• [[New Years Eve]] was great, [[2025]] started great!
  • Party at [[AG]]‘s
  • Then at a friend’s
  • Then at [[Zentralwäscherei]], where I met some old and new interesting people!
  • -> [[Bitwäscherei]]
• [[Yi Jian Mei]] is stuck in my head (in the sense that it comes up spontaneously every day or so) and I don’t mind

• Checking out [[bull]] by [[stapelberg]]!

• [[j0lms]]: [[plurality]]
• [[flancia meet]]
  • was quiet but it still felt good to be ‘back’ :)
• had coffee with my neighbours, it was great!
• cleaned the house a bit
• talked to my mum, I enjoyed it and it was great seeing her
• started a new notebook (ha), this one is a square with a pixel grid — a gift from the [[nintendo museum]] by [[mpd]]
• share photos
• run collect over notebooks and papers, this usually makes me feel better (I have a lot of context all around, putting it back in one place/pile usually helps manage it/consolidate)
• [[december 2024 adventure]]
• [[agora writing]]
• had interesting conversations in the [[fediverse]] about:
  • [[ai]]
  • [[sustainability]]
  • leading to [[ilich]], who I still haven’t read — will try to set up his book in my [[kobo]] to read it tonight/soon
• I read about [[recursively enumerable]] sets and languages — I remembered these were some of my favorite back when I studied computer science when I was 27 or 28. This led me to read again about complexity classes, hierarchies and then [[diophantine]] sets :)
• Also had a great time playing with [[Lady Burup]], and we even watched [[3blue1brown]] together! Pictures likely in the Fediverse :)

• [[maqna]] looks cool
• [[open letters]] is making a comeback? :)
• like [[december 2024 adventure]], late but surely and with gusto
• [[maybe]]

• Walked to [[Glattpark]] with [[AG]] going by [[Katzenbach]], it was very nice. We enjoyed the sun.
• Read further about [[prime gaps]] and [[twin primes]].
  • Also about the [[gamma function]].
  • Also about [[holomorphic]] and [[analytic]] functions. And [[Brook Taylor]].

• [[smallcircles]]
• I’m back baby :)
• Travel was hard at times but also beautiful
• Listening to [[Que He Sacado Con Quererte]] by [[Violeta Parra]]
  • and then to [[Run Run Se Fue Pa’l Norte]], hermosas

• Back home!
  • After 15 days spent in the US west coast (working) and then Japan (traveling with friends).
  • I slept home in Oerlikon alone as I crashed not so long after arriving due to jet lag; [[AG]] will come with [[Lady Burup]] later today.
  • I woke up at 6am after only 7 hours of sleep due to jetlag despite only getting five hours yesterday and I decided to just get up and start doing things; I’ll try to take a nap later today as needed.
• Non-prioritized list of things I want to take a look at now that come to mind and I wanted to jot down:
  • [[Cline]] — I heard it’s a good AI plugin for [[vscode]] that is not too opinionated/walled-gardeny (is that a word? maybe it should be)
  • [[Posty]] — something cooked by [[Oliphant]] over at the Fediverse which sounds a lot like something I wanted to build/I wanted to see someone build)
  • This [[talk by Dan Dennett]] who passed away this year.
  • [[social.coop]] activity — some threads on Mastodon, some on Matrix, some on Loomio surely
• All in all this is supposed to be a free "jetlag recovery day" so I’ll just try to enjoy it and also spend time offline.
• I read [[Alan Watts]]‘s Wikipedia page (again? unsure) and I wondered again about his alcoholism and relatively early death at 58.
• I finished [[The Moon is a Harsh Mistress]] today, after starting it and reading most of it yesterday during the flights. I liked it quite a bit! In particular the relationship between the protagonist/narrator and Mike/[[Mycroft]], the AI; and how it went straight into the topic of collaborating with AI towards the revolution.

