{"chain":[{"channel":"cities","content":" Glendive, Montana, is a small town in eastern Montana, near the North Dakota border. It is the county seat of Dawson County and has a population of around 5,000 people. The town sits along the Yellowstone River and is surrounded by badlands terrain, making it a scenic spot with a rugged, natural beauty. Glendive is best known as the gateway to Makoshika State Park, Montana\u2019s largest state park, which features striking badlands formations and significant fossil deposits, including dinosaur remains.\r\n I considered doing Williston ND. Maybe next week.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nthe plans for the week:\r\n> prepare myself, the house, etc. for travel (the two weeks after this)\r\n> various \"quality-of-life\" fixes for Atacama\r\n> maybe job-application stuff?\r\n> some social events\r\n> pre-planning for a \"big project\", starting March 11, if no other plans take precedence\r\n> hate-gazing into the void\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nthe Atacama plans\r\n> fix \"quotes don't work in preview\"\r\n> fix that unclosed \"Literal Text\" tags eat the remainder of the message\r\n> separate \"Title\" formatting from \"Heading\"\r\n> improve \"high-contrast\" mode\r\n> some form of \"voting\" good posts from the past\r\n> quotes, maybe. ( i still don't have any useful ideas here. and the *machine* hasn't delivered great promise when i have tried to get it to do the gruntwork.)\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nseparately, there is << get a mailserver working >>. again. ( neither \"dovecot/postfix\" on the server, nor << mailu >> in a docker container, worked at first effort.)\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nit's not clear what \"prep\" I need to do for Disney.\r\n\r\nI suppose I will find out.","created_at":"2025-02-17T00:34:37.739431","id":237,"is_target":false,"parent_id":null,"processed_content":"

\n \ud83e\udd16\n Glendive, Montana, is a small town in eastern Montana, near the North Dakota border. It is the county seat of Dawson County and has a population of around 5,000 people. The town sits along the Yellowstone River and is surrounded by badlands terrain, making it a scenic spot with a rugged, natural beauty. Glendive is best known as the gateway to Makoshika State Park, Montana\u2019s largest state park, which features striking badlands formations and significant fossil deposits, including dinosaur remains.\r\n

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\n \ud83d\udca1\n I considered doing Williston ND. Maybe next week.\r\n

the plans for the week:\r

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    \n
  • prepare myself, the house, etc. for travel (the two weeks after this)\r
    • \n
  • various \"quality-of-life\" fixes for Atacama\r
    • \n
  • maybe job-application stuff?\r
    • \n
  • some social events\r
    • \n
  • pre-planning for a \"big project\", starting March 11, if no other plans take precedence\r
    • \n
  • hate-gazing into the void\r
    • \n

the Atacama plans\r

\n
    \n
  • fix \"quotes don't work in preview\"\r
    • \n
  • fix that unclosed \"Literal Text\" tags eat the remainder of the message\r
    • \n
  • separate \"Title\" formatting from \"Heading\"\r
    • \n
  • improve \"high-contrast\" mode\r
    • \n
  • some form of \"voting\" good posts from the past\r
    • \n
  • quotes, maybe. \n \ud83d\udca1\n ( i still don't have any useful ideas here. and the machine hasn't delivered great promise when i have tried to get it to do the gruntwork.)\n \r
    • \n

separately, there is get a mailserver working. again. \n \ud83d\udca1\n ( neither \"dovecot/postfix\" on the server, nor mailu in a docker container, worked at first effort.)\n \r

it's not clear what \"prep\" I need to do for Disney.\r

\n

I suppose I will find out.

