The anti-marketing aspect of the Gemini network

And why your niche should stay a niche

I like Gemini. Not the Google Chatbot but the network that existed before Google named its product. If you are enough of a geek, you may want to give it a try.

• Creating a Blog…

Drops of condensed air
Backlit by a golden glow --
Contrast, visible.

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Today I will develop a new package for Emacs. The idea is to have a quiz in a buffer and let the other pick their answer among predefined options. I expect this to take me more than three…

Walks as path finding —
Past inclement weather
Perspectives revealed.

This haiku was written on November 10th.

Hazy, crystalline
Remnants of cool night coating
Green country fields.

Opened curtains —
Field of fog envelops
The autumn day.

⁂ ⁂ ⁂

Foggy sky, look close
Only near trees visible:
Standing colour.

⁂ ⁂ ⁂

Ebbing weather
Temporary heavy air
Winter approaches.

I wish I wrote more on this blog. It seems like all of my blogging energy is going towards pico, there's just a lot going on over there. I try not to talk about it too much over here since it gets enough of my attention.

I have so many…

I like limitations. I like frameworks that force me to be creative. The unix philosophy is a great example. Lately I've been thinking about the type of projects I like building and using. I see it as an extension to the unix philosophy. It's also not quite the suckless philosphy.…

Last weekend was so busy that I was too sleepy to write my weeknotes at my normal time. Thus, herein is a condensed version of my weeknotes.

Editorial note

In Weeknotes W1, I said that weeknotes would be a four-week-long experiment, with my writing one weeknote every week for four…

This is my recollection of comments I made at a local gathering on matters of strategy. My commentary incorporates elements of history, geopolitics, economics, and human nature, though it retains a largely theoretical and macroscopic perspective. What I cover herein is a continuation of recent essays on the general direction…