• Writing this on the flight from [[Tokyo]] to [[Copenhagen]] while on my way back to [[Zürich]].
  • I was (lightly) disappointed to see this flight did not head northwest as I expected, but rather northeast, despite what the map ‘navigation’ promised. This told me two things though:
    • "Western" planes are avoiding the whole of Russian airspace, likely because of the war. In retrospect I should have known this!
    • The navigation map available to the public in planes does not reflect in any way the course set by pilots. Instead it seems to just show the [[great circle]] to the destination from the current position. This held true through the trip. Indeed, the ‘projected path’ was roughly orthogonal to the true path at least until we reached the Bearing Strait (which is when I’m writing this).
  • I was planning on catching up on coding and writing (beyond this short entry), but I forgot to charge my laptop and there are no chargers in economy, so there goes that plan :) Well, I have plenty of reading to do so it’ll be fine.

• I’m writing this on the [[Shinkansen]] from [[Hiroshima]] to [[Osaka]].
  • The [[Hiroshima Museum]], by which I mean the [[Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum]], was very interesting and very shocking — even though I thought I knew what to expect, the effect on me was strong. I could notice it also on other people who were there.
  • In Osaka I intend to:
    • Try interesting food (of course) :)
      • [[Kushikatsu]]? Hopefully there’s a meat-free version.
    • Visit new neighborhoods, like [[Shinsekai]] and [[Den Den Town]].

• I’m writing this on my way to [[Japan]] ([[Fukuoka]]) from [[Honolulu]] :)
  • I just finished [[Story of your life]] and other stories by [[Ted Chiang]], I liked it a lot. I don’t know why I waited so long to read him more intensively after liking some of his short stories I read online.
  • Some related concepts/topics:
    • [[Fermat’s Principle of Least Time]]
    • [[The Castle of the Pyrenees]] by [[Magritte]]
  • He likes [[Borges]] (so do I as you might know). This came across most clearly maybe in his [[Golem]] related story, but there’s such an undercurrent in several stories and he uses the adjective [[Borgesian]] (IIRC) once.
• [[Agora development]]:
  • [[agora bot migration]]:
    • The current [[agora bot]] for Mastodon is still ceasing to work on [[2024-12-15]] as per https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/ but I have failed to do anything about it… until now :)
    • To start with, I’ve now requested a post archive to save the 14k posts it has produced since it started operating two years ago.
    • I’ll also look for an alternate instance, and try to set up a migration flow (for keeping followers).

• I’m flying to [[San Francisco]] to work from [[Sunnyvale]] for a few days. As I write this I’m on a SAS A330 sitting in 51A with the seat next to me empty, the plane being about 70% full.
• I started listening to [[Right Concentration]] by [[Leigh Brasington]] (sp?) on the way to Copenhagen where I made my short connection.
• Now I’ve finally started properly reading the [[Fediversalist Papers]] (I’ve been waiting for such an occasion) and found the report immediately engrossing.
  • …and finished :) I tried taking good enough notes to then share with the Social.coop working groups and organizing Circle.
• I’m still two hours away from San Francisco. Not much more battery left in my laptop, so maybe I’ll just keep reading something else.
• I finished reading [[Thich Nhat Hanh]]‘s commentary on the [[Heart Sutra]]. I enjoyed it a lot :) Thank you Thich as usual.
  • [[Mindfulness Bell]] is a journal that I’d like to check out.

• [[do the right thing]]

• At [[work]], and back to noding using [[wiki vim]] using my ‘terminal only’ workspace.
  • [[keyboards]]: A coworker recommended the [[keychron]] [[q14 alice]] with [[jupiter brown]] switches. It looks and sounds amazing.
• [[december adventure]]

• I’m writing this on the train to [[Bern]], after which I will make a few connections and make my way to [[Puidoux]] where I’ll join a [[party in the forest]].
  • It’s going to be quite cold tonight and the party goes on until Sunday afternoon, so I’m happy I got some [[Merino]] underpants and a long sleeved shirt yesterday :)
  • I caught up with [[Eerie Shell]] and [[Kris]] over messaging.
• I say [[We Will Defeat Moloch]].

