{
  "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1",
  "title": "Daily notes",
  "home_page_url": "https://pype.dev/journal/",
  "feed_url": "https://pype.dev/journal/feed.json",
  "description": "My thoughts and streams of consciousness organized into barely coherent posts about things",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Nic Payne"
    }
  ],
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-06-01-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-06-01-notes/",
      "title": "2026-06-01 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-05-27-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-05-27 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-05-22-notes\" data-date=\"2026-05-27\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-05-22-notes\"\u003e2026-05-27 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ebookorbit for kassia\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003enextcloud was eating up resources this morning\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-05-27-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-05-27 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-05-22-notes\" data-date=\"2026-05-27\"\u003e2026-05-27 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n- bookorbit for kassia\n- nextcloud was eating up resources this morning\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-05-27-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-06-01T07:51:47Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-06-01T07:51:47Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-05-27-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-05-27-notes/",
      "title": "2026-05-27 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-05-22-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-05-22 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-05-13-notes\" data-date=\"2026-05-22\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-05-13-notes\"\u003e2026-05-22 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/fwbg-genesis-3-2/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"FWBG - Genesis - 3.2\" data-description=\"Eve was tempted by sin by litening to the great deceiver. But it wasn\u0026#39;t just that she ** the serpent, she participated in the conversation, she entertained...\" data-date=\"2026-05-27\" data-preview=\"Eve was tempted by sin by litening to the great deceiver. But it wasn\u0026#39;t just that she ** the serpent, she participated in the conversation, she entertained...\"\u003eFWBG - Genesis - 3.2\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-05-22-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-05-22 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-05-13-notes\" data-date=\"2026-05-22\"\u003e2026-05-22 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n- \u003ca href=\"/fwbg-genesis-3-2/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"FWBG - Genesis - 3.2\" data-description=\"Eve was tempted by sin by litening to the great deceiver. But it wasn\u0026#39;t just that she ** the serpent, she participated in the conversation, she entertained...\" data-date=\"2026-05-27\"\u003eFWBG - Genesis - 3.2\u003c/a\u003e\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-05-22-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-05-27T07:00:17Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-05-27T07:00:17Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-05-22-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-05-22-notes/",
      "title": "2026-05-22 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-05-13-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-05-13 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-05-12-notes\" data-date=\"2026-05-13\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-05-12-notes\"\u003e2026-05-13 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-05-13-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-05-13 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-05-12-notes\" data-date=\"2026-05-13\"\u003e2026-05-13 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-05-13-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-05-22T06:22:57Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-05-22T06:22:57Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-05-13-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-05-13-notes/",
      "title": "2026-05-13 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-05-12-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-05-12 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-05-08-notes\" data-date=\"2026-05-12\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-05-08-notes\"\u003e2026-05-12 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e[[reflection-psalm-305]]\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-05-12-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-05-12 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-05-08-notes\" data-date=\"2026-05-12\"\u003e2026-05-12 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n- [[reflection-psalm-305]]\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-05-12-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-05-13T05:58:54Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-05-13T05:58:54Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-05-12-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-05-12-notes/",
      "title": "2026-05-12 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-05-08-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-05-08 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-05-04-notes\" data-date=\"2026-05-08\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-05-04-notes\"\u003e2026-05-08 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[reflection-john-1421]]\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/blog-and-llm-knowledge-base/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Blog and LLM Knowledge Base\" data-description=\"Thinking about this tweet from Andrej Karpathy about LLM knowledge bases. I maintain a blog like this one at work, which is fairly well structured markdown...\" data-date=\"2026-05-13\" data-preview=\"Thinking about this tweet from Andrej Karpathy about LLM knowledge bases. I maintain a blog like this one at work, which is fairly well structured markdown...\"\u003eBlog and LLM Knowledge Base\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"wins\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eWins\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#wins\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emaking progress in \u003ca href=\"/dataops/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"DataOps\" data-description=\"old: using-restic-to-backup-my-home-directory\" data-date=\"2026-05-07\" data-preview=\"old: using-restic-to-backup-my-home-directory\"\u003eDataOps\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ezfs setup for projects and what I had been building is moved over\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003enow I can recover the rest\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-05-08-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-05-08 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-05-04-notes\" data-date=\"2026-05-08\"\u003e2026-05-08 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n- [[reflection-john-1421]]\n\n- \u003ca href=\"/blog-and-llm-knowledge-base/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Blog and LLM Knowledge Base\" data-description=\"Thinking about this tweet from Andrej Karpathy about LLM knowledge bases. I maintain a blog like this one at work, which is fairly well structured markdown...\" data-date=\"2026-05-13\"\u003eBlog and LLM Knowledge Base\u003c/a\u003e\n\n## Wins\n\n- making progress in \u003ca href=\"/dataops/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"DataOps\" data-description=\"old: using-restic-to-backup-my-home-directory\" data-date=\"2026-05-07\"\u003eDataOps\u003c/a\u003e\n  - zfs setup for projects and what I had been building is moved over\n  - now I can recover the rest\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-05-08-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-05-12T06:10:54Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-05-12T06:10:54Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-05-08-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-05-08-notes/",
