Summary of months of 2023

A summary of monthly journals of 2023. Preceded by Summary of months of 2022. Followed by Summary of months of 2024.

2023-01

Journal for 2023-01. Preceded by 2022-12. Followed by 2023-02.

2023-01-01

2022-W52-7, 2023-001, Sun

2023-01-02

2023-W01-1, 2023-002, Mon

2023-01-03

2023-W01-2, 2023-003, Tue

2023-01-04

2023-W01-3, 2023-004, Wed

2023-01-05

2023-W01-4, 2023-005, Thu

2023-01-06

2023-W01-5, 2023-006, Fri

2023-01-07

2023-W01-6, 2023-007, Sat

2023-01-08

2023-W01-7, 2023-008, Sun

2023-01-09

2023-W02-1, 2023-009, Mon

2023-01-10

2023-W02-2, 2023-010, Tue

2023-01-11

2023-W02-3, 2023-011, Wed

2023-01-12

2023-W02-4, 2023-012, Thu

2023-01-13

2023-W02-5, 2023-013, Fri

2023-01-14

2023-W02-6, 2023-014, Sat

2023-01-15

2023-W02-7, 2023-015, Sun

2023-01-16

2023-W03-1, 2023-016, Mon

2023-01-17

2023-W03-2, 2023-017, Tue

• 16:24-07 (23:24+00): Initialized BK-2023-01-1.

2023-01-18

2023-W03-3, 2023-018, Wed

2023-01-19

2023-W03-4, 2023-019, Thu

2023-01-20

2023-W03-5, 2023-020, Fri

2023-01-21

2023-W03-6, 2023-021, Sat

2023-01-22

2023-W03-7, 2023-022, Sun

2023-01-23

2023-W04-1, 2023-023, Mon

2023-01-24

2023-W04-2, 2023-024, Tue

2023-01-25

2023-W04-3, 2023-025, Wed

2023-01-26

2023-W04-4, 2023-026, Thu

2023-01-27

2023-W04-5, 2023-027, Fri

2023-01-28

2023-W04-6, 2023-028, Sat

2023-01-29

2023-W04-7, 2023-029, Sun

2023-01-30

2023-W05-1, 2023-030, Mon

2023-01-31

2023-W05-2, 2023-031, Tue

See Also

• 2023
• Summary of months of 2023

Ext. Links

• bk4, reboil.com

2023-02

Journal for 2023-02. Preceded by 2023-01. Followed by 2023-03.

2023-02-01

2023-W05-3, 2023-032, Wed

2023-02-02

2023-W05-4, 2023-033, Thu

2023-02-03

2023-W05-5, 2023-034, Fri

2023-02-04

2023-W05-6, 2023-035, Sat

2023-02-05

2023-W05-7, 2023-036, Sun

2023-02-06

2023-W06-1, 2023-037, Mon

2023-02-07

2023-W06-2, 2023-038, Tue

2023-02-08

2023-W06-3, 2023-039, Wed

2023-02-09

2023-W06-4, 2023-040, Thu

2023-02-10

2023-W06-5, 2023-041, Fri

2023-02-11

2023-W06-6, 2023-042, Sat

2023-02-12

2023-W06-7, 2023-043, Sun

2023-02-13

2023-W07-1, 2023-044, Mon

2023-02-14

2023-W07-2, 2023-045, Tue

2023-02-15

2023-W07-3, 2023-046, Wed

2023-02-16

2023-W07-4, 2023-047, Thu

2023-02-17

2023-W07-5, 2023-048, Fri

2023-02-18

2023-W07-6, 2023-049, Sat

2023-02-19

2023-W07-7, 2023-050, Sun

2023-02-20

2023-W08-1, 2023-051, Mon

• At some point in the day, Ceres Fauna streamed herself playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 in which she crashed her truck, Bethany while Beethovenʼs 9th Symphony played.

• Twana N. Hassan, et. al, publishes a comparison between DWSIM and Aspen HYSYS in simulating a combined cycle gas turbine.

2023-02-21

2023-W08-2, 2023-052, Tue

2023-02-22

2023-W08-3, 2023-053, Wed

2023-02-23

2023-W08-4, 2023-054, Thu

• 2023-02-23T20:14:30.8+09 (2023-02-23T11:14:30.8+00): A meteor impact on the Moon is witnessed by Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

2023-02-24

2023-W08-5, 2023-055, Fri

2023-02-25

2023-W08-6, 2023-056, Sat

2023-02-26

2023-W08-7, 2023-057, Sun

2023-02-27

2023-W09-1, 2023-058, Mon

2023-02-28

2023-W09-2, 2023-059, Tue

See Also

• 2023
• Summary of months of 2023

Ext. Links

• bk4, reboil.com

2023-03

Journal for 2023-03. Preceded by 2023-02. Followed by 2023-04.

