You know how it is

org/art/index.org

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+#+title: Akk0's Art
+
+#+CAPTION: /Lone Rider/, 2024.
+#+CAPTION: I made this to get some of the anxiety out of my system while taking motorcycle lessons.
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/lone_rider.png]]

org/designdocs/artserver.org

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-#+title: Art Server

org/designdocs/imageboard.org

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-#+title: Imageboard Software

org/designdocs/website.org

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-#+title: nakadashi.lol website
-* akko.nakadashi.lol Design Document
-** Hackerman Shit
-*** TODO Source Exposure
-Every page should have a button that takes you to the org-mode source for that page, using the beautifully named ~org-org-export-to-org~. This should interact properly with [[*Access Control]].
-** TODO Access Control
-The blog should have a form of access control. For instance, some things might be public, but other things I might only want to show to select people, or might contain other people's semi-confidential information that needs protection. Also, some people might want to opt out/not care about certain types of content, or I might want to present a certain "view" of the content myself.
-
-As such, we need:
-
-*** TODO System for marking content
-With one or more categories. This should definitely work at least on the section level. The most viable candidate feature seems to be [[https://orgmode.org/manual/Tags.html][org-mode tags]].
-*** TODO A way to export the correct selection of sections for every possible "view"
-Best place to start would be looking at [[https://orgmode.org/manual/Export-Settings.html][~EXCLUDE_TAGS~]]. Should export to org file first and from there to HTML, in order to enable [[*Source Exposure]].
-*** TODO A way of encoding which view corresponds to which html file.
-*** TODO A way of encoding which view should be given, for a given URL.
-i.e., the actual permission system. I definitely want to at least be able to:
-- Generate a direct link to a specific view;
-- Have a concept of a person having certain permissions, maybe through a cookie;
-- Be able to revoke permissions;
-- NOT have an "account system";
-- Of course, have security on this.
-** Style
-*** TODO different theme
-*** TODO theme selection
-** Social
-*** TODO Followable feed
-*** TODO Comment section
-Maybe powered by bluesky? I've heard that's a thing people do.
-** Meme features
-*** TODO teto face
-** Open Issues
-*** TODO Running the publish command in Emacs doesn't remove orphan HTML files.
-*** TODO Port [[../static/esquemadorg.js][esquemadorg.js]] to modern JS and get rid of jquery dependency.
-Good use case for AI
-*** TODO "Last Modified" implementation is a bit janky and I don't remember exactly how it works

org/designdocs/witch-princess-lyrica.org

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-#+title: Witch Princess Lyrica

