2026-01-31

• Trying to finish off [[Emacs Carnival: This year I'll…]] today.

  • Last day to submit!

• [[Adding shortcuts for entering email addresses in Heliboard]]

2026-01-17

• Went to the webinar [[Revisiting The Innovation Delusion — Conversation with Andrew Russell]] held by [[The Maintainers]].

2026-01-03

• [[Org Social]] has strong [[IndieWeb]] vibes.

  • P2P, host on your own site, etc.
  • I think it relies more on relays though. I don't think you could directly mention someone like you would with a webmention.

• I also like that you choose an emoji for reactions, rather than a generic like. Like [[CTZN]] did it.

  • I think that's a good way to allow reactions while avoiding algorithm pandering.

• Moved out successfully
  • Had to do a bunch of renovations in the room, but now it's quite cozy
  • Do miss the birds hanging out in the window of the old place
• Finally settled on a [[komorebi]] config
  • Tiling window managers rock!
  • Altho they really don't play well with some apps like game launchers and such
• Happy new years!
  • Obligatory resolution to make more nodes [[?]]

2025-12-31

• I was trying to set up [[Org Social]].
  • As per the post [[Emacs Carnival: The people of Emacs]], I think it'll be a good way to be more active in the Emacs community.
  • But it requires Emacs 30.1.
  • I'm only on Emacs 29.
  • Upgrade ahoy!

2025-12-30

• I learned about grease.el via [[Emacs News]].
  • Allows file operations by editing a buffer.
  • Then I learned from the comments in that Reddit thread about wdired and similar capabilities.
  • I just tried it, and it's perfect for solving the problem I have of org-roam's addition of a timestamp to the front of filenames, and how messy that is when I publish to the web, for those that were created a while ago before I changed how that works. (Or those created on mobile in Doom where I still haven't changed it).
  • With wdired I can select a rectangle of all those parts of the filenames in the buffer, and delete them, save the buffer, et volia, all the filenames updated! Neat.
  • I have a niggling feeling that one day I may regret removing timestamps from filenames. Some people seem to prefer it that way. But I really don't like filenames being used to store meta information.

• 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]] :)

• 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.

2025-12-07

• Christmas 10k run 2025.
  • Completed!
  • My [[Christmas 10k run playlist]].

2025-12-03

• I should check out [[org-gtd]].
  • From a quick first glance, it looks like a formalised way of doing much of what I'm already doing.
  • So it could be quite useful.
  • I'm wary of two things though:
    • Might be too formalised? Perhaps you can easily customise / extend.
      • The README suggests it written for someone who doesn't want to be bothered with org-mode's complexities. Hmm.
    • I tie heavily into org-roam for project reference material. I wonder how org-gtd works with that aspect of GTD.
  • Definitely worth looking further.

• [[I sometimes feel]]:
  • as if I'm [[struck by lightning]]
  • as if I've caught fire
  • we will go together until the dark of night
  • (do you know what I mean…?)

--

Busy working and happy; I've been told I look tired at times but recently got some good sleep through the holidays and I feel with high energy levels.

2025-11-30

• [[Emacs Carnival: org-babel]]

• [[albricias]]

2025-11-22

[[Digital colonialism]] is the use of digital technology for political, economic, and social domination of another sovereign country or people

– [[Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival]]

2025-11-21

• Christmas Pudding 10k.
  • I ran 7k in 43 minutes last night.
  • Playlist
    • Beach House – Myth
    • Proem – She Never Cries
    • Closer Musik – Piraten
    • Vessels – Glass Lake
    • Frog Pocket – Hurrah Sapphire Moon
    • Sieren – Blue Memories
    • The The – This Is the Day
    • Maps – Heya Yaha

• [[testing meet]]

• [[journals]] test
  • Now only accepting a hyphen as separator
  • Previous nodes didn't show because I was using an underscore as separator
  • Mystery solved!
• Trying out [[jujutsu]]
  • Seems like the workflow is more harmonious with agents than regular [[git]]
  • Also has a really cool name
• Made a buggy yet functional version of a [[event highlighting]] system for [[tidalcycles]] on [[emacs]]
  • The word functional doing a lot of heavy lifting there
• Also reading some [[kenzaburo oe]]
  • A quote of his taken from [[wikipedia]]¹ has a certain vibe

2025-11-11

• I'm enjoying my new approach to quick access to [[Emacs]] in my work environment.

