And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Morning! Brrr 🥶🧊
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`-’ 16 km
/ \ 0.0 mm
We push ourselves harder to get rid of anxiety, but the result is actually more anxiety, because the faster we go, the clearer it becomes that we’ll never succeed in getting everything to move as fast as we feel is necessary.
Winter is back again ❄️🥶
\ / Temps clair
.-. -3(-5) °C
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`-’ 16 km
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I’d like to know more numbers for techs like GPS/Navigation, Twitter, TikTok, AI/ML based assistants. Decisions taken based on ML. Wearables. Medicine. Encryption. % of population with a mobile device and Internet access.
It’s going so fast that we can’t remember how to live w/o those technologies, anymore.
As a tech designer is exciting. As a world citizen… Well, a bit overwhelming, but with hope that all that tech won’t make us consumerists.
Today it has been difficult to focus on designing the course/book for Unity, C# and Poker.
There are many moving parts that I have to settle as learning objectives, that I’m a bit overwhelmed. I simplified the game a lot, yet not enough it seems. That’s when I recall phrases like “The hard things about hard things”
Also, Unity is too visual to be taught by a book. At the same time I want to write a book about a topic I like 🤔
A reference is “Head first C#”, which I used to learn C# in 2008, so I think it’s feasible to a certain extent.
Since I’m again collecting dozens of links to read later in my Telegram Notes, I’ll try a different approach.
I’ll be saving those to Markdown files on Obsidian, and then I’ll upload them to my web. Instead of opening any social service or “forum” like Hacker News looking for new stuff to read, I’ll check that list before.
Let’s see how it works.
I am sharing it here in case it’s interesting to you:
https://eapl.mx/links/
But I think I’m too deep into controversial topics.
I guess I’ll switch to more mundane topics for a while.
I watched Willow, a fun movie from the 80s. And finished recording a class about DRM and Piracy… Interesting Saturday here. How is going yours?
Reading that book about the Telegraph made me thing A LOT on the history of technology. Another book about history of power made me think on our short lifetime of, let’s say 50 productive years, how much we can impact in society from what we currently are, to the future of society in 100 years.
Action and thinking… Progress, quality of life, a better world for our families, resources. Transcendence. These are things that have moved a lot of people for the last centuries.
I think the current life speed is faster than it should, but I guess that depends on our reference point.
👀 Another book to read this year
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25980423-the-internet-is-my-religion
For some reason I couldn’t sleep tonight (I think that strong coffee ☕ at dinner was a bad idea)
Anyway, it was a nice opportunity to settle my ideas for this year. After a few days of vacations, I could define more easily what to aim for, what to work for. My references are the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Hierarchy of Hapiness as insights on things I might be overlooking. Like social relationships, relationship with money, belongings, impact with creativity, altruism, a learning path and so on.
My main realization (perhaps obvious but what can I say…) is that statistically I have about 30 years more of productive life. There is no rush, but at the same time I need those challenges to live a tasty present.
I’m grateful that this has been a pretty decent life, which is transforming into something new (damn mid-30s crisis). As they say, the best things are yet to come. Or at least, new challenges to overcome. And that’s the tasty part of life.
Current status
Laying on bed, doing nothing.
Dog and I ‘dying’ of indigestion. (In fact, our dog visited the Vet, she received a lot of meds for the tummy)
Considering yourself a scientist is equivalent to putting a sign in a cupboard saying “this cupboard must be kept empty.” Yes, strictly speaking, you’re putting something in the cupboard, but not in the ordinary sense.
How open are you as a scientist?
He, what an amazing ad
This week has been crazy with the Workshop to design Board Games.
But it has been a pleasant surprise to see that many young people (even kids in elementary school) being creative in this media 😁
Ah! Dear yarners… Today I had a chaotic day… I don’t work well with artists lacking structure, planning, and such. And, as you can imagine, we have a commitment this Wednesday, planned a day in advance.
That’s all…
#todaysRant
Ha! This is just amazing. I like to over-engineer simple stuff too… 😅
Over-engineering Secret Santa with Python cryptography and Datasette
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Dec/11/over-engineering-secret-santa/
I’ve finished all my college classes for this year, yeah 🥳 🎉
La fin d’un blog et la dernière version de ploum.net
https://ploum.net/2022-12-04-fin-du-blog-et-derniere-version.html
After sleeping like a bear 🐻 I’m feeling much better today. Thanks all for your messages.