      "title": "2026-05-08 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-05-04-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-05-04 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-30-notes\" data-date=\"2026-05-04\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-04-30-notes\"\u003e2026-05-04 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/the-relief-of-earning/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"The Relief of Earning\" data-description=\"Work has been crazy for months, and I haven\u0026#39;t written too much about it, a few notes here and there but nothing substantial. The craziness is sourced in a...\" data-date=\"2026-05-08\" data-preview=\"Work has been crazy for months, and I haven\u0026#39;t written too much about it, a few notes here and there but nothing substantial. The craziness is sourced in a...\"\u003eThe Relief of Earning\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-05-04-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-05-04 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-30-notes\" data-date=\"2026-05-04\"\u003e2026-05-04 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n- \u003ca href=\"/the-relief-of-earning/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"The Relief of Earning\" data-description=\"Work has been crazy for months, and I haven\u0026#39;t written too much about it, a few notes here and there but nothing substantial. The craziness is sourced in a...\" data-date=\"2026-05-08\"\u003eThe Relief of Earning\u003c/a\u003e\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-05-04-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-05-08T05:31:46Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-05-08T05:31:46Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-05-04-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-05-04-notes/",
      "title": "2026-05-04 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-30-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-30 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-27-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-30\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-04-27-notes\"\u003e2026-04-30 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/reflection-john-16-33/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Reflection - John 16:33\" data-description=\"related: advent-john-16-33\" data-date=\"2026-05-03\" data-preview=\"related: advent-john-16-33\"\u003eReflection - John 16:33\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-30-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-30 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-27-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-30\"\u003e2026-04-30 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n- \u003ca href=\"/reflection-john-16-33/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Reflection - John 16:33\" data-description=\"related: advent-john-16-33\" data-date=\"2026-05-03\"\u003eReflection - John 16:33\u003c/a\u003e\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-04-30-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-05-04T07:48:48Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-05-04T07:48:48Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-30-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-30-notes/",
      "title": "2026-04-30 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-27-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-27 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-26-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-27\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-04-26-notes\"\u003e2026-04-27 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/reflection-jeremiah-17-17/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"reflection - Jeremiah 17:17\" data-description=\"!!! note \u0026#34;Jeremiah 17:17\u0026#34;\" data-date=\"2026-04-30\" data-preview=\"!!! note \u0026#34;Jeremiah 17:17\u0026#34;\"\u003ereflection - Jeremiah 17:17\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-27-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-27 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-26-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-27\"\u003e2026-04-27 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n- \u003ca href=\"/reflection-jeremiah-17-17/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"reflection - Jeremiah 17:17\" data-description=\"!!! note \u0026#34;Jeremiah 17:17\u0026#34;\" data-date=\"2026-04-30\"\u003ereflection - Jeremiah 17:17\u003c/a\u003e\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-04-27-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-04-30T06:32:15Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-04-30T06:32:15Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-27-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-27-notes/",
      "title": "2026-04-27 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-26-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-26 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-25-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-26\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-04-25-notes\"\u003e2026-04-26 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"wins\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eWins\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#wins\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eupdated Nextcloud from 30.x to 32.x today\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNOTE: after every upgrade, go to /settings/admin/overview and perform any of the \u003ccode\u003eocc\u003c/code\u003e commands in the nextcloud container that it says are relevant. Typically these are DB updates and are relatively easy to run. It\u0026rsquo;s fine to run them in the container because they typically affect the DB, not the container state itself, the nextcloud container is just the runtime\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-26-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-26 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-25-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-26\"\u003e2026-04-26 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n## Wins\n\n- updated Nextcloud from 30.x to 32.x today\n  - NOTE: after every upgrade, go to /settings/admin/overview and perform any of the `occ` commands in the nextcloud container that it says are relevant. Typically these are DB updates and are relatively easy to run. It's fine to run them in the container because they typically affect the DB, not the container state itself, the nextcloud container is just the runtime\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-04-26-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-04-27T09:25:43Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-04-27T09:25:43Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-26-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-26-notes/",
      "title": "2026-04-26 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-25-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-25 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-22-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-25\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-04-22-notes\"\u003e2026-04-25 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/logos-webapp-dark-theme/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Logos Webapp Dark Theme\" data-description=\"stylus-for-custom-webpage-themes\" data-date=\"2026-04-26\" data-preview=\"stylus-for-custom-webpage-themes\"\u003eLogos Webapp Dark Theme\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-25-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-25 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-22-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-25\"\u003e2026-04-25 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n\n- \u003ca href=\"/logos-webapp-dark-theme/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Logos Webapp Dark Theme\" data-description=\"stylus-for-custom-webpage-themes\" data-date=\"2026-04-26\"\u003eLogos Webapp Dark Theme\u003c/a\u003e\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-04-25-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-04-26T07:09:22Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-04-26T07:09:22Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-25-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-25-notes/",
