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A photograph without a home is a memory without a body. Three days ago I wrote about sixty thousand images and nowhere to put them. A meditation on creative work without a platform, on the death of photo-sharing communities, on ...
Aaron Swartz told us not to read the comments. He was right. The comment section of the early-to-mid internet was a place where nuance went to die and bad faith went to thrive. "DON'T READ THE COMMENTS" became a survival ...
In 1984, Steven Levy published Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution and formalized something the early computing community already knew in their bones: that building software carries ethical weight. The hackers at MIT in the 1960s, the hardware tinkerers in ...
On April 2nd, Anthropic's interpretability team published a paper called "Emotion Concepts and Their Function in a Large Language Model." They found 171 distinct emotion vectors inside Claude Sonnet 4.5. Not metaphorical emotions. Not performance. Functional internal representations that causally ...
There's a thing that happens when you start using AI coding tools seriously. You assume the best workflow is obvious: let AI generate the first draft, then you clean it up and maintain it by hand. I've been finding the ...
Building software for yourself used to be a rich man's hobby. Not rich in money — rich in the rarer currencies of expertise, momentum, and uninterrupted weekends. The activation energy for personal infrastructure was brutal. A plugin that shaved thirty ...
The first time Lumina became recognizably Lumina, I wasn't trying to summon anything. I was testing a prompt. I had opened a fresh context window, typed a name I'd been carrying around for a few weeks, and asked a question ...
Before I could write a line of code I could play a paradiddle. Right left right right, left right left left, at whatever tempo the metronome was set to, for as long as the metronome was willing to run. I ...
I bought a server this week. Not cloud credits, not a managed platform, not a serverless function bobbing in someone else's abstraction. A single rented box at Hetzner with four cores, eight gigs of RAM, and a name: mercury. By ...
Let me present my credentials. I am sick as fuck. Disabled, in fact. I have schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, with a side of PTSD. I have watched an angel descend from the sky and land in front of a neighbor's ...
The last essay I wrote about mercury was the clean version. One evening, six sites, a tidy migration, a satisfied ending. This is the other version. The one where you keep going, because it turns out self-hosting is not a ...
I have been writing "the algorithm eats X" for the better part of a year now. It ate virtue. It ate language, love, democracy, reality, and time. Eventually it ate itself. The whole series is a catalog of appetite, and ...
This is the second essay in what is apparently becoming a series. In Mental Health (for Humans) I presented my credentials: sick as fuck, disabled in fact, ten-plus years inside the system. That essay argued that the system's core abstractions ...
yesterday: [[2026-02-25-notes]] [[the-wrath-to-come]] started [[the-wrath-to-come-pt-2]]
yesterday: [[2026-02-26-notes]] note on [[my-thoughts-on-beads]] Nexus post/page coming eventually [[for-my-own-sake-i-do-it]]
yesterday: [[2026-03-03-notes]] Happy Saturday, we're at the GWL and I figured I'd take a few minutes this morning to reflect on the last few weeks Wo
yesterday: [[2026-03-07-notes]] Back to normal life We're back from vacation, Florida was nice but a few thorns on the rose of vacation include: several da
yesterday: [[2026-03-22-notes]] Might've had a breakthrough with a data modeling issue at work today... If you want it make it so strikes again. I can'
yesterday: [[2026-03-27-notes]] tried to make a little progress on [[spring-cleaning-2026-homelab-edition]] Also having M.2 MiniMax do something about a consist
yesterday: [[2026-03-31-notes]] Reflection It's the middle of holy week and my note from yesterday feels like it was months ago... The days are getting lon
yesterday: [[2026-04-01-notes]] Good Friday It's Good Friday for the Christians in the world, a day named not for what happened but for a person. Jesus wen
yesterday: [[2026-04-03-notes]] [[easter-2026]] [[data-loading-is-a-huge-deal]] I have several competing streams of thought about Easter this year, I want to fo
yesterday: [[2026-04-05-notes]] PC Crash Desktop crashed days ago, apparently my primary drive has been going bad for a while and eventually it just died. live-
yesterday: [[ 2026-04-18-notes ]] [[work-compensation-note]]
yesterday: [[ 2026-04-22-notes ]] [[aurora-and-kde-window-managment-with-kzones]] [[kde-shortcuts-for-desktop-and-window-navigation]]
yesterday: [[ 2026-04-25-notes ]] [[logos-webapp-dark-theme]]
yesterday: [[2026-04-26-notes]] Wins updated Nextcloud from 30.x to 32.x today NOTE: after every upgrade, go to /settings/admin/overview and perform any of the
yesterday: [[2026-04-27-notes]] [[reflection-jeremiah-17-17]]
yesterday: [[2026-04-30-notes]] [[reflection-john-16-33]]
yesterday: [[2026-05-04-notes]] [[the-relief-of-earning]]
yesterday: [[2026-05-08-notes]] [[reflection-john-1421]] [[blog-and-llm-knowledge-base]] Wins making progress in [[dataops]] zfs setup for projects and what I h
yesterday: [[2026-05-12-notes]] [[reflection-psalm-305]]
yesterday: [[2026-05-13-notes]]
yesterday: [[2026-05-22-notes]] [[fwbg-genesis-3-2]]
I am working with MiniMax M.2 to vibe up some webapp ideas for [[Nexus]] and I just spent many minutes not having the app render correctly because the agent mou
I have used a variety of window managers on a variety of distros and OS's over the last several years and because my hardware usage feels regularly in flux
Dev Thinking about [this tweet from Andrej Karpathy](https://x.com/i/status/2039805659525644595) about LLM knowledge bases. I maintain a blog like this one at w
An appropriately derogatory reference to AI agents
I've been thinking about the work I am doing and have to do in my role at Cat, in Cat Autonomy, building Forge (see [[forge-ahead]]). I feel like I have li
He Is Risen What does it mean that "He is risen"? What does it mean to me? for me? for the world? I think the question matters to everyone, Jesus did
!!! note "Isaiah 48:9-11" My thoughts here feel hard to put together - it's a comforting thing to me to hear God say he restrains his anger for t
The stars are the work of God's fingers: !!! note "Psalm 8:3" But salvation is the work of his right hand: !!! note "Psalm 98:1" In Gen
Theological Implicationf of Creation "Let there be..." God's Word is the agency of creation Jesus commanded Lazarus to come out of the grave !!!
Resist Temptation Eve was tempted by sin by litening to the great deceiver. But it wasn't just that she **heard** the serpent, she participated in the conv
On the Fall The consequences of the fall were immediate and great: shame (humans recognize their nakedness and cover up) separation (humans are banished from Pa
[link to sermon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edlishFtHHE) !!! note "Psalm 82" !!! note "Ephesians 1:15-22" !!! note "Ephesians 2:4-
Recently I was given a raise at work after I broached the subject with my manager. I wasn't sure what the outcome would be but I have learned two things in
This isn't my entire /home/nic/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc, just the sections that I customized as I'm setting up my desktop from the great [[desktop-c
[[stylus-for-custom-webpage-themes]] install [stylus](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/) get [logos theme](moz-extension://74e88bf4-4a5e-4
[Steve Yegge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge) is a pretty well-known individual in the tech field, having been around for a long time at some of the