• [[2024-11-27]] took place as well (linking it so I can then go node it :)
• Interesting conversation in [[Agora discuss]]!
  • [[Zicklag]] wrote about [[weird.one]], sounds very cool, it would be great to catch up synchronously with them and [[Erlend]].

• I woke up with a headache for some reason, and it came back during the day, but otherwise I was fine.
• I worked and then attended the [[end of year dinner]] with my coworkers.
  • There was also a [[bowling]] afternoon event which I skipped as I felt I was too behind work and I wanted to use the opportunity to catch up.
  • Even as I decided to skip it I knew that, with the passage time, I would remember the bowling event but not the afternoon working. But I decided to do it anyway as I also knew my mental state would be affected by not making progress on some tasks, and I think in the end it was a reasonable choice.
  • I enjoyed dinner. I actually like my coworkers, I’m lucky in that (and many ways!).
• Then I returned home and I played with [[Lady Burup]] and played the piano.
  • I played [[Amores Hallarás]] for the first time in A (what I remembered/whistled) and in B (as per the recording by [[Inti Illimani]]).

• Still recovering from disease (flu? covid? unsure) with [[AG]] — but feeling better thankfully, both of us.
• Ended up testing [[backup restores]] for [[social.coop]] finally and it felt great! It was in the todo list for long.
• Not so much progress on [[work-work]] this weekend — which I know might sound a bit weird, why is it that I sometimes plan to work on the weekends? The truth is that some of the things I need to do I find it hard to do during the week for a variety of reasons, like meeting load. So I sometimes use the weekend to catch up. But when I don’t I have to at some point ‘let go of it’, else it weights on me implicitly.
• Spoke to my mum over [[Meet]] and it was great!

• [[23]] is [[Lady Burup]]‘s day :)
  • A chill day at home, with snow outside. I’m taking care of [[AG]] a bit as she’s sick.
• Todo for the day:
  • rest :)
  • fix mastodon embeds in the Agora? they are still broken after most instances updated to 4.3
    • I didn’t quite fix this yet but I found two bugs doing this and made progress :)
    • First, social.coop embed.js had not been updated in years. We need a step to update static content when updating the instance! I mentioned it in the room.
    • Second, I filed https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33049 against Mastodon. I don’t get how their "new style" embeds are supposed to work, embed.js seems a bit weird. Let’s see what they say.
  • work: on that work document at least for one pomodoro
  • work: book meetings for the upcoming week (see paper notebook)
  • social.coop: CWG oncall
    • Some spam reports.
    • No new registrations since yesterday.
  • social.coop: TWG next steps towards alpha.social.coop
    • Hmm, what does this mean?
    • I guess I should fill that form to get a VPS from iocoop now that we have joined! That sounds simple enough/fun.
  • write
  • read

• back to the office finally, after a few days sick working from home! it was nice going back.

• I’m [[sick]]. Nothing serious, feels like the flu. [[AG]] got it over the weekend.
  • Working from home and catching some [[Meet University]] talks, although today only until 16. There’s an all hands later I may put in the background; I told my manager I was low energy and would focus on resting half a day.
• I cut my hair, which usually makes me feel fresher, and it did. I also shaved everything except my mustache, for [[Movember]] (is it still a thing? I think so)

• [[work]]
  • I woke up sick but I worked from home anyway.
  • [[Meet University]] was good!
• then I rested after work, ate something, spent time with [[Burup]] and caught up with friends
• then I thought about:
  • [[Ekumen]]:
    • Spoke to [[Eduardo Mercovich]] about next steps, caught up with email :)
    • Set up coordination device for first meeting
      • What’s the name of that nice modern [[doodle alternative]] again…?
      • We used it in the [[twg]]]…
      • [[crab fit]]!
    • Update git repo in some interesting way?
    • What about [[ekumen.agor.ai]]? :)
• [[cwebber]] joined [[social.coop]] earlier this week!

• [[17]] stands for: [[Right Concentration]], [[Maitreya]] :)
• We’re planning on going to the cinema with friends today to watch [[Anora]].