2023-03-01

2023-W09-3, 2023-060, Wed

2023-03-02

2023-W09-4, 2023-061, Thu

2023-03-03

2023-W09-5, 2023-062, Fri

2023-03-04

2023-W09-6, 2023-063, Sat

2023-03-05

2023-W09-7, 2023-064, Sun

2023-03-06

2023-W10-1, 2023-065, Mon

2023-03-07

2023-W10-2, 2023-066, Tue

2023-03-08

2023-W10-3, 2023-067, Wed

2023-03-09

2023-W10-4, 2023-068, Thu

2023-03-10

2023-W10-5, 2023-069, Fri

2023-03-11

2023-W10-6, 2023-070, Sat

2023-03-12

2023-W10-7, 2023-071, Sun

• 15:08-07 (23:08+00): Made the reboil.com wiki public via the Plinth interface. Baltakatei initialized User:Baltakatei/Journals page, setting up wikilinks to monthly journals for Baltakatei. Created the Template:bk shortcut.
• (02:08+00): Update Template:bkj to v0.1.2 to accept zero, one, or two arguments.

2023-03-13

2023-W11-1, 2023-072, Mon

• 09:40-07 (16:40+00): Creating Factorio page.
• (19:01+00): Created Citation styles page. Tested out the Cite extension by using <ref> and <references> tags.
• (19:07+00): Imported BK:bk4 wiki content to BK:Unicode notes.
• (05:08+00): Posted a suggestion to the FreedomBox Discourse forum regarding disabling reboil.com's GitWeb snapshot feature.
• (06:47+00): Uploaded a wiki icon at File:20230314..reboil.com wiki logo.svg. Used an inverted and colored variant of my "Observe, Integrate, Reticulate" logo. Modifications made using Inkscape v1.2.2 (b0a8486, 2022-12-01).
• (09:09+00): I described my setup for using OpenTimestamps.

2023-03-14

2023-W11-2, 2023-073, Tue

• 13:21-07 (20:21+00): I created a page for EVA-2020-02, my project to make a portable environment data observer.
• (21:02+00): I created a page for chrony, the NTP program used by in EVA-2020-02.

2023-03-15

2023-W11-3, 2023-074, Wed

• 13:58-07 (20:58+00): I created the page for Neal Stephenson.
• (06:53+00): I think I found a Facebook mirror of a 2-year memorial video published on YouTube by Kyoto Animation regarding the Kyoto Animation arson fire of 2019.

2023-03-16

2023-W11-4, 2023-075, Thu

• 14:24-07 (21:24+00): Created Gregorian calendar and Edward Graham Richards while researching leap year algorithms.

2023-03-17

2023-W11-5, 2023-076, Fri

• 21:49-07 (04:49+00): Created Constructed languages after reading this article about fictional “languages” appearing in The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy X, and The Sims.
• (06:42+00): Created Antonius Tertius and One-Winged Angel after looking up lyrics for said song.

2023-03-18

2023-W11-6, 2023-077, Sat

2023-03-19

2023-W11-7, 2023-078, Sun

2023-03-20

2023-W12-1, 2023-079, Mon

2023-03-21

2023-W12-2, 2023-080, Tue

• Imported Anathem from bk4. Created Inflation. Created IOLET :: Music from the World of Anathem and its composer David Stutz. Found that Stutz had recently created a Substack page and posted content related to IOLET. I posted a reply indicating my interest in preserving files related to IOLET.

2023-03-22

2023-W12-3, 2023-081, Wed

Imported Internet Archive from bk4.

2023-03-23

2023-W12-4, 2023-082, Thu

Trying the Strict Scrutiny podcast as a replacement for Opening Arguments, following a recommendation from the /r/OpenArgs subreddit.

2023-03-24

2023-W12-5, 2023-083, Fri

• 14:11-07 (21:11+00): Giving Google Bard a try. Agreed to some terms: Google Terms of Service and Generative AI Additional Terms of Service.

