• Interesting Finds

  Emacs show the GNU GPL license, a small function to evaluate elisp and replace the function with the result of the code.

• Things I Worked On

  Added blogging workspace, added using arrows to switch between windows.

• The Freedom to Make Bad Decisions

  I'm against social media and addictive platforms but placing a ban on them is the…

• The Welfare Of the Future

  EBT is the Electronics Benefit Transfer card in the US for things like food stamps…

• The Cost Of Ram Needs to Go Down

  The cost to run models is currently prohibitively high for most users…

• Weekly Roundup

  A structured weekly roundup covering interesting finds across the internet.

• Interesting Finds

  A great quote from Prot about living in your head, how to edit org mode table forumlas.

• Things I Worked On

  Installed Magit, added abbrevs for blog index posts.

• Corporate Culture Kills Individual Growth

  Working for a large corporation feels like being a small fish in a big pond. Your actions make…

• Interesting Finds

  Sort org table by column.

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, Atomic Habits.

• Things I Worked On

  Bisaya Lessons, how to do a quick calculation on Emacs.

• Interesting Finds

  How to find the source for a package in Emacs, how to find custom user options for Emacs packages, mechanical pencil that rotates and self sharpens.

• Things I Worked On

  Emailed powRSS creator, added keybinding to open/close all blog index summaries.

• AI is Getting Too Expensive

  We're at the point now with AI where people are realizing that innovation doesn't happen…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Things I Worked On

  Created org-mode view for keybindings.

• Things I Worked On

  Updated blog index to add a summary to each daily post.

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Interesting Finds

  Didgeridoo playing helps with sleep apnoea, research on ChatGPT number guessing distribution, emacs convert text to phonetic alphabet, Emacs convert text to morse code.

• Things I Worked On

  Added overflow scrolling to example blocks in blog.

• Not Looking at the Screen When Writing

  I noticed the last few days that I enjoy writing the most when I'm not seeing the…

• Weekly Roundup

  A structured weekly roundup covering interesting finds across the internet.

• Things I Worked On

  Added note to DONE items.

• Thinking Of Getting a Job for a Weird Reason

  I'm thinking of getting a job just so I can have more use cases for Emacs…

• Things I Worked On

  Dark theme everywhere, aligning tags, backing up files, speed typing, ghostel.

• Will AI Bring Back Waterfall

  I wonder if with the speed of iteration with AI the industry will switch back to waterfall…

• When I Spoke

  When I spoke to you every tremor in my being that used to keep me up at night disappeared…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Things I Worked On

  Hiding/showing summaries in blog index, locally installing an LLM, remove caching from blog index, EWW Readable Mode.

• Random Thoughts

  Do aliens have the same mathematics as us?

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Things I Worked On

  Removed empty heading and subheadings from Weekly Roundup.

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Interesting Finds

  Evil mode run the next command in Emacs mode, git diff ignore white spaces, Jurassic period.

• Things I Worked On

  Relearned GTD for org-mode, Weekly Roundup paste post items, added a date picker to blog post creation functions, moved all extra .el files into ~/.emacs.d/lisp directory, added custom agenda command to view all NEXT items, added function to copy org roam node to my journal, added opening mac terminal.

• If AGI Becomes a Reality

  In order to compete with AGI humans have to take wages lower than the cost to run or use AGI models…

• Two Things to Avoid If You Want a Successful Relationship

  One is having a desire for things to be, or unfold, a certain way…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, Atomic Habits.

• Interesting Finds

  Export org file to reveal.js slide presentation.

• Interesting Finds

  Org time range, using Consult to search, start Emacs in the terminal.

• Things I Worked On

  Added tags to food capture, added restarting Emacs keybinding.

• The Lie That Billionaires Pay Little Taxes

  I've seen so many articles claiming that billionaires pay so little in income tax. To justify this claim…

• Companies Profit from Your Lack Of Thinking

  Deep thinking requires focus, time, and an environment that is somewhat distraction free…

• A Better Alternative to Social Security

  Economists estimate that by 2035 Social Security will no longer be able to fund the aging population…

• Weekly Roundup

  A structured weekly roundup covering interesting finds across the internet.

• Interesting Finds

  Hand flute.

• Things I Worked On

  Added tracking food, added showing food.org data in an org table, created dark theme for sudoku.com.

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  Org clock, Emacs lexical binding needs to be the first line.

• Things I Worked On

  Added Avida Towers to Davao Explorer, created hadiths meta org roam node, added overflow scrolling to src blocks in blog.

• School Kills the Joy Of Writing Notes

  When people are forced to do something they don't want to do they start associating…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Interesting Finds

  Org countdown, Org timer create timer item, Goodhart's Law.

• Things I Worked On

  Added LOGBOOK when changing a TODO repeating task to done, no clean way to create journal capture entry heading, broke up blog for 04-13 into separate posts, added reading summary for E-Myth, fixed a bug in Poker Equity Calculator, made elfeed titles longer.

• Why California's New Save Our Games Bill Could Kill Indie Studios

  California is trying to pass a bill that will block publishers from killing online games…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Interesting Finds

  J.D. Hodges Macbook Neo Performance Review.

