[[journals/8]] at anagora.org

2025-12-28

📓 2025-12-28.md by @flancian ☆

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.md by @flancian ☆

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

📓 2025-12-26.md by @flancian ☆

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]]

📓 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.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.md by @flancian ☆

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.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]] :)
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.

📓 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.