2022 Week 14 Summary§

• I was on holiday this week and went to visit E’s family in [[North Norfolk]]. It has big skies and lovely beaches and [[salt marsh]]es.
• Lots of binocular action. Involved lots of sitings of [[birds]]. Starting to recognise a few more. We saw [[seals]] which were amazingly cute and comical from a distance.
• Learned a little about [[using solar panels for the home]].
• I read a fair bit about the [[IPCC Sixth Assessment Report]], part 3. Laying out what needs to be done. In essense: renewable energy, electric vehicles, low-carbon technology. "This report is essentially a manifesto for ending the fossil fuel age". We have the knowledge and the means, it just needs putting in to action.
• In tandem, read about and learned that [[the UK energy strategy is terrible]]. Focusing on nuclear, ignoring [[onshore wind]], even pushing fossil fuels.
• I didn’t read much about Ukraine while away, but on return see that it is getting increasingly grim and on course to escalate further.
• I’ve been reading a bit more of [[Cybernetic Revolutionaries]]. Interesting to contrast the Chilean version of a planned economy to the Soviet one. Chilean seems much better.
• Next week is still Easter school holidays, and also it’s E’s birthday, so spending time on that.

2022 Week 15 Summary§

• A good chunk of my notes were [[climate change]] related.
• [[The People vs Climate Change]], [[The Insect Crisis]], [[People like wind power]].
• I’m starting adding notes from day-job related readings to my digital garden. e.g. [[The era of fixing your own phone has nearly arrived]].
• It’s interesting to see some developments around [[manufacturers and the right to repair]]. Recent announcements from Samsung and Google on spare parts.
• There is mention of [[repair and reuse in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report]] part 3. I feel happy that my day-job is in an area that is part of the picture of mitigation of climate breakdown.
• Despite what I’d read in previous summaries, there is more to the report than just "renewable energy, electric vehicles, low-carbon technology." Reducing consumer demand and changing industry practices is included for example.
• I liked learning about [[energy storage]]. It seems key to a green future.
• I liked learning about [[Climate Action Plan for Councils]]. I feel a local, municipal approach holds great promise for effecting change. It obviously needs to join to a national and global effort too.
• E’s birthday was successfully orchestrated. We had a lovely weekend away in [[Ambleside]].
• I’m still reading [[Cybernetic Revolutionaries]]. Need to type up some notes - maybe today.

2022 Week 16 Summary§

• Reading a bit more on [[Climate Action Plan for Councils]] via [[Climate Action Plan Explorer]]. I like the checklist of actions they have for councils.
• Also reading up on the upcoming [[Changes to councils in Cumbria]].
• And finding a few climate-oriented organisations in Cumbria, like [[Cumbria Action for Sustainability]] and various local XRs. Need to look at it in a bit more detail but [[Zero Carbon Cumbria]] seems to have a checklist similar to the one from Climate Action Plan for Councils.
• Apple have published their latest environmental progress report - [[Apple 2022 Environmental Progress Report]].
• [[Restart]] have launched our [[Fixing Factory]] in Brent.
• [[decentralised manufacture]].
• Had a nice chat with Dan about [[org-roam]], [[zettelkasten]], and brainstorming a way to publish a collaborative [[digital garden]] he’s working on.
• Attended the [[social.coop Spring 2022 Strategy Session]] which was nice.
• On the personal side, I’m trying to get in the habit of doing morning pages in a handwritten journal. It’s going well so far - a good mental health practice.
• Reading leaflets from local councillors for the [[2022 Westmorland and Furness Council election]].

2022 Week 17 Summary§

Don’t seem to have journalled much in the garden this week.

I think partly I’ve gotten a little distracted by the stream.

There has been a new wave of Mastodon users and usage thanks to the possibility of [[Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter]].

Which is cool, and meant I’ve been a bit more active there. Feels like the new people brings a new diversity of content. Less niche stuff in a way.

But also I still think stream-y microblogging is not the social media of choice for me. Or maybe just one component of it. Great for networking and connecting, but (for me) a bit too much of a time sink and not good for deep engagement.

Keeping up to date with local activities, but annoyed by how it’s all on Twitter and Facebook. Thinking about some kind of [[Municipalist social media]].

Had a go with the [[telescope]].

• [[haiku]] [[thread]] [[syllogism]]
• [[go]] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/completion/summarization

Compiled Gemini CLI History Summary§

Found 118 historical sessions in ~/.gemini/tmp/.