","subject":"glendive (part 1)"},{"channel":"cities","content":"yesterday:\r\n> quotes now work in preview. ( the future will be better tomorrow.)\r\n> fix << Literal Text >> parsing\r\n> new \"title\" format: [# The Grapes of Wrath #]\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\ntoday: unclear\r\n\r\n> new channels, and possibly a two-level hierarchy to keep them organized\r\n> high-contrast mode needs fixes; there are a few colors that are off, and it would be good if printing was more efficient\r\n> the \"quotes\" system is too janky\r\n> some way to link to \"private\" emails/chains (for some types of private channels) would be good\r\n> a site dashboard\r\n> mail server\r\n\r\nand, Orinoco. which is still unclear.","created_at":"2025-02-18T16:40:30.369120","id":240,"is_target":true,"parent_id":237,"processed_content":"

yesterday:\r

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    \n
  • quotes now work in preview. \n \ud83d\udcac\n ( the future will be better tomorrow.)\n \r
    • \n
  • fix Literal Text parsing\r
    • \n
  • new \"title\" format: The Grapes of Wrath \r
    • \n

today: unclear\r

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    \n
  • new channels, and possibly a two-level hierarchy to keep them organized\r
    • \n
  • high-contrast mode needs fixes; there are a few colors that are off, and it would be good if printing was more efficient\r
    • \n
  • the \"quotes\" system is too janky\r
    • \n
  • some way to link to \"private\" emails/chains (for some types of private channels) would be good\r
    • \n
  • a site dashboard\r
    • \n
  • mail server\r
    • \n
\n

and, Orinoco. which is still unclear.

","subject":"glendive (part 2)"},{"channel":"cities","content":"the new \"article\" code is committed.\r\n\r\nthis is ... fine.\r\n\r\nI'm not in a mood to write articles yet. Or to add the << navigation chrome >> to expose them.\r\n\r\ni am also very much not in a mood to migrate existing articles.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nthe new navbar is too space-consuming.\r\n\r\npresumably the new option will be \"all channels\" or \"select channel from drop-down\".\r\n\r\nbut I don't really like that. ( i don't like the \"hover for sub-category\" option either)\r\n\r\n maybe I should consult a graphic designer. certainly Claude can't do it.\r\n the consensus of simpletons is not wisdom. if three LLMs agree on a bad approach, I shouldn't expect it to be good.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nboth \"mail server\" and \"site dashboard\" seem like too much << work for work's sake >>.\r\n\r\nor, at least, \"work-lite\" tasks.\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nmeanwhile, commenting on things like << Gary Marcus' latest idiocy >> seems pointless. ( of course the \"pure LLM system\" isn't going to know *today's date* unless it is told that. You might as well be upset that the dictionary doesn't know the date.) ( if you look away from the sun, you will not see it)\r\n\r\n----\r\n\r\nI am disheartened by the \"get LLMs to write good CSS code\" attempts.\r\n\r\nNeither the design nor the structure of the output code is that good.\r\n\r\nOf course, \"go from a CSS text file to a visual design\" isn't a trivial task ... but it isn't *that* hard.","created_at":"2025-02-19T17:48:55.644818","id":242,"is_target":false,"parent_id":240,"processed_content":"

the new \"article\" code is committed.\r

\n

this is ... fine.\r

\n

I'm not in a mood to write articles yet. Or to add the navigation chrome to expose them.\r

\n

i am also very much not in a mood to migrate existing articles.\r

the new navbar is too space-consuming.\r

\n

presumably the new option will be \"all channels\" or \"select channel from drop-down\".\r

\n

but I don't really like that. \n \ud83d\udd25\n ( i don't like the \"hover for sub-category\" option either)\n \r

\n

\n \ud83d\udca1\n maybe I should consult a graphic designer. certainly Claude can't do it.\r\n

\n

\n \ud83d\udd25\n the consensus of simpletons is not wisdom. if three LLMs agree on a bad approach, I shouldn't expect it to be good.\r\n

both \"mail server\" and \"site dashboard\" seem like too much work for work's sake.\r

\n

or, at least, \"work-lite\" tasks.\r

meanwhile, commenting on things like Gary Marcus' latest idiocy seems pointless. \n \ud83d\udca1\n ( of course the \"pure LLM system\" isn't going to know today's date unless it is told that. You might as well be upset that the dictionary doesn't know the date.)\n \n \ud83d\udd25\n ( if you look away from the sun, you will not see it)\n \r

I am disheartened by the \"get LLMs to write good CSS code\" attempts.\r

\n

Neither the design nor the structure of the output code is that good.\r

\n

Of course, \"go from a CSS text file to a visual design\" isn't a trivial task ... but it isn't that hard.

","subject":"glendive (part 3)"}]}