sorry it's so late
it's eid. we made sumakiyyah or sumaghiyyeh or sumagiyya. i made it a bit too thick but it's pink and delicious.
there were a series of dramatic events due to being unable to acquire chard. i thought i'd write about them, but it looks like i won't.
in general there isn't much to report other than things are good. i haven't been getting much sleep but it's because i'm working on something exciting that might be important.
i hope you're well.
see you in spain.
hey
very late!
i just spent four hours writing the wrong abstraction and now i have to unwrite it. the app i'm working on is coming along really well. it can store any kind of file as a document with infinite history and collaboration built in from the beginning. you can create views and new file types with plugins, upgrade old views, share docs and spaces with your friends. when i finish it, it'll replace a lot of software for me. but it might take the rest of my life to finish it.
other than that i'm really happy. we are eating tasty and going to spain. haven't made any music for a while, everything's on hold while i write littlebook.
i said hey siri play josie and the pussycats and siri said "ok! josie and the pussycats songs from the motion picture by josie and the pussycats now playing" and then the music started and few bars in it became apparent that it was all i want for christmas is a dukla prague away kit by half man half biscuit
we went to the zoo, for zoo nights, which was a lot of fun and it's a great time at the zoo on zoo nights. monkey was there and so were the others like zebra.
have a good week.
hello there. it's 4am! i'm awake thinking about local-first software and the origin private file system and effect and notebook application.
i am hungry and i will eat eggs. going to pick the hedgehog up from the airport in a few hours.
thereβs a really angry guy in the shop. angry because a homeless person asked him for money. youβve got four legs havenβt you mate, he keeps on shouting at the guy, youβve got four legs. with a tone like "same as me, i earn my money". as if anyone with four, the normal amount of legs, shouldnβt need spare change. the other guy keeps shooting back "shank me then!" "two legs!" "come outside and shank me!" i got the fella a pack of amber leaf and reassured him that he does not in actual fact have four legs.
-- update: i fell asleep and didn't meet the hedgehog at the airport and i feel terrible about it. what the hell. i should be shot.
the week i spent in pain because i had a 2020-style hormone delivery interruption and it was a hard week. but hedgehog is home now and it will be like the grey and white cat and then there will be spinach and ham with beans and eggs.
the week i've worked as much as i could handle and i've spent my free time reading about various technologies, and a couple of fiction books and now i'm reading havana blue by leonardo padura.
i have to go now to the train station with a can of monster because they don't have that in the UAE and then i will come home and it will be like the grey and white cat and then i'll do the next part
it's 19 degrees celsius and partly cloudy and 1:00p.m..
i actually MADE lamb moussaka this week! it was delicious and LARGE the biggest aubergine in the world. it was so cute from the side with its 5 layers of π and zucchini and π and π and on top instead of bechamel it was an egg+yoghurt+mozzarella blend topped with parmesan.
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yes, yesyes. what else? i wrote a shared list application
https://lists.chee.party/ you can make a project by going to /p/anything or a
normal list with /l/anything. it is built with a library called
yjs which implements a thing called
CRDTs which
are a very cool way of offline-first collaboration to always converge to the
same document in a way that makes sense to a user. they quietly got really good
4 years ago when martin kleppman wrote a paper, a scholarly
article, and now there is a lot of extremely
exciting progress happening. they have the opportunity to change software
completely, the next swing of the long pendulum in the grandfather clock of Big
Computer<->Personal Computer. we can have software that runs locally on our
computer, but syncs between our computer and our phone without having a Google
or Amazon or anyone in between, just our own computers talking to each other. on
top of that, you can invite your friend to work on your file too and you can
work together, even offline, and when you both reconnect your changes will merge
together. with no cloud in between! just talking to each other! also for kind of
for free you get infinite undo, time travel, branching paths. and!! a man called
Seph Gentle is working on an exciting thing right now that's going to make them
even cooler. it's one of the most interesting things that's happening in the
computer.