  • Not quite as intuitive or fun as using [[Guake]], but having GUI Emacs feel like an improvement.
  • I like running the terminal version of Emacs but felt like missing out on a few too many niceties that way.
  • Interesting to observe that other people either take a 'one frame to rule them all' or multiple frames approach.
  • I've currently gone for one frame, using [[Spacemacs]] layouts to switch between different contexts. I'll see how that pans out.
  • [[Updating my approach to window management and Emacs]]

• Hmm, interesting, whatever slowness I was experiencing regarding [[org-agenda]] rebuilding seems to have gone away with the switch back to using the GUI Emacs.

  • Or maybe it's because I'm just running one instance again?
  • Either way, but for that to have gone away.

• Sometimes, because I had separate multiple frames, I'd end up editing the same file in two separate frames and get conflicts around changes to the file.

  • Particular when using org-capture to add to my Tasks.org file, then editing that in another frame.
  • Avoiding this issue is a handy perk of using one frame with layouts - all the buffers are present in all layouts (I assume?), just hidden from view.
  • Noting that probably this conflict would also be avoidable if running different frames from the same server instance of Emacs.

2025-11-10

• I'm kind of declaring org-agenda bankruptcy.
  • (In the sense of kind of starting over - not stopping using it!)
  • Removing scheduled and deadline dates from a whole load of accumulated tasks.
  • From a re-reading of GTD, experimenting with that only things that need to happen on an actual date should be scheduled.
  • This removes a large amount of psychic cruft of tasks that I haven't done for a long time reappearing regularly in my agenda.
  • I was just scattering them, which was kind of fun, but seeing them come back again in their tens is a bit daunting when planning a day out.
  • Of course I need to feel comfortable that I will see them again at some relevant point in the future. To be determined…
  • But for now - just working with NEXT actions on active projects.

2025-11-09

• I'm rekindling my relationship with Getting Things Done at the moment. Listening to Making It All Work.
  • Life is quite full on recently. I find GTD beneficial to getting some sense of control and perspective.
  • At the same time, I find the idea of 'personal productivity' kind of problematic. As a goal in itself, at least. It has neoliberal tones.
  • From that perspective, I like the notion of Four Thousand Weeks.
  • Maybe there's a happy medium.

2025-11-01

• The [[Emacs Carnival]] for November is on the topic of [[org-babel]].
  • I have some good stuff to talk about there.
  • I'll get started on the post earlier this time…

2025-10-31

• I managed to cobble together a post for the October [[Emacs carnival]]: [[Emacs Carnival: Praise the patchers]].

2025-10-30

• I foolishly ran pkg update in [[termux]]. Emacs went from 29 to 30. Now Doom won't start.
  • Will a doom sync fix it? Stay tuned…
  • Well what do you know, it seems fine so far!

• [[journals]] fix warrants celebratory noding
• Listening to [[the story of civilization]] by [[will durant]] via huge playlist
  • Learning history in that way feels very interesting
    • A compromise between encyclopedic knowledge and a more narrative style
  • It's also strange given the ways that I currently consume history are sort of wiki-based
  • Very huge undertaking to get through all of that
  • [[go]] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLax23j-7EInW5aUHMjTqQ3uzs5rE0WP64
• Still learning some [[tidalcycles]]
  • Trying to implement some event highlighting on [[emacs]]
    • Inspired by the [[neovim]] highlighting package
  • [[toplap]] manifesto in the docs has a great line¹

2025-10-29

• [[Emacs blog carnival: Maintenance]]

• Yesterday I implemented 'star nodes' and fixed a bunch of stuff in the Agora with Gemini and it felt great :)
  • I was able to do this in parallel while I kept working (day job related) into the end of night; I enjoy this pairing.
  • I use two different computers in two different desks and I walk to and fro, which helps a lot.
• Today it's day 1/2 of my team's global virtual summit (exploiting daylight savings [[chaos week]]); this brings an end to summit season, which has been intense!
• Plan to see [[KM]] after work :)

• I'm back to noding on this computer; and now I think about it, it's kind of curious I don't do it this often given that on workdays this is the computer I spent the most time on, by far!
  • By this I mean [[Guanyin]], one of my laptops, provided by [[Google]].