      "title": "2026-04-25 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-22-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-22 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-18-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-22\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-04-18-notes\"\u003e2026-04-22 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/aurora-and-kde-window-managment-with-kzones/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Aurora and KDE Window Managment with KZones\" data-description=\"I have used a variety of window managers on a variety of distros and OS\u0026#39;s over the last several years and because my hardware usage feels regularly in flux I...\" data-date=\"2026-04-25\" data-preview=\"I have used a variety of window managers on a variety of distros and OS\u0026#39;s over the last several years and because my hardware usage feels regularly in flux I...\"\u003eAurora and KDE Window Managment with KZones\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/kde-shortcuts-for-desktop-and-window-navigation/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"KDE Shortcuts for Desktop and Window Navigation\" data-description=\"This isn\u0026#39;t my entire /home/nic/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc, just the sections that I customized as I\u0026#39;m setting up my desktop from the great...\" data-date=\"2026-04-25\" data-preview=\"This isn\u0026#39;t my entire /home/nic/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc, just the sections that I customized as I\u0026#39;m setting up my desktop from the great...\"\u003eKDE Shortcuts for Desktop and Window Navigation\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-22-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-22 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-18-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-22\"\u003e2026-04-22 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n- \u003ca href=\"/aurora-and-kde-window-managment-with-kzones/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Aurora and KDE Window Managment with KZones\" data-description=\"I have used a variety of window managers on a variety of distros and OS\u0026#39;s over the last several years and because my hardware usage feels regularly in flux I...\" data-date=\"2026-04-25\"\u003eAurora and KDE Window Managment with KZones\u003c/a\u003e\n- \u003ca href=\"/kde-shortcuts-for-desktop-and-window-navigation/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"KDE Shortcuts for Desktop and Window Navigation\" data-description=\"This isn\u0026#39;t my entire /home/nic/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc, just the sections that I customized as I\u0026#39;m setting up my desktop from the great...\" data-date=\"2026-04-25\"\u003eKDE Shortcuts for Desktop and Window Navigation\u003c/a\u003e\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-04-22-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-04-25T09:36:16Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-04-25T09:36:16Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-22-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-22-notes/",
      "title": "2026-04-22 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-18-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-18 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-05-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-18\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-04-05-notes\"\u003e2026-04-18 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/work-compensation-note/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Work Compensation Note\" data-description=\"Anthony asked me what I needed to be happy and I didn\u0026#39;t have a good answer, but I did ask for clarity on the chaos at work. I\u0026#39;ve thought more about it and I...\" data-date=\"2025-12-01\" data-preview=\"Anthony asked me what I needed to be happy and I didn\u0026#39;t have a good answer, but I did ask for clarity on the chaos at work. I\u0026#39;ve thought more about it and I...\"\u003eWork Compensation Note\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-18-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-18 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-05-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-18\"\u003e2026-04-18 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n- \u003ca href=\"/work-compensation-note/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Work Compensation Note\" data-description=\"Anthony asked me what I needed to be happy and I didn\u0026#39;t have a good answer, but I did ask for clarity on the chaos at work. I\u0026#39;ve thought more about it and I...\" data-date=\"2025-12-01\"\u003eWork Compensation Note\u003c/a\u003e\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-04-18-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-04-22T06:43:40Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-04-22T06:43:40Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-18-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-18-notes/",
      "title": "2026-04-18 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-05-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-05 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-03-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-05\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-04-03-notes\"\u003e2026-04-05 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"pc-crash\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ePC Crash\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#pc-crash\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesktop crashed days ago, apparently my primary drive has been going bad for a while and eventually it just died.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003elive-booted to ubuntu server\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efound restic backup script to NAS\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eedited to be smaller, but did the backup to the NAS\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ersync\u0026rsquo;d \u003ca href=\"/docker/\" class=\"glossary-term\" title=\"docker - container runtime\" data-hover-title=\"docker\"\u003edocker\u003c/a\u003e volumes to BX500 SSD which is a zfs pool\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecaptured what I did on ghost at /home/nic/aurora-recovery-report.md and /home/nic/aurora-crash-disk-health-report.md\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"plan\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ePLAN\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#plan\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003einstall ubunto on 500 GB Samsung\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecreate zfs dataset for projects /tank/volumes/projects\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emount zfs dataset /tank/volumes/projects to /home/nic/projects\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ezfs for home? probably not, keep home on ext4\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emount old home and sync directly\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"outcome\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eOutcome\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#outcome\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is going terribly\u0026hellip; blog post coming on what I should\u0026rsquo;ve done. What\u0026rsquo;s\nactually happening is that I basically just lost everything on that desktop\nexcept my homelab repo thank God\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-05-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-05 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-03-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-05\"\u003e2026-04-05 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n## PC Crash\n\nDesktop crashed days ago, apparently my primary drive has been going bad for a while and eventually it just died.\n\n- live-booted to ubuntu server\n- found restic backup script to NAS\n- edited to be smaller, but did the backup to the NAS\n- rsync'd docker volumes to BX500 SSD which is a zfs pool\n\n- captured what I did on ghost at /home/nic/aurora-recovery-report.md and /home/nic/aurora-crash-disk-health-report.md\n\n### PLAN\n\n- install ubunto on 500 GB Samsung\n- create zfs dataset for projects /tank/volumes/projects\n- mount zfs dataset /tank/volumes/projects to /home/nic/projects\n- zfs for home? probably not, keep home on ext4\n- mount old home and sync directly\n\n### Outcome\n\nThis is going terribly... blog post coming on what I should've done. What's\nactually happening is that I basically just lost everything on that desktop\nexcept my homelab repo thank God... \n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-04-05-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-04-18T20:00:38Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-04-18T20:00:38Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-05-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-05-notes/",