org/events/premier_impact.org

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+#+title: Premier Impact Retrospective
+* Premier Impact Retrospective
+** Introduction
+This is a retrospective on [[https://paris.reloadreset.net/][/Premier Impact/]], a music event we held on the 10th of May 2025.
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /Event poster. I participated under the alias "Sakka"./
+[[../../static/images/premier_impact_poster.png]]
+#+END_CENTER
+** Organisation
+*** Context
+A bit of context that'll help illustrate some of the organisational difficulties involved in the event:
+
+- My mom and (later) brother were staying over at our place between April 20th and April 29th;
+- [[./wroclaw.org][We were in Wrocław, Poland]] from April 30th until May 5th for /Millennium Strike Live WROC.WAV/;
+- Premier Impact took place on the 10th of May;
+- [[https://linktr.ee/suzubrah][Suzubrah]] stayed over at our place between May 19th and May 26th.
+
+The observant reader might notice that this is a bit of a tight squeeze; it couldn't realy be helped[fn::my mom's visit was planned around her birthday, Premier Impact was planned to coincide with WROC.WAV, and Suzu's visit coincided with his world tour], but it was the underlying reason for a lot of the difficulties encountered.
+
+*** Motivation, Branding & Concept
+The event theme was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doujin_music][doujin music]] and generally [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-core][J-core]]/[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakcore][breakcore]]/[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_song][anison]], though in practice we gave DJs complete free reign as to what to play and the event was better characterized as "we invite our friends to play good music"; it's perhaps best understood in relationship to other similar events[fn::in Europe /e.g./ *Pon de Beats*, *the Dokomi J-rave*, *NDXJCL Unmuted*, *Neonyaa!!* and numerous overseas of which the venerable *Anime North Truck Rave* is probably the crown jewel)]. These events are already common elsewhere, but not aren't yet established in France, despite there clearly existing a sizeable audience for them --- our aim was thus to start putting this on the map here in Paris.
+
+Expanding the details on the branding and concept is where we get to my first source of dissatisfaction. I had really intended for us to have some unique visual branding and more of a "concept" to the event, with a bit of a /narrative/ through decorations and with me taking an emcee/host role with some intermissions; unfortunately primarily due to scheduling issues and inexperience we weren't able to make this happen and the event took a more straightforward "DJs play music while guests rave" format.
+
+For the poster we ended up borrowing a lot from the [[https://reloadreset.net/][《re;load re;set》]] house style. This was largely a functional decision; I personally had a somewhat different, more colorful/geometric/fractally vision for the design, but I lack apt's graphic design skills and we weren't able to accomodate my (admittedly poorly formed) ideas very well. We also ended up borrowing the 《re;load re;set》 name, though the event shouldn't properly be understood to be a 《re;load re;set》 event. The primary reason we did this was because we thought borrowing an existing brand would make for an easier sell to venues.
+
+*** Searching for a Venue
+Since this was our first event[fn::Discounting 《re;load re;set》which is Apt and merc's event and online-only.] we went into this without existing contacts and without a confirmed audience. Largely because of this[fn::And because of us being broke.] we mostly committed to finding a venue that would let us host the event /for free/.
+
+There's a decent number of cultural non-profits in the Paris area offering this kind of thing, but I was nonetheless rather skeptical of the idea --- we were, in practice, asking strangers to offers us something for free, taking on some level of risk on their part, with us having no reputation or experience.
+
+We asked around in our network and by /late january/ were in talks with an acquaintance about a venue. It was a venue they had played at before, some kind of shared cultural space that also had a workshop and stuff, but they required you to already have someone on the inside in order to deal with them. Best I can tell our contact /wasn't/ actually someone on the inside. We were in talks for quite a while, but after a series of canceled meetings, poor communication and an inability on our side to get in touch with anyone in charge at the venue itself[fn::Even after visiting in person several times and contacting all their social media.], we officially gave up on the matter on /March 18th/.
+
+Only then did we start contacting alternative venues. Mind that by then we were suddenly /very late/ late to start looking --- we were less than 2 months out from the event[fn::Which wasn't reschedulable because of schedule issues detailed earlier.] without so much as a lead on a venue. Without a venue, we couldn't publicise the event --- many people ended up flying in or otherwise travelling for the event, and we couldn't risk letting people schedule travel for an event that might be canceled.
+
+This mistake was by far the biggest f---up we had and really put the whole event in jeopardy. I put the blame for this basically entirely on naivitè and internal communications problems in our part, heavily potentiated by the fact that it was simply a rather busy and stressful period[fn::For reference, I definitively immigrated to Paris only in the final days of 2024 and was correspondingly exhausted as well]. We hold no hard feelings whatsoever towards our initial contact; we let way too much hinge on what always was a pretty weak lead, for way too long. Thank you for offering to help us, making time for discussions, and for all the helpful information you shared.
+
+We started scrambling to find a place. I don't really know the exact details since Apt, having more contacts and knowing French, handled the communication. I know the response was almost always one of two things:
+- They understandably weren't able to accomodate our narrow scheduling constraints on such short notice (/i.e./ they were already booked); or
+- They downright ghosted us.
+I of course completely understand venues being unable to accomodate this; no hard feelings. The names of those who ghosted us will be remembered.
+
+One place that /was/ open to talks with us was the awesome [[http://spot13paris.com/][Spot 13]]. Seriously, this place is /awesome/. It's a massive open free street art area under an overpass:
+
+#+BEGIN_center
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+[[../../static/images/spot13_1.jpg]]
+#+END_center
+
+#+BEGIN_center
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+[[../../static/images/spot13_2.jpg]]
+#+END_center
+
+On /April 11th/, we had a very good hour-long conversation on with a staff member in their office near the site. The deal they offer is straightforward:
+- You get access to the entire space for a full day;
+- It costs €1000;
+- You can't monopolize the place --- it stays open for anyone to access, so you can't charge tickets[fn::They do offer the ability to monopolize it at a higher rate.];
+- What you see is what you get, everything else you must provide yourself --- /i.e./, no speakers, no electricity[fn::They do rent out a generator.], /no toilets/.
+
+At the time we seriously considered the logistics of this --- with less than a month until the event and our schedules getting /very busy very soon/, we were really rather at the end of our rope. We concluded that it would've been... /possible/, but challenging, and we'd have to be prepared for a budget of ~€2000 total with little chance to recuperate much if anything of it. Still, I'm keeping the idea in my back pocket --- this would make for an awesome location for a day-long festival type event, with a BBQ and stuff[fn::/Summer 2027??/ :teto:].
+
+*I would like to deeply thank the staff of Spot 13* for taking us seriously enough to go over all of this in depth, even as it was very obvious our inexperience would put us in way over our head.
+
+*** Finding a Venue
+We originally got a reply from [[https://les-amarres.org/][/Les Amarres/]] on /April 4th/, so we were in communication with both them and /Spot 13/ in parallel, but we only got confirmation they'd be available on /April 15th/. They let us hold the event in their venue for free, so accepting immediately was a no-brainer. They even gave our staff free drinks and meals[fn::Though by the time many of us went to try and redeem the meal tickets, they claimed to have already given out all our party's meals, which can't be true, since we... still had the meal tickets.]!
+
+*** Staff and Promotion
+Only now that we had a venue we ready to formally invite guest DJs and start putting publicity out. Promo went out on /April 24th/, less than 2.5 weeks until the event.
+
+I want to give massive thanks to Ed for agreeing to take over the slot that my set would've taken at the last moment, since Apt and I decided to merge our sets which left a slot free. It was Ed's first time playing live.
+
+** Event Day
+*** The Venue; Setting Up
+#+BEGIN_center
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /The venue,/ Les Amarres.
+[[../../static/images/pi_les_amaress.jpg]]
+#+END_center
+
+We arrived at the venue 2 hours early, and we needed every minute of that time, because when we arrived the event room looked...
+
+#+BEGIN_center
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /... like this./
+[[../../static/images/pi_empty.jpg]]
+#+END_center
+
+Les Amarres is[fn::Was?] a big place. It's more than just an event center; it also does duty as a community center and other community services like language lessons for refugees. When there are events it can accomodate several at once; /Premier Impact/ was held contemporaneously with a drag queen cabaret and a noise music show. The noise show on the same (upper) floor as us and impressive to hear --- there was a little tucked away bathroom where you could hear it very clearly, it was an experience. Big props to the folks from these events who showed up at /Premier Impact/ towards the end, y'all were awesome to see.
+
+Anyhow, the place was a maze --- from what I hear Apt drew a little map to our event and stuck it at the entrance to help people actually find our room. On the staff side, finding the necessary gear to set up the event was a big scavenger hunt through several little storage rooms throughout the complex. There was a helpful staff member present, but him being deaf made communication pretty tricky. Another big shout out to the guys from the noise show for showing us around!
+
+#+BEGIN_center
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /All set up. The big subwoofer in the corner took four men to carry up the stairs; on the way back down after the event we used the elevator we had then learned exists./
+[[../../static/images/pi_setup.jpg]]
+#+END_center
+
+A big shout out to Shiz for actually knowing what he was doing and setting up all the audio equipment.
+
+*** The Event
+#+BEGIN_center
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /Ravers. This picture is in the midst of the TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES of next section./
+[[../../static/images/pi_party.jpg]]
+#+END_center
+
+The event was, by all means, a *smashing success*. Being a free event it's hard to say exactly how many people showed up; the most I can reliably count in one picture is 32 people, during Shiz' set. Taking into account people moving in and out throughout the night, I don't think it's an unreasonable estimate to say that *about 50 people* likely attended the event in some capacity. That's a number I am incredibly happy with, given that it was our first event and that we only announced it a mere *16 days* earlier!
+
+*** TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES; Our Act
+Those that were present around the end of the event might have seen Apt and I frantically faffing about with two DJ controllers, three laptops and a bass guitar. We ran into two kinds of technical issues during our set.
+
+Our technical setup was messy. We had a CDJ available, and some DJs used it, but not everyone had experience playing on one, so we also let people bring their own laptops and decks which many including ourselves did. Additionally, with the setting up of the room being as hectic as it was, there wasn't enough time for sound checks, and we skipped ours.
+
+Apt and I had a special live VJing setup planned using a bass guitar as a controller, with apt manning the deck and me doing the video. The setup used a Roland GK-3B MIDI converter that mapped each string on the bass to a different effect, and each fret on that string to a setting for that effect, using TOOLL3. The Roland device was necessary for this; it installs as a bass pickup and lets you isolate a MIDI signal for each string (doing audio-to-MIDI conversion wouldn't work, since a (bass) guitar has the same notes at different places on different strings).
+
+We built the entire setup (including crafting the set) in a single 20 hour straight mad dash the day before the event. We didn't have time to do a general repetition of the set, or even to properly test audio on Apt's laptop (we built everything on desktop). In fact, we were still briefly tweaking the setup and adding effects in the hallway mid-event.
+
+The first issue we encountered was that Apt's laptop wasn't recognizing our deck, probably because of a driver issue. That's why in the previous section's picture you can see Shiz running Mixxx on his laptop while apt is installing Mixxx on Progress'. In the end we were able to get it working on Shiz' machine; thank you so much. Fun story: Apt gestured for me to call Shiz mid-set so he could ask him [spoiler]how to right-click on a mac[/spoiler]. I also want to thank Merc for jumping in and playing music on the fly while we were sorting ourselves out. And props to those of you who kept raving while listening to nothing but feedback hum for the 10 minutes or so leading up to that. All of you worked together to save our set, and my gratitude is immense.
+
+The second issue was that we couldn't get a signal out of the bass. The GK-3B has an outgoing cable that goes into a little MIDI conversion box, and the signal goes from there to the computer. The box has a certain setting that has to be turned on for our setup to work, but loses its state when unplugged, so it stopped working after we unplugged it and transported it to the venue. Unfortunately we didn't manage to figure the issue out at the time, and performed the set without visuals.
+
+The GK-3B is pretty expensive so we had bought it with the intention of using it at the event and then returning it to the store afterwards. Since our setup was still pretty rough around the edges and we didn't feel like polishing a setup for a device that we were getting rid of soon, we never ended up performing, much less recording the live visuals --- it wouldn't be the same as a recording anyways, since the showmanship would've been in the live performance. Still, I'd love to try this again another time, I still think it's a really cool idea.
+
+** Closing Words
+Looking critically, behind the scenes---and to some extend unfortunately also on the stage---this was an organisational mess. Some of this definitely could've been prevented -- Apt and I take full responsibility for the original error of failing to secure a venue in time. Other hecticness in the planning wasn't really preventable---there's a reason this post opens with a description of our schedule---but will be avoided in the future. It was a learning experience for sure.
+
+For me the primary takeaway is not organisational difficulties and incompetence on our part, but rather the fact that the event was a smashing success. Despite everything turnout was beyond our best hopes and the room was at capacity. The event was received incredibly well, and people were asking us when the next event would be as soon as it ended.
+
+This is the part of the story we don't tell our collective moms, but I suppose I must spare some words on "the incident". Those leaving the event at the end might have noticed the police presence on the lower floor. Best I can tell what happened is that two people unrelated to our event had an altercation on the bottom floor, whereupon one of them left only to return armed with a box cutter and hammer and assault the other person. I hear the victim was alright, or at least as alright as one can be after being assaulted with weapons. I want to stress that to my knowledge none of our party were in any way involved, in danger or inconvenienced by these events.
+
+In light of the heart-warmingly sunny reception, we are very tentatively planning to hold another event early next year, with the hope of making it a bi-yearly occurrence.
+
+
+\\
+*I want to give special thanks to:*
+
+- Apt, for handling all the venue negotiations and calling upon his immense social network to make this happen;
+- Ed, for jumping in and filling the slot that opened up last minute; it was his first live set;
+- Shiz, for helping us set up the audio at the venue;
+- Progress, because I know just how much effort you put into this; it was his first set;
+- Vyvyde, your set was crazy;
+- Merc, Alex and Pachy, for being there throughout the whole process and offering immense support from beginning to end;
+- Les Amarres, for agreeing to let us use their complex /for free/ on such short notice, for trusting us enough to let us haul around your audio equipment unsupervised, and for providing us with food and drink;
+- You, The Audience, for being the life and soul of the party and making this worth doing for all of us;
+- And You, The Reader, for bearing with my doubtlessly excessive wordiness.
+
+ #+BEGIN_center
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /And to all children, congratulations./
+[[../../static/images/pi_congratulations.png]]
+#+END_center
+
+
+** Set Rerecordings