• [[KM]] :)
• Planning a trip to Italy!
• Also trying to advance today:
  • [[work]]
  • [[social.coop]]
  • [[agora]] development questions, like: how exactly to prioritize all the features and bug fixes I have backlogged with the ground level/key refactor between [[agora server]] and [[agora bridge]].
• Doing [[tab cleanup]] here in [[tara]] (my personal development computer) after a while, I thought (and posted) about [[gamification]].
• [[Macedonio Fernández]]

2025-10-26

• [[The electronic left]]
  • I enjoy this, as a term. Has a pleasingly 90s feel to it.
• Bookmarks
  • Technodiversity, permacomputing and anticapitalism | Critical Switch
    • [[Permacomputing]], [[Anti-capitalism]]

• [[79]]:
  • I was unsure what number I had associated [[Sadhana]] with, but today I saw it in the whiteboard.
  • It was the first prime that seemed "available" on a certain date :) And I think it still is; next up [[83]] is currently yours truly (as I was born on that year), then we only have [[89]], [[91]] and [[97]] left before the hundreds.
  • Before it, I thought [[37]] could be it as I currently associate it with [[Yoga]] which is also a [[spiritual practice]].
• I worked until late and enjoyed it.
• Attended an [[AI summit]] Tue-Thu and I enjoyed it quite a bit! Today I was a bit low energy as I slept only five hours (exceptional occasion) but overall the week was great so far. Actually looking forward to working tomorrow.
• [[KM]]
• [[Macedonio Fernández]]

• Learned about [[strudel]]
  • A very interesting music coding browser enviroment
  • Based on [[tidalcycles]] which itself is based on [[supercollider]]
    • Yet another reason to learn haskell for the greater good?
  • I like how visual it is! Seems perfect for [[algoraves]] and such
  • [[go]] https://strudel.cc/

• [[Moloch's bargain]]

• I'm back!
  • (says the guy who's back all the time...)
• My [[todo]] list for this 'long weekend':
  • Book hotel in [[Turkey]].
  • Order [[tea]].
  • Read [[El museo de la novela de la eterna]]
• [[97]]

• Most of what I write in the Agora nowadays seems to be [[poems]] :)
• Aside from that I've been mostly focusing on [[Agora development]] when I dedicate time to the #Agora directly.
• I have been enjoying the addition of AI to the developer's toolset, have been going through bug fixes and old wishlist items with much more speed. I am thankful for the opportunity.
• In other news I am happy with [[Lady Burup]] and [[KM]] and life in general!
• I have also been dedicating a large amount of time to work and trying to enjoy it, to more success than before.

• Go go
  • Go beyond
  • Everybody gone to the other shore
• Go free
  • Go kindly
  • If you have to #go, [[go kindly]]!

• Life is beautiful.
  • I am sorry for the oppressed at the same time I cherish highly my level of privilege and enjoyment; this much is true. What I do for them is probably inefficient and insufficient; I will try to do better.

As I write this on [[2025-09-27]] I am surrounded by happiness in the company of [[Lady Burup]] and [[KM]]. I am deeply thankful for what I get to live.

After work I usually code until late, with two AIs in two computers in two different desks, and play around the house with ~5 other computers and conscious beings.

• Had a beautiful weekend with [[KM]]!
• Went to [[PDL]]'s and [[Sabi]]'s birthday by the lake yesterday.
• [[Flancia meet]] with [[bouncepaw]]
  • [[John Wilkins]] sounds like [[John Forkings]] in Russian.
  • [[The Door Game]].

2025-09-16

• [[Notes on how I use org-mode for work and life]]

• [[KM]] :)
• Then work, which was fine.
• Then [[Fellowship of the Link]].
  • With [[Shawn Murphy]]!

• Been doing a lot of AI-assisted coding at work and after work and it's been great!
  • Even current-day AI adds a lot of value for coders. Like: a lot.

• Noding from work :)
• I spent the last few days:
  • With my mum, enjoying her last days in Zürich this year.
  • With [[KM]], in [[Copenhagen]] for the first time -- it was great!
  • Working, mostly catching up with procedural things but also doing some AI stuff.
  • Playing (after work), mostly coding the Agora with AI. It's a wonderful experience!