      "title": "2026-04-05 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-03-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-03 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-01-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-03\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-04-01-notes\"\u003e2026-04-03 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/easter-2026/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Easter 2026\" data-description=\"What does it mean that \u0026#34;He is risen\u0026#34;? What does it mean to me? for me? for the world? I think the question matters to everyone, Jesus did and said a lot of...\" data-date=\"2026-04-05\" data-preview=\"What does it mean that \u0026#34;He is risen\u0026#34;? What does it mean to me? for me? for the world? I think the question matters to everyone, Jesus did and said a lot of...\"\u003eEaster 2026\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/data-loading-is-a-huge-deal/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Data Loading is a Huge Deal\" data-description=\"I\u0026#39;ve been thinking about the work I am doing and have to do in my role at Cat, in Cat Autonomy, building Forge (see forge-ahead). I feel like I have little...\" data-date=\"2026-04-08\" data-preview=\"I\u0026#39;ve been thinking about the work I am doing and have to do in my role at Cat, in Cat Autonomy, building Forge (see forge-ahead). I feel like I have little...\"\u003eData Loading is a Huge Deal\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI have several competing streams of thought about Easter this year, I want to\nfocus some reflection and energy in the appropriate direction, of what Easter\nis as a holiday in the Christian calendar, the day my Lord and King defeated\nDeath in his physical body and resurrected himself from the grave -\n\u003ca href=\"/easter-2026/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Easter 2026\" data-description=\"What does it mean that \u0026#34;He is risen\u0026#34;? What does it mean to me? for me? for the world? I think the question matters to everyone, Jesus did and said a lot of...\" data-date=\"2026-04-05\" data-preview=\"What does it mean that \u0026#34;He is risen\u0026#34;? What does it mean to me? for me? for the world? I think the question matters to everyone, Jesus did and said a lot of...\"\u003eEaster 2026\u003c/a\u003e. It is in how holy and significant that this day is that my\nsecond stream of thought begins to compete\u0026hellip; we profane it so much in America,\nmaybe throughout the world, but I\u0026rsquo;m really thinking about my family-experience\nwith Easter and other holidays\u0026hellip; So I\u0026rsquo;ve got thoughts for the world there too\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"stream-2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eStream 2\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#stream-2\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI want my wife and daughters to participate with me in celebrating Lent, Holy\nWeek, and Easter with more reverance, but the problem is our own parents\ntreating Easter and other High Church holidays that have been Americanized, as\nthough they own those days for \u0026ldquo;family time\u0026rdquo;. The point isn\u0026rsquo;t to spend time\nwith family, it is to observe a holy day and after this year I am about ready\nto reserve all holidays for ourselves. If grandparents want to come see their\ngrandkids, they\u0026rsquo;re welcome anytime - heck we live 15 minutes away in on case\nand still the competition happens over a few select holidays. Well, perhaps no\nmore. I think I\u0026rsquo;m going to block Easter and Christmas out for my family and we\nwill participate in traditions that are more meaningful than sharing social\nmedia links while we all sit on our phones in the living room.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"dev\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eDev\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#dev\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eResurrected my OpenRouter API key for opencode after seeing a note aout\n\u003ca href=\"https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6\"\u003eQwen3.6 Plus\u003c/a\u003e being free so I figured I\u0026rsquo;d\ngive it a go. I think with some pushing I can use \u003ca href=\"/nexus/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Nexus\" data-description=\"Nexus is a task tracker and second-brain for collaborating with AI agents on software development. It keeps project boards, task details, subtasks, daily...\" data-date=\"2026-02-05\" data-preview=\"Nexus is a task tracker and second-brain for collaborating with AI agents on software development. It keeps project boards, task details, subtasks, daily...\"\u003eNexus\u003c/a\u003e to get a lot done\nwith free models as they change and get better. Maybe even self-hosted models\nin the coming years!\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-03-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-03 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-04-01-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-03\"\u003e2026-04-03 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n- \u003ca href=\"/easter-2026/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Easter 2026\" data-description=\"What does it mean that \u0026#34;He is risen\u0026#34;? What does it mean to me? for me? for the world? I think the question matters to everyone, Jesus did and said a lot of...\" data-date=\"2026-04-05\"\u003eEaster 2026\u003c/a\u003e\n- \u003ca href=\"/data-loading-is-a-huge-deal/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Data Loading is a Huge Deal\" data-description=\"I\u0026#39;ve been thinking about the work I am doing and have to do in my role at Cat, in Cat Autonomy, building Forge (see forge-ahead). I feel like I have little...\" data-date=\"2026-04-08\"\u003eData Loading is a Huge Deal\u003c/a\u003e\n\n- I have several competing streams of thought about Easter this year, I want to\n  focus some reflection and energy in the appropriate direction, of what Easter\n  is as a holiday in the Christian calendar, the day my Lord and King defeated\n  Death in his physical body and resurrected himself from the grave -\n  \u003ca href=\"/easter-2026/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Easter 2026\" data-description=\"What does it mean that \u0026#34;He is risen\u0026#34;? What does it mean to me? for me? for the world? I think the question matters to everyone, Jesus did and said a lot of...\" data-date=\"2026-04-05\"\u003eEaster 2026\u003c/a\u003e. It is in how holy and significant that this day is that my\n  second stream of thought begins to compete... we profane it so much in America,\n  maybe throughout the world, but I'm really thinking about my family-experience\n  with Easter and other holidays... So I've got thoughts for the world there too\n\n## Stream 2\n\nI want my wife and daughters to participate with me in celebrating Lent, Holy\nWeek, and Easter with more reverance, but the problem is our own parents\ntreating Easter and other High Church holidays that have been Americanized, as\nthough they own those days for \"family time\". The point isn't to spend time\nwith family, it is to observe a holy day and after this year I am about ready\nto reserve all holidays for ourselves. If grandparents want to come see their\ngrandkids, they're welcome anytime - heck we live 15 minutes away in on case\nand still the competition happens over a few select holidays. Well, perhaps no\nmore. I think I'm going to block Easter and Christmas out for my family and we\nwill participate in traditions that are more meaningful than sharing social\nmedia links while we all sit on our phones in the living room.\n\n## Dev\n\n- Resurrected my OpenRouter API key for opencode after seeing a note aout\n  [Qwen3.6 Plus](https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6) being free so I figured I'd\n  give it a go. I think with some pushing I can use \u003ca href=\"/nexus/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Nexus\" data-description=\"Nexus is a task tracker and second-brain for collaborating with AI agents on software development. It keeps project boards, task details, subtasks, daily...\" data-date=\"2026-02-05\"\u003eNexus\u003c/a\u003e to get a lot done\n  with free models as they change and get better. Maybe even self-hosted models\n  in the coming years!\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-04-03-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-04-05T05:38:05Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-04-05T05:38:05Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-03-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-03-notes/",