org/events/wroclaw.org

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+#+title: Wrocław/Millennium Strike
+
+* Wrocław/Millennium Strike WROC.WAV
+** Arriving
+Alex, [[https://apt-get.xyz][apt-get]], [[https://x.com/a_nrvnqsr][mercury.lamp]], pachy and myself were in Wrocław[fn::Pronounced "Vroslav".], Poland between April 30th and May <END DATE> for /Millennium Strike Live WROC.WAV/ where apt and merc were performing (B2B, under alias /Re;iwa Diabolik/). Shout out to pachy for finding time and money to join us last minute; I am very very glad he was able to be there, it wouldn't have been the same without him.
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /Quake III was a good game./
+[[../../static/images/wroclaw_boys.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+
+The trip there was a bit of an ordeal; due to a scheduling SNAFU our airport was far enough away that we had to take public transport, and our flight was just about early enough that taking the first train wouldn't get us there in time, so we had to leave at 11PM and spend maybe like 7 hours total waiting for our somewhere-around-8:30AM flight. Merc had also flown in from the States that very day and hadn't slept.
+
+We had a bunch of gear to transport and were trying to limit luggage charges, so we had to struggle to fit everything and had one bag that was slightly over size limits. This ended up biting us in the ass on the way back as RyanAir nabbed us for the oversized bag and made us pay their extortionate bag charges.
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /Finding suitable bags./
+[[../../static/images/wroc_bags.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /Poland from above./
+[[../../static/images/poland_plane.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+** Setcrafting
+Basically all the time in Wrocław before the event was spent on... actually preparing the set, which hadn't really been started yet, so we were mostly inside the hotel --- this had much to do with apt and I being busy preparing for [[./premier_impact.org][Premier Impact]] and everyone just generally being busy. Alex, pachy and I were technically free, but I was also trying to make stuff happen for /Premier Impact/ still, and we all kinda hung around for moral support.
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /+Cowboy Bebop at his computer+ Setcrafting./
+[[../../static/images/setcrafting_wroc.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+** The Event
+#+BEGIN_center
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50%
+#+CAPTION: /Event poster./
+[[../../static/images/milstrike_wroc.jpg]]
+#+END_center
+
+The venue for the event was a club called Transformator. Pretty cool place, good sound system, nice seating area around the bar, cool backstage room, small secondary stage where a house DJ was playing for an audience of nobody the whole event for questionable reasons.
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /Backstage at Transformator/
+[[../../static/images/transformator_backstage.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+
+The itself event was a lot of fun. Nothing much particular to say, other than that it's always such a pleasure to hang out with the Millennium Strike guys. Apt and merc's set was received very well despite being pretty "out there". Shout out to Ashton and the whole Millennium Strike crew for creating one of the only spaces where one can play this kind of thing live. Here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiT9jrBMAfE][a re-recording]] of the set that merc did --- I know there's a live recording floating around somewhere too but it's currently not public.
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /Merc is always so photogenic./
+[[../../static/images/milstrike_merc.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+
+Unfortunately as the event was winding down (in the early morning, I think around 5AM --- people party late in Poland it seems) security at the club got bizarrely aggressive trying to shoo everyone out, even though we weren't really loitering by any means. I will neither confirm nor deny the occurence of an Alex Chimp-Stomping Incident that might have slightly ticked them off.
+
+** Wrocław
+*** Pleasant Surprise
+With us primarily being there for the event and it being a really busy period, I don't think any of us had really read up on the city very much. Safe to say we were all very pleasantly surprised! Wrocław is an absolutely lovely city; real student town energy with lots of young people, very warm hospitality and a very homely, casual atmosphere in restaurants as well.
+
+*** Food and Drink
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /Delicious./
+[[../../static/images/poland_food.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+
+Absolutely amazing food! This was a very unanimous opinion among all of us. I had no idea that Polish cuisine is so delicious; it's definitely something I look out for now, and I'm planning to learn to cook some dishes. Incredible beer as well, the best I've ever had. If you ever visit the city I highly recommend visiting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Awidnicka_Cellar][Świdnicka Cellar]], the oldest restaurant in Poland (est. /1273/!) as well as [[https://konspira.org/en/][Konspira]], a restaurant themed around the anti-communist resistance with a lot of character (and amazing food; see image above).
+
+Food prices were maybe about half what you'd find in an equivalent western European city, less than half in supermarkets.
+
+*** Architecture, Cityscape
+Wrocław has really cool architecture, a pretty eclectic mix of styles and old and new stuff. Lots of old defensive works that I believe were built after the Mongol invasion. Quoting Wikipedia:
+
+#+BEGIN_QUOTE
+In the 13th century, Wrocław was the political centre of the divided Polish kingdom. In April 1241, during the first Mongol invasion of Poland, the city was abandoned by its inhabitants and burnt down for strategic reasons. During the battles with the Mongols Wrocław Castle was successfully defended by Henry II the Pious.
+
+In 1245, in Wrocław, Franciscan friar Benedict of Poland, considered one of the first Polish explorers, joined Italian diplomat Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, on his journey to the seat of the Mongol Khan near Karakorum, the capital of the Mongol Empire, in what is considered the first such journey by Europeans.
+#+END_QUOTE
+
+Lots of beautiful brickwork which is a style of architecture I have not encountered before in this manner.
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+[[../../static/images/wroc_architecture1.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+
+
+There was something very familiar about the layout of the city and the style of architecture in places, being similar to my hometown; I chalk this up to the places being connected through the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League][Hanseatic League]].
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+[[../../static/images/wroc_architecture2.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+
+The streets are broad, well-maintained and very clean. There's good public transport options --- busses, trams --- and the city is also very walkable. A couple times we used Bolt, taking advantage of the low prices.
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+[[../../static/images/wroc_architecture4.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+
+The nighttime atmosphere was very pleasant as well, perhaps owning to the high student population. Wrocławians have a very interesting fashion sense; a lot of young people there dress like early 2010s scene kids, so you see a lot of bona fide goths and stuff. Very endearing honestly.
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+[[../../static/images/wroc_street.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+
+We were there at the same time as the largest guitar festival in the world. Guitar music, rock especially and boomer rock especially within that is very popular. Lots of street musicians playing AC/DC and stuff.
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /That's a lot of guitars. We didn't really have the time to hang around unfortunately, and as you can see it was very busy anyhow./
+[[../../static/images/wroc_guitars.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+
+
+*** People, History and Closing Notes
+Overall Wrocławians made a strong impression on me as warm, hospitable, humorous and headstrong people. Wrocław had a very active anti-communist resistance that they are very proud of, and they've kept that history very alive, both visibly in the city scape but also in their endearing fashion sense.
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+#+CAPTION: /The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wroc%C5%82aw_Dwarfs][Wrocław Dwarves]] that abound in the cityscape are emblematic of the resistence. Their appearance traces directly from Dutch/ kabouters, /so they were a strangely familiar sight./
+[[../../static/images/wroc_dwarf.jpg]]
+#+END_CENTER
+
+Perhaps also because our visit coincided with a largest-in-the-world scale event and two national holidays, we overpaid quite a bit on the flight and accomodations. Flights within the EU can be had for really cheap; I think on a good day a Paris-Wrocław return flight can be had for around €70. Also, in our case in hindsight it turned out that getting two-person hotel rooms was a lot more expensive than it would've been to get single rooms instead; I don't know if this is normal in Poland, but it was certainly unexpected to me and is something to look out for.
+
+We ran into a lot of weird cursed technology SNAFUs this trip, summarized:
+- One of our hotel rooms had the electricity short out after we connected some gear, and we had to switch rooms;
+- The replacement room's window wouldn't open;
+- My laptop developed a black line running through the middle of the screen;
+- I broke my phone by launching it off the bed across the room.
+
+I definitely intend to return to Wrocław sooner rather than later. With how busy we were there's a lot I didn't get to see, and I'm honestly just really fond of the place. Honestly, more than anything I /really/ want to eat the local food again :).

org/habits.org

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-#+title: Habits
-* Activate habits
-** TODO Meditation
-<2025-06-23 Mon ++1d>
-** TODO Walk 5000 steps
-<2025-06-23 Mon ++1d>
-** TODO Work on website
-:PROPERTIES:
-:LAST_REPEAT: [2025-06-23 Mon 13:33]
-:END:
-- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2025-06-23 Mon 13:33]
-<2025-06-24 Tue ++1d>
-** TODO Log into Runescape
-<2025-06-23 Mon ++1d>
-* Inactive Habits
-** TODO Write diary entry
-<2025-06-23 Mon ++1d>
-** TODO Daily prep morning/evening
-<2025-06-23 Mon ++1d>
-** TODO Listen to new music
-<2025-06-23 Mon ++1d>
-** TODO Practice drawing
-<2025-06-23 Mon ++1d>
-** TODO Work through inboxes (art/email/browser tabs)
-<2025-06-23 Mon ++1d>
-
-** TODO Study French
-<2025-06-23 Mon ++1d>
-** TODO Maintain social media presence
-<2025-06-23 Mon ++1d>

org/index.org

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 #+TITLE: Index
-Welcome to my website! I'm [[./about.org][akk0]]. I blog about Emacs, programming, Buddhism and meditation, otaku stuff, and other things that interest me. You can view the full list of pages on this website on the [[./sitemap.org][sitemap]].
+Welcome to my website! I'm [[./about.org][akk0]]. I blog about Emacs, programming, meditation, otaku stuff, and other things that interest me. You can view the full list of pages on the [[./sitemap.org][sitemap]].
 
-Site currently under construction and only has a few ancient articles >_<" I will update this I promise!!
+This site launched recently and is still under construction; please pardon the dust! I maintain a [[./projects/blog.org][somewhat up-to-date TO-DO list]]; don't hestitate to reach out to me through the email address in the footer for feedback or feature suggestions ^^".
 
-Find me on [[https://bsky.app/profile/indra-sakka.bsky.social][BlueSky]]!
+Find me on [[https://bsky.app/profile/webbieweb.org][bsky]]!

