2020/12 Ship's Log

I’ve just spent the last three hours pondering the history of sweeping cultural change and how a present-day network might lead a cultural revolution. Before that I was ready to go to bed early. Shit, I think that makes me a Five after all.

Amazing. This SSD configuration is definitely the next step in my Raspberry Pi evolution. After I build a tiny thermal/video monitor for the boy’s room…

In the epilogue of “Adam and the Genome” I discovered a link to this Tedx talk. Well worth a repeat listen.

Ok, one more. I love Shivay’s terminal design.

There’s so much enjoyment from exploring other’s personal blogs. This list is one of the best aggregates I’ve found to-date. The most incredibly beautiful and inspiring I’ve seen so far? Musical Web Dev

I’m thankful for folks like Simon Collison, who dream about what the web might have been and could yet be. I resonate with the garden analogy and am, yet again, inspired to put some of what precious time I have into my own little self-expression in this corner of the web.

Yesterday I was the most desperate I’ve been in months. Our cantankerous children pushed every boundary until I was shaking with pent up frustration. The broken system to get our bathroom leak fixed put me in a continual state of anger. And the powerlessness of both left me lonely and in despair. The day might have ended in darkness had it not been for the gentle whisper of the Holy Spirit as I carried dinner home. I wept to hear that I was not alone. Not Alone. So we get up, dust off our scarred hearts, and limp forwards again. Together.

This struck a chord. It’s so true that most folks learn in private, but the best go public. I want to be more like this.

Mycroft may be my next Raspberry Pi project. I’m uncertain whether voice assistants are worthwhile, but I feel more comfortable running a service I have control over.