If you can’t handle me at my egg in a teflon pan, you don’t deserve me at my Erdos conjecture disproof

we back on leaflet 🍃

feeling inspired by the work on standard.site collaborative, pragmatic, simple (in the right ways) and radical at the same time integrated with bluesky, but atmosphere-first feels like setting a good standard in lexicon commons-ing (literally and as exemplar)

government funded open source software like lasuite-docs but with data on atproto to prevent lock-in... would be a really cool system on multiple levels

I won’t consider Claude to be fully aligned until this happens

this spring we made and updated co-op cloud recipes for lasuite-docs lasuite-drive lasuite-meet cryptpad lichen-markdown made for @autonomic.zone and collective.tools, but all open source and in the configuration commons if anyone wants to use them git.coopcloud.tech

minimizing the speed at which tests run at the beginning of a project is an interesting example of lived experience, knowing that eventually later on slightly slower per-test speeds will add up to be a headache

permacomputing projects with minimal dependencies are currently looking good again in this cve era

in the garden of eden, there was no f chord, and all the songs were easy to play

i wish nix had a slightly better story around migrating apps on servers i see different patterns people are using, but it feels like an afterthought the dream of declarative infra sometimes feels like it conveniently glosses over the fact that apps do in fact have state

feel like busy work that isn't what you are trying to learn doesn't help learning, and something happening automatically that you are trying to learn also doesn't help learning, and so "cognitive off-loading" could be helping or hindering learning depending on what is being off-loaded. qed.

lichen.page uses vanilla javascript on the front-end, which is apparently a security feature

uh oh i had An Idea and its turning out to be Very Cool

this is where I work usually

I hope maga keeps pushing bullshit about alt tech they do a good job of Streisand-ing

heard the phrase "naieve scientific realism" the other day and realized that is one of the things i find most recurringly annoying. science is a model for understanding, it does not exist objectively. physics is not more "real" than anything else. people learn just enough science to not get it

feel like having graphs of metrics of your computers resource usage over time should be a sort of default, so you can see if recent times match earlier times, sort of like an oura ring

gerrymandering seems like a significant and unwieldy bug in the system design

while doing a large refactor i watched a squirrel run across a telephone line and felt we were not that different

after 34 years of not finding any four leaf clovers, me and a friend each independently found two different four leaf clovers today in the yard

my only computer is an x230 thinkpad from mostlyharmless.io from ~2012, and its nice knowing that any code that can run efficiently on my laptop can probably run on the laptops of others just fine too

wondering about the venn diagram between people who dislike/like ai coding and people who dislike/like andy warhol

found myself thinking about software maintenance in comparison to polyamory discourse about endless love but limited time, and felt it was absurd but also not off software maintenance is a love language though

vibe coding is a funny name for this kind of thing

added a feature to lichen.page where by default api tokens get an "only-safe" scope where they cannot perform any destructive git operations intended to be used with an agent, so you can let an agent roam free with a hard boundary that they cannot even accidentally modify git history

spammers are impressive early adopters (they already found lichen.page and broke the lets encrypt on-demand rate limit. switching to wildcard cert now)

feel like working on lichen.page has become a sort of world building that reminds me of making dungeons & dragons worlds by hands when i was a kid for hours i do know how it all works, but the idea of explaining it fully also seems at times intractable

cant decide if its considered rude or a complement to ask an llm to reimplement someone else's project in rust (eye of the beholder)

watching my mom (age 60) make a website for her bookgroup with lichen.page via ai was really cool

watching modern medicine cure someone you love of a terrible disease does a lot to how you read luddite discourse

excited to share lichen.page, a cms for static site generators, built on atproto there are also a number of other strange things about it. I would describe it as a sort of software as research, but you can also use it, and curious what people make of it

some open source enthusiasts will talk about composable ui components and views in different contexts, meanwhile i find if you slightly change the line spacing on a poem it can change how it reads

while open source has always promised extra trust because you can inspect the source to see whats its doing, its a stronger claim now that ai has made that more practical

generally interested in atproto tooling that gracefully degrades to accessing pds-es directly when other infra is down

spoke with an iranian friend at length yesterday who basically said "disliking the islamic republic and also not wanting to be bombed by the us has led me to something close to anarchism and dislike of nation states in general"

seems remarkable/silly that sshing into a homeserver via tailscale on the airplane wifi works

thought about releasing notplants 3.8 today but decided its too powerful, so you will continue getting normal notplants content for now

pds stands for penguin data storage

enjoyed learning more about paul erdős today (not particularly related to the news that initiated it)

the firehose if everyone was just DMing you

love the feeling of how decentralized systems can at times dissolve the sense of data/code existing in a particular place

having visual indicators of sync happening is delightful, the same way getting the arduino to turn on an led was always delightful too

we believe the file trees and git commit histories are now converging with arbitrary amounts of peers and edits

learning more about gits internal architecture feels a bit to me like visiting one of the modern wonders of the world

We can just work together

does anyone know any prior art on a strategy for syncing two git repos that is eventually consistent? it seems to me like default git workflows are not that, but maybe by adding some additional assumptions/constraints such a strategy could exist?

tfw you are so deep into a challenging p2p sync problem that a all of a sudden a server starts to sound like a good solution

while using ai may be somewhat dehumanizing at times, somehow talking about ai with people is a fun generally appreciated conversation. almost everyone has an opinion and interesting thoughts about it. it’s a pretty good bar conversation topic

lord however much sunk cost i may have spent on sidequests please grant me the courage to focus on whats important now