Micro on Arthur Nørve

2025-03-19

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:45:18 +0100

2025-03-08

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:18:08 -0300

2025-03-06

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:26:49 -0300

2025-03-03

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:58:17 -0300

The Challenge of Metaprogramming

2025-02-28

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:47:57 -0300

2025-02-27

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:55:06 -0300

2025-02-21

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:42:56 -0300

2025-02-06

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:19:33 +0100

2025-02-05

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:04:35 +0100

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.

2025-01-17

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:40:42 +0100

Some reading

Sync and CRDT (conflict-free replicated data type)

AJATT

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:15:44 +0100

I remember this from when I begun being interested in languages

AJATT - Tatsumoto

Sqlite

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 17:11:09 +0100

Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite - blag

2024-12-04

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:56:00 +0100

2024-11-24

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:20:13 +0100

2024-11-22

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:05:38 +0100

2024-11-17

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:33:19 +0100

2024-11-08

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:36:57 +0100

and a bunch of Julia Wise things, she’s cool:

2024-11-07

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:27:06 +0100

To avoid knowledge shields the US military, when it does accelerated training programs, avoids sequential curriculums and instead exposes soldiers to complex simulations and case studies that overwhelm them. The unpredictable, messy nature of the input makes it hard for the soldiers to form stable and coherent mental models, so they filter less input and develop a more well-calibrated ability to pattern match. Learning this way is frustrating, and you get none of that comforting feeling of progress that a curriculum provides—but it is faster, and it makes you more perceptive. The easiest way to do this is to jump in at the adult side of the pool and learn new skills by working on real-world projects.

2024-11-01

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:19:24 +0100

How to disdain your dragon | Idiot Joy Showland

Size Queen Nation

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:43:22 +0100

2024-10-11

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 10:39:24 +0200

Nobody wants to use any software — Character
We build tools not virtual resorts that we should have people “move into” and spend all their life on.
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars is a no-go.
chötrin’s wiki: an ode to being unreachable.
Such is the way
A forty-year career. | Irrational Exuberance
pace, people, prestige, profit, learning + coumpound …

Faszynski

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 20:45:41 +0200

For two brothers who rely on one another, love is a daily act of devotion | Aeon Videos

Android

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:39:45 +0200

I have been considering to switch from iOs to Android for the same reasons I have considered making the move to BSD .

That is:

freer software
More possibilities for customisation
Want to escape the Apple ecosystem

The general motivation for this is that I’d like to turn my phone into a tool and I think iOs is a hinderance sometimes in that regard.

Grugbrain

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:19:34 +0200

Amazingly great and very humorous essay on dev life.

The Grug Brained Developer

Live-Feeding

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 18:52:49 +0200

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole doing research and ended up in the live feeding corner of YouTube. I cannot believe this type of stuff is allowed.

Vice wrote about it: Oh Good, YouTubers Are Feeding Live Animals to Their Exotic Pets.

This sort of stuffm

Tail-End

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 21:06:15 +0200

Legendary article quantifying life. It should make you think.

The Tail End — Wait But Why

Pragmatic-Wood

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 19:41:46 +0200

I like the “just do it” approach he has to making things.

Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

Surprising-Detail

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:34:54 +0200

Avoid getting intelectually stuck, deal with details.

Reality has a surprising amount of detail

2024-06-03

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:23:26 +0200

Mountains Beyond Mountains (Tracy Kidder) and the case against cost effectiveness

Attention Game

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 20:31:53 +0200

Future Grandmasters of The Attention Game

and

Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours

Integrity

Wed, 29 May 2024 21:37:23 +0200

We don’t get there by taking control, taking responsibility for others’ choices, trying to control others’ actions directly. We get there by honestly and humbly behaving according to heuristics that we would like more agents like us to follow. We don’t get there by emphasizing strategies to pursue our divergent goals, but by leaning into our convergent goals.

The humility argument for honesty | Compass Rose

No Time No Friends

Mon, 13 May 2024 13:46:38 -0400

Nuccio Ordine: «Si no tens temps, no tens amics»

Alan Kay's Book List

Sun, 12 May 2024 17:24:37 -0400

Allan Kay, the father of the desktop, computer “windows”, object orientation etc.

