Thoughts

Started Sid Meier’s Memoir.

I issued the first RC for Terminal Theme today. Let’s say it’s a more mature way to handle the releases. I used to just push things to master and fix everything later. This time I want to try something different.

Working on Terminal Theme 4.2.0 which should fix the awful code highlighting… I’m removing PrimsJS in favor of built-in Hugo syntax highlighter — Chroma. It’s simpler, faster and easier to work with. Code blocks look more accurate than before. I’m happy with the results.

Youtube’s algorithm is a perfect example of why this kind of crap doesn’t work. Even worse, this pushes you away from using software built that way, because it prioritizes the last click over the actual interests.

Yesterday, Framework was streaming about its new hardware, which I forgot about. Obviously, I’m a fan of them, and YT (Google) should know this. Instead of YT recommending this video to me, it somehow decided that this is not what I’d looking for. I couldn’t find it anywhere in the discovery tab (or whatever it’s called). I had to find it manually via search… Because someone on Reddit mentioned about it.

I know this is a recommendations vs. subscriptions kind of thing. But recently I have a feeling that all these recommendation algorithms stopped working. Youtube, Spotify (OMG, don’t get me started) or Netflix (probably the worst one) — what has happened?

All those services fail in everything they should be designed for. And even from a business perspective, those services fail badly in making me addicted to their content. Like how? They don’t even try…

Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks, five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. I’ve never seen so many trees in my life. As W.C. Fields would say, I’d rather be here than Philadelphia.

Happy Twin Peaks day!

I had some time to beat today in Wroclaw, so I was just walking around and listening to the soundtrack of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. No particular thoughts in mind, I just let it all go, and with each track, the music started becoming more ominous and immersive. It was amazing and thrilling at the same time. I don’t have that feeling when I listen to this album at home. This made me realize that I should go out more to listen to ambient music. At home, it is too cozy to feel it.

Very, very sad news… RIP Viktor Antonov

Random notes:

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has a great soundtrack. It’s so good. Like Half-Life featuring Massive Attack.
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I started my homelab project this week. I bought used Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q with 32GB of RAM which seems to be fine so far. Quiet, powerful (enough) and efficient, TDP is only ~5W idle (30W max).
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I found that I can only watch DHH’s videos (if I have to) on mute. Funny, right? I wonder why…
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I’ve ditched X for good.
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Severance S02E04 was wild.
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Tech Bros expansion is sad to see. I love to read all stuff about it on Reddit, though.

We are destroying software — https://antirez.com/news/145

Jurassic World Rebirth trailer hits today! Hold onto your butts!

EDIT: Like… WTF… The trailer is so much opposed to what they said the move will be…