org/journal/w27-2025-30.06-06.07-journal.org

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+#+title: Journal Week 27 2025
+* Journal Week 27, 2025 (June 30 to July 06)
+** Thursday, July 3rd
+*** Dailies
+**** DONE Meditation
+Only about 10 minutes, in the park. It's been a while, so I'll slowly build up to 30 mins of good practice a day again and just try to hang there for a few months. Might pick up a Brightmind subscription again, though I can't afford to pay for one right now.
+**** DONE Walk 5000 steps
+Just shy of 12000 on the pedometer, getting to the park and around the neighborhood.
+**** DONE Runescape
+Completed The Feud on the GIM. Just questing up a bit still, trying to get Agility XP in as well as working up towards fairy rings.
+*** Journal
+First day back from holiday visiting my family. Today I repaired the bedroom shelf, installed a longer duct on the portable AC so it can be used in the bedroom more easily as well as installed the AC-window-thing. The longer duct works alright, you can tell the little AC is a little underpowered for a duct that long and it's leaking some heat.
+
+#+CAPTION: /Duct, taped./
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50% :max-height 100rem :align center
+[[../../static/images/duct_taped.jpg]]
+
+Things learned today:
+- Duct tape was originally called "duck tape" and the name /duct/ tape is not accounted for until 1965 --- it works wonders for taping ducts nevertheless;
+- Using wood glue on the end grain of little wooden slats is utterly pointless. Using super glue is somewhat better, but screws are still the best;
+- Sodium bicarbonate is very effective at removing pencil marks from walls;
+- An older Huion Kamvas 13 sells for like €80 on the used market here and seems worth buying;
+- Tickets to Japan Expo are way too expensive (€36 each), and non-refundable.
+** Friday, July 4th
+*** Daillies
+**** DONE Meditation
+~20 minutes breath meditation
+**** DONE Walk 5000 steps
+Slightly north of 12k steps.
+**** CANCELLED Runescape
+Just didn't have the time today!
+*** Journal
+Didn't sleep very well so I ended up staying in bed until 11 or so today. Exercise-heavy day; spent close to an hour in the gym and swam for ~30 minutes. For lunch I made stir fried vegetables with a lot of tofu, flavored with laoganma, doubanjiang and ground sichuan pepper --- I like this recipe, especially given that I'm trying to eat more protein. I highly recommend laoganma, it goes well with a lot of things, by the way​~.
+
+#+CAPTION: /Picture of the Day!/
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50% :align center
+[[../../static/images/cat_teto.jpg]]
+
+We ended up buying the Huion Kamvas for €70, including pen, stand and cables --- what an absolute steal! Two things to note:
+- The included cable works well for me, but if you want to use your own cable, mind that at least on the older versions of the Kamvas 13 the USB-C ports are artifically recessed so normal cables won't fit unmodified to screw you into buying their cables. I've heard this issue is fixed on the new Gen3 version.
+- If you use [[https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/OpenTabletDriver][OpenTabletDriver]] on Linux and run into an error that says something like =ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Value range is [0, 15]=, you need to =rmmod wacom hid_uclogic=. The dev would rather be a dick to people reporting this for the nth time than fix their uncaught exceptions, lol.
+
+#+CAPTION: /This also gives me a (small) secondary monitor for the first time in half a year, which is something I've really missed./
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/osrs_huion.jpg]]
+
+I finally got around to hanging up the canvas print of my picture my mom got me!
+
+#+CAPTION: /Here you can also see the shelf I talked about yesterday --- the little triangles at the bottom are not load-bearing and don't attach to the wall (there's metal angle brackets screwed into the concrete wall for that) but do serve to stabilize it./
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/canvas_framed_bedroom.jpg]]
+
+
+Also, in the process of setting up the tablet I opened up Krita and rediscovered this artwork I did last year:
+
+#+CAPTION: /Lone Rider/, 2024.
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/lone_rider.png]]
+
+Accordingly, I've added an [[../art/index.org][art section]] to the website. Also, I've added a [[../links/index.org][links section]] for dumping interesting links as I come across them, do check it out~.
+** Saturday, July 5th
+*** Dailies
+**** DONE Meditation
+~25 minutes walking meditation.
+**** DONE Walk 5000 steps
+13.7k
+**** DONE Runescape
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/rs_quest_doti.png]]
+
+This reward feels kind of overpowered, though I guess it still doesn't come close to Waterfall Quest or Knight's Sword levels of silly. The quest itself is... fine? The writing is funny and on-brand, but... The obvious comparison to this quest is obviously Murder Mystery and I think Murder Mystery is a stronger quest; Sinclair Mansion actually feels integrated in the world around it, for instance. Death on the Isle doesn't feel like it does much worldbuilding. Feels very handholdy, just putting you in an instance and teleporting you everywhere, too. But I do appreciate that we're getting a lot more quests nowadays.
+*** Journal
+#+CAPTION: /Two gentlemen "giving aura", as the kids say/.
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50% :align center
+[[../../static/images/japan_expo_aura.jpg]]
+
+Japan Expo today! I'm glad we got to go in the end despite complaining about the price earlier. We bought a bunch of stuff:
+
+#+CAPTION: /Loot./
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/japan_expo_loot_2025.jpg]]
+
+#+CAPTION: /Glad to add some more color to my laptop stickers./ Sticker credit: [[https://www.progress.sh/][Progress]] (logo), [[https://linktr.ee/suzubrah][Suzu]] (logo), [[https://apt-get.xyz/][apt-get]] (untz), Sauce (possum).
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100%
+[[../../static/images/laptop_stickers_june_2025.jpg]]
+
+Always feels good to support local small artisans. It's interesting to see how the gender ratio skews at JE --- I'd say pretty close to 1:1 for general attendants, but maybe 3:1 biased towards women for vendors, at least in the indie artist area. Overall I think that's a good thing. It's also always nice to see the variety of things and the longevity of older franchises, especially compared to something like Comiket which nowadays is extremely gacha and vtuber dominated. You don't see Blue Archive basically /at all/ at JE for instance, which I think is a blessing. Sadly didn't manage to find any Ave Mujica stuff whatsoever --- the new bandori stuff is a very good case study in "things that are big in Japan that don't get picked up in the west", as well, unfortunately. Lots of good cosplays this year; unsurprisingly there were a ton of Maomao cosplays. Below a selection of my favourite cosplays:
+
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50%
+[[../../static/images/je2025cosp1.jpg]]
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50%
+[[../../static/images/je2025cosp2.jpg]]
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50%
+[[../../static/images/je2025cosp3.jpg]]
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50%
+[[../../static/images/je2025cosp4.jpg]]
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50%
+[[../../static/images/je2025cosp5.jpg]]
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50%
+[[../../static/images/je2025cosp6.jpg]]
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50%
+[[../../static/images/je2025cosp7.jpg]]
+*** TODO Credit sauce properly
+*** TODO Align cosplays
+** Sunday, July 6th
+*** Dailies
+**** DONE Meditation
+12 min breath.
+**** DONE Walk 5000 steps
+The weather was horrid today, so only barely.
+**** DONE Runescape
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50% :align center
+#+CAPTION: /Stats as of today/.
+[[../../static/images/osrs_stats_w27.png]]
+
+Next up is /The Dig Site/, then /Elemental Workshop I/ & /II/.
+*** Journal
+**** Market
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/market_pierogi.jpg]]
+
+Market day today~
+These pierogi are alright, but I miss the ones in [[../trips/wroclaw.org][Wrocław]]. The praise for Polish food was unanimous among our group of five; highly underrated, highly recommended.
+
+**** Mahoako
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100% :align center
+[[../../static/images/baiser_sorry.jpg]]
+
+I've been reading [[https://mangadex.org/title/feff4eaf-01df-4a05-83f4-68bb5cdf4fad/mahou-shoujo-ni-akogarete][mahoako]]. I'm caught up with the anime now, which is about halfway through (what's been released of) the manga[fn::It appears to be on hiatus since the anime started airing]. The art in the manga is very good, I'm enjoying it. Seems like the anime is a very faithful adaptation. Excited for season 2!
+
+**** Hover notes[fn::Due to a funny bug I just discovered I can't name this section "footnotes" lest it be hidden, ww]
+Today I added support for footnotes[fn::Or, well, hover notes, rather]! The hover functionality requires [[../../static/footnote.js][a bit of JS]], but the footnotes themselves should work just fine without JS.

