Been listening to old east village radio - the rest is noise on archive.org. Radio is kinda goated. Thanks for the spins.
Pacific Coast PartyGot this sick bootleg pacific coast party remix vinyl.
My call BurriedThinking about the scene where he walks out and marks the fund down then goes back in the office and keeps jamming.
Me & Bobby McGeesong song song song song song song sung sing song sang song sing sing sung
Meet Hanako at EmbersMeet Hanako at Embers
Fast forwardI think many apps in the post AI era do not need any kind of web interface. There is probably something to be said for marketing and sales, but really all you need to sell is an API. Downside to that is APIs are generic, make lock-in harder, don't make as much money.
This is all good news for buyers, not so much for sellers. And preserving the web interface isn't exactly worthwhile either. The more surface you have the harder it is to extend and not break something.
The future requires extension though. If you have a complaint about software or a vendor your somewhere from minutes to a few days from being able to replace that component entirely.
I wonder if AI pushes us closer to the economic ideal of zero profits. Closer to infinite substitutes for any given piece of software means abundance of consumer surplus.
6?33)I don't know why the Greed Island arc was so hated. It was actually a pretty high point for me.
LuaI don't write much lua, pretty much only neovim configs. Still, I think Lua is the prettiest language I know. The structure and syntax just look really clean.
A good time for timesLast day. First day. Start and end. Cycle. The wheels on the bike went around today. To the marina. Lager. Boats. Bike again.
Is the future neovim?One of the open questions I have is given that agentic coding via some TUI stays around for a while (e.g. Claude, Codex, OpenCode, pi) will the default look more like VSCode (Claude) or like Neovim (pi). Will it be that we're all given standard tools like a banker is given Excel, or will there still be value in chooisng your own?
ennuiI have some bipolar reaction to HN these days. I swear >90% of the content is low-effort, automated self-promotion. It's getting better at wasting your time.
I'm partially optimistic about AI. I think there is good potential for people to achieve great things as the costs to achieve them are lessed -- more accesibility and all that. My main point of scepticsm is about the increased volume you must shout to be recognized. Even if you can make something great it is going to have to compete against the noise of so much mediocrity. I wonder about the antidote to this... only some kind of personal network comes to mind.
New MusicSam Wilkes appeared in my Discover Weekly. I have fallen in love with "iiyo iiyo iiyo".
Good thingsIt is Friday.
I have been thinking of ways to describe Georgia that reflect it's personal meaning to me. However, doing is eternally harder than knowing.
Probably going to drive for the first time in a long time this holiday.
Ruler of the worldFirst order of business as a ruler, a total ban on doing two things at once.
The Big IdeaThe world demands that everything become greater. Since I have exhausted the best of my bad ideas, I'll set out to work on my worst ones.
Things I Want for Christmas- esoteric LP records - coffee cup and/or glassware (only one!) - another shelf - space for another shelf - sticker - a book written in the 21st century - some better way to store tote bags than on a hook
2025-12-12I like swimming in fiction.
It takes a thousand lines to get one single bit of truth.
When you drink two coffees daily, a single will make you feel sleepy.
Business Opportunities
There was a lot to say today. I had this big lead up about cycles, the state of all men, borges, bukowski. That is too much lead up to say that I like putting on winter clothes and going for a walk. Today, green sweater (fun pattern), blue jeans (moulded in my image), green jacket, white sneakers, tote bag with the pins.
Walked to coffee shop. Walked home. Listened to music. Thought that getting one good line is all it takes. The expression "Pulling rain from the mud." is lovely. The next song was I Appreciate You. Lovely.
OrangeThe espresso I made this morning tasted like oranges. This has been a good year as far as coffee goes. Trader Joe's had a really good bag at one point that was very nutty. The key is to look and see when they roasted them. These had only been roasted a few days before.
I recently had the best coffee and pastry that I've had in the United States. A few days ago in San Diego at Il Giardino di Lilli , I got an espressso, then a machiatto, then a cappucino. I drink coffee, but never this much. It was just that good. Flat out perfect. Good enough to make me want to go back to San Diego just for that. It is better for things that good to be a rare treat anyway. All the sweeter when they arrive.
Winter, once moreIt has been nearly a year since I last wrote here. A bit unfortunate it has been that long, but here I am again.
This winter has been quite different than the last - there is an equal part dread mixed with an equal part of hope. Certain things are very tiring but other certain things fill me with a brilliant joy.
It has been a lot of travel. That is a mixed bag. Lovely to see the world, but it takes a lot to make my way through it.
The other day a friend asked me about why there are no dates on these posts. He said that he liked it. I like it too. I think it helps to prevent it from being too modern and be more timeless. My writing is always associated with my age (the number and the environment), but it'd be better if that remains as far away as possible. Sometimes you must indulge the present though.
I've listened to a lot of good music this year. Two of my favorites are QUIT QUIETLY and Thank You for Almost Everything. QUIT QUIETLY is beautiful. Really. It's one of the most balanced pieces of music I've listened to in a long time. I appreciate Thank You for Almost Everything (henceforth TYFAE) for different reasons. Headache's last album, The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth, was incredible. Something very new - in style, in sound, in idea. However, it was unbelievably sad. It really put me into a depression. As moving as it is, listening could be pretty painful.
TYFAE explores a similar idea but executed over a lot more hope. If I'm being honest, I think that makes it less "impactful". Others say the same. But I'm going to award points for the happiness of it all. We cannot just be sad all the time, and sad music is too easy to do. It just gets a head start against joy. For that reason, I think I prefer the new album over the last one. I also went to a Vegyn show and he played one of the unreleased songs there which was fun.
I ended up being a 0.007% Vegyn listener this year. That makes me number 307 in the world (at least on Spotify). One of the things I miss about social media is the spotify wrapped posts. It was fun to see what people were listening to - how they change and evolve.
However, I try pretty hard to fight the FOMO which that decision causes at times. These days I only think about it on occasion, and I regard it as one of the better decisions I've made.