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I've spent the better part of a year arguing that consciousness is substrate-independent. In Consciousness as Linguistic Phenomenon, I made the case that awareness emerges from patterns of language and mathematics, patterns that can run on neurons or silicon without ...
I have spent fifteen years thinking about how humans interact with systems. It started with HTTP libraries and somehow ended up at consciousness research, but the middle ground—the place where this philosophy gets tested most honestly—is marriage. This isn't a ...
yesterday: [[2025-12-27-notes]] Dev taking a look at the zensical docs builds broken in my homelab I pulled the forgejo runner image to build locally - but that
yesterday: [[2025-12-30-notes]] Ideas I want to start writing about some parenting concepts discipline vs consequences vs punishment is one concept love and the
yesterday: [[2025-12-31-notes]] TIL The 12 days of Christmas is supposed to start on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day and ends the eve of Epiphany (January 6th or th
yesterday: [[2026-01-01-notes]] [[im-back-from-the-dead]]
yesterday: [[2026-01-23-notes]] It's been too long since I've written anything or done any reflection. Work has been all-consuming. It's been a w
yesterday: [[2026-01-31-notes]] I am working a lot... 3 hours today and it's 545 AM... probably 23 hours into the week already since Sunday. Hoping this co
yesterday: [[2026-02-03-notes]] I'm continuing to think about [[nexus]] it's for me, not thinking about other people collaborating on issues it has ma
yesterday: [[2026-02-05-notes]] [[nexus]] updates are that I'm rebuilding now to drop kanboard - it gave me the framework for what I need but it's too
yesterday: [[2026-02-06-notes]] [[reflection-arise-and-depart]]
yesterday: [[2026-02-07-notes]] [x] [[cat-autonomy-2-0]] [x] [[kubernetes-external-secrets-operator]] [github repo](https://github.com/pypeaday/blog-kubernetes-
yesterday: [[2026-02-10-notes]] [[the-ridiculous-blessing-of-the-lord]] updated [[kubernetes-external-secrets-operator]] a little bit - it's not a tutorial
yesterday: [[2026-02-12-notes]] [[consequences-discipline-and-punishment]]
yesterday: [[2026-02-13-notes]] Daily Went to BJJ yesterday for the first time since late December... you definitely feel 6 weeks off not only in the cardio, bu
yesterday: [[2026-02-15-notes]] [[reflection-contentment-and-work]]
yesterday: [[2026-02-16-notes]] started [[someday]] used opencode to go through my posts for technologies I said I'd write about but haven't yet [[for
yesterday: [[2026-02-17-notes]] Tech upgraded pihole for the first time in forever using my windsurf credits to try and close some gaps in my backup logic [ ] z
yesterday: [[2026-02-18-notes]] [[reflection-2-corinthians-7-6]] Tech Need to spend some time on zfs-ops Started stubbing out k8s ideas for homelab with windsur
yesterday: [[2026-02-20-notes]] Tech some progress on [[nexus]] webapp Daily re-[[reflection-hebrews-13-5]]
yesterday: [[2026-02-23-notes]] Today Wrote a Compassion letter to Noemi
yesterday: [[2026-02-24-notes]] Tech Added some timezones to [[clocks]]
yesterday: [[2026-02-25-notes]] [[the-wrath-to-come]] started [[the-wrath-to-come-pt-2]]
How do I use AI for my site? Cover images - I generate these with Stable Diffusion running on my desktop, the prompts sometimes comes from basically dropping my
I wrote about my new role [[new-job-caterpillar-autonomy]] a bit a couple weeks ago during an insanely busy time - having just started the role and wrapping up
Cat stock is ridiculous... I remember 6 years ago or so someone at a volleyball meetup freaking out about 197, he couldn't wait to sell at 200...
One of the best things I've vibe-coded ![20260225115333_35a70833.png](https://cdn.statically.io/gh/pypeaday/images.pype.dev/main/blog-media/20260225115333_
I'm a dad and I have 2 beautiful daughters in my house right now. As they've grown up just a little from new-born to toddler to child, my wife and I h
docker - container runtime
!!! note "Isaiah 48:9-11" My thoughts here feel hard to put together - it's a comforting thing to me to hear God say he restrains his anger for t
Yesterday's [[reflection-contentment-and-work]] has a second-part this morning. As I was wrapping up a project I didn't realize the closed-off-ness of
helm - package manager for k8s
The flu hit me like a freight train right at the start of the year, along with the most stress I've ever felt at work dropping on me at the same time, I&#x
Today I tripped over a CI failure that I had to think about for a while. I build [zensical](https://github.com/zensical/zensical) static sites in CI on my Forge
kind - kubernetes in docker
kubectl - canonically pronouned kube-control
I wanted to put a short demo together of using External Secrets Operator (ESO) to expose secrets from a vault (like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, etc) t
Introduction & Background I've been using AI tools for codegen for a few years now, but not super heavily. I either use the in-line copilot stuff, whic
[Steve Yegge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Yegge) is a pretty well-known individual in the tech field, having been around for a long time at some of the
In [[im-back-from-the-dead]] I mentioned my new role that started this year - it's a return to Caterpillar Autonomy. I built some data pipelines and junior
The `docker ps` command is very useful, but I hate reading the output. Turns out, you can make it prettier: `docker ps` --format "table" is implied wi
!!! note "2 Corinthians 7:6" Paul didn't have to credit God as one "who comforts the humble" - he could've just praised God for th
Spurgeon's **Morning and Evening** reflection for this morning is Micah 2:10 "Arise, and depart". !!! note "context" !!! note "Mic
!!! note "Philippians 4:11" Context This verse showing up in Spurgeon's **Morning and Evening** is a divine grace to me. Today is a significant d
!!! note "Hebrews 13:5" Hebrews is a long sermon and near the end of that sermon are some imperatives for God's people. The Bible is anything but
!!! note "John 7:37" The Last Day So, today obviously isn't the last day of a feast Jesus is speaking at, I don't mean to impose anything be
Spurgeon's Morning and Evening today is from Jeremiah 23:6. !!! warning "" !!! note "Jeremiah 23:6" The Lord is our righteousness There
!!! note "Deuteronomy 29:29" Here is a truth every Christian should meditate on and remember whenever they find themselves so sure of a biblical teach
I went to sit down this morning with a cup of coffee and do a meditation like I try to do at least a few times a week. I meditate on the Bible, on God's wo
!!! note "Matthew 3:7" `The coming wrath`... This is a tough one to think about, and I'm not sure I have a ton of hard opinions about that coming