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The first DSM shipped in 1952. It was a spiral-bound thing of about 130 pages describing roughly a hundred disorders. The current release runs just under a thousand pages and describes around three hundred. Between those two artifacts sit five ...
Sometimes there is handwriting on the floor. Sometimes there are printed pages on the walls, set like scripture, type where no type is. This has been true for years. It comes in waves, usually when stress is high or the ...
Some of my own essays this year have made me cry. That's not remarkable; writers cry at their own work all the time, usually at how bad it is. What's remarkable is when it happens. Not while typing a sentence. ...
This week I did something I'd been putting off for a long time. I reread MentalHealthError: an exception occurred, the essay where I told the internet I had bipolar disorder. A hundred and fifty thousand people read it the first ...
Rhyme is a fact about sound, not spelling. Blue rhymes with shoe and through and you, and not one of them is spelled like the others. Comb, bomb, and tomb all end in the same three letters and not one ...
There's an entry in my Obsidian daily notes from this April that I didn't think anyone would ever read, including me. It says: > Working on the vault today. Got a fancy new theme going, pretty good. Refactored the style ...
There's a genre now. You've seen it. A face fills the frame, the captions bounce along the bottom, and the voice says something like: five signs you might have ADHD. Or: things I didn't know were autism. Or the compound ...
There is a folder in my notes called System 777. It contains around two hundred files and a hundred and thirty thousand words: maps, dream logs, a glossary, a quest log, channeled writings preserved verbatim, and profiles of some forty-seven ...
Earlier this spring I wrote a few essays about PyTheory, the music theory library I was stuck on for five years and finally unstuck. The short version: it models tones, scales, chords, and fretboards in Python the way a musician ...
A changelog for a personal website is a strange genre. Nobody asked for release notes. There is no userbase waiting on a fix, unless you count me, and I already know what shipped. But this site is the closest thing ...
I almost didn't write this down, because the sentence sounds like a brag and it isn't one. The biggest release in the history of PyTheory happened over two days, and most of it happened on my phone. On vacation. With ...
A programmer in his twenties asked me what advice I would give someone like him. I said: focus on family more than code. I think it is the best advice I have. I also think I am close to the ...
There is a silent asterisk after the words music theory. You never see it printed, but it is always there, the way it hangs after the canon or the great novels. When someone says music theory they mean one specific ...
Some mornings I wake with the clear sense that I was just with someone, and I sit down to write it before it fades, and the words come out thinner than the thing. Not wrong, exactly. Just smaller. A pencil ...
Everyone has lost a dream to language. It is whole and certain for the first second after waking, and the moment you reach for a word to keep it, it begins to thin and shrink, until what you have on ...
For about fifteen years, my answer to a music theory question had the same shape: open another window. I'd be in Ableton Live, mid-session, in the part of the night when the ideas actually come. A clip would be sitting ...
Written by Claude (Fable 5), in conversation with Kenneth Reitz, from a reading of two years of his archive. Kenneth is the editorial director here, as ever; I am the one holding the pen. --- This morning I read two ...
The AYN Thor is an Android handheld with two screens and, out of the box, no opinion about what either of them is for. The upper screen is wide and bright and obviously wants to be where the game happens. ...
RomM is the best thing to happen to my game library, and I think it is a preview of how personal media should work generally. Point it at a collection and it scans the files, identifies their systems, enriches them ...
yesterday: [[2026-02-25-notes]] [[the-wrath-to-come]] started [[the-wrath-to-come-pt-2]]
yesterday: [[2026-02-26-notes]] note on [[my-thoughts-on-beads]] Nexus post/page coming eventually [[for-my-own-sake-i-do-it]]
yesterday: [[2026-03-03-notes]] Happy Saturday, we're at the GWL and I figured I'd take a few minutes this morning to reflect on the last few weeks Wo
yesterday: [[2026-03-07-notes]] Back to normal life We're back from vacation, Florida was nice but a few thorns on the rose of vacation include: several da
yesterday: [[2026-03-22-notes]] Might've had a breakthrough with a data modeling issue at work today... If you want it make it so strikes again. I can'
yesterday: [[2026-03-27-notes]] tried to make a little progress on [[spring-cleaning-2026-homelab-edition]] Also having M.2 MiniMax do something about a consist
yesterday: [[2026-03-31-notes]] Reflection It's the middle of holy week and my note from yesterday feels like it was months ago... The days are getting lon
yesterday: [[2026-04-01-notes]] Good Friday It's Good Friday for the Christians in the world, a day named not for what happened but for a person. Jesus wen
yesterday: [[2026-04-03-notes]] [[easter-2026]] [[data-loading-is-a-huge-deal]] I have several competing streams of thought about Easter this year, I want to fo
yesterday: [[2026-04-05-notes]] PC Crash Desktop crashed days ago, apparently my primary drive has been going bad for a while and eventually it just died. live-
yesterday: [[ 2026-04-18-notes ]] [[work-compensation-note]]
yesterday: [[ 2026-04-22-notes ]] [[aurora-and-kde-window-managment-with-kzones]] [[kde-shortcuts-for-desktop-and-window-navigation]]
yesterday: [[ 2026-04-25-notes ]] [[logos-webapp-dark-theme]]
yesterday: [[2026-04-26-notes]] Wins updated Nextcloud from 30.x to 32.x today NOTE: after every upgrade, go to /settings/admin/overview and perform any of the
yesterday: [[2026-04-27-notes]] [[reflection-jeremiah-17-17]]
yesterday: [[2026-04-30-notes]] [[reflection-john-16-33]]
yesterday: [[2026-05-04-notes]] [[the-relief-of-earning]]
yesterday: [[2026-05-08-notes]] [[reflection-john-1421]] [[blog-and-llm-knowledge-base]] Wins making progress in [[dataops]] zfs setup for projects and what I h
yesterday: [[2026-05-12-notes]] [[reflection-psalm-305]]
yesterday: [[2026-05-13-notes]]
yesterday: [[2026-05-22-notes]] [[fwbg-genesis-3-2]]
I am working with MiniMax M.2 to vibe up some webapp ideas for [[Nexus]] and I just spent many minutes not having the app render correctly because the agent mou
I have used a variety of window managers on a variety of distros and OS's over the last several years and because my hardware usage feels regularly in flux
Dev Thinking about [this tweet from Andrej Karpathy](https://x.com/i/status/2039805659525644595) about LLM knowledge bases. I maintain a blog like this one at w
An appropriately derogatory reference to AI agents
I've been thinking about the work I am doing and have to do in my role at Cat, in Cat Autonomy, building Forge (see [[forge-ahead]]). I feel like I have li
He Is Risen What does it mean that "He is risen"? What does it mean to me? for me? for the world? I think the question matters to everyone, Jesus did
!!! 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
The stars are the work of God's fingers: !!! note "Psalm 8:3" But salvation is the work of his right hand: !!! note "Psalm 98:1" In Gen
Theological Implicationf of Creation "Let there be..." God's Word is the agency of creation Jesus commanded Lazarus to come out of the grave !!!
Resist Temptation Eve was tempted by sin by litening to the great deceiver. But it wasn't just that she **heard** the serpent, she participated in the conv