      "title": "2026-04-03 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-01-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-01 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-03-31-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-01\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-03-31-notes\"\u003e2026-04-01 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"good-friday\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eGood Friday\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#good-friday\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s Good Friday for the Christians in the world, a day named not for what\nhappened but for a person. Jesus went to the cross some-2000 years ago out of\nhis love for his people. If you are chosen by the Lord, today is a good day\nbecause his love was demonstrated for you in spilling his blood as the\natonement for your and my sins. That blood covers us just like the sacrifice of\nLeviticus 16\u0026rsquo;s blood was sprinkled on the holy things. Jesus\u0026rsquo; blood is\nsprinkled on us, as the temple, protecting the sacred space so that the Holy\nSpirit can indwell. It\u0026rsquo;s Ancient Near Eastern theology 101: wherever a god dwells\nmust be cleansed, but the manner of the cleansing in Christianity is unique -\nGod became man and died to provide the cleansing, his requirement of you and me\nis to answer his call, not work to cleanse the space. Praise the Lord the work\nis out of my hands.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"one-of-my-favorite-comics\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eOne of my favorite comics\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#one-of-my-favorite-comics\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https://cdn.statically.io/gh/pypeaday/images.pype.dev/main/blog-media/20260403104405_d759f687.png\" alt=\"20260403104405_d759f687.png\"\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"other-stuff\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eOther Stuff\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#other-stuff\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehad MiniMax help me craft a project page for \u003ca href=\"/nexus/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Nexus\" data-description=\"Nexus is a task tracker and second-brain for collaborating with AI agents on software development. It keeps project boards, task details, subtasks, daily...\" data-date=\"2026-02-05\" data-preview=\"Nexus is a task tracker and second-brain for collaborating with AI agents on software development. It keeps project boards, task details, subtasks, daily...\"\u003eNexus\u003c/a\u003e finally. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably use AI to keep it up to date. It\u0026rsquo;s really biting at a boundary I was setting for having AI \u0026ldquo;produce\u0026rdquo; any writing on my website, but it feels appropriate as long as I\u0026rsquo;m reviewing those updates for consistency and ensuring it isn\u0026rsquo;t slop. The point isn\u0026rsquo;t a blog post there, it\u0026rsquo;s keying into an idea I have for my blog of having project-specific pages that just introduce why I built something and what it is - might end up being very close to just the READMEs of those projects.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-04-01-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-04-01 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-03-31-notes\" data-date=\"2026-04-01\"\u003e2026-04-01 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n## Good Friday\n\nIt's Good Friday for the Christians in the world, a day named not for what\nhappened but for a person. Jesus went to the cross some-2000 years ago out of\nhis love for his people. If you are chosen by the Lord, today is a good day\nbecause his love was demonstrated for you in spilling his blood as the\natonement for your and my sins. That blood covers us just like the sacrifice of\nLeviticus 16's blood was sprinkled on the holy things. Jesus' blood is\nsprinkled on us, as the temple, protecting the sacred space so that the Holy\nSpirit can indwell. It's Ancient Near Eastern theology 101: wherever a god dwells\nmust be cleansed, but the manner of the cleansing in Christianity is unique -\nGod became man and died to provide the cleansing, his requirement of you and me\nis to answer his call, not work to cleanse the space. Praise the Lord the work\nis out of my hands.\n\n### One of my favorite comics\n\n![20260403104405_d759f687.png](https://cdn.statically.io/gh/pypeaday/images.pype.dev/main/blog-media/20260403104405_d759f687.png)\n\n## Other Stuff\n\n- had MiniMax help me craft a project page for \u003ca href=\"/nexus/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Nexus\" data-description=\"Nexus is a task tracker and second-brain for collaborating with AI agents on software development. It keeps project boards, task details, subtasks, daily...\" data-date=\"2026-02-05\"\u003eNexus\u003c/a\u003e finally. I'll probably use AI to keep it up to date. It's really biting at a boundary I was setting for having AI \"produce\" any writing on my website, but it feels appropriate as long as I'm reviewing those updates for consistency and ensuring it isn't slop. The point isn't a blog post there, it's keying into an idea I have for my blog of having project-specific pages that just introduce why I built something and what it is - might end up being very close to just the READMEs of those projects.\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-04-01-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-04-03T05:40:17Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-04-03T05:40:17Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-01-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-04-01-notes/",
      "title": "2026-04-01 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-03-31-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-03-31 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-03-27-notes\" data-date=\"2026-03-31\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-03-27-notes\"\u003e2026-03-31 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"reflection\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eReflection\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#reflection\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s the middle of holy week and my note from yesterday feels like it was\nmonths ago\u0026hellip; The days are getting long again, and filled with some panic about\nwork. I think I\u0026rsquo;ll find it silly how stressed I am eventually, I was just\nthinking \u0026ldquo;when I get to Heaven, Jesus sure will think how much I got worked up\nabout work is silly\u0026rdquo;, but if he\u0026rsquo;ll think it then he thinks it now, if the\nperspective would be true in however many years I have left or before his\nsecond-coming, then the perspective is true today.