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When Ghostty first came out, I was still using Windows, so I couldn’t use it.

This page has moved to https://riceissa.github.io/physics-girl-pancakes/

It fairly clearly distinguishes some similar-looking characters like the lowercase “v” and the Greek letter nu: v vs ν, lowercase “a” vs Greek alpha: a vs α.

(taking some notes here; i want to organize this better at some point) The Computer Modern font was never intended to look so thin.

There are quite a number of labels people use for the name of their chronic illness.

This page lists software that I currently use.

Because of a swallowing problem that I have, I can’t swallow pills, even using the standard techniques people use.

In late December 2023, I finally figured out a system for maintaining decent circadian rhythm.

(originally written on 2023-12-27) i hate lisp, especially lisp-2, but even lisp-1, because my brain doesn’t want to understand quote. what follows is some introspection i did to understand quote better; by the end i had a deeper appreciation of what the…

This page documents my Haskell learning.

This article is pretty interesting.

I am still not super deep into Buteyko stuff, so my views could change, but I currently believe that there’s some learned helplessness going on in the Buteyko community, specifically in regard to the use of capnometers.

This page keeps track of some quotes I’ve especially liked over the years (not all of the quotes speak to me currently, but I won’t remove any of them).

Howard Cooper has two videos about anxiety-based air hunger and how to overcome it.

Warning: I’ve barely ever meditated in my entire life (I’ve maybe done like 10-100 hours total of focusing on my breath over my whole life, mostly during anxiety attacks where I am too anxious to actually do anything like what meditation books tell you to…

This page has been moved to https://riceissa.github.io/breathing/#sequence-of-cumulative-constraints-of-breathing-practice.

Here’s the main template I use in Anki.

NOTE: this page is wrong. it describes a method that kinda sorta worked for me but was swimming against the current so i kept failing nonetheless. fixing my lighting effortlessly fixed my sleep schedule in 1–3 days depending on which parts you look at. i…

NOTE: I’ve now created https://www.reddit.com/r/FlashcardCrafting/ which has many more links.

What does it mean for a measurement to be objective?

In his guide on writing prompts, Andy Matuschak lists five lenses for writing prompts: Attributes and tendencies Similarities and differences Parts and wholes Causes and effects Significance and implications Here I want to brainstorm some more lenses, in…

Here are some Anki-related things I have written: Ramblings about my experience using Anki Resetting ease factor for a deck in Anki An implementation of the Anki scheduling algorithm Comment thread on LessWrong Imagining a world where spaced repetition is…

(terrible name; will try to figure something better out later) I currently have four software systems I use that all share a similar property: a goals spreadsheet Anki GnuCash alarm clocks on my phone that I use in a particular way (see how to wake up at a

some overly specific tips that may help you if you have a chronic illness similar to mine. at the time of writing i don’t have any official diagnosis for my condition (other than testing positive on SIBO breath tests, testing positive on a bunch of enviro…

It’s been about 5 years now since I’ve been using Anki in a pretty determined, conceptual way (not the kind of casual, vocab-centric approach I was doing back in like 2012–2014).

(I like to think of the calculations done on this page as the “curse of spaced repetition”: if you keep adding a constant number of cards per day to Anki, your review load will grow (logarithmically) over time, meaning as the years go by you will have more

Where I try to figure out what I should do in case I don’t live for much longer. cryonics – possibly already fucked this one up will – need to do more research vision statement

Prompts: if i were to die today, what document could i leave that would allow people to implement the vision i had while i was still alive?

I wake up without an alarm after exactly 8 hours of sleep, feeling fully rested and excited to start my day.

For what I mean by “intuitive nutrition”, see this fairly introductory post (see also here).