Journal entries in the last 47 days

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πŸ“… day [[2024-11-20]]
  • 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)
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-19]]
  • [[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:
  • [[cwebber]] joined [[social.coop]] earlier this week!
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-17]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-16]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-15]]
  • 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.
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-11]]
  • 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.
  • [[AlgΓΊn dΓ­a]]
  • 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.
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-10]]
  • [[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.
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-09]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-08]]

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.
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-06]]
  • 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 :)
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-05]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-04]]
  • 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.
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-03]]
  • 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.
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-02]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-11-01]]
  • [[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 jerarquΓ­as y no hay orden
    • No hay jerarquΓ­as:
      • Nodo estΓ‘ en la misma jerarquΓ­a que wikipedia/wiktionary/results
      • (Sobre las divisiones entre Γ‘gora y no Γ‘gora)
      • Primero podrΓ­a ir el Γ‘gora y despuΓ©s de adentro hacia afuera
    • Datos y metadatos estΓ‘n mezclados
    • LΓ­neas y "1 + 1 = 3"
      • Espacio negativo
      • Alternancia entre colores y grises
    • Dos grupos:
      • info acΓ‘
      • e info en otros lados
    • TransclusiΓ³n, etc.
    • QuizΓ‘s un tabbed interface? Mostrar que e.g. wiktionary tiene contenido relevante pero no mostrarlo como elemento de primer nivel.
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-31]]
  • [[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.
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-29]]
  • [[work]] was intense meetings, summit, then working late - but good I think.
  • [[go/flow/29]] is about [[trust]].
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-28]]

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.
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-27]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-26]]
  • [[]]
  • 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:

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 .

  • 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? :))
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-25]]

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]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-24]]

2024-10-24

πŸ“… day [[2024-10-21]]
  • 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]].
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-20]]
  • [[AG]]
  • called my mum for [[mother’s day]] in Argentina
  • [[flancia meet]]:
  • 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]].

πŸ“… day [[2024-10-19]]
  • 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 :)
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-17]]
  • Today is [[Maitreya]]! The 17th :)
  • Work was fine actually. I biked there and back, I’m enjoying the exercise before it gets too cold.
    • Was productive in the evening from home after reuniting with [[Lady Burup]] :)
  • Then I ate and did [[Flancia]].
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-15]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-12]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-11]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-08]]