org/journal/w28-2025.org

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+#+title: Akk0's journal, week 28, 2025
+* Journal Week 28, 2025 (July 7 to 13) (suspended early)
+** Monday, July 7
+*** Dailies
+:PROPERTIES:
+:HTML_HEADLINE_CLASS: orgjq-contract-default
+:END:
+**** DONE Exercise
+- Stationary bike 40 min/16km
+- Cable Fly machine 3x6x40kg
+- Prone leg curl machine 3x6x30kg
+- Ab crunch machine 3x8x45kg
+- Arm extension machine 3x6x40kg
+- Swim 25 min
+- Walk 8000 steps/4km
+
+  Whew, that was an intense day.
+**** DONE Meditation
+Bit of walking meditation on the way to the pool, maybe ~15 mins.
+**** DONE Runescape
+Completed /Dig Site/ and both /Elemental Workshop/​s last night. Next up is Woodcutting for Lost City. I was gonna be smart and have my GIM buddy help me skip the WC requirement on /Fremennik Isles/ for the 10k XP but he's busy, so I guess soon will be my first bit of actual training in quite a while.
+**** DONE French
+Gonna add this to the rotation and mark it "done" for today though I mostly thought about it on a meta level. Tomorrow I'll try and write up a bit of it and set up a bit of a study plan.
+*** Journal
+Mostly been preoccupied with exercise today, so not much to report.
+** Tuesday, July 8th
+*** Dailies
+:PROPERTIES:
+:HTML_HEADLINE_CLASS: orgjq-contract-default
+:END:
+**** DONE Exercise
+- Stationary bike 18km
+- The uhh abdominal back and forth thing (my baka-ass didn't note what it's called), 4x10x35kg
+- Chess press machine (6+5)x35kg -- my right shoulder is acting fucky again, so I had to end this one early
+- Leg extension machine (2x8+10)x40kg -- can probably up the weight on this next time
+- Vertical traction (lat thing) 3x8x45kg
+**** DONE Meditation
+Mainly daily life practice/morality stuff, but good stuff at that so I'll count it -- plus the exercise bike has been rather meditative.
+**** DONE Runescape
+Completed /Lost City/. Forestry is good new content, I love it! My bf is making fun of what qualifies as "content" to runescape players, ww.
+**** CANCELLED French
+FOrgor
+*** Journal
+**** Exercise
+Another heavy exercise day! I feel good, the mind is sharp, but the body definitely needs a lot of recovery on days like this and energy comes in starts and stops. Next two days are rest days, at least! Honestly mixed feelings on rest days, they're necessary but I've actually been really enjoying pushing the body ww. I'm surprised how quickly the body is adapting to the exercise load, but that's being a man in his 20s for ya.
+**** Career
+It's not much of a surprise, but I got word that I got rejected for all the MSc programmes I applied to. It's a shame --- there's only a handful of English-taught compsci Master's programmes around here, and unlike in my home country they have very limited availability and are highly selective (in my home country getting into an MSc is essentially a rubber stamp if you have a BSc, so academic record is pretty mediocre).
+
+I guess it can't be helped, but it still sucks, both because I don't feel like the criterium used accurately represents me (I think my CV, motivation letter, academic references, grade of my BSc thesis are all really strong) and because I feel like I have zero options.
+
+It seems there's an appeal procedure that guarantees you'll be offered some masters or another within your field, but it's only accessible to people with a BSc from a French institution?? The explanation I was given is that it runs through the local board of education where you got your BSc, which is civics trivia and not a /reason/. Honestly this really ticks me off --- as a European citizen I have a right to live, work and get an education in any European country, and I hold an accredited European BSc, yet there are clearly rights that are arbitrarily extended only to locals. Especially hypocritical coming from the notoriously europhillic French! I can't really corroborate this, but I suspect there's an interesting lawsuit in this for a motivated person with a good lawyer.
+
+Regardless it's not a huge issue for me --- my career plans don't have an MSc as a load-bearing element. Going for further education would've been very situationally convenient in this particular time window, but losing the option doesn't particularly set me back. Getting some extra student loans for living expenses was a part of the plan though, so the primary objective for the time being is earning a couple hundred bucks a month as supplementary income. I'll try to get back into software contracting for the time being.
+
+I've started more seriously considering a career for the good cause, working for some manner of charity or non-profit --- somewhere I could put my oratory skills to greater use would be good. I notice over time I've started considering /careers/ outside of software a lot more, even if my passion for the computing cause has not diminished.
+
+** Wednesday, July 9th
+*** Dailies
+:PROPERTIES:
+:HTML_HEADLINE_CLASS: orgjq-contract-default
+:END:
+**** DONE Exercise
+Not sure how many steps but I walked to the park and back (my phone was dead).
+**** DONE Meditation
+Breath meditation in the park, and walking meditation on the way back.
+**** DONE Runescape
+Completed /Restless Ghost/ and /Lost City/.
+**** CANCELLED French
+Just kinda slipped through in all the commotion.
+*** Journal
+**** Ultraman
+Meet *Ultraman*, the latest member of the family:
+
+#+CAPTION: /Named in honor of the lady who in Tokyo told us in quiet confidence that Ultraman is her son. Don't worry, I cleaned him up again after this!/
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70%
+[[../../static/images/ultraman.jpg]]
+
+I found him by the sidewalk as I was walking home from the park. He has a wound on the left side of his head and a mean gash on his right side, but he's been conscious and responsive all day and hasn't bled. He can move all his limbs but he can't stand. My friend, who keeps several pigeons he's rescued, thinks he's about 2 weeks old; at his advice I've been feeding Ultraman baby food, which thankfully he does eat, and treated his wound with spray-on bandage.
+
+I really hope he recovers well.
+
+**** Master's
+I've sent an [[../other/ip_paris_appeal.org][appeal email]] regarding my rejection from the Master's programmes I applied to at IP Paris. I've reproduced the email on this blog because I think the information contained within is interesting and because I think it's a good letter.
+** Thursday, July 10th
+#+BEGIN_poetry
+**Q**: How is Ultraman doing?
+
+**A**: /He isn't; he's done./
+
+In Memoriam.
+#+END_poetry

org/journal/w29-2025.org

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+#+title: Journal Week 29, 2025 (July 14 to 20)
+* Journal Week 28, 2025 (July 14 to 20)
+** Thursday - Thursday, July 10th - 17th
+Just kinda lumping these together as I left a bit of a hiatus in the journaling and let things slip a little bit, mostly a consequence of working too hard the week prior.
+*** Thursday, July 10th
+As alluded to in last week's journal, Ultraman passed away around midnight. He was recovering strength fast throughout the day, but started going backwards fast starting from around 6PM, ultimately passing away some six hours later. I will write up [[../other/ultraman.org][his full story]].
+
+Other than that, Thursday was a normal day.
+*** Friday - Sunday
+I took friday off and then spent the weekend doing normal weekend things. I needed some recovery; been going at it too hard with exercise.
+*** Monday
+Bastille day! We threw a bit of a party at home and had fun. The Eiffel Tower fireworks/drone show was very beautiful this year. I was also very impressed by the Indonesian division at the military parade.
+
+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
+<figure>
+  <video width="720" height="480" controls class="center">
+    <source src="../../static/video/bastille_day_fireworks_2025.mp4" type="video/mp4">
+    Your browser does not support the video tag.
+  </video>
+  <figcaption class="caption center">Bastille day fireworks.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+#+END_EXPORT
+
+#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
+<figure>
+  <video width="720" height="480" controls class="center">
+    <source src="../../static/video/bastille_day_indonesians_2025.mp4" type="video/mp4">
+    Your browser does not support the video tag.
+  </video>
+  <figcaption class="caption center">Indonesian army at the parade.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+#+END_EXPORT
+
+
+*** Tue - Wed
+Spent most of Tuesday just resting since I went a bit too hard on Monday and stayed up too late. Wednesday I was feeling a lot of physical malaise but I managed to drag myself to the pool and felt better after that. I definitely notice a couple days of unhealthy living and lack of exercise.
+
+*** Thu
+Put everything back into order, cleaned the house, did a lot of exercise. Also worked on the blog a lot. Goal is to officially launch the blog on the 27th, now.
+
+** Friday, July 18th
+Back to full power today. Gonna leave the daily logs off until next week.
+
+Lot of exercise --- gonna stay with machines for another week and then move to free weights I think, which is pretty intimidating.
+
+** Saturday, July 19th
+Exhausted from yesterday's exercise hehe. Dusted off the EMPTYHEAD today, going through the code and explaining it to my co-dev-to-be. Looking forward to picking this back up --- more to follow soon. Restful Saturday otherwise.
+*** TODO Link EMPTYHEAD
+** Sunday, July 20th
+#+BEGIN_center
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50%
+#+CAPTION:/Happy End Sky Day!/
+[[../../static/images/end_sky_day_2025.jpg]]
+#+END_center
+
+Went to see some gardens/greenhouses today, otherwise a restful Sunday as well.
+
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70% :class center
+[[../../static/images/greenhouse07251.jpg]]
+
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 70% :class center
+[[../../static/images/greenhouse07252.jpg]]
+
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 50% :class center
+[[../../static/images/greenhouse07253.jpg]]

org/journal/w30-2025.org

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+#+title: Journal Week 30, 2025
+* Journal Week 30, 2025 (July 21 to 27)
+** Monday, July 21st
+Restless legs syndrome caused me to not sleep all night, so it was a bit of a struggle day for a while. I did drag myself to the gym and used the stationary bike for a full hour --- quite impressed with myself!
+
+#+BEGIN_center
+#+ATTR_HTML: :width 100%
+[[../../static/images/stationary_bike_1hr.jpg]]
+#+END_center
+
+** Tuesday, July 22nd
+I actually slept well today, thank god.
+
+I wrote a [[../events/wroclaw.org][post about my travels to Wrocław]].
+
+** Wednesday, July 23rd.
+Started writing a [[../events/premier_impact.org][retrospective about Premier Impact.]]

org/journal/w31-2025.org

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+#+title: Journal Week 31, 2025
+* Journal Week 31, 2025 (July 28 to August 3)
+** Wednesday, July 30th
+*** Daily Planning
+**** DONE Call grandparents
+**** DONE Look for work
+**** TODO 2 pages Le Petit Prince
+**** DONE Clean house
+**** DONE Finish writing [[../events/premier_impact.org][Premier Impact retrospective]]
+**** TODO Start graphic redesign website
+**** DONE Clean browser tabs
+**** DONE Set up hobby desk
+**** DONE Motorcycle ride
+*** Journal
+Busy day today. Haven't kept up with journaling for a few days -- must be the poor sleep. I finished the [[../events/premier_impact.org][Premier Impact retrospective]] today. Tried looking for work but my LinkedIn account, which I made yesterday, got blocked due to suspicious behaviour; still did a bunch of planning. I got a 3D printer (Creality Ender 3 V3 SE) yesterday --- amazing product, very fun, will write more soon. RIP Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan and Shunsaku Tamiya.
+** Thursday, July 31st
+*** Daily Planning
+**** DONE 3 pages Le Petit Prince
+**** TODO Graphic redesign of website
+**** TODO Continue Honeycomb Storage Wall
+**** TODO Write a blog post
+**** TODO Look for workies

org/links/index.org

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+#+title: Links
+* Links
+** 2025
+- [[./w27-2025-30.06-06.07-links.org][Week 27]]

org/links/w27-2025-30.06-06.07-links.org

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+#+title: Links for week 27, 2025 (June 30 to July 06)
+* Links for week 27, 2025 (June 30 to July 06)
+** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastianism][Sebastianism]]