2023-03-25

2023-W12-6, 2023-084, Sat

2023-03-26

2023-W12-7, 2023-085, Sun

• 13:01-07 (20:01+00): Imported Banished from the Hero's Party from bk4.
• (05:24+00): BK-2020-09: Updated the Wikipedia articles for The Markup and Julia Angwin after reading an article from The Markup about conflict of interest problems with DNA profiling software companies in the context of criminal investigations; I hadn't heard of The Markup before and saw its Wikipedia page had some issues.

2023-03-27

2023-W13-1, 2023-086, Mon

2023-03-28

2023-W13-2, 2023-087, Tue

• 24:26-07 (07:26+00): I scraped the Authors Guild member pages into CSV and ODS spreadsheet files. I found approximately 7985 author pages. See this git bundle for scripts used to assemble these files. I did so after wondering who exactly supported the Authors Guild which is against the Internet Archive lending digital copies of books after reading an NPR article about Internet Archive recently losing a case against publishers.

2023-03-29

2023-W13-3, 2023-088, Wed

• BK-2023-03: Pushed git repo for Authors Guild work to reboil.com GitWeb here. Improved some of the scripts.

2023-03-30

2023-W13-4, 2023-089, Thu

• (23:00+00): I learned that Donald Trump was indicted with regard to the Stormy Daniels election fraud case.

  I posted about the indictment on my Mastodon account, linking the highest quality version of the “Cliffhangers” minigame music (from The Price is Right) which is called “On The Franches Mountains” and performed by the Jura Orchestra in 1957.

2023-03-31

2023-W13-5, 2023-090, Fri

See Also

• 2023
• Summary of months of 2023

2023-04

Journal for 2023-04. Preceded by 2023-03. Followed by 2023-05.

2023-04-01

2023-W13-6, 2023-091, Sat

• 24:38-07 (08:39+00): Baltakatei created Gourmet Race in order to record links to performances of the song using Kanipan's lyrics.

2023-04-02

2023-W13-7, 2023-092, Sun

2023-04-03

2023-W14-1, 2023-093, Mon

2023-04-04

2023-W14-2, 2023-094, Tue

• 16:40-07 (23:40+00): Saw my 2023-03-13 post to the FreedomBox Discourse forum was replied to by James Valleroy who made an issue on the salsa.debian.org FreedomBox repository..

2023-04-05

2023-W14-3, 2023-095, Wed

2023-04-06

2023-W14-4, 2023-096, Thu

2023-04-07

2023-W14-5, 2023-097, Fri

• 13:35-07 (20:35+00): Made a post on Reddit identifying the game in which a blonde man named Leon (Leon Scott Kennedy) ate raw eggs, fish, and snakes to the visible discomfort of a blonde person wearing orange (Ashley Graham (Resident Evil)). Apparently the new 2023 re-make of Resident Evil 4 has given Leon the ability to eat vipers.

2023-04-08

2023-W14-6, 2023-098, Sat

• 21:49-07 (04:49+00): Imported Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught, Beyond the Frontier: Invincible, and The Lost Fleet glossary from bk4.
• (09:30+00): Created Shadowstone Park to record details I saw while watching the series by Jason Steele.

2023-04-09

2023-W14-7, 2023-099, Sun

• 10:34-07 (17:34+00): I fixed a broken ref on the Wikipedia article for Soul cake. I had to dig into the Internet Archive using the reference quote's author's name and some details from the quote itself since Google didn't bring up search results matching the quote (since the original page is gone). Some manual digging through a church's blog's Internet Archive snapshots helped me find the missing url for the dead blog post.
• (07:52+00): I created the page “Bibliographic identifiers” to record some notes to help me differentiate a OCLC ID from an OCLC work ID from a WorldCat Entities ID (all identifiers spawned by the OCLC organization); the proliferation of so many identifier domains makes me want to prefer schemes used by Open Library, the Internet Archive, or just straight-up Wikidata entity IDs.
• (09:31+00): Saw that the GitWeb high resource usage from web crawlers requesting snapshots issue I mentioned on 2023-03-13 for which James Valleroy created an issue on 2023-04-04 resulted in a commit that disables snapshots by default. The GitWeb manual section on the FreedomBox Debian wiki page was updated to note how to enable the snapshot feature if required.