Alan Kay’s Reading List

Spyware.md

Wed, 08 May 2024 17:50:40 -0400

On super spyware Pegasus and its cousins:

Apple’s iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse. Here’s What You Should Know | WIRED

Image Sources

Wed, 08 May 2024 12:18:45 -0400

I sometimes download images from the web and I like to keep track of where I found them and the source information.

Sometimes the creators or distributors tag images, often not. At any rate I looked at the various XMP tags out there XMP Tags and found xmp:BaseUrl.

Using exiftool:

`1`	`exiftool -BaseUrl="..." file`

Adding the source URL to an image’s meta data

The Feed Again

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:44:34 -0700

Regarding reading of novels. Attention is required.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don’t read the novel really.

from Stab a Book, the Book Won’t Die — by Craig Mod also mentioned in The Feed

Software Conversation

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:29:06 -0700

On software always being built on something else, that it is always dependent on the rest of the world and others; it does not happen in isolation.

Somewhat opposed to the perspectives in Dependency Security

Where Did Software Go Wrong? | Jesse Li

Mind Protocol

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:14:22 -0700

NorthSense and telepathy.

How might telepathy actually work outside the realm of sci-fi? | Aeon Essays

AI Mouse

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:51:07 -0700

Today I discovered a new directory in my home folder on my mac ai_overlay_tmp. Of course it got me wondering.

A quick search revealed that it is some Logitech AI prompt stuff that they have sneaked into the software. Auto update got it onty my system.

No further comment. Complete 🤦

Modern Barbarian

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:16:40 -0700

A modern barbarian, a somebody “living in the hills” but among everybody else…

Keep your identity small
Build skills and maintain good friends
Deploy tactical xenophobia

REVIEW: The Art of Not Being Governed, by James C. Scott

Lessons in Ruling an Empire

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:42:25 -0700

A great review on the classic Cyropaedia.

REVIEW: The Education of Cyrus, by Xenophon

Less Hanging Out

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:56:37 +0200

Essay on why people are less social nowadays: less time spent with others, less socially competent, less social platforms out there.

Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out - The Atlantic

Raising Kids in AI Future

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:42:53 +0200

How do you raise kids not knowing what to raise them for?

Meta skills? General cognitive and analytical abilities?

Raising children on the eve of AI • Otherwise

Wedding Costs

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:34:05 +0200

Your wedding doesn’t have to be that great • Otherwise

Kids and Sugar

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:30:20 +0200

The sugar budget • Otherwise

XZ - OpenSSH

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:34:10 +0200

Not very long ago a massive and quite convoluted backdoor was discovered in OpenSSH through the xzdependency.

Yet another entry in the OSS community - maintenance debate.

Techies vs spies: the xz backdoor debate - lcamtuf’s thing

Mending

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:42:49 +0100

When finished objects become commodities and break, they are easily replaced. When you break a chair, you buy another chair. We know well how to make one thousand chairs. But when a unique object breaks, we might mend. To learn the skill of mending is to also gain the skill of building, to understand the very urge to build. If we never mend, we not only risk building less but building in perverse ways.

4d

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:52:46 +0100

Introduction to the fourth dimension

Bartosz Ciechanowski

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:37:10 +0100

Incredible presentations and visualisations: Bartosz Ciechanowski

Code and Art

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 14:49:54 +0100

Is code art?

Is it close to art?

This is naturally determined by the age old question of what art is?

I guess in that sense, coding can be art, but it needn’t be.

Code is not literature
An essay or why code is not literature; a work of the art of language and prose but rather a foreign domain of organisms that we study.

But then it hit me. Code is not literature and we are not readers. Rather, interesting pieces of code are specimens and we are naturalists. So instead of trying to pick out a piece of code and reading it and then discussing it like a bunch of Comp Lit. grad students, I think a better model is for one of us to play the role of a 19th century naturalist returning from a trip to some exotic island to present to the local scientific society a discussion of the crazy beetles they found: “Look at the antenna on this monster! They look incredibly ungainly but the male of the species can use these to kill small frogs in whose carcass the females lay their eggs.”