also another exciting thing inside the computer is https://socketsupply.co/ which is a node.js-like runtime that can be used to build webview-powered native apps for mac, windows, linux, android and iOS.
zoozoo is going away for a week. did i mention we're going to spain? flying into madrid and out from barcelona. what fun.
i've lost hours over the past few days trying to pick a name for the app i'm trying to build, which is so much more fun than building it.
i hope your day is good, have an enjoyable bank holiday
it's 12 degrees and clear and 1:37a.m.
moving is very sleepyfying
i'm tired as can be
but im trying to build something, so don't wanna sleep yet. it isn't the shape it needs to be yet. it needs to be where i can see t and know it's real and what to do next and then i can sleep.
next month spain, next month zoo nights. una casita amarilla en el bosque cerca (well, cerca-ish) de Barcelona. tenemos nuestras boletos and woo woo chorizo and yum yum
pizza express was tasty.
big turkish dinner was tasty.
i don't know if i made anything tasty.
congrats kjc
eat some lamb mousakka this week.
so sleepy !!!
the package arrived from bartlett it was the magazine offal. i really enjoyed the pieces i read and look forward to reading more.
Apple Shortcuts is my favourite programming language. it's so there, and really is Actual Thing Oriented, objects that are real stuff you can feel and understand and hold touch rather than data efficient memory layouts. It has triggers now on the iPhone so you can launch a Shortcut when you come home, or get a text from a certain person, or at certain times. really fun.
a lot of the time you can change how you think.
i did something fun for work last week, and i'll be finishing it up tomorrow. i know being fulfilled by your job is for protestants and capitalists, but today is the first sunday in a while i've not been dreading tomorrow and that's nice.
last sunday when zoozer came over we started a week of keto. on monday we went to a whiskey tasting at buffalo trace. later i made some creamy cajun chicken that i will make again. animal of the day: the humble fanaloka.
in the morning it was eggs with chorizo and fresh mozarella and parsley. i had had enough that day of straight gays, data "journalism" and concision. later there was salmon fish and tahinia salad.
we deleted our amazon accounts, zoozoo signed up for fastmail, we read books on our ereaders. i've read john dolar's erdogan pizza (5β) john wyndham's the chrysalids (3.7β). if you are on thestorygraph and want to be my friend on there you can add me my username is cheee.
i had preΓΆrdered fadi kattan's new recipe book bethlehem a few months ago. it's out next week. i'd preΓΆrdered it on amazon so when i deleted my account i re-preΓΆrdered it on bookshop.org. it's out may 16th so i selected next day delivery so i'd get it on may 17th, but they sent it out actually next day so i got it on may 9th! support your local bookshop.
using the todo list application is actually helping me. i fixed the light under the cooker hood finally. and lots of other stuff. i have an apple shortcut that adds a todo item to import stuff i've written on paper into the todo system when i arrive home from being outside. and it's been good fun learning an application together. things can be cloying and true at once.
went to see the new garfield movie with zoozoo today. the movie was not very good but it was fun to sit in the cinema with z. we should go to the cinema to see a good movie some time. i enjoyed when jon was adding parmesan and said "say when" and garfield the cat said "never".
life is good.
i'm so dehydrated i wish there was something that could be done about it.
nothing much more to report.
hope you have a nice week. e-mail me.
A few of us are hanging out a Fozzie's tonight. Do you wanna come?
The lucky are the people who know what they like, and know what they're good at, and know how to do those two together as soon as asap.
I think last week when we left off I was waiting for a washing machine. It was raining on sunday. They called before it came and I let them know the only entrance is a metal staircase on the outside of the building. They told me, dismissively "yes yes" and hung up. They arrived and decided not to fit the machine. They explained that outside my house there is a metal staircase and that because it's been raining it will be difficult to get a washing machine into the building.
Later in the day it turned out to be beautiful, sunniest day this year or that might have been my mood as I walked through Bow ready to pack and help. The bus journey to Bow, though, was one of the low points of my life. Everyone felt the Summer in the air, and the Spring too. Our bus route goes through Millenium Park, which homes the only IKEA in town. There was a lot of furniture, a lot of families, not a lot of space. The strongest memory of it i have, however, is narrowing my eyes to see the curves of Poseiden's butt in a photo of a painting in a museum in Portugal included in the book i was reading. And then dropping an Elvis juice which span across the bus floor like a top.