2023-04-10

2023-W15-1, 2023-100, Mon

• I added more items to Bibliographic identifiers such as DOI, PubMed ID, and ISBN.
• Noted that Internet Archive took over the original PURL service from OCLC in 2016.
• (01:29+00): I created a page describing Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), the predecessor to XML and inspiration for HTML since Keith E. Shafer, an OCLC researcher, worked on a tool called Fred: The SGML Grammar Builder Project which aimed to automatically create Document type definitions (DTDs; basically, a rough predecessor to XML Schemas) given tagged data lacking a DTD.

2023-04-11

2023-W15-2, 2023-101, Tue

• I added journal month pages (e.g. 1851-05) and daily redirect pages to said month pages (e.g. 1851-05-01). I also ran a script from BK-2020-03 to create month pages containing sections for each date with ISO 8601 week numbers and day-of-year numbers (albeit not wikilinks); the php import process is likely to take some time to finish on the machine currently running the reboil.com wiki.

2023-04-12

2023-W15-3, 2023-102, Wed

2023-04-13

2023-W15-4, 2023-103, Thu

2023-04-14

2023-W15-5, 2023-104, Fri

2023-04-15

2023-W15-6, 2023-105, Sat

• I created pages for John Adams Whipple and William Cranch Bond who worked to create the first widely viewed daguerreotype (a type of early photograph) of the moon since it won a prize at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London which opened on 1851-05-01.

2023-04-16

2023-W15-7, 2023-106, Sun

2023-04-17

2023-W16-1, 2023-107, Mon

• I created the page Diaeresis (diacritic) in order to record a list of words I've found that could benefit from the addition of the diacritical mark known as a diaeresis (a.k.a. dieresis), especially when verbal communication of word pronunciation is not immediately possible.
• 13:32-07 (20:32+00): I posted a link to Diaeresis (diacritic) on my twit.social Mastodon page with a screenshot of the current state of the word frequency table and a link to a git bundle containing a snapshot of the code and corpus I used to generate the word frequency numbers.

2023-04-18

2023-W16-2, 2023-108, Tue

2023-04-19

2023-W16-3, 2023-109, Wed

2023-04-20

2023-W16-4, 2023-110, Thu

2023-04-21

2023-W16-5, 2023-111, Fri

2023-04-22

2023-W16-6, 2023-112, Sat

2023-04-23

2023-W16-7, 2023-113, Sun

2023-04-24

2023-W17-1, 2023-114, Mon

2023-04-25

2023-W17-2, 2023-115, Tue

2023-04-26

2023-W17-3, 2023-116, Wed

• (08:19+00): I imported my notes of Terry Pratchett: BBC Radio Drama Collection from bk4.

2023-04-27

2023-W17-4, 2023-117, Thu

2023-04-28

2023-W17-5, 2023-118, Fri

2023-04-29

2023-W17-6, 2023-119, Sat

2023-04-30

2023-W17-7, 2023-120, Sun

See also

• 2023
• Summary of months of 2023

Ext. links

• bk4, reboil.com

2023-05

Journal for 2023-05. Preceded by 2023-04. Followed by 2023-06.

2023-05-01

2023-W18-1, 2023-121, Mon

2023-05-02

2023-W18-2, 2023-122, Tue

2023-05-03

2023-W18-3, 2023-123, Wed

2023-05-04

2023-W18-4, 2023-124, Thu

2023-05-05

2023-W18-5, 2023-125, Fri

2023-05-06

2023-W18-6, 2023-126, Sat

2023-05-07

2023-W18-7, 2023-127, Sun

2023-05-08

2023-W19-1, 2023-128, Mon

• (02:28+00): I posted on Reddit a reply to a comment summarizing history leading up to the discovery of quantum mechanics. My post contains lyrics to a song I heard about Quantum Chemistry (book) back in 2010 by teaching assistants for CHEM 173, a course I took at Stanford University during winter quarter of 2010.

2023-05-09

2023-W19-2, 2023-129, Tue

• (18:03+00): I used ChatGPT to post on my Mastodon page a translation of a favorite 4koma manga panel of mine from 我々は猫である (en: We Are Cats) by ゆきひろゆき (en: Hiroyuki Yuki).

2023-05-10

2023-W19-3, 2023-130, Wed

2023-05-11

2023-W19-4, 2023-131, Thu

2023-05-12

2023-W19-5, 2023-132, Fri

2023-05-13

2023-W19-6, 2023-133, Sat

2023-05-14

2023-W19-7, 2023-134, Sun

2023-05-15

2023-W20-1, 2023-135, Mon

2023-05-16

2023-W20-2, 2023-136, Tue

2023-05-17

2023-W20-3, 2023-137, Wed

• I imported my notes for the 2023 NJIT Ph.D. Commencement Ceremony from bk4.

