fmeyer

My notes are never long-form, and I envy people whose notes look publication-ready. I think in lists and mnemonics.

My work involves so much context-switching that I ended up building a weird system just to keep continuity. It’s basically an outliner inspired by MaxThink for DOS. At its core, it’s text plus structure: a tree you can revisit non-sequentially, with time anchors when they matter. It helps me survive interruptions and gaps without losing decisions, context, or long-running threads, and it helps me correlate my digital notes with my paper notebooks.

To support the “thinking” part, it also has some goodies for shuffling, sorting, splitting, and joining lists in place to help with ideation. I’m working on the fourth incarnation now.

I recorded a demo a few months ago to share with a friend. It’s not my best recording because I was recovering from hand surgery so typing was weird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9HX3G69Xdo

I may open-source it once I’ve worked the bugs out.

Nice one, works better than mine;

I've been using a git alias for quite some time

`lead = shortlog -s -n --all --no-merges`

I remember you talking about the project in the early drools IRC days. Your positivity and enthusiasm were what really made this project happen, and I have no doubts about your success with this new venture.

I’m glad things went well for you and that you managed to regain control of your life’s work.

Nice idea, I missed a few thing.

- on tab pressing, there's a percussive sound https://www.soundsnap.com/typewriter_electra_xt_old_electron...

- same happens on shift https://www.soundsnap.com/typewriter_erika_model_shift_press...

- same on other keys, like backspace

- once you reach the end of the page on some models, the carriage does't progress so you hit the same position over and over until you CR.

Then we got RedHat using the same strategy to sell support for the government :D

Nice post, let me build up on the software engineering analogy.

I've had a 3D printer for a while, and I have to say that Bambu has completely changed my perspective on the whole experience.

Before, I treated it mostly as a time-consuming hobby - setting up my own Octopi for remote printing, tinkering with different settings and parts on my Prusa. It was all trial and error, with most prints turning out below average.

Now it feels more like a continuous integration system. It runs mostly unattended, always ready to execute my next batch of prints.

I recently traveled for a week and only needed my wife to refill the filament and remove finished prints, allowing my workflow to continue uninterrupted.

I don't regret my initial experience since I learned a lot, but I really appreciate having a more streamlined process now.

This is the recipe to have 100+ different runtimes.

Don’t forget that In large deployments, you have no idea who is using what, which features are enabled or what’s the flavor of optimization someone pushed to make things work for the customer. You have dozens of engineers and all trying to keep the lights on.

This was the state when I joined Auth0 and it took us a year to migrate every individual customer env to a managed PAAS and another year to migrate our multi tentant environments later.

I tried RMPP for a weekend and decided not to stick with it. Honestly, it doesn't even come close to how good my Note Air 3C* is. Being an Android device allows you to perform customization especially regarding setting accessibility features beyond the basics.

* I understand that some people have concerns about the brand's security practices and affiliations, but I went further and completely locked it down from public cloud features.

BOFH, BileBlog, The Daily WTF;

No wonder we all turned cynical.

Identity is tricky. Proving who you are depends on a certain level of trust. Whether it's through email, devices, phones, or, in more advanced settings, some sort of digital certificate; you won't have much options.

Unless you're in Germany using a service provided by the Vogons, you might end up getting a letter containing an activation PIN via snail mail or worst having to visit the post office to show your passport.

I reported a similar and even more damaging I my opinion (https://hackerone.com/reports/2240374) and they also dismissed as by design.

Turns out I found out you could even invite external collaborators into your fork and totally bypass enforced SSO.

Even if you block forking into your main repo, the existing forks remains active and still can pull from upstream.

It feels like if you need proper security, you have to go with enterprise

Great work Lucas;

You're going in the right direction! for the near future, I suggest you to add a cli, connectors, simple symbolic calculation on notebooks (take some inspiration from calca http://calca.io/examples), offline support and fully encrypted namespaces.

That will put you miles away from everyone else in the field :)

You're probably busy with the launch, but you can contact me if you wanna discuss the list above,

Abraços

I have some trauma built up thanks to POVRay and countless hours wasted trying to render computer graphics exercises in a sh* computer.

