Daily Head Voices on Friday 2023-12-29

First time back on the Clarence Drive coastal route after the floods. As beautiful as ever. Derek Sivers’s walk and talk: 100km through Northern Thailand over 7 days with interesting folks. See https://sive.rs/wt According to my notes, it was 2023-09-23 when I had started giving evil-mode a solid bash again. Last time was… <checks notes>… 2017-09-18. Strange that it was also in September! (My previous vim-proper era probably around 2007, but I’m guessing).

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Daily Head Voices on Thursday 2023-12-28

Longer run brought my year target back in reach, at the cost of some hip niggle. 4km in, I decided that this was not the time and place for a fasted run and bought me a powerade. I bought another on the way back from the Vergelegen-to-Reservoir Road section of my route. I have no regrets. Before the run, thought about Values vs Vision vs Sinek’s Why. This was brought on by a twitter thread (which I did not bookmark argh) by a person who identified the root cause of a previously resolved mental health challenge to be the fact that at that point they had ill-defined personal values, and that addressing that was a large part of the resolution.

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Daily Head Voices on Wednesday 2023-12-27

Pack up and drive back home Lovely lovely family lunch at The Drydock restaurant in Knysna During the last part of the drive my partner took over, and I could spend some time updating https://github.com/cpbotha/org-roam-similarity to support multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1, a much smaller and faster transformer-based similarity model. See https://www.sbert.net/docs/pretrained_models.html for more details. It seems I do always need to be building something. It is one of the building blocks of my well-being.

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Daily Head Voices on Tuesday 2023-12-26

I thought I was done, but no, I had to spend more time chasing corner cases and learning more tricks for https://github.com/cpbotha/org-roam-to-apple-notes If you need to escape a single quote ' within a single-quoted string for bash, zsh and some friends, remember $'-quoting. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/16605140/532513 for more Apple iCloud and Notes have great difficulty with folders suddenly containing 1800 notes. Not yet sure where exactly the comfort threshold is. Had to nuke the org-roam folder in Apple Notes and start over with a smaller subset of my notes.

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Daily Head Voices on Monday 2023-12-25

Merry Christmas everyone! In spite of my hip niggle but because of great weather, decided to do a normal weekday run. Due to family’s beach plans, I ended up for the most part on a coastal hiking trail which was amazing! Family Christmas (buffet) lunch at Joe Fish. The food was so amazing that I might have eaten a a tad or three too much. I think this is what folks in the US feels like after Thanksgiving.

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Daily Head Voices on Sunday 2023-12-24

Christmas Eve everyone! Just realized that my trick of setting default-dir does work for the temporary org file and output html file that ox-pandoc creates, but of course all image links will break, as they are relative to the actual location of the source org files. 😭 (this means I will have to redo everything via the temporary buffer after all) A simply brilliant late afternoon at the beach with the whole family, and even squeezed in a short barefoot run on the beach.

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Daily Head Voices on Saturday 2023-12-23

First thing, could not resist taking another quick peek at ox-pandoc and figured out that it honours default-directory, so instead of trying to find the last *pandoc <N>* buffer it created, I can just write to a file in a temporary directory difficult 12km run in St Francis. Wind, heat and that durn hip niggle. Year goal is starting to slip out of reach… I’ll deal. Made use of perplexity.

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Daily Head Voices on Friday 2023-12-22

Throughout the day, probably spent far too much time fighting with AppleScript to figure out attachments (learned stuff, also that Apple Notes AppleScript is quite broken), and then also some time on ox-pandoc export, as it can embed image attachments as base64, which is what should in theory work for Apple notes (haha…) I used a mix of perplexity (free), bing chat in gpt4 mode and even a bit of you.

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Daily Head Voices on Wednesday 2023-12-20

Morning run on the gravel road along the Serpentine river in Wilderness, probably one of my favourite routes ever. On a new wifi network with Apple TV, but forgot remote at home. Moved TV and Apple TV closer to AP to plug in via ethernet, which allowed the iPhone remote to connect, BUT Apple decided to be infuriating again: If your Apple TV has an Ethernet port, make sure your Apple TV isn’t connected to an Ethernet cable.

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Daily Head Voices on Tuesday 2023-12-19

Made a Zapier Zap to send new cpbotha.net posts (picked up via RSS) to a Telegram bot called HeadVoices who lives on a Telegram (announce-only) channel named “cpbotha.net blog”. I have not (yet) been able to pipe the post’s HTML to the telegram API so you can read more of the post there, because Telegram’s HTML mode is quite limited, and I would have to figure out to sanitise my post’s HTML.

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