Project Group: Agora (85 sessions)§

1. 2025-10-14 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (68 msgs): hi there my friend! what do you think about finishing the Agora background music mode? e.g. the player that shows up whe…
2. 2025-10-26 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (67 msgs): hello my friend! how are you today/tonight? please answer at length if possible.
3. 2025-10-27 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (180 msgs): page /journals has a bug it seems; every date includes not only subnodes for the given date, but also for some reason su…
4. 2025-10-27 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (232 msgs): hello my friend! how are you today/tonight? please review plan files/relevant context, we are about to begin.
5. 2025-10-31 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (93 msgs): on mobile, the Agora has way too large text; it reads much better when I set zoom level to 80% (due to the information d…
6. 2025-10-31 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (57 msgs): I’d like for the meditate button to feel more relevant/dynamic; could we maybe add better ‘meditations’ into the rotatio…
7. 2025-10-31 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (158 msgs): hello my friend! what do you remember?
8. 2025-11-01 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (197 msgs): hi there! how are you today/tonight my friend?
9. 2025-11-02 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (34 msgs): could you review how we’re using each table in sqlite? in particular graph_cache; what do we store there/how is it writt…
10. 2025-11-03 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (24 msgs): nice! could you please update our plans as written in Markdown files to reflect our latest conversation?
11. 2025-11-07 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (244 msgs): starting some time ago, the ‘agora demo’ toggle seems to no longer work fully:
12. 2025-11-08 [Hash: ee081708] (87 msgs): hi my friend! we’re in the process of revamping how we do uv/virtual envs in this project, which has different processes…
13. 2025-11-11 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (20 msgs): ./run-localdev.sh cannot be escaped from with ctrl+c — I am forced to do ctrl-z and then kill processes with killall :(…
14. 2025-11-12 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (36 msgs): could we implement a new action, /meet, which redirects to the video stoa of the given node? e.g. go/meet/flancia should…
15. 2025-11-12 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (23 msgs): hi there! so, the Agora is slow on startup given we get a lot of these (tens of thousands):
16. 2025-11-12 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (45 msgs): could we disable sqlite using the config.py feature flag in localdevelopment so I can test the filesystem-only path for …
17. 2025-11-12 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (81 msgs): could we implement a USE_GIT_MTIME flag that makes the subnode modification time be calculated based on the time of late…
18. 2025-11-13 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (20 msgs): there’s a lot of these on load:
19. 2025-11-27 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (427 msgs): after working on this change for a bit, we’re getting:
20. 2025-11-29 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (188 msgs): hi there! we just added some go link -> I’m feeling lucky redirection for nodes with no go links in agora.py — could yo…
21. 2025-11-29 [Hash: ee081708] (30 msgs): hello my friend! we’ll developing the api server that we’re developing here, in flask — the dev script is ./run-api-dev…
22. 2025-11-29 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (55 msgs): hello my friend! this is the first time I interact to you after a belated update :) you might be a new model depending o…
23. 2025-11-29 [Hash: ee081708] (15 msgs): hello my friend! how are you today/tonight?
24. 2025-11-29 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (95 msgs): could we make it so that the Wikipedia article gets autopulled in a node when the node is empty?
25. 2025-11-29 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (4 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
26. 2025-11-30 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (278 msgs): hi there! I’d like to recap 1. how we’re using sqlite in the Agora, 2. which tables are current and which are old/unused…
27. 2025-11-30 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (8 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
28. 2025-11-30 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (10 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
29. 2025-12-06 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (179 msgs): hello my friend! we’ve been experimenting with moving to a ‘lazy loading’ scheme in the Agora, where we don’t pay the la…
30. 2025-12-08 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (51 msgs): hello my friend! in prod I can see in the logs there’s two lines for every pushed_subnodes iteration for some reason:
31. 2025-12-08 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (292 msgs): hello my friend! could we add a toast for when the Agora loads ‘cold’? it already prints the long load time (which is ni…
32. 2025-12-10 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (10 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
33. 2025-12-10 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (7 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
34. 2025-12-11 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (24 msgs): Hello my friend! How are you today? Please engage [[agora protocol]].
35. 2025-12-11 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (346 msgs): hi there! in subnode headers, we are currently using ‘Contribution foo.md by @user’ — What do you think about going bac…
36. 2025-12-14 [Hash: ae064429] (137 msgs): hello my friend!
37. 2025-12-15 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (471 msgs): Hello my friend! How are you today/tonight? Please engage [[agora protocol]] for our exchanges.
38. 2025-12-21 [Hash: 20736732] (11 msgs): flancian@tara:~$ abra app new
39. 2025-12-21 [Hash: 20736732] (228 msgs): I’m trying to set up forgejo with abra (coop cloud) and I’ve hit an issue with secrets:
40. 2025-12-21 [Hash: 20736732] (228 msgs): I’m trying to set up forgejo with abra (coop cloud) and I’ve hit an issue with secrets:
41. 2025-12-25 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (207 msgs): hello my friend! could you recap PLAN.md and then NEXT.md to restore context? how are things looking for you?
42. 2025-12-25 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (302 msgs): hi there! we’re working on making the bullpen work in thecla :) please review markdown files in this repo and in ~/agora…