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI\u0026rsquo;m not sure how to have the right perspective when the tightness in my chest\nis out of my control. I can breath deep and recognize a truth - my job is\nfleeting and the irony that my job is taking so much of my mental energy\nthrough today \u0026ldquo;Silent Wednesday\u0026rdquo; (a day also known as \u0026ldquo;Spy Wednesday\u0026rdquo; for\nreflecting on Judas\u0026rsquo;s betrayal) is in the betrayal of my thoughts about my\nsavior, or lack-there-of. Judas sold the Lord for some silver, I\u0026rsquo;m sure as a\nman he had his reasons like any junkie rationalizing their behavior\u0026hellip; But am I\ndifferent? I\u0026rsquo;m so consumed with panic and worry about things happening at work\nthat my mind is not on who my Savior is, just like Judas I\u0026rsquo;m fretting about the\nwrong things and whether it\u0026rsquo;s like Judas or not, I can\u0026rsquo;t seem to \u0026ldquo;just let it\ngo\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if Judas had just let go of his greed? Would he have been saved? In\nthe sovereignty of God it never was the case that Jesus wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be betrayed,\nthat was apart of a plan known before time, but from the perspective of a man\nbound by time I can\u0026rsquo;t help but ask it - could Judas have relinquished his sin\nto Jesus and is my anxiety over my job a modern-day betrayal whose irony is\nsimply made more clear by struggling with it on Silent Wednesday.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"post-day\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ePost Day\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#post-day\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnding the day OK\u0026hellip; I\u0026rsquo;m taking a machete through Forge, my project at work, and\nthat feels great. Something happened today where a lot more things fell into\nplace about my role and what I\u0026rsquo;m supposed to be doing and how I will end up\ndoing it. After sitting in the context for a few months, I\u0026rsquo;m seeing a bigger\npicture unfold about what Forge will be, but today I realized it was going in\nthe wrong direction and so even with other people on this project I ripped out\nabout 10k lines of code and will force push to master in the morning. Copilot\nwas very useful in fully removing concepts and even service deployments\n(LakeFS this time around) to help me minimize the code and logic surface that\nForge takes up. It\u0026rsquo;s calming me down a bit and I expect will make it easy to\nmove fast and solve problems in silly ways while we figure out the better ways\nto solve them. So some peace feels like it\u0026rsquo;s on the horizon.\u003c/p\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-03-31-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-03-31 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-03-27-notes\" data-date=\"2026-03-31\"\u003e2026-03-31 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n## Reflection\n\nIt's the middle of holy week and my note from yesterday feels like it was\nmonths ago... The days are getting long again, and filled with some panic about\nwork. I think I'll find it silly how stressed I am eventually, I was just\nthinking \"when I get to Heaven, Jesus sure will think how much I got worked up\nabout work is silly\", but if he'll think it then he thinks it now, if the\nperspective would be true in however many years I have left or before his\nsecond-coming, then the perspective is true today.\n\nI'm not sure how to have the right perspective when the tightness in my chest\nis out of my control. I can breath deep and recognize a truth - my job is\nfleeting and the irony that my job is taking so much of my mental energy\nthrough today \"Silent Wednesday\" (a day also known as \"Spy Wednesday\" for\nreflecting on Judas's betrayal) is in the betrayal of my thoughts about my\nsavior, or lack-there-of. Judas sold the Lord for some silver, I'm sure as a\nman he had his reasons like any junkie rationalizing their behavior... But am I\ndifferent? I'm so consumed with panic and worry about things happening at work\nthat my mind is not on who my Savior is, just like Judas I'm fretting about the\nwrong things and whether it's like Judas or not, I can't seem to \"just let it\ngo\".\n\nWhat if Judas had just let go of his greed? Would he have been saved? In\nthe sovereignty of God it never was the case that Jesus wouldn't be betrayed,\nthat was apart of a plan known before time, but from the perspective of a man\nbound by time I can't help but ask it - could Judas have relinquished his sin\nto Jesus and is my anxiety over my job a modern-day betrayal whose irony is\nsimply made more clear by struggling with it on Silent Wednesday.\n\n## Post Day\n\nEnding the day OK... I'm taking a machete through Forge, my project at work, and\nthat feels great. Something happened today where a lot more things fell into\nplace about my role and what I'm supposed to be doing and how I will end up\ndoing it. After sitting in the context for a few months, I'm seeing a bigger\npicture unfold about what Forge will be, but today I realized it was going in\nthe wrong direction and so even with other people on this project I ripped out\nabout 10k lines of code and will force push to master in the morning. Copilot\nwas very useful in fully removing concepts and even service deployments\n(LakeFS this time around) to help me minimize the code and logic surface that\nForge takes up. It's calming me down a bit and I expect will make it easy to\nmove fast and solve problems in silly ways while we figure out the better ways\nto solve them. So some peace feels like it's on the horizon.\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-03-31-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-04-01T05:30:40Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-04-01T05:30:40Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-03-31-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-03-31-notes/",
      "title": "2026-03-31 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-03-27-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-03-27 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-03-22-notes\" data-date=\"2026-03-27\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-03-22-notes\"\u003e2026-03-27 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etried to make a little progress on [[spring-cleaning-2026-homelab-edition]]\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso having M.2 MiniMax do something about a consistent neovim issue\u0026hellip; if it\nfails this morning I\u0026rsquo;ll resort to real Opus later for the fix\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt\u0026rsquo;s holy week and I barely know about it cause work is just taking up so\nmuch time\u0026hellip; I really hate this but I don\u0026rsquo;t think I can just blame work. I am\nto blame, I have so many short comings and I\u0026rsquo;m not actively doing a lot about\nthem, I\u0026rsquo;m just trying to mitigate them with AI. I\u0026rsquo;m trying to learn the problem\nspace and solve problems how I used to: only faster, but there\u0026rsquo;s a lot of\nother people, competing priorities, limited hardware to test out ideas, and\nit\u0026rsquo;s a very heavy cognitive burden\u0026hellip; Unfortunately I\u0026rsquo;m giving in and letting\nit take over, perhaps today the Lord will soften my mind towards work and give\nme an more appropriate level of care and help me to meditate on things that are\ntrue, pure, noble, and worthy of my full attention.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"admonition note\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"admonition-title\"\u003eNote\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“See how the patient Jesus stands,\nInsulted in his lowest case!\nSinners have bound the Almighty’s hands,\nAnd spit in their Creator’s face.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith thorns his temples gor’d and gash’d\nSend streams of blood from every part;\nHis back’s with knotted scourges lash’d.\nBut sharper scourges tear his heart.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpurgeon, C. H. (1896). Morning and evening: Daily readings. Passmore \u0026amp; Alabaster.