org/other/ip_paris_appeal.org

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+#+title: Appeal Regarding Rejection for Computer Science MSc Programmes at IP Paris
+
+* Appeal Regarding Rejection for Computer Science MSc Programmes at IP Paris
+
+Dear esteemed President of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris,
+
+I hope this email finds you well; I have addressed this to you since the rejection notice I have received directs me to address my appeal auprès du chef de l’établissement concerné and because it is your name that appears there, but in the plausible case that this email is addressed wrongly I would like to kindly request the secretariat forward it to the correct location.
+
+I am writing to you today regarding my application to two Computer Science Master's degree programmes taught at IP Paris -- namely, your /M1 Foundations of Computer Science/ and /M1 Parallel and Distributed Systems/ programmes -- which I applied for in the supplementary application period, and for which I was rejected; the rejection appears to me to be based primarily on my academic transcripts.
+
+As it happens I am a recent immigrant from the Netherlands to France and holder of a Dutch BSc in Computing Science. I believe my situation as such creates some unique considerations that I wish to ensure are carefully taken into consideration in the context of my application; consider this email to be thus the "informal appeal" that is mentioned in the rejection notice.
+
+My primary matter of concern is the Dutch academic system, which is structured quite differently from the French system, reflecting differing cultural attitudes. Giving an overview:
+
+- Here in France, most Master's programmes are selective and applications may be denied; in the Netherlands such selective programmes are a rarity, and my Bachelor's degree would grant me automatic entry to the overwhelming majority of Computer Science MSc programmes;
+
+- In France you know such a concept as "failing a year" and having to retake it at the university level; in the Netherlands this is not the case -- students are free to take and retake courses until they've passed all of them at which point they are awarded their degree. According to official statistics only about ⅓ of students completes their BSc in the statutory three years, and only ⅔ of students do so in four; a slower pace through one's education is seen as reflecting a momentary difference in personal priorities and not as a stain on one's academic career or a mark of incompetence;
+
+- In general, France bestows great prestige on academic excellence in the form of high grades, honors distinctions, and a complex prestige hierarchy of institutions. Dutch culture, on the other hand, does not value these things nearly as much, and instead prioritizes accessibility and takes innovation, independence and real-world results as the basis of prestige.
+
+It is in this context that I believe my academic record should be evaluated. It is admittedly true that I took a relatively long time to finish my undergraduate degree, and ultimately graduated with a mediocre grade-point average. However, I strongly feel that when my entire career is reduced to just these metrics, which until now (commensurate with prevailing cultural attitudes in my homeland) I had never considered to be of significant import, the picture that is painted is not at all representative of my abilities. Since I began my undergraduate degree almost eight years ago I co-founded a company, had a brief but very lucrative contracting and consultancy career, worked on a variety of interesting research prototypes of which my bachelor's thesis is one example, and of course found love, immigrated, and matured a whole lot.
+
+I am aware that your programmes are considered to be rather elite, about which I will say two things. First, I will reaffirm my commitment and personal faith in my ability to complete the programme to a high standard; in fact, in this stage of my life I find the high standard to be rather inspiring.
+
+Second, I must unfortunately appeal to your sympathy; between me having missed the initial application in all the commotion surrounding my immigration, and the dearth of English language programmes (another surprise coming from my home country where already many undergraduate programmes in this field are taught in English, my own included; and this certainly being the case for Master's programmes), I have not gotten accepted into any of the programmes I applied to, and have nowhere else to turn to.
+
+The rejection notice I received hints at an appeal procedure to a board of education that according to my research would guarantee placement in at least some Master's programme in my field, but unfortunately it seems that this applies only to those who received their undergraduate education in France, and thus not to me. As someone with an accredited foreign European Bachelor's degree it saddens and confuses me that the same right is not extended to me, but as this is a matter beyond my control I am now at serious risk of being unable to continue my education here in France, which would be to my immense regret.
+
+I would like to kindly request you re-evaluate my application in light of the context I have provided in this email, and hopefully find a place for me at one of your programmes. If you cannot find a place for me at the mentioned programmes, but can place me in a different programme within the same field, or can perhaps recommend me to a programme at a different institution, I would also be very thankful for that. I do strongly prefer a programme taught in English as my mastery of French is unfortunately still rather meager, but should a French-language programme be the only option available I am also willing to undertake that additional challenge.
+
+I have faith that you are willing to look past cultural differences and shallow statistics and fairly evaluate my fitness for your institution, regardless of what your expert judgement ultimately is to be. I have once again attached my CV and academic references to this email, as well as a copy of my Bachelor's thesis, which (graded as 8.5/10) I believe more accurately represents my abilities than my grade point average. If there is any more information you may wish for me to provide to you, or any way in which I can prove my abilities to you, I would also be eager to do so.
+
+Thank you kindly for your attention throughout this long email.
+
+Dearest regards,
+
+akk0

org/other/ultraman.org

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+#+title: The Story of Ultraman
+* The Story of Ultraman

org/posts/blog-tech.org

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-#+TITLE: How this blog is built
-#+DATE: <2022-04-18 Mon 14:04>
+#+TITLE: How This Blog Works
+#+DATE: <2025-09-27 Sat 22:39>
 
-* Blog Tech
-** chuu
+* How This Blog Works

org/posts/expression/unusual_words.org

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#+TITLE: Reserved Jabbing with Pokey Words
-#+DATE: <2023-03-16 Thu 18:08>
-
-* Reserved Jabbing with Pokey Words
-** Digesting the Writing Advice
-I was reading [[https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/04/style-guide-not-sounding-like-an-evil-robot/][a little style guide on Slate Star Codex]]. Now truth be told, I generally find this kind of "don't say this, say that instead" style guide somewhat patronizing and quite irritating (more of a testament to my own rebellious spirit than any indictment of any author) and unhelpfully unnuanced (a more practical complaint), and my first instinct was to want to argue this lack of nuance. On the other hand, Scott is a very skilled communicator and an examplar in how being an enormous dork need not be a barrier to popularity, and there is a more helpful general principle hidden in these rules.
-
-The principle here is that while reading (or listening, viewing, ...), people are constantly /predicting/ what will come next. If what they read is what they expect - all good, the reading flows smoothly, and people interpret the text as saying what they already thought it was saying, which is low effort and comfortable. If, on the other hand, they encounter something unexpected, this will stand out, draw their intention, be interpreted as meaningful.
-
-Staying on the level of single words and turns of phrase, in practice what this means is that when you use an unusual word or phrasing instead of a more conventional (to the reader! "normal speech" is audience-relative!) synonym, it will be taken as deliberate and specific; the reader will interpret your choice to use that word as you having searched for the right word to use because the specific meaning matters.
-
-Often, this is not what you want. In scientific discourse, precision is highly valued, and so scientific writing has a house style of using carefully chosen, specific words. In normal everyday prose, however, this amounts to information overload. Even if the length of the text ends up the same, by choosing unexpected "pokey" words, you are preventing the reader from rounding your message off to their own everyday working set of concepts. In effect, you're making your message less compressible for them. Try and do this sparingly! All of this is simply a special case of the commonsense principles of getting to the point and avoiding extraneous detail.
-
-I am fairly sure this is all supposed to be strongly related to the linguistic principle of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markedness][markedness]], but the wikipedia page on markedness is too technical for me to care enough about parsing and I get the impression that "markedness" is a broad multi-dimensional idea of which this post is a specific instance and my perspective on the topic is too superficial to point at the specific thing I am thinking of.
-
-** Further Thoughts
-Having arrived at a nice concise principle of communication, let's take a step back and generalize a bit, because I think this idea of the brain as constantly predicting sensory input and responding to surprises is useful and interesting. Specifically, while writing this it called up something I have read about schizophrenia. In a nutshell, schizophrenics commonly experience something what is called "delusions of reference", in which they interpret innocuous things (e.g. newspaper headlines, things said on radio) as having special meaning to them. In some theories of brain function, there is an explanation for this that goes as follows: the brain is constantly predicting upcoming stimuli. In people with schizophrenia, this sometimes goes awry in a way that makes the brain flag something innocuous as deeply surprising. To the schizophrenic person, this feels as though the stimulus in question is somehow deeply meaningful to them personally, presumably in the same way that choosing an unusual "pokey" word instead of a more common synonym feels deliberate and meaningful.
-
-This is all related to the neuroscientific paradigm of /predictive coding/. I am not articulate enough in this to write about it at length and since all I know about this is from SSC articles I have read, I will just link those: I got the bit about schizophrenia from [[https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-up/][It's Bayes All The Way Up]] and for more in-depth state-of-the-art neuroscience stuff consider Scott's excellent [[https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/][review of Surfing Uncertainty]].

org/posts/fiction/jesus.org

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#+TITLE: The Gospel According to Saint Francis
+#+TITLE: A West Coast Gospel
 #+DATE: <2023-03-24 Fri 07:31>
 