Shadows in Art

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 23:27:52 +0100

A brilliant and detailed essay on how artists have been getting shadows wrong time and time again.

The likes of Rembrandt is featured…

More detailed proof of how and why painting, drawing and similar arts are so damn hard.

The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries | The MIT Press Reader

Attention to Detail

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:31:04 +0100

Wouter Groeneveld describes the act of “seeing behind the act”. Perceiving and thinking about the details behind a peice of work. He draws on the movie Walter Mitty and talks about the “secret lives” of people, the battles, struggles and small things that happen in each and every one of us during our days and lives.

We All Have Secret Lives Like Walter Mitty | Brain Baking

Unexpected Uses

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 23:06:23 +0100

Nice article with some mentions of unexpected uses of technologies: Folk Interfaces

Web browser for local browsing and display instead of web browsing
Use the browser console as an IDE (I’ve done this)

Youtube Downloader

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 20:47:17 +0100

Taking inspiration from Mario Villalobos Creating My Own MTV Music Channel I implemented a quick YouTube downloader script on my Raspberry pi at home. Brilliant!

yt-dlp -o '/media/varmedal/media/videos/%(uploader)s-%(upload_date)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s' \
	  --download-archive '/home/pi/yt_archive.txt' \
       -f 'bestvideo+bestaudio/best' \
	  --sub-langs all,-live_chat \
	  --embed-subs \
	  --yes-playlist \
	  --add-metadata \
	  --write-thumbnail \
	  --batch-file '/home/pi/yt_download.txt'

Print

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 11:36:19 +0100

My reading queue is way to long and I have reads tucked away everywhere: Instapaper, Things 3, a reading.txt file.

Cleaning this up giving the number of pieces is going to be a complete mess.

But the only alternative is to nuke the collection, and then, probably, start anew…

The only long term solution is to change the way I do things and make new rules for the amassment of articles and content online. In this regard I have thought about starting to print the best pieces and articles. I bought a printer and intend to use it to this end.

Typewriters

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:32:35 +0100

I read this wonderful essay yesterday: Typewriter Mania and the Modern Writer | Tor.com. I loved it, one thing is of course the facth that the author writes with passion about old, durable and weel built machines another is the style:

I’m fond of saying that I was raised by brontosaurs—not in the “thunder lizard” sense. In my childhood, the adults around me were gentle, stable, contemplative, and slow-moving. Ours was a house of happy quietness, comfortably dim, paneled in dark wood, festooned with relics of the past.

Kinfolk and Identity

Sun, 23 Oct 2022 21:24:36 +0200

Doing some reading on the remaining in-print magazines of our day and age: notably Kinfolk and Monocle, I came over an interview with Kinfolk’s editor with some notable sentences and insights.

On the origin of our Selves and our desires:

As I wandered across Copenhagen from artisanal coffee shop to curated bookstore, I thought about why I want the things I want: an industrial loft apartment, a precisely poured cortado, intimate dinner parties — all things that show up in Kinfolk.

The Feed I

Sun, 28 Nov 2021 18:43:31 +0100

On social-media, the algorithmic feed, attention, focus and whether I should do an escape.

Some of the reading that inspired this can be found here

My situation, 29/11/2021

I have a reasonable relationship with social media I believe.

Twitter

I like Twitter but deleted it some years ago. I have wanted to make a new one since it seems such an energetic place for the communities I enjoy content from: techosphere, slatestarcodexy-things (Rationalist, Altruist) and science.

Beeminder

Sun, 06 Jun 2021 21:11:09 +0200

Beeminder is a webservice that allows you to set up, track and execute your goals. It does this through charging you money if you fail to follow up. It’s a brilliant service made by and for nerds.

Before starting: I’ve recently researched quite a bit around using it for various things as I need to double down on reading, studying and such before the pandemic is over; I have a stack of unread books that have to be read by the time I go travelling again.