• Some [[social.coop]] fun on [[2024-11-15]] after work :)
  • I heard and read of [[Mathilde Sanders]]
• Excited about yesterday finding:
  • [[wikibonsai]]
  • [[structured conversational communication]]

• I [[worked]]; it was fine actually, I had a late review meeting (I don’t usually have meetings on Fridays) but it was interesting/felt worth it.
• I met [[L]]! We spent some of the afternoon together. It was very nice to see her.
• I then worked on [[social.coop]], scaling up (with [[Dan]]). Then I read/wrote/coded a bit.
  • Maybe did yoga? But that was [[2024-11-16]] :)

• I found a ‘task list’ (I have 7-8 at any given time, usually anything from a3 to a4, envelopes and forms and such that I reuse to write things to do later) which I sort of completed so I archived it. It had the number [[131]] on it, without further context, although it was close to a task related to Wikipedia in the Agora that I have advanced.
  • It is prime in case you’re wondering :) [[prime/131]].
  • Which reminds me about the notion of having prime/ be autopulled when n is a number. Hmm.
• [[Algún día]]
• Noding from [[paramita]] and from [[nostromo]] while I work on the Agora tonight.
  • I’m already showered and can go until the time I go to bed, probably early as I woke up at 6am due to double pages :)
  • I’ll enjoy the ride for however long it lasts!
  • I thought of [[2024-11-19]].
  • I thought of the future.

• [[agora development]]:
  • fix mastodon 4.3 embeds?
  • and what comes next?
• [[writing]]:
  • I say I want to do more writing in long form/intelligibly to the average prose reader, but don’t often make time for it. Some time ago I said Sundays were going to be for this kind of writing more often, and I could try to uphold this today. Let’s see.
  • [[letters]]: some [[closed]], some [[open]]
• To test [[collimation]]:
  • As it’s cloudy, maybe I’ll observe the distant LEDs in a construction crane ~500m away tonight.

• [[social coop hosting]]
• [[conduit]]
• [[collimate]]

2024-11-08

• Back in [[Silverbullet]] after a few days only making it to [[codium]] — which in some ways was good, as it means I managed to carve out some time for some playful coding through the week.
  • [[Stapelberg]] is now using [[Silverbullet]] as well and seems to like it as well although he did comment on the system requirements; I agree it can be intense in larger gardens. But still it is capable enough and a solid enough writing environment that it’s the best tool I know of in knowledge space currently.
• Work was good, tough at times but I believe overall productive.
  • I’ve been feeling and looking a bit tired lately so I started taking iron again, and might take vitamin D supplements (as I’ve been doing seasonally with good effect).
• Tomorrow I’ll see [[AG]] :)
• This evening after work I started working on the Agora and writing. [[Lady Burup]] is sitting to my back on her green cushion.
• Someone reached out over [[Telegram]].
• I thought about [[Ekumen]].
• I did [[Agora development]].
  • I iterated on more interface issues that had long nagged me/I had long wanted to work on.
  • Shipped iterations in the [[themes]].
  • Changed button location to have it make more sense given what it actually does.

• I shipped a fix to wiki.social.coop (the result of coworking with Dan through the week, it was great!)
• I shipped some layout/theme improvements to anagora.org, it felt great as well. I like UI stuff actually it seems, in the right dosage.
• I worked and I was a bit tired at times but it was good and interesting.
• The [[US Election]] news hit hard, myself and many friends.
• I spent time with [[Lady Burup]] in the evening :)

• [[birthdays]]
• [[music hackspace]]

• Back to work :)
  • I had the day off but I decided to work anyway; the meeting load seemed manageable and I was able to carve out a good-sized flow block, so it seemed like a good idea to get the week started today.
  • Ended up working half a day, which seemed like a good compromise; I ticked a few things off my todo list to start the week in good shape, freeing the rest for some critical tasks hopefully.
• Thought about social.coop after work
  • [[TWG]]:
    • meeting?
  • [[CWG]]:
    • Also the question of [[matrix]] for coordinating work, which is met with resistance by some working group members only. For me interop is the clear solution, let’s see.