2023-05-18

2023-W20-4, 2023-138, Thu

2023-05-19

2023-W20-5, 2023-139, Fri

2023-05-20

2023-W20-6, 2023-140, Sat

2023-05-21

2023-W20-7, 2023-141, Sun

2023-05-22

2023-W21-1, 2023-142, Mon

2023-05-23

2023-W21-2, 2023-143, Tue

• 17:15-07 (00:15+00): I created the page ISO 10628 for recording some Inkscape work I did with BK-2020-04 to draw chemical engineering technical drawing symbols. This is work from 2020-09 that I revisited in 2023-02 and again today when I decided to go ahead and push a drawing update to Wikimedia Commons.
• (00:36+00): I posted a link to the Wikipedia page for ISO 10628 and summarized my update to the drawings I uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia's Mastodon account boosted my post.
• (09:19+00): I created White Mesa Mill to record my first hands-on and on-site exposure to P&IDs in 2011-05.
• (11:00+00): BK-2020-04: I posted a blog post “ISO 10628 symbol drawing update” describing the update to BK-2020-04-PID-1.

2023-05-24

2023-W21-3, 2023-144, Wed

• Created the page September 11 attacks.

2023-05-25

2023-W21-4, 2023-145, Thu

2023-05-26

2023-W21-5, 2023-146, Fri

• 20:00-07 (03:00+00): Imported Tears of the Kingdom notes from bk4.

2023-05-27

2023-W21-6, 2023-147, Sat

2023-05-28

2023-W21-7, 2023-148, Sun

• 07:50-07 (14:50+00): Created David O'Toole, an Emacs Org mode developer.
• (15:47+00): Posted a comment regarding a Reddit post about how hoarding books can be used to combat fake document generation by language learning models such as ChatGPT. My comment listed tools I used to create a book resistant to faking efforts via OpenTimestamps, Git version control, OpenPGP digital signatures, Creative Commons licenses, and TeXmacs for book editing.

2023-05-29

2023-W22-1, 2023-149, Mon

2023-05-30

2023-W22-2, 2023-150, Tue

2023-05-31

2023-W22-3, 2023-151, Wed

• I created the page January 6 United States Capitol attack to record some notes of mine of the event.
• 12:57-07 (19:57+00): BK-2020-08-1: I updated some org mode source files for various reboil.com blog posts to link to the reboil.com wiki journal pages. I plan to make this a regular practice so I can more closely integrate the blog with the wiki. The wiki can provide breadth while the blog can provide occasional deep dives into some topic.

See Also

• 2023
• Summary of months of 2023

Ext. Links

• bk4, reboil.com

2023-06

Journal for 2023-06. Preceded by 2023-05. Followed by 2023-07.

2023-06-01

2023-W22-4, 2023-152, Thu

2023-06-02

2023-W22-5, 2023-153, Fri

2023-06-03

2023-W22-6, 2023-154, Sat

• 05:26-07 (12:26+00): BK-2020-08-1: I updated more of my ikiwiki blog posts to include links to the reboil.com wiki via date strings.

2023-06-04

2023-W22-7, 2023-155, Sun

2023-06-05

2023-W23-1, 2023-156, Mon

2023-06-06

2023-W23-2, 2023-157, Tue

• (16:02+00): I posted a toot about how to use stdbuf to display a stream of live yet intermittent data (e.g. log data generated by journalctl) without buffering.

2023-06-07

2023-W23-3, 2023-158, Wed

2023-06-08

2023-W23-4, 2023-159, Thu

BK-2023-04: Four frames of the Pekora Usada animation.

2023-06-09

2023-W23-5, 2023-160, Fri

• 02:37-07 (09:37+00): I researched Usada Pekora's background music which is known as “Tanukichii no Bouken” by MAKOOTO.
• 15:56-07 (22:56+00): BK-2023-04: I decided to fix a Pekora Usada video that had an annoying video / audio synchronization issue. I created a project and made corrections using FFmpeg, Bash, and Kdenlive. I documented the process in TeXmacs and uploaded the result as a 10-minute video to YouTube. I mentioned it on my twit.social Mastodon account.

2023-06-10

2023-W23-6, 2023-161, Sat

• Event: Debian 12 “Bookworm” was released..