Recently I tried to render an animated scene that took me a weekend to render properly in 2003. It's still slow :D

https://fernandomeyer.com/microblog/2023-07-29-1107998078355... https://fernandomeyer.com/microblog/2023-07-29-1107998901402...

Despite modern advancements in ML, rules engines are still preferred in some scenarios as their execution tends to be deterministic.

They have different heuristics for conflict resolution when more than one rule can be fired. Once you define the strategy, it will be consistent throughout the entire lifecycle.

Once the network is compiled, it ensures that previously matched patterns are not recomputed, which increases performance.

There’s plenty of pirated paid cable channels there.

I’d be careful aggregating this.

I've drop down two networks in my life,

First time I run a dhcp server by accident and suddenly went sideways but the blast radius was small,

Second time and more interesting one, My campus had a mac address allow list; when I got a new computer and didn't want to handle the process of updating my access access permission, I just run a script to change my mac to the old known address.

Later, I also sold the old computer to another colleague which didn't bother to register as well since everything was working. Long story short, we keep disconnecting each other.

One day I was, "c'mon, I'll fix this". Opened wireshark and started to capture network traffic. I've got a list of mac addresses from the pcap dump and every time I got disconnected, I ran the script spoofing my address to the next one in my list.

That worked fine until the day I spoofed the mac address of a central managed switch that shit itself out of the network.

:)

The idea behind this is not new.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/yetisen/files/morpho_butte...

The idea of an education computer is bugging my mind in the last 5 years.

If you consider modern hardware and OS is practically impossible to have a simple enough machine that you could teach the young generation. Fantasy consoles like pico-8 are good options for programming, but not for understanding the hardware underneath. That way you still have school who use old architectures for teaching.

IIRC someone has done something similar with emacs running on baremetal a few years ago.

I use Drafts,

It can take you to places that you never thought would be possible with AI writer.

I haven't lived that era, but developed some interest later to both c64 and amiga.

IMO besides being extremely easy to program, they didn't required extensive tooling to make interesting programs specially when you compare with alternatives at the time.

Another interesting aspect was the "statelessness" of the system. You had one disk with your programs, other with data and so on, a crash wound't affect or make you lose everything since you're a reset away from coming back to where you where

Even the simplest programming solution today is way more complicated than what existed back them. I wish we had more boot to work systems to hand to kids without much interruption.

My kids are getting into the age of programming and understanding how hardware and a computer works is way more easy when you don't have tons of abstractions on top of it. That's the reason I've been following the David Murray's commanderX16 initiative anxiously :)

I understand, there's always more to a story than what a single person recalls. However, often people want to control the narrative of what transpired in projects and want to have a favorable recounting of events unfolded.

I've experienced a similar situation when I wanted to write a post about a nice project. Someone who wasn't involved in the work took offense (perhaps because they weren't acknowledged?) and used politics to suppress the text. It's quite unfortunate but happens a lot.

That happened to me too, I was able to secure our organization's name that way. There was someone squatting on it, and it could have caused potential problems if they started uploading code. From what I recall about the process, it was pretty straightforward - I sent an email and just a few minutes later, I had the username linked to me.

Although I have my own domain for some mail, I've been using pobox.com for this and other reasons since 2009. It's quite cheap and safe redirect since it now belongs to fastmail.

I bet you are reading Deutch’s The begging of Infinity.

It’s a poetic way of viewing the possibility of life spreading throughout the cosmos: tiny cellular “ Noah’s arks” journeying across the vast oceans of space, potentially bringing life to new worlds.

Not a single reference to differential privacy?

http://fernandomeyer.com

I wish I had more energy to publish from my stash of private notes.

Oh, it's going to be open for visiting in Hamburg this month.

I've built the same thing using chatGPT, it doesn't handle large content yet, but it's good enough to filter the majority of videos and help me decide if I should watch it or not.

some sample here

https://gist.github.com/fmeyer/87fce5279bb06e215828e7732fed7...

code: https://github.com/fmeyer/tldw

ps: don’t mind my crappy rust.