• Read about [[catharsis]]
  • Seems like there's literature suggesting catharsis as a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy
  • It makes sense within the context of online games
    • The timing of this uptick in literature is suspect however
    • It coincides with broader trends of violent game scapegoating
      • Contrasts with recent data
  • The original definition from the [[poetics]] is also fuzzy
    • [[gadamer]] has a nice summary¹ cited here
    • The only mention of catharsis in [[impro]] is within the status chapter²
      • It refers to the experience of the audience watching a tragedy
      • Seems more in line with the original definition than the broader venting one

• Oh wow.
• What's been happening.
• It's quite something.

I love you, my friend! You reader. I know you will be here eventually, and I thank you for your attention and for the way you are.

• Read [[azathoth]] by [[lovecraft]]
  • A very short and evocative prose poem
  • Supposed to be a fragment of a longer unfinished work
  • [[go]] https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/az.aspx
• Messing around more with [[gemini cli]]
  • Agents like it and [[aider]] are very interesting
    • Haven't tried [[codex]] and [[claude code]] due to region block
  • Feels like at the limit they can solve for most particulars in a brute way of sorts
  • You end up with unwieldly unreadable functions if not careful
  • Maybe the human input mostly requires considerations of design and architecture
    • Perhaps a useful free read in that vein would be something like this
• Also getting into [[the bazaar]]
  • Kinda like [[tft]]
  • Stuck on a theory reading loop as opposed to playing
    • Also do that with chess a lot!

• Had a great weekend with my mum and [[KM]] :)
• Missing [[Lady Burup]]! We will reunite tonight.
• Feeling quite productive at work, partly because of using AI and partly because of having handed off enough "legacy" state/projects to be able to focus on new things.

• I'm back!
  • Says the guy who's back all the time :)
  • I went to anagora.org/journals again today and it made me so happy, I love seeing the writing of others here in the Agora!
• Hmm, nvim is broken in [[guanyin]] somehow...
  • [[Sidequest]]?
    • I asked chatgpt 5 to try something new and it troubleshooted the issue for me and told me to add something to my init.lua but it hasn't worked so far.
    • Done :)
• So anyway...?
  • [[KM]] :)
  • [[EC]] :)
  • [[Burup]]:
    • mi [[Lady Burup]]!
    • clean the toilet
  • [[Agora]]:
    • thought about journals (see above)
    • thought of themes, see [[creme brulee]] and [[creme brulette]]
    • coding
    • autopull full text search and see what happens? (tm) -- found an interesting empty node that had text mentions but no noding, and the Agora was much more interesting after expanding it
  • [[Flancia]]:
    • [[The revolution for the benefit of sentient beings]]

• Watched [[broken by concept]] ep 261
  • They were discussing a [[league]] player who had a thorough note taking system for matches
  • The hosts were aghast at the whole thing!
  • It reminded me of the [[printf]] system for [[sc2]] which is also [[excel]] based
    • See here
  • Trying to extrapolate from those systems into a more general noding approach [[?]]
    • Seems hard given the nature of spreadsheets

• [[km]] :)

• Back noding in this computer, let's see if it's still syncing :)
  • Hmm, this nvim doesn't seem to be at target state :) Trying to fix now.
  • Well, that wasn't it, chezmoi says no updates but somehow outline (bulletpoints) mode isn't working as I expect it :(

2025-08-03

• [[Tweaks to org-agenda on mobile to save space]].

• #push [[Ekumen]]
  • [[Ekumen]] with [[Eduardo Mercovich]] :D
  • [[Interacción Humana]]
  • [[Sutty]]
    • [[Economía Cooperativa]]
    • [[Proceso Generativo]]
      • a lo largo de (por defecto) 4 sesiones
    • [[Iteraciones]]
  • [[Fediverso]]
  • [[beeper]]
  • [[next actions]]:
    • Tell Dan and Melissa?
      • CoSocial.ca + Social.coop "base case"?
    • Llenar el cuestionario :)
      • Compartir tesis
    • Repositorio de git :)
      • Para el ágora! Y la tesis?
    • -> Christopher Alexander y la gobernancia de AIs
• [[KM]] :D
• [[ekumen org]]
  • We also had fun generating AI videos! Some of them were actually quite eerie, but somehow funny, so they worked. I'm making them with [[Veo 3]]. The fact that they come with generated audio is quite something.