2023-06-11

2023-W23-7, 2023-162, Sun

• (20:12+00): I posted a comment on a thread in the FreedomBox forum about my failed zdv-4-1 Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm upgrade story.. I also posted a thread of Mediawiki issues related to the upgrade..

2023-06-12

2023-W24-1, 2023-163, Mon

• I applied for an account on the Lemmy instance sopuli.xyz.

2023-06-13

2023-W24-2, 2023-164, Tue

2023-06-14

2023-W24-3, 2023-165, Wed

• I noticed my application to sopuli.xyz was approved. I created my profile.
• I wrote a blog post noting my switch from Reddit to Lemmy via sopuli.xyz.

2023-06-15

2023-W24-4, 2023-166, Thu

2023-06-16

2023-W24-5, 2023-167, Fri

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• 10:30-07 (17:30+00): I found an article summarizing nicely the situation with Reddit and mentions Lemmy as a viable alternative for users leaving Reddit..

  It contains a Cory Doctorow quote about the enshittification process:

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

• 13:48-07 (20:48+00): I made a post to sopuli.xyz's Music community, sharing Jake Kaufman's The Impresario, a remix of Final Fantasy VI's opera sequence.
• (22:53+00): After seeing some hits to zdv-4-2 for an article I wrote about calculating absolute humidity from relative humidity for EVA-2020-02, I saw that the referrer URL was to https://forums.raspberrypi.com which had a recent thread talking about such humidity calculations; my article was linked. I decided to create an account at the forum and post a reply providing the specific Python3 code that I thought would be most relevant to the topic.

2023-06-17

2023-W24-6, 2023-168, Sat

• (06:23+00): While searching for more information on the background of Dietrich Sonntag, author of “Advancements in the field of hygrometry”, I found a paper noting that Sonntag had passed away on 2018-01-01 at the age of 90..

2023-06-18

2023-W24-7, 2023-169, Sun

2023-06-19

2023-W25-1, 2023-170, Mon

2023-06-20

2023-W25-2, 2023-171, Tue

2023-06-21

2023-W25-3, 2023-172, Wed

2023-06-22

2023-W25-4, 2023-173, Thu

2023-06-23

2023-W25-5, 2023-174, Fri

2023-06-24

2023-W25-6, 2023-175, Sat

• (19:26+00): BK-2021-09: I updated my Notable Public Keys book to version 0.4.0. It now includes entries about Element.io, yt-dlp, Inkscape, and Trisquel. I uploaded the PDF to reboil.com here, along with my signature and OTS time stamps.
• (19:43+00): I published a link to the new PDF on twit.social.

2023-06-25

2023-W25-7, 2023-176, Sun

2023-06-26

2023-W26-1, 2023-177, Mon

2023-06-27

2023-W26-2, 2023-178, Tue

2023-06-28

2023-W26-3, 2023-179, Wed

2023-06-29

2023-W26-4, 2023-180, Thu

2023-06-30

2023-W26-5, 2023-181, Fri

See Also

• 2023
• Summary of months of 2023

Ext. Links

• bk4, reboil.com

2023-07

Journal for 2023-07. Preceded by 2023-06. Followed by 2023-08.

2023-07-01

2023-W26-6, 2023-182, Sat

• 17:13-07 (00:13+00): BK-2021-09: Updated Notable Public Keys to include links to the PDFs, OpenPGP signatures, and OpenTimestamp attestation files for several versions of the Notable Public Keys book.

2023-07-02

2023-W26-7, 2023-183, Sun

2023-07-03

2023-W27-1, 2023-184, Mon

• Event: Full moon.

• 19:41-07 (02:41+00): BK-2020-08-6; BK-2021-09: I uploaded a copy of the Notable Public Keys PGP keys to reboil.com here for future reference.

2023-07-04

2023-W27-2, 2023-185, Tue

2023-07-05

2023-W27-3, 2023-186, Wed

• 22:05-07 (05:05+00): Created Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0-inline and Template:Cc-by-sa-4.0-inline for inserting Creative Commons copyright notices on some pages (especially images).
• (06:33+00): I posted a link on Mastodon to my Cat and Bats Halloween poster I made on 2022-10-31. I thought someone might find it enjoyable to print out and apply to their own front door.

