Have not in a while, but last night stewed a simple chicken soup with cabbage, carrot, leek. Oh yea threw in a few bay leaves too. Dang the taste, so primal, I am not sure how I have not done this in so long.

The other day I estimated I probably use the Citibike ebike only 1% of the time, you know, when I'm in a hurry, but turns out heh, some months more than that. Also in the process of looking, I got to see what obtaining my data from Citibike and Strava is like these days. I havent pulled my Citibike trip data in a while, but , searching...

Oops burned the Mauviel. Thanks to interesting advice from chat GPT to simmer with baking soda Presto. And Huhhh, also surprising, a dab of ketchup did the following, I guess because slight acid from the tomato, reacts with the copper. Cool! 😀

Felt some real respect for these geese, observing that often one will just observe while others forage for grass. But in particular this one appeared to have one leg but still was the responsible one today. I did not observe any leg shifting but yes maybe maybe they just kept one leg to the side. Reading, https://enviroliteracy.org/can...

Recently on a ride to my cross state bus trip, I overheard my Uber driver listening to Freakenomics, talking about our relationship with rats. And Dubner talked to the creator of Ratatouille . I learned he initially got recognition, for creating a short for pixar about his grandfather playing chess against himself, Geri's Game, (linked...

…Drafting here… Thinking lately back that hierarchical compartmentalization is maybe more suitable to calm expression than chaotic graph that is the alternative. A graph is like the internet "network" , it can zap you unpredictably along an unknown path. There is a calm to focused attention and multi-tasking is the mortal enemy. Often ...

Logseq is amazing software but it’s coming to an Interesting turning point at the moment. It’s great for unstructured writing ✍, interstitial journaling and expanding your working memory. It is helping you connect what you encounter today with what you knew before but forgot about. An analogy come to mind, from software. Before the dis...

One of my favorite ChatGPT features is that it exists outside of time. It’s an API , to a compute . Infinite patience. We should proceed like this too, in our asynchronies conversations with each other too.

I undid my Vornado last night to deal with the squeak . This trusty fan has been helping cool our place for many years, and it’s a great source if ambient noise too , for helping to fall asleep too ! But the vornado had been squeaking as of late and I have been putting off the maintenance until well, last night 😆. It was already past m...

All access When a doctor appointment app asks for full access to your location, to know when you have arrived for an event that will probably happen a handful times a year, that's just , agile iterative development right? And full access to your calendar Not fishing for other events in your life that might help model your medical outco...

Maybe prior to trying out Cursor , thought I would try to predict what would happen. How is Cursor different? Haven't tried it yet, but I understand it will be a co-editor, unlike with ChatGPT, on the side, which to me feels my like duck programming (slight pair programming too). I have started using ChatGPT on the side to use alongsid...

I was briefly musing what is the stuff of thought, the other day. Got me thinking also, when going through Justin Sung going through three levels of mind maps, about what is our preferred or optimal way of consuming information? Justin talks about how linear note taking is a waste of time because you can't really "see" the information,...

(from 2024-07-21 ) I do not have long-term memory loss like the character in the movie memento but I feel like I in a very similar way loose track of my overall goals. Every time I go to sleep. So in the movie memento, the main character wakes up every morning, looking at the tattoos on his body and every day , remembering what tattoos...

Plqceholder . To discuss , when you are not being productive , this is achievement gap. Doesnt feel great. Stressful to not be productive. And how writing and i believe and activity where you cqn control your own thinking, cqn help qllieviate the pain of not working. 2024-08-18 Does the mind stop racing when you write? Is access to our...

One of my favorite moments stories, culminating in the sounds of the digital fauna known as angry birds, took place when I had four to five roommates in murray hill , all impromptu back in 2014. I had just moved back to NY and was briefly roommate number 3, or 4, at my life partner then girlfriends . She already had a main roommate. Na...

I understand our instant gratification monkeys can stop us from enjoying effort. And intrinsic reward from effort is perpetual while extrinsic reward is a crutch. But how does one become a monk? I've heard about dopamine fasting or detox. I think the first insight I recall on this topic is from Nir Eyal's Indistractable, about noticing...

This topic seems to come back again and again. Ad hoc vs add it the next Sprint? Who has these HIP Sprints and why don’t more teams do them? We have the boyscout rule and that helps with some tech debt but MVP syndrome keeps most other code half-assed. If we agree tech debt is slowing us down and paying it down is fast, then let’s do H...

After stumbling on a pet snail in November, seeing them grow and appear to have fun exploring different aspects of their terrarium over the months , at one point their shell started getting discolored. After a lot of research and trial and error perhaps there is a new lead to follow next. The main culprits to garden snail shell discolo...

Random variables On, https://recompilermag.com/issues/issue-2/why-random-variables-are-neither-random-nor-variable/ Saying random variables are neither random nor variables is bait and switch in two ways. Saying a random variable say X, is not a variable, is not a useful statement, because variables are not variable either. X is a mapp...

Sometimes you have some control flow logic you are writing in your programming language of choice and you think you can do it in your mind, but it is just too complicated to leave your fingertips straight away. The mental model is just too much. I end up having to relearn or re-remember that the best way is to just step away. Yesterday...

There's this result that gets cited , you change memories as you recall them. The unreliable witness pulls of the telemeres of thought on each retrieval. But what if its not that we modify memories, so much as the representation of the memories is a high dimensional concept and there's post processing that wraps it in context to produc...

This is what was was before After, is haha ever so slightly better, But it makes me feel slightly more at peace 🥹in a simple way.

Several years ago my phone fell out of my pocket while I was riding a bike to work . I did not have an emergency contact setup on my phone (lesson learned!) but I had only just started using Signal on my phone luckily recalled that I had not yet made the new incoming messages private on the Lock Screen, so I had my coworker send myself...

Cycling 🚴♂is great. But this happens to my jeans somehow all the time. Luckily yesterday it was cold so I also had my thick long johns as well so not too embarrassing ! At this point I have run out of jeans So I ended up trying out denim iron on patches. Because I had three sets of jeans to go through !! Looking forward to seeing if th...

This U lock is difficult to see in this photo as well as in Real Life! They are so tough to see that I had recently left my "U lock" twice , in September and in October , but I promptly replaced it! Actually last night my Citibike had a flat tire and I switched up for a shiny new bike, and made my way home, but I realized, oh no I left...

This photo has the following time information What time is it ? Time to get a watch apparently 😀

Recently I have been noticing bees 🐝 more often. Or maybe better way to put it is they have been noticing me more and my outdoor food selection in particular. https://vimeo.com/865288806 Recently while I was dining on a park, I’m sorry I mean while “we” (the bees and I) were dining on a park bench, I took to the Internet and learned , ...

Typically the bus factor refers to the risk quantity identifying, of all the internal knowledge critical to a technical team performing its functions, what is the smallest subset of the team that is exclusively familiar , with one of those knowledge choke points. In other words 😆, what is the minimum number of buses required to knock o...

So Little’s Law is X = λ * W that if the arrival rate of some event is λ, and average time to process the event is W, then X is the average number of those events unprocessed at any one time . So an example of this is say customers may enter a coffee shop at 2 customers per minute . And say it takes an average of 5 minutes to process a...

First experience renting Tesla from Hertz last week, I was looking forward to a nice 80 mile drive from the city to upstate NY. I read about regenerative breaking, charging basics and I was ready to try things out. Actually the trip went smooth. I got used to the new style and made it to my destination safely. Then my friends and I hit...