disast.rs :: now :: notes

This month is the first I formally reckon according to the Tibetan lunar calendar.

It's an experiment in living the view

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It seems helpful, at the outset of some period, to state your orientation -- bearing -- attitude -- intention

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April 3rd, 2025

I suckered myself into reading some essays about AI yesterday, in roughly this order:

. . .

How exhausting.

I cannot imagine anything I would want to do personally that I would also be willing to hand off to an AI agent.

Maybe that's a personal problem.

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In happier news, I found a fledgling tui web browser: chawan

April 4th, 2025

Let myself get nerd-sniped, hard, by implementing nested string interpolation for clox.

There are worse ways to spend a friday afternoon.

April 16th, 2025

I followed a thread on "evergreen note-taking" and ended up producing a pile of connected notes:

I think I'm starting to circle around a sweet-spot intersection of music & math -- engineering, research, art

I'm still writing this site basically by hand (except for the phraxOS script). I don't want to try and scale it out too far, and I think this is important to get right.

April 18th, 2025

I really like doing stuff in these <pre> blocks, reminds me
of the good-old-days of writing everything in plain text source files.
This is a test internal link
This is an 

h2

This is an

h3

This is an

h4

This is an
h5

April 19th, 2025

I've been thinking about how to break what I do up into executable strategies, or "procedures"; basically discrete, focused chunks of activity. It's important that they're focused, or tightly contained in some way, because this makes it very easy to pour energy and attention into.

One idea: take 30 minutes with a blank octatrack project and do whatever I can with it. Or, take 30 minutes with on OT project that has some stuff loaded, go to a new bank, and do whatever I can in 30 minutes.

The point is not to make something finished, per se, or to make something slapdash, it's to do whatever. It's to practice being creatively and emotionally unblocked.

Let's try it!

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That, was a fantastic idea.

Next time I'll try to remember to record it all into reaper.

The thing is, I want my plaintext notes to look like an alien markdown language that nobody has ever seen before

Consider an adaptation of the para (?) method?

No Boilerplate has a useful video on the good parts of obsidian.

I agree with him on some aspects of it.

particularly:

  • don't use or rely on directory structures
  • do use tags
  • do use links
  • make links easier.

my gripe is that obsidian is too much like plain oatmeal.

I could start by making links a little easier

Possibly of interest: YSH