2024-10-08

  • At [[work]], meaning in the office, after a few days out/WFH due to disease. It’s nice to see my coworkers/have in person conversations.
    • I had a productive day at home yesterday which hopefully will translate to a productive week in-office. Let’s see :)
  • No meetings after work tonight! Which is nice.
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-06]]
  • Continuing from [[2024-10-04]] :)
  • #push [[todo]]
  • [[agora development]]:
    • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
    • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
    • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
  • [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
    • [[zine]]
      • 0
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5 finish?
    • [[letters]]
      • 0
        • which are the three letters I want to work on?
          • to [[WS]]
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
            • Objections -> [[objectio]]
          • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
            • Objections
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
          • to Maitreya
            • meaning: one or more friends
              • Lex Fridman et al?
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5 finish/share?
  • [[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
  • I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-04]]
  • Sick so I [[WFH]], but nothing serious.
  • Resuming from [[2024-10-01]]:
  • [[agora development]]:
    • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
    • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
    • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
  • [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
    • [[zine]]
      • 0
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5 finish?
    • [[letters]]
      • 0
        • which are the three letters I want to work on?
          • to [[WS]]
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
            • Objections -> [[objectio]]
          • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
            • Objections
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
          • to Maitreya
            • meaning: one or more friends
              • Lex Fridman et al?
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5 finish/share?
  • [[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
  • I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
  • [[ekumen]]
  • [[analytical seclusion]]:
    • [[sabbatical]]
    • may 2025-july 2025? one month to start with?
πŸ“… day [[2024-10-01]]
  • I read about [[polymers]] and [[acrylic]] a.k.a. [[PMMA]] via… the [[Cotton-Mouton Effect]] (?).
    • Also about [[Sky Pool, London]] which "was criticized as emblematic of economic inequalities in London.".
  • [[Magnets]]
  • [[Zine]] (enjoying it, working in [[overleaf]] with vim bindings is a pretty nice setup)
  • Thought of [[Right Resolve]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]], [[Right Freedom]]
  • [[agora development]]:
    • [[agor.ai]] is partly fixed since yesterday (finally!) in the sense that link.agor.ai and flancia.agor.ai are back up in [[hypatia]] \o/
    • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
    • I fixed my [[wiki vim]] setup to allow for easy markdown editing again and things like interacting with checkboxes.
    • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
    • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
  • [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
    • [[zine]]
      • 0
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5 finish?
    • [[letters]]
      • 0
        • which are the three letters I want to work on?
          • to [[WS]]
            • Thank you
            • Objections
            • What I will try to do forward
          • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
            • Objections
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
          • to Maitreya
            • meaning: one or more friends
            • Thank you
            • What I will try to do forward
      • 1
      • 2
      • 3
      • 4
      • 5 finish/share one tomorrow?
        • considering this shared (with two people to begin with) as of the week of [[2024-10-11]] :)
πŸ“… day [[2024-09-30]]
  • read about the [[Karmapa]]
  • I have this week off, will probably keep today and tomorrow off and resume work on Wednesday
  • #push [[do]]
    • I crafted, and then went through, a lengthy todo list :)
      • do laundry (2x)
      • donate (2x)
      • run [[collect]] over todo items/notebooks, they’ve gotten out of control as usual :)
        • add items to this todo list or ideally to the [[root node]] for my tasks
        • maybe add images directly, although that could take time it will be less time than entering manually, and I could pipe the collection to AI at some point?
      • write
        • zine (2-4x)
        • get java [[minecraft]]
        • one or more of:
          • open letter to musk
          • open letter to maitreya
          • open letter to lex and sam
      • code
        • get into a code-release flow again by shipping one little change to anagora.org
        • one or more of:
          • save button
          • activitypub support
          • agora bot posts updates from the agora?
          • users post updates from the agora?
      • systems
        • fix agor.ai
          • recycle
          • make free space
          • try again
πŸ“… day [[2024-09-28]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-09-27]]
  • I’m back :)
  • [[social.coop]]:
    • Updated moderation announcement
    • Review pass issue reported by edsu
  • [[bobby lyte]] mentioned the importance of "the shared and collective belief and energy toward a common goal" and I liked how he put it
πŸ“… day [[2024-09-24]]
  • [[work]] was OK.
    • tomorrow will be even better I think :)
    • it will start weirdly.
  • I thought of [[tanzwerk]] and [[hardturm]] again, and of cycling through the city, thanks to the Agora/my digital garden. Maybe during the weekend?
  • While using the Agora, I thought of some things:
    • It is a shame that so few different users show up in recent, BUT there are a few contributors I didn’t know about and that felt cool/interesting and I found several nodes by old friends I want to read.
    • It really should have a ‘pin’ or ‘star’ or ‘save’ button as "mvp" for storing state originating from the web client but not tied to an editor. I found some wikipedia-articles-within-the-Agora that I wanted to ‘pin’ as having been interesting, and just being able to save a subnode that says ‘flancian was here on X’ would suffice really. Like a visitors log, old web style maybe. Or just a bit in sqlite?
      • I need to find vera’s branch that took me too long to review :(
        • Better late than never? Or, well, in any case it is an inspiration.
      • I want to catch up with [[j0lms]]
  • I want to do [[yoga]] tonight.
  • It is 22 as I write this and I’d like to be in bed tonight by 1am.
  • Also, [[Tschenresi Sadhana]].
  • I’m back!
    • In the wrong location ;) [[sariputta]] has an old-style editor which adds journal entries to /journal :)
    • I’ll live with the discrepancy, they are coalesced reasonably well by the Agora in any case.
    • See also: [[2024-09-24]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-09-21]]
  • Back in [[Flancia]]!
    • Or did we ever leave?
    • [[Mallorca]] was beautiful!
    • Thank you [[AG]] for your kindness and your beauty.
    • Reunited with [[Lady Burup]] yesterday evening.
  • Today I cleaned and I worked around the house, catching up with:
  • Today I noticed that [[37]] = [[19]] + [[18]], meaning a centered hex number plus its center-less partner.
    • So it seems like a very good packing for two hex numbers, in one figure.
  • Then I [[flowed]].
  • [[zine]]
  • Music: [[rainbow folding]] and others
  • [[37]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-09-14]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-09-06]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-09-05]]
  • I’ve gotten [[paramita]] back up and running, it had broken in a variety of ways (broken nvim with a bus error, broken gammastep)
  • [[Jigme Rinpoche]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-09-03]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-09-02]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-08-29]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-08-28]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-08-22]]
πŸ“… day [[2024-08-19]]
  • [[Google IPO]] twenty years ago today
  • [[zine]]
  • [[AG]]
  • Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]]
  • I banged my right elbow hard when moving near an open window, I hope it doesn’t swell :)
  • Good day overall in any case!
    • I cycled to work and back and it was great.