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7.21.S

• Processing truth bombs for breakfast this morning. Good times.
• Decided to mirror this effort at bearblog.dev for comparison.
• Stilted prose in philosophy books. Deliberate obfuscation or natural phenomenon?

7.20.S

• Microsoft Windows stops working and airlines stop flying. Wild.
• Today is my seventh on the smolnet. I do love the simplicity.
• Social media is hard for me, but may be indispensable when building a network.
• Dunning-Kruger: misunderstood? https://www.skeptical-science.com/psychology/dunning-kruger/

7.19.F

• An attractive approach to news aggregation: https://ground.news/.
• Contra yesterday's theme: Let us balance life's account every day...One who daily puts the finishing touches to his life is never in want of time. ~ Seneca, Letters to Lucilius
• Today in baskets & eggs: https://cyberpress.org/crowdstrike-update-triggers-endless-bsod/

7.18.T

• There aren't enough hours in a day to read everything. Choose wisely!
• Lab malfunctions steal time. Spent over an hour troubleshooting VM issues resolved simply by restarting the environment. Meanwhile, the lab materials took just 10 minutes to finish (9:54, to be precise).
• Time, it seems, is the theme of the day. Most of mine is spoken for.

7.17.W

• Power went out just before bed last night. It came back moments after waking up. K couldn't sleep because it was too dark & quiet.
• Also, K says my lack of snoring was creepy.
• Gave up on A Court of Thorns and Roses. Reading to page 199 was enough. Let's leave it at that.

7.16.T

• A loved one asked me to read A Court of Thorns and Roses. I have doubts already.
• Turns out a bash script I wrote in vim wouldn't work because I marked every line as a comment (#). It took hours to notice this.
• Better World Books delivers again. Nicomachean Ethics (Bartlett & Collins) and How to Read a Book (Adler).
• Something I read today (a few minutes ago, in fact):

The Open Source Initiative Did Not Coin Open Source

• I keep notes of the labs I do. It occurs to me to do write-ups here. Added to Projects!

7.15.M

• Note to self: learn the vernacular. It's "smolnet" not "small web."
• Check out https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/, a Python-based offline browser.
• I have a Surface Pro that won't support Windows 11. Time for Debian.
• It is not unreasonable to expect teachers to know their subjects.

7.14.S

• In my analog journal entry for today (penned this morning) I pledged to build a training plan for myself. Instead, I spent hours working on this patch of small web Alex lets me use. So it goes.
• This year, I plan to read twelve books, provided there's time to fully digest each one.