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Tuesday, January 7, 2025 The vibes are wretched. p1k3 / 2025 / 1 / 7

Monday, March 24, 2025 It seems like I have left this thing on, probably against my better judgment.

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 a very 2025 mid-may yard & garden report It got hot early.

thursday, may 1, 2025 "nothing gets you high like it used to" i remember that conversation like it just happened sitting outside the king soopers with casey at one of those rickety steel tables there were ways i hadn't gotten high yet, back then, but the…

# Wednesday, December 18, 2024 # notes on the garmin instinct 2 solar tl;dr: These are incomplete notes on the Garmin Instinct 2 Solar, after a year and a half of regular wear.

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 App::WRT v6.0.0.

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 extracting filenames from packages available in debian Back in 2016, I wanted to check the names of existing command-line utilities in order to avoid a collision when I renamed my blogging software to wrt.

Sunday, April 5, 2020 wrt 7.0.0 Links: wrt related entries here on p1k3 wrt on CPAN as App::WRT wrt repo on code.p1k3.com wrt mirrored on GitHub It’s been nearly a year since I released a version of wrt, the tool I use for publishing this site from a coll…

Monday, January 4, 2021 keeping a log: 9 months / ~1k entries in Previously: org mode, vimwiki, timeslice.

Sunday, April 14, 2019 App::WRT v5.0.0 It’s been almost a year, so I’m putting together a release of wrt, the site generator I use for p1k3: on CPAN as App::WRT on code.p1k3.com mirrored on GitHub v5.0.0 abandons the idea of running persistently under Fas…

saturday, may 4, 2019 few animals are as satisfying to contemplate as the bumble bee, all round and purposeful tags: poem p1k3 / 2019 / 5 / 4

Monday, May 6, 2019 reading: the raven tower (Structural spoilers may follow.)

Wednesday, May 8, 2019 Thesis: The complexity ratchet in technology is designed (or has evolved, take your pick) to drive the concentration of administrative power. tags: technical p1k3 / 2019 / 5 / 8

thursday, may 9, 2019 a may snow, all day the skies gray and the grass growing taller while it falls, tulips blooming round the side of the house the frogs across the street sounding low and slow through the patter of barely frozen water falling on the ju…

Sunday, June 2, 2019 I recently read At least one Vim trick you might not know, which is a pretty high-quality example of the stuff-about-text-editors blog post.

Thursday, June 13, 2019 Maciej Cegłowski, the New Wilderness: So why have the gravediggers of online privacy suddenly grown so worried about the health of the patient?

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Some weeks ago, I read a New York Times review of Jared Diamond’s latest: If you’ve ever been at a wedding or conference or on board a United connection from O’Hare, and been cornered by a man with Theories About It All, and you came

Wednesday, July 3, 2019 word of the day: wildering $ dict wildering 2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Wilder \Wil"der\, v. t.

Tuesday, July 9, 2019 still creepy I read a New York Times opinion piece by Charlie Warzel, about tracking behavior in a mail client called Superhuman – it embeds tracking pixels in all its sent mail so it can report views back to the sender.

monday, august 19, 2019 it was damn near a hundred again today over at the airport where they measure a little cooler here on the edge of things the river is running low, like it's august in fact as well as by date so like you expect, the grass turns gray…

Saturday, October 5, 2019 sfe Note: I’ve edited this since initial publication, mostly to add links to other entries, but there’s some new text as well.

Sunday, October 20, 2019 on rms / necessary but not sufficient I’m old enough now that, of the famous people I admired when I was young, more have fallen in my estimation than not.

tuesday, october 22, 2019 outside my back window leaves swirl in the wind and the streetlight over the alley flicks on against the sky pale blue and pink tags: poem p1k3 / 2019 / 10 / 22

