• 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.

• I’m going to try to go back to keeping more of my todo list here digitally.
• Today was good; melancholy at times, but it ended up on high notes.
• Tomorrow I have the day off, but I might work anyway.

• [[japan 2024]]
• I came across [[Bluesky and enshittification]] by [[Cory Doctorow]]: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/

• [[work]] from home as a technician was coming to fix the sinks, it’s great after the fact like a lot of maintenance tasks! I hope to be able to do it myself if it’s needed again, let’s see.
• [[Ekumen]]
• [[Feedback on the Agora]] by [[Eduardo]]:
  • No hay jerarquías y no hay orden
  • No hay jerarquías:
    • Nodo está en la misma jerarquía que wikipedia/wiktionary/results
    • (Sobre las divisiones entre ágora y no ágora)
    • Primero podría ir el ágora y después de adentro hacia afuera
  • Datos y metadatos están mezclados
  • Líneas y "1 + 1 = 3"
    • Espacio negativo
    • Alternancia entre colores y grises
  • Dos grupos:
    • info acá
    • e info en otros lados
  • Transclusión, etc.
  • Quizás un tabbed interface? Mostrar que e.g. wiktionary tiene contenido relevante pero no mostrarlo como elemento de primer nivel.

• [[Las Jaras]] is here!
  • How sweet it is
• I’m trying to update the firmware of my [[8bitdo retro keyboard]] and it’s harder than expected due to the fact that [[8bitdo]] only supports Mac and Windows, but I’m making some progress.

• [[work]] was intense meetings, summit, then working late - but good I think.
• [[go/flow/29]] is about [[trust]].

2024-10-28

• I biked to work and I’m happy I did, it wasn’t too cold and the exercise felt great both ways.
  • Now I’m cozy at home typing on my mechanical keyboard with Lady Burup (she occasionally also types, but also I just mean we’re spending time together :)).
  • I was also melancholy for personal reasons but it felt constructive, like processing.

• [[131]]

• [[…]]
• Well, I’m here finally :)
  • I received my second keyboard and I installed it on the desk with [[Paramita]].
  • Typing on it feels amazing, and the workstation is now set up in a way that I think will entice me to write more often and for longer periods before context switching.
  • I find that, when I’m typing on a laptop keypad, the constant availability of the trackpad makes me context switch more often, as I react impulsively to notifications for example. When I am in this typing position, switching to a different context requires me to:
    • Reach out for the mouse, which is 30cm away.
    • Use a combination like Meta + hjkl to move to a different window using my [[window manager]]‘s shortcut, which usually means I’d be focusing to a different window that I had decided I wanted to work on (as it’s on my workspace)
    • Learn the shortcut for ‘react to last notification’, which I don’t know and I don’t intend to learn today :)
  • Now only remains the task of remembering what I want to do, which means updating my priority list and gathering an intent to follow it.

So today I want to work/play on:

• [[Agora development]]
  • Toggle for [[autopull]] in the burger menu I’ve been playing with in a branch
• [[Flancia]]
  • Zine writing
  • [[Open letter to our readers of the future]] / [[Maitreya]]
  • And leaders of course :)

I also met a new friend, [[Elena]], picked up the keyboard package and mailed out some forms, and thought about some personal matters/emotionally processed.

-> [[do]]

• I enjoyed going through it a lot actually, several things got marked done! Wow.
• It makes sense because I do follow a kind of system within my chaos, but it’s cool to see it corroborated.
• Some things I actually did; some things are no longer relevant, e.g. Twitter bot stuff (as Musk killed that, for now at least).
• Which led me to [[maybe Musk will wake up]]

Hi there! this is one of the first few livestreams I’ve done. I keep iterrating on the format. As it is now, I am recording my typing but I don’t know to which extent you can hear the music or anything I say. I need to check up the setup later, so excuse any disruption please :)

I will now [[flow]] with my friends [[bobby lyte]] and [[adriene]] :D

For more of this, check out https://anagora.org/yoga-with-x pull.

