2024-05-13: PTO, GPT, ISLISP
(If you work at FF/FFDW 🄽 links will send you to a local, editable page in the Filecoin Foundation Notion. If you are in the Filecoin ecosystem, you may be able to join the #monologue-danny Slack channel where I answer questions, take meeting bookings, talk to myself and the other voices in my head. In the glorious decentralized ocap-enabled future, such data-hoardings will be a thing of the past, but we live for now in a fallen ACL world.)
Three Things I Did
1. PTOed
I'm a fragile little thing, sometimes, and after spending most of this weekend asleep and eating an entirely carbivore diet, I tried a reset today. Got myself back on my diet, cleared up a few bits of the house, went for a long walk. I took the morning off, and spent most of the afternoon nipping at the edges of things. A few hours of existential angst later, and I was back to work.
2. Visioneered
One thing I had to do was compress a bunch of text from all around the org into a fairly pithy document. I freely confess to using GPT4 (now with added -o) to help with this. The anti-AI rhetoric has now reached the point that I recall from the anti-crypto rhetoric, where, no matter how sympathetic to the critiques I am, I feel like the arguments are now just following the lead of the most comforting emotions.
3. Stood Astride the Protocols
I wrote this half in Anytype 🄽, half in Notion. It’s a very awkward place to be, but so far I haven’t hit any showstopping problems with Anytype. It really is a pretty good alternative to Notino. (Quiet 🄽 isn’t quite there yet as a replacement for the office group chat).
TIL
- Mere moments after me investigating the Graal/Java ecosystem, someone announces a Lisp for it. Can't get it to work yet on a Mac though.
- A shell script to remove weasel words, avoid the passive voice, and eliminate duplicate words. I don't need this as a shell script, I need this as part of my keyboard driver.
Links Du Jour
- Open source games (and open source versions of proprietary games)
- Will Scott 🄽 ‘s analysis of the constraints of retrieval markets.