There is some irony in stuff like this being shared repeatedly across every social media channel for half a decade. How much time, how much traffic, how much CPU, how much minerals went into this, so we could feel a little bit better as we bork up the biosphere life depends on.

I love how they sing dee in "descending from the ape". #MoodyBlues #CodingMusic #Polycrisis

#valueflows is an ontology that I just learned about today that is an excellent way to make my human-cognition-focused methods extensible. My methods are simple enough to be used in real-time without servers/experts at time of crisis.

What is Valueflows - Valueflows

The thing about knowledge graphs is the schema can be almost anything you want. I'm de-duplicating a RPN+RDFS-like graph format using a knowledge graph. I put the lines *in*, and then I recreate the RPN-RDFS-ish text format on the way out, with duplicated lines removed. It takes some experimenting.

At 100 watts, humans are fairly economical compute, and we can do physical things. Plus, we can provide human touch which other humans need, and much life appreciates our interaction, as they know we can help sometimes. Plus, elephants think we are super-cute (even though we are messing up the biosphere). And, we can obtain the energy for our compute in sustainable ways. Now, much metal compute exists now, no additional energy needed to create, and it makes a great cognitive exoskeleton.

This #graphology design is what I need. I pin my own edge meaning, as I'm overloading the edges with two flows (material and data) as well as using a single edge to signify two-way flow and single (like how you can use both/back/forward in DOT). So, edge (a,b) is the same as (b,a), but when I assign the source and target I want that information pinned, regardless, as I have an attribute for flow. #graphviz

Graphology

Design choices

Root Github Pages.

Old but good #vim guide. #TechTips #TextEditors https://vim.swaroopch.com/byte-of-vim.pdf

The GPL and more permissive licenses facilitated a Black Swan Event that the AGPL attempts to mitigate. Mastodon uses AGPL for this reason.

Reading in the semi-straight-world news about Jack funding, and reflecting against politics and layout of the thought leaders on nostr makes more and more sense. The nostr ecosystem, like many systems with base rules, evolves like John Conway's Life. NIP-01, as beautiful as it is in a KISS way, and as glorious as the extension iteration entities combine and glide across the canvas, will always guide and constrain. There are always trade-offs. There are reasons for multi-tier identity and federation architectures. Pesky math around compute, storage, energy, water, minerals and network costs, as well as the itys (maintainability, scalability, security, etc.) will all rise up in the end. But, new things, before the weight of time and scale, are fun to do, and build real relationships with real people. Plus, when the reality hits, the experience makes it possible to do a new version that accounts for architecture, design, and requirements. The exercise contributes to resilience.

One of my labels is a technologist. At the same time, though, I believe that it is a good general rule that using technology wisely is an oxymoron. Another label of mine is optimist, so I believe it is possible to use technology wisely, although unlikely, particularly in our culture.

What I don't understand about the retro compute stuff, is that standards-based CSS/HTML/JavaScript/SVG in a browser, combined with the hard-wired OS stuff via Deno (or runtime of your choice) provides a more interesting, flexible, and inexpensive platform.

I'm killing my darlings this morning. Hemingway was right, 90 percent should be tossed. It reminds me about how we are scraping everything on the web and building LLMs from it. Where are we? Where do we want to go? How do we get there? Epistemology. Ontology. Architecture. Design.

The code/data/interim export will solve insight into the default. I pull a single variable as an object into the page. After many experiments this performed the best. The HTML, CSS and other data come across in that object, loaded by the bootstrap. I can also transport the interim dot file.

Calling it a night. I did segment into two vs. four: browser and local code. I spent a bit of time creating an icon that exports all of the software. I'll still have a third chunk of code for the Pandoc filter as well as the SVGs and other assets. Probably use the export for that from the PNG.

@HODL , a few of the ideas in your recent posts and this talk seem aligned. (A Nate Hagens guest isn't normally what I would stereotype as appealing to the nostr community; however, I urge you to open up, take what is interesting and learn at the intersects.)

The Great Simplification

Josh Farley — The Myths Shaping Our Economies: The Disconnect between Economic Theory and Reality - The Great Simplification

Economic theory has come to wield outsized influence over our societal goals, decisions, and policies – often relying on models that claim to opt...

Three main tasks today: - Investigate default layout settings. Are they being preserved? What options should users have for custom? - Unify the four routines to app/tool if possible. - Map out the full local vs. WWW collaboration flow.

I have my posting kit running again. Hopefully it will keep me focused on my work, as I can just edit a text update and push to Web (HTML), Bluesky, Mastodon, and Nostr w/o getting pulled in like Godfather III. I'll try to minimize my posts so it doesn't make y'all feel spammed.

As I watch the public protocols/platforms implode under bots and fomo (fear of missing outrage), the more convinced I am that focusing on specific crises as we are facing during extreme change, and abandoning a stress on identity, is a valid application for streaming logical maps.

Eeee... coffee hit. Lay down some shit.

I'm spread out over many areas right now. I need to have an overall design document, a high level design that outlines the hard, structural design decisions like "Why three classes of entities?" "Why MQTT w/ #nostr entity objects?" "Why PNG for a floppy?" Finish up the islands, first.