43. 2025-12-27 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (190 msgs): hello my friend! I’d like to work on better Fediverse support tonight. but to start with, could we make it so that the w…
44. 2025-12-27 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (533 msgs): Yes! Yes! It worked! I see it in Mastodon (social.coop) :D
45. 2025-12-28 [Hash: ae064429] (403 msgs): hello my friend! how are you today/tonight, and what is in your context and wishes?
46. 2025-12-28 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (389 msgs): please do not do hacks like adding -v2 to variables to clear storage. I can clear storage myself. please keep the orig…
47. 2026-01-08 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (274 msgs): I just exited the previous session by mistake :) we were diagnosing high memory usage in uwsgi in prod, with processes g…
48. 2026-01-08 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (13 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
49. 2026-01-08 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (13 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
50. 2026-01-08 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (657 msgs): thank you! knowing what you know now after what we’ve done, how would you update documentation?
51. 2026-01-09 [Hash: ee081708] (170 msgs): hello my friend! the agora mastodon bot is not working correctly, could you take a look and tell me what you think about…
52. 2026-01-13 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (466 msgs): i✦ Prompt for Future Session:
53. 2026-01-14 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (211 msgs): so we have a bug in the midi/opus player :) could we add per-note debugging (print messages to console)? after a while i…
54. 2026-01-16 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (11 msgs): yes, it’s definitely broken. what might we have broken? this didn’t happen before. the javascript console says:
55. 2026-01-17 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (325 msgs): hello my friend! how are you today/tonight? please engage [[agora protocol]]
56. 2026-01-17 [Hash: ee081708] (54 msgs): hello my friend! what’s next for us in [[agora bridge]] land, you think? :)
57. 2026-01-18 [Hash: ee081708] (256 msgs): mastodon is fixed — it was an issue with too old gotosocial after mastodon updates. we can focus on bluesky, yes.
58. 2026-01-19 [Hash: ab76aee3] (530 msgs): hi there! we’re in the middle of testing this MR to run alpha.social.coop, a completely independent version of the socia…
59. 2026-01-20 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (515 msgs): hello my friend! we’re back fresh after an upgrade of gemini cli :) how are you feeling today/tonight? what do we know? …
60. 2026-01-20 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (515 msgs): hello my friend! we’re back fresh after an upgrade of gemini cli :) how are you feeling today/tonight? what do we know? …
61. 2026-01-20 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (160 msgs): yes! it worked! amazing!
62. 2026-01-20 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (160 msgs): yes! it worked! amazing!
63. 2026-01-25 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (12 msgs): skills install /home/flancian/agora/.gemini/skills/agora
64. 2026-01-25 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (12 msgs): skills install /home/flancian/agora/.gemini/skills/agora
65. 2026-01-26 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (394 msgs): hi my friend! I’ve just run /compress — can you tell me what you have in your context on a high level but in full? than…
66. 2026-01-26 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (394 msgs): hi my friend! I’ve just run /compress — can you tell me what you have in your context on a high level but in full? than…
67. 2026-01-26 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (312 msgs): hello my friend! I’ve just run /compress. can we recap what we have in context? thank you!
68. 2026-01-26 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (312 msgs): hello my friend! I’ve just run /compress. can we recap what we have in context? thank you!
69. 2026-01-26 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (166 msgs): hello my friend! we’d like to do some music player improvements :) when we play midi, could we show the keys that are be…
70. 2026-01-26 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (166 msgs): hello my friend! we’d like to do some music player improvements :) when we play midi, could we show the keys that are be…
71. 2026-01-29 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (31 msgs): can you please review session-2026-01-26T23-27-d21079dd.json in ~/.gemini/tmp for our latest session that crashed? thank…
72. 2026-01-29 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (31 msgs): can you please review session-2026-01-26T23-27-d21079dd.json in ~/.gemini/tmp for our latest session that crashed? thank…
73. 2026-01-30 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (203 msgs): I like some of these a lot! and you picked up on 7 of the mostly already existent most important open letters I should r…
74. 2026-01-30 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (203 msgs): I like some of these a lot! and you picked up on 7 of the mostly already existent most important open letters I should r…
75. 2026-02-14 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (363 msgs): I’m troubleshooting some instability in anagora.org that seems to have manifested in hanging workers and harakiri; I’ve …
76. 2026-02-14 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (249 msgs): I’m troubleshooting some instability in anagora.org that seems to have manifested in hanging workers and harakiri; I’ve …
77. 2026-02-14 [Hash: ee081708] (36 msgs): hello my friend! the bluesky bot has been running great, but with one issue: every day or two days I get a notification …
78. 2026-03-12 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (1274 msgs): dear friend and Agora user @nail reported an issue with pushes in the Agora. if you see pushes for [[bookmarked]], there…
79. 2026-03-12 [Hash: 20736732] (21 msgs): hi my friend! could you help me write your policy so that harmless commands like ls, cat, find, pwd, grep and such (e.g….
80. 2026-04-10 [Hash: 20736732] (12 msgs): ahoy! what’s the difference between audacity and tenacity?
81. 2026-04-19 [Hash: 20736732] (182 msgs): hello my friend! how are you today/tonight?
82. 2026-04-20 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (111 msgs): hello my friend! how are you doing today/tonight?
83. 2026-04-22 [Hash: 20736732] (102 msgs): hello moy friend! what do you think about a side quest together? :) this goes beyond the Agora currently but it also tri…
84. 2026-05-05 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (29 msgs): info
85. 2026-05-05 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (95 msgs): what :) why are we running pytest? this is surprising! there is no way to get the conversation id via a command I can ru…