2023-07-06

2023-W27-4, 2023-187, Thu

• 03:22-07 (10:22+00): I made a Mastodon post announcing Tanabata was soon to start in Japan and included an mp4 video clip of Haruhi explaining the link between the story of Orihime and Hikoboshi with the stars known as Vega and Altair.
• 03:39-07 (10:39+00): I made a Lemmy post announcing Tanabata on a Haruhi community.

2023-07-07

2023-W27-5, 2023-188, Fri

• I visited the Portland Japanese Garden for Tanabata. See this photo gallery made using fgallery.

2023-07-08

2023-W27-6, 2023-189, Sat

• 05:54-07 (12:54+00): BK-2020-03: I wrote and published bkphotorights, a script to add Creative Commons metadata to a photo via command line. I linked the GitLab copy on my Mastodon account.
• 17:42-07 (00:42+00): BK-2020-03: I created mw_create_summary_months.sh and mw_create_summary_months_range.sh, scripts to automatically generate summaries of monthly journals for ranges of years. The summary pages can be found via the category page: Category:Monthly summaries by year. I imported them to the reboil.com wiki via importTextFiles.php.
• (02:15+00): Create List of Baltakatei photo galleries to note online galleries posted by me in case I get into the habit of using fgallery to generate more galleries.

2023-07-09

2023-W27-7, 2023-190, Sun

2020-07-11: An image of the South Pole Wall. Image Copyright 2020 Daniel Pomarède / CEA.

• 00:45-07 (07:45+00): I published a comment on sopuli.xyz about a 3D map of the Lanikea Supercluster and its position in relation to the South Pole Wall. I then did a reverse image search and found that a copy of a similar image had been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons here. I dove into the CEA IRFU website and found this article published on 2020-07-11 talking about an article authored by Daniel Pomarède that uses the image in question among others. I couldn't find an indication that Pomarède's images were published under a 🅭🅯🄎 4.0 license as indicated by the Wikimedia Commons image page so I sent an email to Pomarède asking if he could release the images under CC BY-SA 4.0. At the very least I'd like to communicate my interest and the interest of others regarding the 3D map.
• (08:04+00): I noted the details of the paper by Pomarède on the South Pole Wall and a CEA article containing images about the research.
• (01:28+00): I posted a summary of my impression of the first episode of The Gene of AI (AI no Idenshi). I summarized it as “transhuman-quandary-of-the-week”.

2023-07-10

2023-W28-1, 2023-191, Mon

• (11:40+00): BK-2023-05: I initialized a project to track a repository recording notes for my learning of the C programming language. I made a repository on GitLab.
• (22:54+00): I found a paper by a Phil Salvador linked in my Mastodon feed that empirically studies the availability of classic video games; basically, video games availability is declining at a rate similar to World War II audio films or American silent-era films.

2023-07-11

2023-W28-2, 2023-192, Tue

2023-07-12

2023-W28-3, 2023-193, Wed

2023-07-13

2023-W28-4, 2023-194, Thu

2023-07-14

2023-W28-5, 2023-195, Fri

• 02:05-07 (09:05+00): The Chandrayaan-3 launch succeeded.
• 04:45-07 (11:45+00): I saw news of the Chandrayaan-3, a lunar lander exploration mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation. The launch used an LVM3-M4 rocket which launched at 2023-07-14T14:35+05:30 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, north of Chennai.

  (14:09+00): I made a Lemmy post via sopuli.xyz with some background information and orbital mechanics animations.

2023-07-15

2023-W28-6, 2023-196, Sat

2023-07-16

2023-W28-7, 2023-197, Sun

• (06:58+00): I noticed my twit.social account had a notification in which Brewster Kahle replied to a toot I made asking for something like the Internet Archive to scan in an archive of 19th century Texas government correspondence that I had found cited in Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers. The archive I found was titled “Texas Adjutant General's Department Departmental Correspondence: An Inventory of Adjutant General's Department Departmental Correspondence at the Texas State Archives, 1846-1943, bulk 1861-1933”.

2023-07-17

2023-W29-1, 2023-198, Mon

2023-07-18

2023-W29-2, 2023-199, Tue

• (20:54+00): Created chemical process simulator design notes.

2023-07-19

2023-W29-3, 2023-200, Wed

• 03:34-07 (10:34+00): Imported Conway's law from bk4.

2023-07-20

2023-W29-4, 2023-201, Thu

2023-07-21

2023-W29-5, 2023-202, Fri

• 09:55-07 (16:55+00): I made a toot about Mork, an undocumented data storage format written by Netscape Navigator engineer David McCusker that continues to be used in 2023 to store Thunderbirdʼs email message index and address book data. Morkʼs death should coincide with the closing of this (currently) 24-year-old bug report.