Staying drunk for days and then sober for weeks gives you a very different perspective on the world vs drinking at nights.
I arrived at Lucky's, made some emergency mexican-lebanese food of canned refried beans with chickpeas and cumin and fried beef mince with cinnamon and onions.
Monday i worked from home and wondered if i even want to do this. I bade farewell to Zoozoo who zoomed off to airport to meet Mimi for a week. I ate poorly because i'm alone. Is it normal to need someone to take care of in order to be bothered to care for yourself?
I fell asleep in the middle of the day.
And woke up at midnight on Tuesday very confused. I added /themes to my blog. There are also some secret themes based on some of my favourite colleagues' blogs.
ASYMPTOTES
based on kara's website
bartlett
based on alice's website
gadhian
based on arjun's website
champion
based on jake champion's website
manning
based on rm's website
you know when you're too tired to do anything but too tired to sleep? good to have a few dumb ideas sitting around just for then.
Zizard came over for a bit to collect a charger, i sent her away with an iced latte.
In the evening I watched RRR. Itβs a movie about two cute boys being best friends and dancing and how the English must be wiped off the face of the earth. and about how there is nothing more evil than a class traitor other than the system that makes them think being a class traitor is their only hope. and, obviously, the English. And how there is no more important bonding experience for two men than killing as many Englishmen as possible. And about how the only way to increase the value of a bullet it to put it through an English heart. And how the only thing that can save us is a song (and intense military training and guns) and friendship and religion.
Let not the result be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.
That movie was 3 hours long and i could honestly watch another 6 hours of it. great dances.
Wedensday I waited for machines. Try #2 for the washing machine. Also my OP-1F finally home from repairs in Sweden. UPS just left that one on my doorstep and walked away. The washing machine man said there was nothing wrong with my old washing machine, and it was the pipes that are fucked. But he's wrong. New washing machine is working well.
A programme I wrote for other people stopped working because the web platform
silently changed underneath me like it's 2011. If you've been cloning
declarative shadow root templates kept inside templates (i think the only
sensible way to use this feature if you're trying to use the web as an operating
system rather than as an instruction set) then you'll now have to add
shadowrootclonable=true to your inner template element. A fundamental breaking
change that the browsers didn't even mention in their release notes (except
Safari Technology Preview, unexpectedly).
Alice Bartlett said she's going to mail me something that reminds her of my writing. I'm excited! The Royal Mail!
watched Killers of the Flower Moon. a movie about power and evil and how white people need to be wiped off the face of the earth and how nothing will save us except love and the FBI.
Zoozoo had her schengen appointment!!! It went well!!! We may be in the sunny world of European Spain in a little over a month!!!!!!!!!!!
If not, there's always Macedonia, Turkey and Lebanon.
I bought a homeless guy a pack of cigarettes and walked away swaggering like I'm Auda Abu Tayi "i'm a river to my people!"βΈ»i took a note to make fun of myself about that later.
Went out for a drink and learned several times in a row that I no longer know how to talk to centrists. The centre between "eradicate a people" and "don't eradicate a people" is what exactly? Eradicate a few hundred thousand more?
I don't need your vibes-based analysis of the situation that is made of 40 tweets and 1 wikipedia article on the issue, and if you're going to be wrong and uninformed and confident and lecturing all at once I may well be angry and I may well be patronizing and I may well be impatient and I am not going to feel sorry about it and I am not going to shake your hand because there is no "debate" to be had when your side is genocide.
It's been chill. I picked up Zoozoo's new ebook reader (a kobo clara colour) and filled it with some books she is reading or interested in reading. She'll be over soon once she's left Mimi at the airport.
going to a whiskey tasting at the buffalo trace distillery tomorrow.
enjoy your lengthy weekend.