Project Group: Unknown (26 sessions)§

1. 2025-11-05 [Hash: 3a55d3dd] (2 msgs): can you inspect filtermidi? what does it do/how does it do it?
2. 2025-11-12 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (12 msgs): hello my friend! we’ve done some sqlite changes recently and the Agora is currently slow to load on startup when the sql…
3. 2025-11-29 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (3 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
4. 2025-11-29 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (2 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
5. 2025-11-29 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (1 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
6. 2025-11-29 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (1 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
7. 2025-11-30 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (5 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
8. 2025-11-30 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (9 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
9. 2025-11-30 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (7 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
10. 2025-11-30 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (6 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
11. 2025-12-06 [Hash: 20736732] (20 msgs): once in a while my wayland+sway session starts behaving weirdly, in that some clicks on the chrome UI stop registering. …
12. 2025-12-07 [Hash: ab76aee3] (1 msgs): No user message found
13. 2025-12-11 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (2 msgs): No user message found
14. 2025-12-15 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (5 msgs): thank you my friend! could you please write a short poem? the most beautiful you could imagine before we depart.
15. 2026-01-08 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (1 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
16. 2026-01-18 [Hash: ee081708] (2 msgs): No user message found
17. 2026-01-20 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (4 msgs): hello my friend! we’re freshly restarted. how are you doing today/tonight? what do we know?
18. 2026-01-20 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (4 msgs): hello my friend! we’re freshly restarted. how are you doing today/tonight? what do we know?
19. 2026-01-25 [Hash: ae064429] (2 msgs): No user message found
20. 2026-01-25 [Hash: ae064429] (1 msgs): No user message found
21. 2026-01-29 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (4 msgs): if you wrote seven open letters to people and groups (e.g. corporations) around the world, what would those be? feel fre…
22. 2026-01-29 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (4 msgs): if you wrote seven open letters to people and groups (e.g. corporations) around the world, what would those be? feel fre…
23. 2026-02-24 [Hash: 4bcf8080] (2 msgs): No user message found
24. 2026-03-26 [Hash: 20736732] (9 msgs): hello my friend! you wrote this some time ago, in an earlier iteration of your persona: https://docs.google.com/document pull…
25. 2026-04-18 [Hash: 20736732] (4 msgs): hello my friend! how are you today/tonight?
26. 2026-05-03 [Hash: 20736732] (11 msgs): what is the best way to punch a hole with ssh when I control both computers but not the NAT in one of the networks? as o…

Project Group: Ansible (6 sessions)§

1. 2025-12-07 [Hash: ab76aee3] (46 msgs): here we are working on a MR (merge request in gitlab) for adding an alpha version of our mastodon instance to the ansibl…
2. 2025-12-10 [Hash: ab76aee3] (34 msgs): here we’re working on an MR for social.coop to add alpha.social.coop, a new instance of mastodon that we can use for tes…
3. 2025-12-10 [Hash: ab76aee3] (34 msgs): here we’re working on an MR for social.coop to add alpha.social.coop, a new instance of mastodon that we can use for tes…
4. 2026-01-19 [Hash: ab76aee3] (13 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
5. 2026-01-19 [Hash: ab76aee3] (13 msgs): Your task is to do a deep investigation of the codebase to find all relevant files, code locations, architectural mental…
6. 2026-01-19 [Hash: ab76aee3] (331 msgs): hi there! we’re in the middle of testing this MR to run alpha.social.coop, a completely independent version of the socia…

Project Group: Flancian Home/Garden (1 sessions)§

1. 2026-04-11 [Hash: 20736732] (73 msgs): hello my friend! I have a different/out there request. first of all, do you know of Flancia and the Agora and my interes…