• Actual yoga is coming soon. I’ve been enjoying typing on my mechanical keyboard and playing with Lady Burup. I fixed or worked around some hardware/setup issues along the way :)
• Also did some light gardening in preparation for the winter.
• [[Recursivity]].
• No matter what, I keep coming back to [[neovim]] for editing my garden. It’s just too handy and fast. Silverbullet competes with other tabs in my browser windows, whereas [[wikivim]] is always somewhere in tmux.
• I think that’s fine, they have different strengths?
  • Although I did want to experiment with [[silverbullet attachments]] as a simple way to make the [[Agora]] more multi-media (it’s the spirit of the 90s? :))

2024-10-25

• Back in the Agora!
  • I shipped some small usability improvements this week. I intend to do some more of these during the weekend.
  • I re-discovered [[…]] and it’s amazing, both broken and great.
  • [[Silverbullet]] cannot open it though, so the screenshot is in [[ellipsis]]

• Work has been fine.
  • It was a relatively productive week; I feel satisfied.
• I thought about [[Magnetism]], as usual. And its [[elasticity]].
  • I want to write something about [[magnets in space]], I think it could go well with that other old idea — [[monks in space]] :)
• I watched [[which came first]] (3 minutes) and it was great
• I used [[flatpak]] today.

2024-10-24

• Back in the Agora using [[Silverbullet]]!
  • It’s been working quite alright for me, although I still use [[wiki vim]] around half the time when editing I’d say.
  • I posted an update to https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1010.

• I had a good day at work really.
  • I enjoyed typing on my new keyboard! I am looking forward actually, which is a nice motivation to go to work tomorrow again, and that in turn is nice to have as I have to go there anyway ;)
  • I may end up getting another one for writing at home though. I "knew" that I like typing on mechanical keyboards, but it took typing again in one to properly remember it :)
  • I worked until late back home even after the [[social.coop]] meeting, but that’s OK as well, I like starting the week strong.
• Then I thought about the [[Revolution]].

• [[AG]]
• called my mum for [[mother’s day]] in Argentina
• [[flancia meet]]:
  • with [[bouncepaw]]
  • [[apache2]] is making a comeback
  • [[8bitdo]] keyboard and the alternate keyboard movement, [[funky keyboards]]
  • [[keyboard wiki]]
• I’m liking my new [[8bitdo]] keyboard a lot, and now that I’ve made the programmable buttons work even more :)
  • I set one big button to lock the screen and the other to write ‘yes’ and press enter; I figured programming one to take a full action that might be dangerous in some contexts was fun and reasonable enough for what IS a big red button after all, so if you press it in front of a prompt or a chat window you should be sufficiently aware of the risk :)
  • Typing here I remember how much I like typing, in a way. Another thing I like is that it forces me away from the laptop, where the touchpad is always available. Here I have to reach for the mouse, as in the olden days, and this is a small context switch that I might be able to catch myself doing when I intended to focus on the task at hand (writing).
  • I think this might enable me to write more and in longer form, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. The last long form text I wrote publicly was the [[Agora Chapter]] of the book about [[Personal Knowledge Graphs]], which was published in [[2023]].

I guess at some point once you’ve written enough you can drop the bullet points and go back to full prose, whatever difference this makes. To some extent paragraphs are a two level list hierarchy, in the sense that every sentence that follows a previous instead of beginning a new paragraph can be though to be a children to one that preceded it.

• I ran into [[Wittgenstein]] again and I thought again of reading him seriously/more fully, I have only read fragments of him so far and of course commentary to his work.
• I guess bullet points can serve as asides in longer form prose, like parentheses or dashes, but perhaps more readable for the case of writers which tend to produce many asides and meta :)

So, anyway, writing makes me feel good; it feels cathartic you could say, and also just necessary at times. Noticing that something feels good also helps oneself do that thing again, remove resistances to doing it.

Why is it that I want to write so much? It is because [[writing is an aid to memory]], and [[writing is a tool for thinking]], and for communicating of course.

• The laundry timer just went off.
• And now I’m back, after putting laundry to dry (tumble) and another load :)

What do I want to remember so much, you might ask yourself. Well, to answer that thoroughly and clearly is that I like to build [[Agoras]].

• Back!
  • Work week was alright.
  • Did some personal emotional processing during the week as well.
  • Now feeling good going into the weekend :)
• Had good meetings, also one great today with [[edumerco]].
• I reconnected with some old [[friends]] digitally and in analog space :)