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-03-27-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-03-27 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-03-22-notes\" data-date=\"2026-03-27\"\u003e2026-03-27 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n- tried to make a little progress on [[spring-cleaning-2026-homelab-edition]]\n\n- Also having M.2 MiniMax do something about a consistent neovim issue... if it\n  fails this morning I'll resort to real Opus later for the fix\n\n- It's holy week and I barely know about it cause work is just taking up so\n  much time... I really hate this but I don't think I can just blame work. I am\n  to blame, I have so many short comings and I'm not actively doing a lot about\n  them, I'm just trying to mitigate them with AI. I'm trying to learn the problem\n  space and solve problems how I used to: only faster, but there's a lot of\n  other people, competing priorities, limited hardware to test out ideas, and\n  it's a very heavy cognitive burden... Unfortunately I'm giving in and letting\n  it take over, perhaps today the Lord will soften my mind towards work and give\n  me an more appropriate level of care and help me to meditate on things that are\n  true, pure, noble, and worthy of my full attention.\n\n!!! note \"\"\n\n    “See how the patient Jesus stands,\n    Insulted in his lowest case!\n    Sinners have bound the Almighty’s hands,\n    And spit in their Creator’s face.\n\n    With thorns his temples gor’d and gash’d\n    Send streams of blood from every part;\n    His back’s with knotted scourges lash’d.\n    But sharper scourges tear his heart.”\n\n    Spurgeon, C. H. (1896). Morning and evening: Daily readings. Passmore \u0026 Alabaster.\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-03-27-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-03-31T05:31:13Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-03-31T05:31:13Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-03-27-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-03-27-notes/",
      "title": "2026-03-27 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-03-22-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-03-22 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-03-07-notes\" data-date=\"2026-03-22\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-03-07-notes\"\u003e2026-03-22 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMight\u0026rsquo;ve had a breakthrough with a data modeling issue at work today\u0026hellip; If you want it make it so strikes again. I can\u0026rsquo;t write about it here really, but I blew my own mind by remembering that I have quite a lot of say in what my work becomes as long as I\u0026rsquo;m solving problems, and some of the problem just really slid into place today. I love when that happens, it preceeds a butt-ton of work usually that I enjoy doing, but I hate when it happens late on a Friday\u003c/p\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-03-22-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-03-22 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-03-07-notes\" data-date=\"2026-03-22\"\u003e2026-03-22 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\nMight've had a breakthrough with a data modeling issue at work today... If you want it make it so strikes again. I can't write about it here really, but I blew my own mind by remembering that I have quite a lot of say in what my work becomes as long as I'm solving problems, and some of the problem just really slid into place today. I love when that happens, it preceeds a butt-ton of work usually that I enjoy doing, but I hate when it happens late on a Friday\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-03-22-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-03-27T19:35:02Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-03-27T19:35:02Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-03-22-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-03-22-notes/",
      "title": "2026-03-22 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-03-07-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-03-07 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-03-03-notes\" data-date=\"2026-03-04\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-03-03-notes\"\u003e2026-03-07 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"back-to-normal-life\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eBack to normal life\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#back-to-normal-life\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026rsquo;re back from vacation, Florida was nice but a few thorns on the rose of vacation include:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eseveral days of rain (but we got a blizzard up north, so beggars can\u0026rsquo;t be choosers)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI was so pre-occupied with work the entire time that I barely got a few minutes of relaxation the entire time\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn dev news, it\u0026rsquo;s time to get a few things done today for the homelab, I\u0026rsquo;m\ngoing to audit my \u003ca href=\"/docker/\" class=\"glossary-term\" title=\"docker - container runtime\" data-hover-title=\"docker\"\u003edocker\u003c/a\u003e compose setup and work towards upgrading things that\nare horribly out of date and cleaning up my scattered stacks with the goal of\nhopefully eventaully migrating some things to kubernetes and using cloudflare\ntunnels in place of keeping 80/443 open on my firewall for traefik ingress.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[[spring-cleaning-2026-homelab-edition]]\u003c/p\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-03-07-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-03-07 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-03-03-notes\" data-date=\"2026-03-04\"\u003e2026-03-07 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\n## Back to normal life\n\nWe're back from vacation, Florida was nice but a few thorns on the rose of vacation include:\n\n- several days of rain (but we got a blizzard up north, so beggars can't be choosers)\n- I was so pre-occupied with work the entire time that I barely got a few minutes of relaxation the entire time\n\nIn dev news, it's time to get a few things done today for the homelab, I'm\ngoing to audit my docker compose setup and work towards upgrading things that\nare horribly out of date and cleaning up my scattered stacks with the goal of\nhopefully eventaully migrating some things to kubernetes and using cloudflare\ntunnels in place of keeping 80/443 open on my firewall for traefik ingress.\n\n[[spring-cleaning-2026-homelab-edition]]\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-03-07-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-03-22T07:09:33Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-03-22T07:09:33Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://pype.dev/2026-03-07-notes/",
      "url": "https://pype.dev/2026-03-07-notes/",
      "title": "2026-03-07 Notes",
      "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-03-03-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-03-03 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-02-26-notes\" data-date=\"2026-03-03\" data-preview=\"yesterday: 2026-02-26-notes\"\u003e2026-03-03 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHappy Saturday, we\u0026rsquo;re at the GWL and I figured I\u0026rsquo;d take a few minutes this\nmorning to reflect on the last few weeks\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"work\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eWork\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#work\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCat Autonomy is going well for me, my team seems relatively pleased with the\nwork and ideas I\u0026rsquo;ve brought to the table, and I\u0026rsquo;ve played a role in some pretty\ninstrumntal changes. I have been piecing together more and more of a story, I\u0026rsquo;m\nnot sure about Caterpillar specifically but maybe, about technical leadership\nand how a lack of it at the top level (C-suite, Execs, etc.) leads to\nlong-lasting frustration and repetitive pain points at lower levels (ie. where\nI am). The \u003cstrong\u003ereasons\u003c/strong\u003e that I needed to make, or propose, all the changes I\nhave is that a lack of leadreship has culminated over years into a sprawling\nmess of responsibilities, requests, deliverables, and a lack of a cohesive\n\u0026ldquo;thing\u0026rdquo; which was the original vision for the project I\u0026rsquo;m on now (I know this\ncause I was here when it started).