Sunday, October 27, 2019 tags: cat, gallery p1k3 / 2019 / 10 / 27

Monday, November 4, 2019 ...or you might just get it I woke up this morning thinking about the class of technical problems where for years you hope for some kind of solution to emerge, and then when it finally does, the solution entails such an egregious…

thursday, november 7, 2019 the light through the library windows the leaves still on the trees, just against the fog rising from the snowmelt on the mountainsides the road rising gray through the grass all bright in its browns and yellows russets and dull…

wednesday, december 18, 2019 notes to a much younger self, to the extent that i can reconstruct him (posted wednesday, july 13, 2022) i'll start by saying that it's better after a while for you at least the dimensions of your life, they do expand it's wor…

Tuesday, January 7, 2020 watching: solo: a star wars story The prequel: On the one hand, a narrative frame within which storytelling that nominally coheres with its source material is usually flattened, trivialized, and robbed of any sense of freedom or p…

Saturday, February 1, 2020 I’m sitting in an airport bar at roughly 11am after my employer’s annual all-hands meeting in San Francisco.

thursday, february 20, 2020 i took the trash out just now, and turning around to go back inside caught the layer of new snow in the porch light it shines more perfectly than any i've seen in recent memory almost incorporeal offers no tangible resistance to

tuesday, march 3, 2020 the old cat snoozes in his bed i sit at my desk, wrapped up in the immediate confusion of code and the remote-for-now thrum of pandemic anxiety suddenly a shadow breaks the sunlight blazing from just above the hills through the grime

Saturday, March 28, 2020 a sheltered-in-place lawn and garden report We start the day somewhere after noon with a Bloody Mary each and egg-and-cheese sandwiches on English muffins.

Monday, April 13 I learned how to dial on a rotary phone.

Tuesday, April 21 fragmentary notes from a bad time getting worse (1) This isn’t going to be well-written and it’s probably not worth your time.

Sunday, April 26, 2020 fragmentary notes from a bad time getting worse (2) Disclaimer: I don’t know what I’m talking about.

Friday, May 8, 2020 feeds for your consideration: a preamble It’s 2020, which makes RSS and its siblings something on the order of 20 years old as a technology in actual use.

Thursday, May 14, 2020 the world computer: a marginally coherent bathtub rant I was pondering Amazon just now, as I sat in the bathtub sweating profusely and reading an installment of The Murderbot Diaries on an old e-ink Kindle in a sandwich baggy.

Wednesday, May 20, 2020 meta meta Opening my notebook to where I left off, I notice that the most recent pages are full of the distracted scrawl and half-hearted jottings that result from leaving it open on my desk while I work.

Monday, May 25, 2020 feeds: linkblogs Background: I’m writing some posts linking to feeds that I like.

Friday, June 5, 2020 fragmentary notes from a bad time getting worse (3) Back on the 25th of May, four police officers in Minneapolis murdered a black man named George Floyd on camera.

thursday, june 18, 2020 the sky turns heavy all afternoon the cheap hardware store thermometer on the front porch drops 20 degrees in a few hours in the evening, it rains for a long time we're out walking when it starts, halfway through a habitual loop do…

Monday, July 27, 2020 the zettelkasten / the zeitgeist Discussed: The idea of a Zettelkasten, note-taking, index cards, wikis, How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens.

Friday, October 9, 2020 reading: interior states Interior States: Essays, Anchor Books, 2018.

Sunday, October 11, 2020 reading: the great offshore grounds A novel by the author of Zazen, a book I first read back in 2012.

Monday, October 12, 2020 reading: grant There are two kinds of annoying biography: The kind where the author hates the subject.

Tuesday, October 13, 2020 I went for an aimless drive on Saturday.

Friday, November 13, 2020 reading: a memory called empire A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine, Tor Books, March 2019.

Sunday, November 29, 2020 notes from a time (4) COVID-19 numbers for late November 2020: WHO global numbers: Current: ~61.87 million confirmed cases and ~1.45 million deaths November 18th: 53.7 million cases / 1.3 million deaths Early June: 6,535,354 cases

Saturday, December 5, 2020 the garden cart the short version I’ve been lugging a lot of heavy stuff around the place lately, which has had me wanting a utility item that was a staple of the gardening and building projects of my childhood: A garden cart.

Monday, December 28, 2020 the yak queue: end of year 2020 Yak shaving: Noun: yak shaving (uncountable) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.