go beyond
  • Everybody gone to the other shore
• Go free
  • Go kindly
  • If you have to #go, [[go kindly]]!

• Life is beautiful.
  • I am sorry for the oppressed at the same time I cherish highly my level of privilege and enjoyment; this much is true. What I do for them is probably inefficient and insufficient; I will try to do better.

As I write this on [[2025-09-27]] I am surrounded by happiness in the company of [[Lady Burup]] and [[KM]]. I am deeply thankful for what I get to live.

After work I usually code until late, with two AIs in two computers in two different desks, and play around the house with ~5 other computers and conscious beings.

• Had a beautiful weekend with [[KM]]!
• Went to [[PDL]]‘s and [[Sabi]]‘s birthday by the lake yesterday.
• [[Flancia meet]] with [[bouncepaw]]
  • [[John Wilkins]] sounds like [[John Forkings]] in Russian.
  • [[The Door Game]].