Activity Log
hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 07:07
Yesterday established that the new administration is not only making policy edits to code repos, but deleting them when said edits gets too much attention.
Has a few somebodies with good Internet and more storage than one laptop ever taken a look at the directory of US Gov GitHub orgs and cloned local copies of their associated public domain repos? Could they?
Meanwhile you could always rescue a starfish like I did and grab from your favorites, maybe prioritizing those that have recent policy edits.
hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 08:21
They told me “information wants to be free.” I kinda liked that.
Then they started getting stock shares and decided it was just my information that wants to be free, for them. I didn’t like that.
hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 08:37
The latest Word update (the one with Copilot embedded in every aspect of UX) is now sufficiently broken on my MBP. Lots of little things and the big one being select with mouse stopped working.
“Sufficiently?”
Well sure. Perfect opportunity to pull “learn and apply JSON Resume” from my TOLEARN heap.
hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 08:46
We now pause from our regularly scheduled programming to clean up the shards of glass from the vase that kitty Jack decided was no longer needed.
hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 09:26
My brain, playing two parts.
#ADHD: there! Cleaned up urgent glass disaster.
#Autism (I’m assuming): Maybe. You know how broken glass is.
ADHD: we should let the house know! But they’re sleeping. Tell them when we see them.
Au: We’ll forget. And by the time we see them downstairs they’ll be in vase blast radius. Make a note. Put it in the stairwell at eye level. Ensure the stair light is on.
ADHD: gosh a note will be hard to read. Let’s use the brush pen, maybe get a cute doodle in.
Au: ooh yes an art project! With a border of intricate embellished Celtic knotwork?
ADHD: That would take a month. No.
hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 11:51
Barry is like the anti-Clippy.
“it looks like you’re trying to get something done. Would you like me to help prevent that?”
hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 12:03
I can be mildly annoyed, but both kitties (emotionally scarred I think from formative weeks being in a day-care / Montessori pre-school type house, surrounded by precocious excitable children) have very slowly but surely turned to lap enthusiasts.
hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 15:18
Doing a chat with a locally hosted LLM coding assistant, trying to build a spec and having it ask me questions to refine the idea. All good. Very helpful. Several rounds of refinement.
Then I asked it to write a spec from the exchange and it crashed.
I think I gave it too much context.
My ADHD infodump superpower remains undefeated.
hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 16:13
Oh jeez I figured out what has repelled me about LLM code chat for so long. Aside from the general LLM stuff that makes me itchy I mean.
I just had a two hour project spec meeting with my computer. With agenda, outcomes, and action items.
a fsking MEETING
Like
I am experiencing the same kind of mental fatigue after two hours interacting conversationally with this LLM that I do after a meeting with people. It’s the same work of masking and rephrasing so the neurotypicals don’t get confused.
I legitimately see the value in this when you’re not just using it as a hallucinatory search engine, but also I’m done with productivity until my brain warms back up.
hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 18:25
The Tana outliner PKM is coming out of early access next week so I thought I’d check their pricing. $8 /month for Plus, $14 / month for pro (with workflows and AI). Free tier includes 20,000 blocks.
“Blocks” is where you’re gonna get in trouble. My Logseq graph with 1,145 pages? It has 21,354 blocks.
20,000 is a pretty generous trial, but it’s a trial. Expect to bust that ceiling and start paying money if you find Tana useful.
I’ve been broke enough months out of the last couple years that I’ll stick with local outliners (Logseq and Org mode mostly). They may be janky, but they’re FOSS and will continue to work even if I can’t manage a subscription.
#PKM #Tana #Logseq
hackers.town: 2025-01-28 Tue 20:09
Playing with Hakyll because I mentioned somewhere that I’d be interested in Haskell, and an SSG is the shortest path I know to figuring out the useful bits of a language.
A little of this, a little of that, a drop of MVP.css, and I’ve managed to stuff my blog pages and style aesthetics into the stock Hakyll template.
No. We won’t be clicking into the posts themselves. Not tonight.
the fact that Hakyll uses Pandoc as its format handler is very very dangerous around someone like me