📜 Journal entries in the last 55 days
2026-02-26
📓 2026-02-26.md by @flancian ☆
The things you don't write are left unwritten
The things you don't say, unsaid
The things you don't show, unseen
For how long, maybe?
Until when?
2026-02-24
📓 2026-02-24.md by @flancian ☆
- We had such a beautiful day with [[KM]]! And [[Lady Burup]].
- We went to the gym together for the first time in the morning, and then did a great walk through Zürich hopping from coffee place to coffee place and enjoying the [[sunshine]].
- Yesterday: [[2026-02-23]]
2026-02-23
📓 2026-02-23.md by @flancian ☆
Algún día, algún día
Algún día haremos la revolución
Pero si no ahora, cuándo?
The things you don't say are left unsaid
The things you don't write unwritten
Until one day, maybe?
Las cosas que vimos:
Sucederán, sucederán…
Lo que dijimos:
Sucederá, sucederá…
Las jaras!
Las jaras, qué jaras?
Las de Avalokiteshvara
Las de Maitreya
Y Tara...
Tare tuttare ture
Tuttare tuttare ture
Soha
📓 journal/2026-02-23.md by @neil ☆
2026-02-23
2026-02-22
📓 journal/2026-02-22.md by @neil ☆
2026-02-22
2026-02-14
📓 journal/2026-02-14.md by @neil ☆
2026-02-14
2026-02-10
📓 2026-02-10.md by @flancian ☆
- [[stony caramel]]
2026-02-08
📓 2026-02-08.md by @flancian ☆
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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.
2026-02-07
📓 2026-02-07.md by @flancian ☆
- 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]]
2026-02-05
📓 2026-02-05.md by @flancian ☆
- [[Oh fuck]]
- [[caramel city]]
2026-02-02
📓 2026-02-02.md by @flancian ☆
- [[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!
2026-02-01
📓 2026-02-01.md by @flancian ☆
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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.
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[[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.
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[[return]]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hQIxUfYw98
- maybe during the week with [[KM]]? :)
2026-01-31
📓 2026-01-31.md by @flancian ☆
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[[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!
📓 journal/2026-01-31.md by @neil ☆
2026-01-31
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Trying to finish off [[Emacs Carnival: This year I’ll…]] today.
- Last day to submit!
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[[Adding shortcuts for entering email addresses in Heliboard]]
2026-01-19
📓 2026-01-19.md by @flancian ☆
- Back to noding!
- Fixed a security vulnerability (to spam) in the Agora.
2026-01-17
📓 journal/2026-01-17.md by @neil ☆
2026-01-17
- Went to the webinar [[Revisiting The Innovation Delusion — Conversation with Andrew Russell]] held by [[The Maintainers]].
2026-01-13
📓 2026-01-13.md by @flancian ☆
- 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.
2026-01-11
📓 2026-01-11.md by @flancian ☆
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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]]!
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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]]…
2026-01-08
📓 2026-01-08.md by @flancian ☆
- Back home!
- And back journaling, I will try to start a one week streak today :)
- [[Napoli]]
- [[Lady Burup]]
- [[Experimentos]]
2026-01-03
📓 journal/2026-01-03.md by @neil ☆
2026-01-03
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[[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.
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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.
2026-01-01
📓 2026-01-01.md by @flancian ☆
- 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.
2025-12-31
📓 journals/2025-12-31.md by @j0lms ☆
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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
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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
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Happy new years!
- Obligatory resolution to make more nodes [[?]]
📓 journal/2025-12-31.md by @neil ☆
2025-12-31
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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!
2025-12-30
📓 2025-12-30.md by @flancian ☆
- [[Berni]] me hizo recordar que quiero convencer a los PMs de Meet para que agreguen un feature en el tier gratuito.
📓 journal/2025-12-30.md by @neil ☆
2025-12-30
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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.
2025-12-29
📓 2025-12-29.md by @flancian ☆
- [[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.
2025-12-28
📓 2025-12-28.md by @flancian ☆
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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.
2025-12-27
📓 2025-12-27.md by @flancian ☆
- I had a lovely walk with [[AG]] today and a quick dinner, and then went to [[Zentralwäscherei]].
2025-12-26
📓 2025-12-26.md by @flancian ☆
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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.
- [[Feynman x 3]]
2025-12-25
📓 2025-12-25.md by @flancian ☆
- 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]]
2025-12-18
📓 2025-12-18.md by @flancian ☆
- 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.
2025-12-15
📓 2025-12-15.md by @flancian ☆
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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? :)
2025-12-14
📓 2025-12-14.md by @flancian ☆
- 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]] :)
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I did some [[Agora development]] with Gemini and made what felt like surprising progress on two of the main December objectives:
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[[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]].
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[[Federation++]]
- Completed: send /latest subnodes per user to followers we know of.
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[[Easier signups]].
2025-12-13
📓 2025-12-13.md by @flancian ☆
- 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
📓 journal/2025-12-07.md by @neil ☆
2025-12-07
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Christmas 10k run 2025.
- Completed!
- My [[Christmas 10k run playlist]].
2025-12-03
📓 journal/2025-12-03.md by @neil ☆
2025-12-03
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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.
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I’m wary of two things though:
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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.
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Might be too formalised? Perhaps you can easily customise / extend.
- Definitely worth looking further.
2025-12-01
📓 2025-12-01.md by @flancian ☆
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[[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.
2025-11-29
📓 2025-11-29.md by @flancian ☆
- [[albricias]]
2025-11-22
📓 journal/2025-11-22.md by @neil ☆
2025-11-22
[[Digital colonialism]] is the use of digital technology for political, economic, and social domination of another sovereign country or people
2025-11-21
📓 journal/2025-11-21.md by @neil ☆
2025-11-21
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Christmas Pudding 10k.
- I ran 7k in 43 minutes last night.
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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
2025-11-12
📓 2025-11-12.md by @flancian ☆
- [[testing meet]]
📓 journals/2025-11-12.md by @j0lms ☆
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[[journals]] test
- Now only accepting a hyphen as separator
- Previous nodes didn’t show because I was using an underscore as separator
- Mystery solved!
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Trying out [[jujutsu]]
- Seems like the workflow is more harmonious with agents than regular [[git]]
- Also has a really cool name
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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]]
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In principle, I am an anarchist. Kurt Vonnegut once said he was an agnostic who respects Jesus Christ. I am an anarchist who loves democracy.↩
2025-11-11
📓 journal/2025-11-11.md by @neil ☆
2025-11-11
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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]]
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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.
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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
📓 journal/2025-11-10.md by @neil ☆
2025-11-10
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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
📓 journal/2025-11-09.md by @neil ☆
2025-11-09
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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
📓 journal/2025-11-01.md by @neil ☆
2025-11-01
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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
📓 journal/2025-10-31.md by @neil ☆
2025-10-31
- I managed to cobble together a post for the October [[Emacs carnival]]: [[Emacs Carnival: Praise the patchers]].
2025-10-30
📓 journal/2025-10-30.md by @neil ☆
2025-10-30
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I foolishly ran
pkg updatein [[termux]]. Emacs went from 29 to 30. Now Doom won’t start.- Will a
doom syncfix it? Stay tuned… - Well what do you know, it seems fine so far!
- Will a
2025-10-28
📓 2025-10-28.md by @flancian ☆
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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 :)
2025-10-26
📓 2025-10-26.md by @flancian ☆
- [[KM]] :)
- Planning a trip to Italy!
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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]]
📓 journal/2025-10-26.md by @neil ☆
2025-10-26
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[[The electronic left]]
- I enjoy this, as a term. Has a pleasingly 90s feel to it.
- Bookmarks