 * todo title

org/posts/inboxes.org

@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-#+TITLE: Loot from my Inboxes
-#+DATE: <2025-01-22 Wed 16:58>
-
-* Loot from my Inboxes
-Enjoy various links and stuff I found working through hundreds of browser tabs and other piles of "I'll deal with it later".
-** French Language
-*** https://old.reddit.com/r/French/comments/lcpv6o/faqs_look_here_first_before_posting_a_question/
-General French learning FAQ
-*** https://www.reddit.com/r/French/comments/7nx4mc/happy_new_year_here_is_over_1gb_of_french/
-1GB of frogs and bread
-** Tech
-*** Gentoo Cheat Sheet
-https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Cheat_Sheet
-** Sex
-*** OSSM Sex Machine
-https://www.researchanddesire.com/collections
-** Websites
-*** Guy who goes to Africa and writes cool notes
-https://mattlakeman.org
-*** Music ripper thing
-https://cobalt.tools/
-** Software
-*** Panoptikon
-https://github.com/reasv/panoptikon
-*** Futo android keyboard
-https://keyboard.futo.org/
-** Interesting
-*** Cayley Graphs
-https://juliapoo.github.io/mathematics/2023/07/15/plotting-cayley-graphs.html
-*** Functions are Vectors
-https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/

org/posts/meta/article-ideas.org

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#+TITLE: Ideas for Articles
-#+DATE: <2024-10-15 Tue 15:10>
-
-* Ideas for Articles
-** Go through every module in Doom Emacs
-** Toshokan retrospective
-*** different article?: media lists & scoring
-** eris retrospective
-** crypto retrospective
-** various thoughts on AI:
-*** slop is good actually
-*** what is intelligence
-** expand ambitions article

org/posts/meta/blog-todos.org

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#+TITLE: Things left to do for this blog
-
-#+DATE: <2024-10-15 Tue 15:08>
-
-* Things left to do for this blog
-** Tech
-*** TODO style bullet points as arrows
-- I mean these
-This might conflict with the current system for collapsing sections.
-*** TODO fix collapsing sections on mobile
-*** TODO system to mark things as ready for publishing or not
-And what about the (public) git repo for this blog?
-*** TODO system for footnotes
-*** TODO caching
-right now I think things end up with stale caches all the time (like the sitemap); should be set with headers
-*** TODO system for having different "views" of the blog
-i.e. one back end, multiple front ends
-*** TODO ability to have spoiler tags

org/posts/tech/25-01-24-emacs-friday-I.org

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#+TITLE: Emacs Friday I
-#+DATE: <2025-01-24 Fri 15:57>
-
-* Emacs Friday I

org/posts/thoughts.org

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#+TITLE:
-#+DATE: <2025-06-11 Wed 18:54>
-
-* Removal of Runescape free trade

org/projects/blog.org

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#+title: Blog Project
+* TODO Source Exposure
+Every page should have a button that takes you to the org-mode source for that page, using the beautifully named ~org-org-export-to-org~.
+* TODO Comment Section
+** See [[./webbiewebworld/todo.org]]
+* TODO Feeds
+** DONE RSS
+** TODO Email?
+* TODO Multiple frontends dispatch
+* TODO Custom emojis
+* TODO Fill in webring
+* TODO Port [[../../esquemadorg.js][esquemadorg.js]] to CLJS and get rid of JQuery dependency
+* TODO "Last Modified" implementation is a bit janky and I don't remember exactly how it works
+* TODO Rewrite all JS to CLJS
+* TODO Support for auto-folded sections
+* TODO Naming a section "footnotes" will cause org-mode to interpret it as the footnotes section when exporting (causing it to be hidden)
+* TODO Tangle CSS and (CL)JS from org file
+* TODO Reorganize =static/= dir
+* TODO Write Ultraman page
+* TODO Automatically remove EXIF data from static images
+* TODO !! OLD HTML FILES STILL DON'T AUTO CLEAR WHEN CORRESPONDING ORG FILE IS REMOVED !!
+* TODO Deploy to webbieweb.org
+* TODO Put DJ sets on bloggie
+* TODO Fix background flash
+* TODO Exclude certain files from sitemap

org/projects/emptyhead/todo.org

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+#+title: EMPTYHEAD TODO
+* TODO fill this in

org/projects/tenma/readme.org

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-#+title: Tenma
+#+title: Tenma Readme
+
 * Opening tenma up to friends
 Our server/intranet Tenma is currently underutilized, and it would be nice/fun/useful to open it up to select other people. This would only be available to friends, not a public service.
 

org/projects/vdp/todo.org

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+#+title: VDP TODO
+* TODO Figure out what "VDP" stands for

org/projects/webbiewebworld/todo.org

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#+title: WebbieWebWorld TODO
+* TODO fill this in

org/sitemap.org

@@ -1,27 +1,44 @@
 #+TITLE: Sitemap for project pages
 
+- [[file:index.org][Index]]
 - [[file:todo.org][To Do]]
 - [[file:friends.org][Friends]]
-- [[file:habits.org][Habits]]
-- [[file:index.org][Index]]
 - [[file:about.org][About]]
-- Designdocs
-  - [[file:designdocs/website.org][nakadashi.lol website]]
-  - [[file:designdocs/witch-princess-lyrica.org][Witch Princess Lyrica]]
-  - [[file:designdocs/imageboard.org][Imageboard Software]]
-  - [[file:designdocs/artserver.org][Art Server]]
-  - [[file:designdocs/tenma.org][Tenma]]
+- Work
+  - [[file:work/crypto_contracting_reflections.org][Reflections on Independent Contracting in the Cryptocurrency Sector (2021-2022)]]
+  - [[file:work/looking_for_work.org][Looking for Work]]
+  - [[file:work/eris_retrospective.org][Eris Retrospective]]
+  - [[file:work/toshokan_retrospective.org][Toshokan Retrospective]]
+  - [[file:work/portfolio.org][Portfolio]]
+- Projects
+  - [[file:projects/blog.org][Blog Project]]
+  - Tenma
+    - [[file:projects/tenma/readme.org][Tenma Readme]]
+  - Vdp
+    - [[file:projects/vdp/todo.org][VDP TODO]]
+  - Emptyhead
+    - [[file:projects/emptyhead/todo.org][EMPTYHEAD TODO]]
+  - Webbiewebworld
+    - [[file:projects/webbiewebworld/todo.org][WebbieWebWorld TODO]]
 - Posts
-  - [[file:posts/thoughts.org][thoughts]]
-  - [[file:posts/inboxes.org][Loot from my Inboxes]]
-  - [[file:posts/blog-tech.org][How this blog is built]]
+  - [[file:posts/blog-tech.org][How This Blog Works]]
   - [[file:posts/framework.org][Framework Laptop Review]]
   - Fiction
-    - [[file:posts/fiction/jesus.org][The Gospel According to Saint Francis]]
-  - Expression
-    - [[file:posts/expression/unusual_words.org][Reserved Jabbing with Pokey Words]]
-  - Tech
-    - [[file:posts/tech/25-01-24-emacs-friday-I.org][Emacs Friday I]]
-  - Meta
-    - [[file:posts/meta/article-ideas.org][Ideas for Articles]]
-    - [[file:posts/meta/blog-todos.org][Things left to do for this blog]]
+    - [[file:posts/fiction/jesus.org][A West Coast Gospel]]
+- Journal
+  - [[file:journal/w31-2025.org][Journal Week 31, 2025]]
+  - [[file:journal/w30-2025.org][Journal Week 30, 2025]]
+  - [[file:journal/w29-2025.org][Journal Week 29, 2025 (July 14 to 20)]]
+  - [[file:journal/w28-2025.org][Akk0's journal, week 28, 2025]]
+  - [[file:journal/w27-2025-30.06-06.07-journal.org][Journal Week 27 2025]]
+- Events
+  - [[file:events/premier_impact.org][Premier Impact Retrospective]]
+  - [[file:events/wroclaw.org][Wrocław/Millennium Strike]]
+- Other
+  - [[file:other/ultraman.org][The Story of Ultraman]]
+  - [[file:other/ip_paris_appeal.org][Appeal Regarding Rejection for Computer Science MSc Programmes at IP Paris]]
+- Art
+  - [[file:art/index.org][Akk0's Art]]
+- Links
+  - [[file:links/index.org][Links]]
+  - [[file:links/w27-2025-30.06-06.07-links.org][Links for week 27, 2025 (June 30 to July 06)]]

org/todo.org

@@ -1,32 +1,32 @@
 #+title: To Do
 * New phone
-** TODO Connect to Tenma Intranet
-** TODO Set up Kagi as search engine
-** TODO Install adblock on Firefox
 ** TODO Import contacts
+** TODO Deeper Tenma integrations
 * Tenma Infrastructure
-** TODO Screenshots service
-Automatically upload screenshots to centralized place, ability to get link etc (useful for sharing screenshots between machines, posting on IRC)
 ** TODO [[./designdocs/tenma.org][Prepare Tenma]] to open her up to other users.
-* Premier Impact
-** TODO Upload pictures/videos somewhere and make them available
-** TODO Collect re-recordings of sets and host them
-** TODO Post-mortem with staff
+** TODO Deeper copyparty integration
+*** TODO Screenshot service
 * Life/houshold things
 ** TODO Adopt a cat
 ** TODO Have wisdom teeth pulled
 ** TODO Health checkup
 ** TODO Put plants in the house
-* Blog/nakadashi.lol
-** TODO See [[./designdocs/website.org][the design document]]
+* Blog
+** See [[./projects/blog.org][blog.org]]
 * Design Documents
-** TODO [[./designdocs/witch-princess-lyrica.org][Witch Princess Lyrica]]
-** TODO [[./designdocs/imageboard.org][Imageboard Software]]
-** TODO [[./designdocs/artserver.org][Art Server]]
+** [[./projects/webbiewebworld/todo.org][WebbieWebWorld]]
+** [[./projects/emptyhead/todo.org][EMPTYHEAD]]
+** [[./projects/vdp/todo.org][VDP]]
 * Other
-** TODO Headphones/over ears or something for the gym
 ** TODO Exercise playlists
-** TODO Shop at Amiami
 ** TODO Create [[./friends.org][Friends]] webring page on the blog
 ** TODO Keyboards blog page
 ** TODO custom emacs theme
+** TODO Learn about ATProto
+** TODO Process Genius Ideas
+** TODO Cancel Amazon Prime
+** TODO Compile Compsci Resources page
+** TODO Tell the keyboard guy I've moved house
+** TODO Look into live coding music setup
+** TODO Make Runescape video
+** TODO Create looking for work journey page