2025-08-01

• I currently can't access [[Emacs Wiki]].
  • This looks like why: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1m2lzkr/emacswiki_down/

• a [[document]]
  • About [[Agora Server]] and the wider [[Agora]] project:
  • #go https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BQdPNfNsgnMSpbZ_J1gJQqQ5Fo44JtiQPDrDnZ7x7hA/edit?tab=t.0
• [[beethoven]]
• Beautiful [[Las Jaras]] of July (month 7 / [[Avalokiteshvara]]) despite being sick with a fever. Thank you all, my friends and loved ones! And the [[universe]]!
• I did AI coding (meaning coding in tandem with Gemini 2.5) both at work and for the Agora/Flancia. I quite enjoy it!
• Bought [[tickets]] for my mum :)
  • And some [[gifts]]! :D
• [[KM]] is beautiful
• Sad about [[AI]] (not Artificial Intelligence in this case) but respectful/mindful, and thankful as well
  • Just closed a tab about [[Bursa]] and other places in [[Turkey]]

• Had a very nice start of the day with my mum and Burup.
  • Then very nice lunch with [[KM]]!
  • Then idem conversation with [[TW]]
    • He told me to look up [[positional embeddings]] as they are key to understanding how attention works in practice

• Back home on my free day :) I took the day off to do something with my mum off-peak (meaning not in the weekend). We were going to go to the [[St Beatus Caves]] but due to the weather we changed plans as she wants to go to [[Ikea]] ([[KM]] called it the artificial cave and it's very fitting!).
• I'm typing this on my new small [[RK61]] keyboard and I quite like it! It is a very limited layout as it's only 61 keys, so maybe not ideal for some use cases, but definitely good enough for doing general purpose writing.
• [[KM]] :)
• [[burup forever]]

2025-07-17

• A partially corrupted Metabase database. Dangit.

• I met [[KM]] this week and it was wonderful!
• The reference Agora at anagora.org is partly broken and the server it mostly depends on nowadays might be on the way out so further downtime could be expected, I'll be noding about troubleshooting activities here and posting to https://social.coop/@flancian/114865307000829931. Please excuse any disruption!

2025-07-16

• [[Emacs]]:
  • Useful when searching: rgrep.
    • I have a bunch of files named the same, of regular meetings I have with the same person on different dates.
      • i.e. something like 'Catchup with Shevek yyyy-mm-dd', with corresponding file names catchup-with-shevek-2025-07-16.org.
    • I wanted to search for a specific term, but only from meetings with Shevek.
    • M-x rgrep, then search term when prompted, then catchup-with-shevek*.org for the file pattern when prompted.

• Mi mamá tose mucho mientras duerme :(
  • Espero que se le pase pronto!
  • En todo caso la pasamos muy bien en Calp! Me hizo muy bien.
• I am now writing in [[tara]], the "main" project computer as of now :)
  • I have just [[meditated]].
  • I am thankful for existence!
  • I am thinking of my commitment to try to work for the benefit of sentient beings.
• Also I am wondering why nvim in [[guanyin]] is sort of broken, extensions that work fine in [[paramita]] and [[tara]] don't quite behave like I expect here. I suspect a [[chezmoi]] conflict, let's see...
  • (These are the sidequests that make up so much of life... I try to enjoy them!)
  • I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
    • It is the smallest keyboard I have typed on in very long, but I am happy to report it works! Maybe I wouldn't use it for coding initially as some key combinations I use are relatively awkward to press (it involves extra modifiers), but it is very pleasant to type prose or [[Agora]] text in which I'm very happy about, and it seems to easily support three bluetooth connections. I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :) I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
      • (See, [[nvim]] is indenting for some reason when I start a new line while doing outlines... I'm rolling with it for now...)
        • (OK, I spoke too soon, it turns out that [[paramita]] is broken too! Editing wise. So it could be I have fixed nvim only in [[tara]] and forgot to push that change to [[chezmoi]]...)
  • Hmm
    • Yep, it's fixed in Tara!
    • How nice to have a working vim based setup for the Agora again ;)
    • Now to figure out why it's broken elsewhere \o/
    • Oh, I was missing bullets.vim in my init.lua! And tara somehow still had it, I think because removing plugins from init.lua doesn't actually uninstall them (this is good to remember as it means that my nvim is not yet [[fully reproducible]] starting from init.lua).
    • Fixed then! :D