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"agents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eAgents\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#agents\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgents are making it possible for me to to produce the amount of work I have\nbeen for the last 2 months. It feels like the future in many ways, a lot is\nunknown still but I need a write a follow-up on \u003ca href=\"/learning-how-to-agent/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Learning How To Agent\" data-description=\"I\u0026#39;ve been using AI tools for codegen for a few years now, but not super heavily. I either use the in-line copilot stuff, which is like LSP on seteroids, or I...\" data-date=\"2026-02-03\" data-preview=\"I\u0026#39;ve been using AI tools for codegen for a few years now, but not super heavily. I either use the in-line copilot stuff, which is like LSP on seteroids, or I...\"\u003eLearning How To Agent\u003c/a\u003e. I\u0026rsquo;m\nnot sure where I sit in agentic coding skills in the scope of the world, but at\nCaterpillar I am within episolon of 100% confident that I\u0026rsquo;m one of the most\nactive and proficient agentic-tool-users (Specifically GitHub Copilot, but I am\nincluding peripheral things here - knowledge of context management, custom\nagents, \u003ca href=\"https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/\"\u003eharness engineering\u003c/a\u003e,\netc). \u003ca href=\"/nexus/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Nexus\" data-description=\"Nexus is a task tracker and second-brain for collaborating with AI agents on software development. It keeps project boards, task details, subtasks, daily...\" data-date=\"2026-02-05\" data-preview=\"Nexus is a task tracker and second-brain for collaborating with AI agents on software development. It keeps project boards, task details, subtasks, daily...\"\u003eNexus\u003c/a\u003e has been serving me really well and that is about to warrant\nits own post too - I have had a few Caterpillar peeps reach out about using\nNexus for themselves and although it\u0026rsquo;s not there yet, it is coming together\nnicely.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the last 6 weeks I\u0026rsquo;ve come up with a platform idea, and stitched\ntogether/upgraded several existing solutions from the past 5 years, into a\nplatform I\u0026rsquo;m calling \u0026ldquo;Forge\u0026rdquo;. For the past 2 years there\u0026rsquo;s been an internal\neffort to rebuild what I just recently consolidated, but that project has no\nusers and is unstable AF\u0026hellip; Just this week our leadership decided to ax taht\nproject and put those developers on my thing. I\u0026rsquo;ve been struggling with this a\nlittle because I don\u0026rsquo;t like to think that I have so much weight at Cat now as\nto meaningfully affect the work othe rpeople are doing. I like to build tools\nto affect \u003cstrong\u003ehow\u003c/strong\u003e people work, but in this case I effecitvely killed a 2 year\nold project and there\u0026rsquo;s more than 0 emotions to deal wtih. Overall the team\ndoesn\u0026rsquo;t seem too bent out of shape about it, but nonetheless the influence I\nsee that I have, and it\u0026rsquo;s continuing to increase, is somewhat daunting\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"misc\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eMisc\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#misc\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the Great Wold Lodge and having a blast, minus kids not sleeping great\n(which unfortunately makes having fun sometimes a near-breakdown-experience).\nWe\u0026rsquo;re hanging out with tbe BFFs and my best mate has recently become a Lead in\nhis engineering firm. Proud of him for sure. I also am feeling acutely aware of\na fact - that things change over time, and influence has lasting impacts.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKids are up, time to sign off.\u003c/p\u003e\n",
      "content_text": "\nyesterday: \u003ca href=\"/2026-03-03-notes/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026-03-03 Notes\" data-description=\"yesterday: 2026-02-26-notes\" data-date=\"2026-03-03\"\u003e2026-03-03 Notes\u003c/a\u003e\n\nHappy Saturday, we're at the GWL and I figured I'd take a few minutes this\nmorning to reflect on the last few weeks\n\n## Work\n\nCat Autonomy is going well for me, my team seems relatively pleased with the\nwork and ideas I've brought to the table, and I've played a role in some pretty\ninstrumntal changes. I have been piecing together more and more of a story, I'm\nnot sure about Caterpillar specifically but maybe, about technical leadership\nand how a lack of it at the top level (C-suite, Execs, etc.) leads to\nlong-lasting frustration and repetitive pain points at lower levels (ie. where\nI am). The **reasons** that I needed to make, or propose, all the changes I\nhave is that a lack of leadreship has culminated over years into a sprawling\nmess of responsibilities, requests, deliverables, and a lack of a cohesive\n\"thing\" which was the original vision for the project I'm on now (I know this\ncause I was here when it started).\n\n### Agents\n\nAgents are making it possible for me to to produce the amount of work I have\nbeen for the last 2 months. It feels like the future in many ways, a lot is\nunknown still but I need a write a follow-up on \u003ca href=\"/learning-how-to-agent/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Learning How To Agent\" data-description=\"I\u0026#39;ve been using AI tools for codegen for a few years now, but not super heavily. I either use the in-line copilot stuff, which is like LSP on seteroids, or I...\" data-date=\"2026-02-03\"\u003eLearning How To Agent\u003c/a\u003e. I'm\nnot sure where I sit in agentic coding skills in the scope of the world, but at\nCaterpillar I am within episolon of 100% confident that I'm one of the most\nactive and proficient agentic-tool-users (Specifically GitHub Copilot, but I am\nincluding peripheral things here - knowledge of context management, custom\nagents, [harness engineering](https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/),\netc). \u003ca href=\"/nexus/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"Nexus\" data-description=\"Nexus is a task tracker and second-brain for collaborating with AI agents on software development. It keeps project boards, task details, subtasks, daily...\" data-date=\"2026-02-05\"\u003eNexus\u003c/a\u003e has been serving me really well and that is about to warrant\nits own post too - I have had a few Caterpillar peeps reach out about using\nNexus for themselves and although it's not there yet, it is coming together\nnicely.\n\nOver the last 6 weeks I've come up with a platform idea, and stitched\ntogether/upgraded several existing solutions from the past 5 years, into a\nplatform I'm calling \"Forge\". For the past 2 years there's been an internal\neffort to rebuild what I just recently consolidated, but that project has no\nusers and is unstable AF... Just this week our leadership decided to ax taht\nproject and put those developers on my thing. I've been struggling with this a\nlittle because I don't like to think that I have so much weight at Cat now as\nto meaningfully affect the work othe rpeople are doing. I like to build tools\nto affect **how** people work, but in this case I effecitvely killed a 2 year\nold project and there's more than 0 emotions to deal wtih. Overall the team\ndoesn't seem too bent out of shape about it, but nonetheless the influence I\nsee that I have, and it's continuing to increase, is somewhat daunting\n\n## Misc\n\nAt the Great Wold Lodge and having a blast, minus kids not sleeping great\n(which unfortunately makes having fun sometimes a near-breakdown-experience).\nWe're hanging out with tbe BFFs and my best mate has recently become a Lead in\nhis engineering firm. Proud of him for sure. I also am feeling acutely aware of\na fact - that things change over time, and influence has lasting impacts.\n\nKids are up, time to sign off.\n",
      "summary": "yesterday: 2026-03-03-notes",
      "date_published": "2026-03-04T05:06:36Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-03-04T05:06:36Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Nic Payne",
          "url": "https://pype.dev"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "daily-note"
      ]
    }
  ]
}