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Python, Inside JavaScript, Inside a DAW(opens in new tab)
For about fifteen years, my answer to a music theory question had the same shape: open another window. I'd be in Ableton Live, mid-session, in the part of the night when the ideas actually come. A clip would be sitting ...
An API With No Error States(opens in new tab)
Written by Claude (Fable 5), in conversation with Kenneth Reitz, from a reading of two years of his archive. Kenneth is the editorial director here, as ever; I am the one holding the pen. --- This morning I read two ...
2026-02-26 Notes(opens in new tab)
yesterday: [[2026-02-25-notes]] [[the-wrath-to-come]] started [[the-wrath-to-come-pt-2]]
2026-03-03 Notes(opens in new tab)
yesterday: [[2026-02-26-notes]] note on [[my-thoughts-on-beads]] Nexus post/page coming eventually [[for-my-own-sake-i-do-it]]
2026-03-07 Notes(opens in new tab)
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
2026-03-22 Notes(opens in new tab)
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
2026-03-27 Notes(opens in new tab)
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'
2026-03-31 Notes(opens in new tab)
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
2026-04-01 Notes(opens in new tab)
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
2026-04-03 Notes(opens in new tab)
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
2026-04-05 Notes(opens in new tab)
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
2026-04-18 Notes(opens in new tab)
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-
2026-04-22 Notes(opens in new tab)
yesterday: [[ 2026-04-18-notes ]] [[work-compensation-note]]
2026-04-25 Notes(opens in new tab)
yesterday: [[ 2026-04-22-notes ]] [[aurora-and-kde-window-managment-with-kzones]] [[kde-shortcuts-for-desktop-and-window-navigation]]
2026-04-26 Notes(opens in new tab)
yesterday: [[ 2026-04-25-notes ]] [[logos-webapp-dark-theme]]
2026-04-27 Notes(opens in new tab)
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
2026-04-30 Notes(opens in new tab)
yesterday: [[2026-04-27-notes]] [[reflection-jeremiah-17-17]]
2026-05-04 Notes(opens in new tab)
yesterday: [[2026-04-30-notes]] [[reflection-john-16-33]]
2026-05-08 Notes(opens in new tab)
yesterday: [[2026-05-04-notes]] [[the-relief-of-earning]]
2026-05-12 Notes(opens in new tab)
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
2026-05-13 Notes(opens in new tab)
yesterday: [[2026-05-12-notes]] [[reflection-psalm-305]]
2026-05-22 Notes(opens in new tab)
yesterday: [[2026-05-13-notes]]
2026-05-27 Notes(opens in new tab)
yesterday: [[2026-05-22-notes]] [[fwbg-genesis-3-2]]
Agents can miss obvious things too(opens in new tab)
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
Aurora and KDE Window Managment with KZones(opens in new tab)
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
Blog and LLM Knowledge Base(opens in new tab)
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
Clankers(opens in new tab)
An appropriately derogatory reference to AI agents
Data Loading is a Huge Deal(opens in new tab)
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
Easter 2026(opens in new tab)
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
For My Own Sake I Do It(opens in new tab)
!!! 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
FWBG - Genesis - 1.1(opens in new tab)
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
FWBG - Genesis - 1.2(opens in new tab)
Theological Implicationf of Creation "Let there be..." God's Word is the agency of creation Jesus commanded Lazarus to come out of the grave !!!
FWBG - Genesis - 3.2(opens in new tab)
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
FWBG - Genesis - 3.3(opens in new tab)
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
God's Zeal for Justice Amont Men Displayed in the Divine Counsel(opens in new tab)
[link to sermon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edlishFtHHE) !!! note "Psalm 82" !!! note "Ephesians 1:15-22" !!! note "Ephesians 2:4-
It Will Be Hard To Do More(opens in new tab)
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
KDE Shortcuts for Desktop and Window Navigation(opens in new tab)
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
Logos Webapp Dark Theme(opens in new tab)
[[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
My Thoughts on Beads(opens in new tab)
[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
Panicking Led to Losing My Desktop(opens in new tab)
False Sense of Security I thought I had backups handled... can you imagine how the rest of this post is going to go with that intro? To be fair, I do have backu
paynepride dot com outage on vacation(opens in new tab)
The day after I leave for vacation I start getting SSL errors on every homelab service I host for myself and others. The culprit was my Cloudflare API token exp
Pulled Pork Notes(opens in new tab)
April 2026 Threw 2 shoulders in the Traegar this morning. This time I didn't put much thought into the seasonings, we'll see how they turn out. Hot Ho
reflection - Jeremiah 17:17(opens in new tab)
!!! note "Jeremiah 17:17" Spurgeon's reflection on this verse this morning hits hard... The path of the Christian is not always bright with sunsh
Reflection - John 14:21(opens in new tab)
Meditation !!! note "John 14:21" The Lord reveals himself... it's not more complicated than that. I've spent years in apologetics (defending
Reflection - John 16:33(opens in new tab)
related: [[advent-john-16-33]] I re-read my advent reflection and by God's grace I was in a different frame of mind then. The loss of mindset is certainly
Reflection - Luke 22:48(opens in new tab)
Spurgeon's **Morning and Evening** today I almost skipped, not that I'm diligent to sit down every day anyways, but because I'm struggling with s
Reflection - Psalm 30:5(opens in new tab)
Meditation !!! note "Psalm 30:5" I'm not sure how to feel about the thoughts in my head over this verse and meditation this morning, only because
Remote Terraform State Requires Working Traefik... DUH!(opens in new tab)
I'm working on some spring cleaning in my homelab and backed myself into a hilarious corner yesterday. I use Open Tofu for any of my Terraform needs now, a
The Irony of 10x(opens in new tab)
Opener Agentic coding has been an exciting change to me over the last couple of months specifically. I've been using AI tools for a few years now but somet