This morning I had a routine blood test of like 6 tubes 💉🩸🤨 You know, on empty stomach and such…
So I’ll have a good #tea to start the morning and classes #chocolatePeppermintFTW
This is mind-blowing🤯
GPT solves Advent of Code Day 1
Wow, this puzzle game is extremely rewarding… How something ‘simple’ can be so satisfactory at the conclusion
#gameDesign
What’s behind the loved Windows 95 redesign from Win 3.11/NT
https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-95s-user-interface/
A nice puzzle game for fans of Poker Texas ♣ ♥ ♠ ♦
https://poklegame.com
I found a Foosball with a digital scoreboard.
In college I wanted to make one of these with electronics and PICs, but it was a bit expensive as a student, so never I finished that.
Later I made one with a tablet and an online ranking system.
I wanted to build one for table tennis, inspired by one I say online which recognizes a RFID chip in your racket 🏓
I love these visualizations (Voronoi diagrams alike)
I remember that around 20 years ago, browsers had an option to manually select which cookies are you receiving, but now I can’t find that option anymore…
Does anyone here know which browsers still allow this, or if there is some extension to do it?
Morning everyone 😴😌
Since I wake up with the sun and this changes through the year, or depends on your position, I made a clock that says it’s 7am at the sunrise 🌅
So I always wake up at the ‘real’ 7 🤪
https://restofworld.org/2022/latin-america-startup-developer-scarcity/
An interesting approach to the present, and possible future of the Mexican dream. A lot of CA and US citizens going to MX for a cheaper way of life, working remotely with fewer taxes. And also for Mexicans working for foreign companies.
Talking about unions in videogames
I guess it’s a good time to buy (or make) a Season Clock ⏰
Mentioned almost at the end here:
https://text.eapl.mx/my-favourite-strange-clocks
My wife is watching Titanic once again…
Stupid emotional movie 😢🍿
Well, after a few hours updating now I have a Mac with macOS 12 🥳
it doesn’t look that bad, as the transition from Win 10 to Win 11 which is awful 😑
For everything else, Xubuntu 😅
My Mac Mini 2014 can’t install XCode since it requires macOS 12 which I need to install first 🫤
At least the Mac is still usable, kind of slow due to the HDD, but fast enough after the Full Factory reset.
On moderating social media (from Reddit’s ex-CEO)
This is scary and amazing
GPT-3 on Google Spreadsheets
https://nitter.it/shubroski/status/1587136794797244417
Good night everyone… Enough internet for today!
😴
What is a decentralized organization?
To preserve the community aspect of Gitea we are experimenting with creating a decentralized autonomous organization where contributors would receive benefits based on their participation
I’ll pause talking about -isms for today. If wanna read more ideas check this: https://text.eapl.mx/quick-ideas-about-isms-and-ownership
So, lunch time, see ya in a while!
After fighting for a few hours with Nginx to ‘improve’ the Key Exchange and Cipher Strength ratings, I’m in the same place.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=eapl.mx&latest
At least I found how Let’s Encrypt is interacting with Nginx for the ‘recommended’ settings. Next step is https://observatory.mozilla.org
I’m seeing that most people don’t know and don’t care about what “All rights reserved” means
The main issue I’m currently having with the implementation of WebAuthn in my personal service is the concept that a user only has 1 password but 1..N auth devices 🤔
Yeah, it’s working!
In my mind I currently have:
What tech stack should I master on the next few months? I’m thinking in a Unity, Flutter, RoR
Also, what should I do with the Game Studio? In thinking on restructure it from the scratch, stating as a co-op, redesigning how to bring resources to create new products.
And for me and my family, I think we are doing OK, but need resources for the next immediate goals
So I have a lot to think, but at the same time I should not obsess overthinking 🙃
On making your own machine press (in this case, create your own micro-blogging platform or your own protocol)
After a few hours driving to the North 🚘, we are gonna take some rest before the last part, to return home 🏡
How is your Monday going?
For this travel I’m using a forgotten laptop (Dell Inspiron of 2012 I think) and it’s working amazingly with a new SSD and Xubuntu 22.04
And now, I’m updating my personal VPS (eapl.mx/eapl.me) to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and also doing some clean up of personal stuff.
Looks like a nice saturday over here
Hello everyone, I’m enjoying my vacation over here, but checking twtxt.net has been a good hobbie to think about a community/platform creation. I’ve seen also some work on specifications, protocols and such.
I got to say it’s a nice conversation
I leave you one of my favorites theories on Product Design which changes behaviours