• Things I Worked On

  Used git bisect to discover why my unfill toggle was not working, added showing org agenda time in am/pm, did a full laptop backup.

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Things I Worked On

  Added description to Ayala Mall.

• Interesting Finds

  How to run code after org capture is saved, EWW code snippets.

• Experience and Models: Our Only Reality

  General relativity and quantum mechanics have not been reconciled…

• Why Owners Need Extra Revenue

  I've coached business owners in the past who want to treat their customers fairly…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Interesting Finds

  Enable dark mode in chrome/brave, setting marks and navigating to them in vim, org mode table make field blank.

• Things I Worked On

  Took pictures of Ayala Mall for Davao Explorer, added org capture for journal, added getting extended weather, added function to format code in source blocks.

• Random Thoughts

  Retaining meaning, streaming killed artist creativity, the unmotivated landlord.

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Interesting Finds

  Org Agenda creating repeating tasks, org template expansions.

• Things I Worked On

  Org agenda navigation, avy navigation for elfeed-summary, calendar.org file to track calendar items.

• The Idea Of the Employee is Changing

  I think the idea of being an employee is fundamentally changing. Not saying its good…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Weekly Roundup

  A structured weekly roundup covering interesting finds across the internet.

• Things I worked On

  Davao Explorer, YouTube Filter chrome extension, Arkvis landing page.

• Is Disney's Strategy Nostalgia for Parents?

  I think one of the psychological strategies Disney uses is nostalgia…

• A Lot Of People Are Complaining About Github

  It seems GitHub is having a lot of issues these days and many suspect its due to…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Interesting Finds

  Codex Gigas.

• Things I Worked On

  List items line height, blog images.

• Davao Explorer

  I want something to motivate me to go out more and explore the city so I created…

• How to Make Sure Your Child Retires a Millionaire

  I learned about this amazing strategy to set up your kids for retirement…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, Atomic Habits.

• Things I Worked On

  Added journal.org to org agenda, added Weekly Roundup.

• Experimenting With an Overlapping Day

  I usually change Airbnbs every week or 10 days. This means I need to wake up early to clean and…

• How My Journal Works

  I use an org file as my journal. The top headings are the current date and…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Things I Worked On

  Weather in Emacs, tracking reading summaries.

• What I Never Prepared for When I Wanted to Retire

  When I was working, no matter how much I disliked it, I always had something to…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, Atomic Habits.

• Interesting Finds

  Named variables in common lisp, MacOS periods, bullet journaling.

• The Dejection Of Wanting to Be Greater

  There are moments where I enter a kind of dejection, knowing what I'm capable of achieving but…

• I Have No Current Hobbies

  I have no hobbies or interests lately. Playing around with Emacs was engaging for…

• How to Add Https to Your Site With Caddy

  We can use Caddy to easily set up a server with https enabled to serve our website…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit

• Interesting Finds

  Org mode table insert column.

• Things I Worked On

  Blog menu links, mu4e, Poker Equity Calculator colors.

• Two Perspectives on How to Read More Books

  Reading more books leads to understanding new perspectives, learning new things, and…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Things I Worked On

  Created a .last_journal_backup file, made mobile view for poker equity calculator.

• Weekly Roundup

  A structured weekly roundup covering interesting finds across the internet.

• Things I Worked On

  Created a voice chat server, created regex search chrome extension.

• Random Thoughts

  Discomfort threshold, getting funded is the business model for most tech companies, parallels between AI usage and slavery.

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Interesting Finds

  Rekado restaurant.

• Things I Worked On

  Created bash util to copy password, renamed encrypted password files, Added keybinding for toggling read only mode.

• Christian Values Have Nothing to Do With the Success of the West

  Christian values have nothing to do with low crime rates, high standards of living, and…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  Emacs has SQL support, litman plates, vim how to make text uppercase and lowercase.

• Strange Tourist Treatment

  Recently I've had 2 strange occurrences as a tourist here in Davao. One was kind of funny…

• Things I Worked On

  Created a view to see last times for backups, tried Mastodon on Emacs, added opening blog links in a new tab, created a Dracula theme for hacker news.

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, Atomic Habits.

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  Creating buttons in Emacs, At Protocol.

• Things I Worked On

  Created earthquakes view in Emacs using philquakes, split up hank-rank js file, copied name of file currently visiting.

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit.

• Interesting Finds

  How to hide an application on MacOS, How to autoindent with vim keys.

• Things I Worked On

  Made blog tables prettier, generated a blog index date, published poker-equity web calculator to github, added preventing user from inputting wrong rank or suit in poker equity calculator.

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  Mushroom that causes everyone to hallucinate little people, Moroccans design homes that look modest and humble from the outside.

• Things I Worked On

  Added keybinding for commenting/uncommenting code, Poker Equity Calculator, set org-roam node find to ignore case.

• Boredom Helps With Focus and Insight

  The most insightful moments I've had are when I'm in the shower or when…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Weekly Roundup

  A structured weekly roundup covering interesting finds across the internet.

• Things I Worked On

  Poker Equity Calculator, bash script to print files with names, added extracting date from file name for blog post.