org/work/crypto_contracting_reflections.org

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+#+title: Reflections on Independent Contracting in the Cryptocurrency Sector (2021-2022)
+* TODO This page is unfinished
+
+* Reflections on Independent Contracting in the Cryptocurrency Sector (2021-2022)
+** Introduction
+This is a reflective article on the time I spent working as a software contractor in the cryptocurrency sector between 2021 and 2022 (maybe 10 months total?). I did a variety of things including full-stack web development, blockchain integrations, as well as some smart contract development and general consulting.
+** Background
+This period was around the tail end of my passing interest/involvement in the cryptocurrency phenomenon, a time period that roughly spans from 2016 until the end of this gig in early 2022. I was interested in the technology, but wasn't actively building on it until 2021 and being 23 years old and living off student loans I didn't hold a significant financial stake in cryptocurrency. My connection to the wider crypto[fn::I acknowledge some readers' objections to shortening "cryptocurrency" to "crypto" and ask of them to acknowledge my aversion to regularly repeating a five-syllable word.] ran primarily through a good friend, and it was this friend that recruited me to this gig.
+
+The basic premise was this. We had a bossman. Our bossman had gotten /very/ wealthy[fn::On the order of $10^{8}.] from his early-stage insider involvement in a coin big enough to have a wikipedia page and scummy enough to have most of it be the controversy section --- I won't name it, but it was an operation on the order $10^{9} and when it all blew up the SEC got involved and people got arrested, so if I were to name it you might recognize the name. I very much want to stress that our bossman was /not/ a scammer type of person! Nor was he any kind of ruthless businessman, for that matter. Our bossman was... very much a true believer. He was actually a very nice person, a family man, generous and generally very pleasant to work with, just... naive. Best I know the story---and I heard all of this second-hand, mind---he eventually smelled a rat, realized he was involved in something shady, and got out close to but before the peak and thus before all of it blew up.
+
+I digress. The basic premise was this. We had a bossman; the bossman had some projects he wanted to see made, and paid us a fixed monthly fee to work on them. Sometimes there were extra projects outside our regular scope, and we'd get paid extra to do them. Sometimes the bossman's friends needed something done, and we'd work for them for a while. I technically got paid by the bossman directly, but practically was more of a subcontractor working under my friend most of the time, which also meant that his base was twice mine and he got significantly more of the side projects; this is offset by the fact that he actually had specialist domain knowledge required for the job, which I lacked.
+
+I want to make abundantly clear that at no point did I work on anything that struck me as a scam, nor did I work for anyone I felt was a scammer --- nor was I approached for any of these things! For those not directly involved at the time it's easy to look at the silly and bone-headed things to come out of this culture and conclude that all of it must've been /some/ manner of scam, especially because the scammers blend in seamlessly with the goofs, but the reality was that by and large the developer side looked identical to the user side --- a bunch of goofs inventing strange gambling games to play with their funny money, merrimakers whose main flaw is naivité and whose main vice is playing games with that which ought to be taken seriously. At no point did I work on anything I saw as genuinely predatory, nor did I have reason to believe anything I did would have noteworthy real-world impact of any kind, let alone harmful impact.
+
+In a similar vein, even though I did feel overpaid and underqualified, it's also true that I was actively recruited into this, accepted whatever pay was offered to me without pushing for more (which had I been a businessman of less ruth I believe I well could have), and did the work to the best of my ability to great satisfaction of my superiors. Though it is true that I was always aware that the work I was doing would be euphemistically described as "fruitless and silly", I also don't feel like I ever pretended to feel otherwise, though admittedly I never quite found the will to tell my boss that all of it was irredeemably pointless and he was better off just firing the entire team and finding a different hobby --- also because I don't believe that to be actually /true/; I should note that our bossman was well aware that what we were working on was in no way a money-making venue and that he seemed to be doing it "for the community" as a strange form of charity. How that was supposed to work I don't know, but given his immense wealth I suppose our salaries were not unreasonable sums to spend on a hobby.
+
+Given its central importance to the story I suppose I must detail exactly how much I was being paid -- a flat rate of $10k per month, plus extra for some side projects; I was doing this as a side gig while getting my undergraduate degree, so I wasn't working on this full-time, though probably north of half of that. So, a very substantial amount of money for a young adult, but not "get rich and retire" money --- given that the story ends with me (spoiler) deciding it wasn't worth it and quitting, it follows that I don't think it was anything to get jealous over or brag about. The gig was very much worth doing, and very much worth quitting early --- this ain't a tale of pride and shame, it's the war stories of a younger man in fairyland.
+** The Work
+*** VW
+*** EW
+*** CM
+** Quitting
+** Spending the Money
+** Lessons Learned

org/work/eris_retrospective.org

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+#+title: Eris Retrospective
+* TODO

org/work/looking_for_work.org

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+#+title: Looking for Work
+* Looking for Work
+** About Me
+I'm Akk0, long-term enthusiast software developer, sysadmin, freelancer and this website's webmaster. I've been at this computer thing for a while --- my first =dist-upgrade= was Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" in 2013 --- and I am currently actively looking for work on a freelance, contract or part-time basis, full remote or partially on-site in the Paris area[fn::Although do mind that my French skills albeit improving are still rather minimal.]; I also accept full-time offers.
+
+In order to rapidly build connections and get the ball rolling, I am currently offering my skills at a low, flat rate of /€30 per hour./ Additionally, I am offering *2 hours* of /no strings attached free labour/ to anyone reading this /for free/ --- please do keep reading!
+** Services Offered
+My specialisation is in end-to-end, start to finish software development; taking software from idea to specification and through implementation to clean, finished, deployed and of course well-documented product. The independence and flexibility on which I pride myself can be put to many uses, however, and jobs I would love to do for example include:
+- Finding, triaging and fixing bugs in existing applications as well as executing refactors;
+- Deploying, configuring and integrating new tools, dependencies and APIs into existing systems;
+- Writing, testing and improving documentation and installation instructions --- never underestimate the value of fresh eyes!;
+- Analyzing requirements, breaking tasks down, prioritizing, determining feasibility and putting ideas in the wider context of existing technology.
+I especially love working with small businesses and individuals, as well as empowering fundamentally non-software businesses where a little bit of tech can often go a long way. Please don't hesitate, but feel free to reach out immediately with requests of the following kind as well:
+- /I am trying to install some program, but I cannot get it to work, can you help me?/;
+- /I am new to programming or system administration, can you mentor me? What software should I use? What is idiomatic style?/ -- Mind that I was Lead Teaching Assistant in University!;
+- /There's a problem I want to solve, does any software exist to do this? How hard would such software be to implement? What should my budget be, or somebody is offering this for $X, is that reasonable?/;
+- /I have a question that interests me, can you help me collect data to answer it? Can you help me design a survey or scrape the web? Can you scientifically analyze and informatively visualize data for me?/
+
+*Note: I am currently not looking for employment in the cryptocurrency sector.*
+** Two Hours Free!
+As an offer of goodwill, I am currently offering up to *2 hours* of work /entirely free, with no obligations, no strings attached/; simply contact me using the contact information below. Time starts from the moment I start reading your email and includes communication time, so try to be detailed!
+** Contact Me
+To inquire further, contact me at *akk0* /{at}/ *webbieweb* /{dot}/ *org* and tell me:
+- How you found this website;
+- A little bit about yourself;
+- What it is that you wish to know, or how I can help you.
+
+I am of course more than willing to jump on a call to discuss or just to prove I'm not a North Korean agent. I can also provide my name and VAT ID on request.
+** Qualifications and Accomplishments
+/Main page: [[./portfolio.org][portfolio]]; under construction./
+
+My professional career, although fragmented, spans over a decade --- the first professional development work I remember doing was Minecraft (Bukkit) server plugin development ca. 2014-2015. I've been using GNU/Linux as desktop OS for a few years longer than that and administered servers for about as long. Some of my skills include:
+- Full-stack web development including Vue and React;
+- Software development in Python, Javascript/Typescript, Clojure, Java, as well as basic C and Haskell skills (studied but not applied at scale);
+- GNU/Linux server administration (including e.g. [[../projects/tenma/readme.org][the Tenma intranet]]);
+- Database scales, including Postgres, MongoDB, and arguably the greatest database of all, Sqlite;
+- Blockchain stuff like integrations and smart contract development, although I am not seeking employment in that field at this moment;
+- Data analysis and the Scientific Python stack, data visualization;
+- Machine learning;
+- Web scraping;
+- Many others.
+
+I hold a BSc in Computing Science with a thesis in image vectorization using machine learning; my thesis was graded with honors and cited in further research.
+
+I worked extensively as Teaching Assistant at university, also taking on double positions and/or repeatedly taking the role of Lead TA for several courses.
+
+Larger projects I've done include:
+- [[./toshokan_retrospective.org][Toshokan.moe]], a website/startup I co-founded to host an extensive database of anime/manga/games, allowing users to keep lists of what they've consumed with a grading system, and notably featuring a machine learning recommender system utilizing the user's list as well as ~/100 million/ rows of web-scraped data.
+- [[./eris_retrospective.org][Eris]], an experimental reddit-style social platform. Eris' was completely decentralized with all state being held on the Solana blockchain and IPFS and all business logic being implemented as smart contracts self-funding through nanotransactions. Eris' primary innovation was replacing the traditional upvote/downvote system with a bidding system that rewarded discovering valuable content before it got popular --- an interesting social experiment that unfortunately stranded at the MVP stage.
+- [[./crypto_contracting_reflections.org][Extensive contracting in the cryptocurrency sector]].
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+This is in addition to numerous minor programs, contracts, data science/scientific jobs etcetera.

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