• The Bottleneck In Software is the Same With AI

  I think when LLMs first came out people thought they could just say something like, "Make a Facebook clone"…

• The Future Role of Engineers and Product Owners

  I've always preached that having domain knowledge is far more valuable than knowing…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  Bruce a disabled kea parrot, org-mode is looking for help, hummingbirds go into a sleep like state.

• Things I Worked On

  Set blog post title according to name of file.

• The Fear Of Sharing My Writing

  Sometimes I'm not sure I'm ready to share what I write with the world…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  Emacs view documentation grouped by theme or category, ponkan fruit.

• LLMs Are Good at Guessing Books from Passages

  I gave Gemini the phrase "The way the men all but huddled together" and asked it to…

• Retrieval Augmented Generation

  Retraining LLMs is costly both in time and resources. But when dealing…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  Faster navigating with vim colon, how to debug in Emacs.

• Things I Worked On

  Philquakes.

• Why FSF Asks for Copyright Transfer

  Dave Pearson made an interesting post where he talks about the FSF reaching out to him and…

• Random Thoughts

  Books are too expensive, new generation growing up with LLMs.

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  HSA trick.

• An Evolutionary Reason Why We Share Stories and Knowledge

  Our ancestors were storytellers. They would gather around the fire after…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  Price's Law, fossil hunting.

• Philippines Fast Food Etiquette

  Philippines fast food etiquette is different than the US where we throw away…

• Why I Don't Enjoy Using LLMs

  I would rather spend 2 hours working on a problem, fully thinking through all the approaches…

• Who is Held Accountable for AI Mistakes

  A time will come when several catastrophic events related to AI generated content…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  org-transpose-words, Day and Night on the Sufi Path, Ancient humans had 2 sleeps every night.

• Things I Worked On

  Added creating a blog post, added tabs keybindings.

• Fake it Until You Make it Mentality

  The reality is that to do great things you need to be a bit of a fraud…

• A Dream of the Future (Short Story)

  A short story about AI.

• Elisp let*

  The (let*) documentation is not very clear but…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• The Weekly Roundup

  A structured weekly roundup covering interesting finds across the internet.

• Interesting Finds

  Fathers and testosterone levels, issue with evil-echo function, Emacs has tabs.

• Fiction vs Non-Fiction Writing

  I struggle to write fiction these days which is very different than when I was a child…

• How to Write Tests in Emacs

  Testing is important. Although, the number of test cases don't…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  Howard Abrams doing cool things with literate programming, Japan has private roads and rails, Which is heavier? An hourglass with sand flowing or an hourglass at rest, M-x manual-entry, MDV - Markdown with extended capabilities.

• Things I Worked On

  Added 4th level heading styling to blog, added a function to publish my blog.

• Literate Programming with Agents

  Literate programming is the mix of both prose and code in the same file…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  Playdate, Android CLI update to work with agents, humans have an accelerated region in their brains, stage AI review tool, built in function to expand .emacs.d directory, how to insert emojis in Emacs.

• Things I Worked On

  World Clock changes.

• AI Running a Business

  Andonlabs gave AI money and set it free to start a business…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

• Interesting Finds

  How to turn any subreddit into an rss feed.

• Things I Worked On

  Removed Company suggestions when in normal mode, magit, moved my config files to my own personal repo, backing up the journal, fixing org-roam-ui unclickable nodes.

• Reading Summary

  Reading summaries including thoughts on Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron.

Experimenting with a new presentation format. Instead of putting everything in 1 file I'm splitting into logical groupings.

• Things I Worked On

  Fixes for opening Elfeed buffers in the current window and org source blocks bleeding into closed headings.

• YouTube RSS feeds intermittently not working

  For me, RSS feeds are the preferred way of exploring the internet…

• Reading Summary

  The Hobbit, The Eye of the World, Atomic Habits, Prot's Elisp Book.

Getting stocks quotes in Emacs, faster journal entries, and tests for determining text readability.

The effect of reading blogs, Elfeed keybindings, and summaries.

Rediscovering the joys of reading RSS feeds and books.

Continuing work on tmpemail, a 32-bit computer made in Terraria, and thoughts on building useless things.

Mites attacking the chickens and writing a temp email service.

A quick explanation on printing integers in x86_64 assembly

Scything for chicken bedding and learning some x86_64 assembly.

Exploring the science museum and watching old reruns of American Gladiator.

Patching the tropical storm damage, seeing more production from the chickens, and working on a new project.

Setting up the camera and motion detection on the Ubuntu install and rediscovering an old project.

Taking some time off the internet leads to a small adventure.

The aftermath of the storm and production issues at work.

Playing a new board game, listening to the Beatles, and reflecting on emotions.

Preparing for a storm, enjoying mindful meditation, and exploring the roots of stress.

A day of dancing workouts and deep reflections on the lost art of community.

Amusing chicken antics and a nightmarish encounter with Google.

From herding mischievous chickens to finding peace through daily meditation and critiquing a time travel movie, today's adventures are a blend of tranquility, tech tweaks, and entertainment reflections.

Discover why software systems inevitably degrade over time and explore the intriguing factors that challenge their longevity and quality.