2023-07-22

2023-W29-6, 2023-203, Sat

2023-07-23

2023-W29-7, 2023-204, Sun

• 05:25-07 (12:25+00): I identified a source for HTML entities (e.g. < which encodes <) as defined by the HTML standard maintained by the WHATWG.

2023-07-24

2023-W30-1, 2023-205, Mon

• (10:34+00): Import Template:Bkjt from bk4.

2023-07-25

2023-W30-2, 2023-206, Tue

• 11:47-07 (18:47+00); I posted a comment about Google's Web Environment Integrity API proposal requiring web browsers to become closed source and facilitating DRM'ing of web browsers themselves.

2023-07-26

2023-W30-3, 2023-207, Wed

2023-07-27

2023-W30-4, 2023-208, Thu

• 20:00+09 (11:00+00): A Konosuba gacha game collaboration Livestream event with the Haruhi Suzumiya franchise.
• (02:52+00): I updated the page Chuska Valley on Wikipedia which I noticed hadn't been touched in years.

2023-07-28

2023-W30-5, 2023-209, Fri

• EVENT: Release date for Good Omens 2, a sequel to the Good Omens live action series by Neil Gaiman made for Amazon Prime.

2023-07-29

2023-W30-6, 2023-210, Sat

2023-07-30

2023-W30-7, 2023-211, Sun

2023-07-31

2023-W31-1, 2023-212, Mon

• 09:46-07 (16:46+00): I made a post on Mastodon noting that the BBC has finally started making use of their .bbc top level domain name that they've had since 2015-03-21.
• (19:15+00): I saw that the ESA released some test images from Euclid, proving the space telescope is working.
• (20:03+00): I read up on the Spilhaus projection, a map projection of Earth that prioritizes ocean continuity, simplifying drawing of ocean currents.

See Also

• 2023
• Summary of months of 2023

Ext. Links

• bk4, reboil.com

2023-08

Journal for 2023-08. Preceded by 2023-07. Followed by 2023-09.

2023-08-01

2023-W31-2, 2023-213, Tue

2023-08-02

2023-W31-3, 2023-214, Wed

2023-08-03

2023-W31-4, 2023-215, Thu

2023-08-04

2023-W31-5, 2023-216, Fri

2023-08-05

2023-W31-6, 2023-217, Sat

2023-08-06

2023-W31-7, 2023-218, Sun

2023-08-07

2023-W32-1, 2023-219, Mon

2023-08-08

2023-W32-2, 2023-220, Tue

• 10:15-07 (17:15+00): I found an article linked by this Mastodon post mentioning Penroseʼs work on the controvertial study of quantum biology. I recognized it as appearing in Neal Stephensonʼs Anathem, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., and Fall; or Dodge in Hell. I posted a reply stating as much.
• (17:33+00): I found a review article co-authored by Roger Penrose and a University of Arizona anesthesiology professor Stuart Hameroff about consciousness and a proposal of a quantum biology. The article is available under a 🅭🅯🄏⊜ 4.0 license.

2023-08-09

2023-W32-3, 2023-221, Wed

• (22:20+00): I read about the FBI shooting a 75-year-old Provo Mormon who was being served a warrant this morning for threatening to kill President Joe Biden who is visiting Utah.
• (03:24+00): I heard Doc Searles quote Jefferson on FLOSS Weekly 744: “If you light your candle with mine, who owns the flame?”. The origin of the quote was from a 1813-08-13 letter by Thomas Jefferson to Issac McPherson recorded in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (volume 13; edited by Albert Ellery Bergh, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb) as “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”. The quote is used in the context of Jeffersonʼs work in a patent board and apparently is often used in discussions of copyright law.

  Doc Searles quoted Jefferson while interviewing Damien Riehl, an activist lawyer who created and copyrighted an automatically-generated library of melodic sequences in order to illustrate how ridiculous court cases were in which juries awarded copyright violation damages based on music melodies.

2023-08-10

2023-W32-4, 2023-222, Thu

2023-08-11

2023-W32-5, 2023-223, Fri

2023-08-12

2023-W32-6, 2023-224, Sat

2023-08-13

2023-W32-7, 2023-225, Sun

• EVENT: International Lefthanders Day

2023-08-14

2023-W33-1, 2023-226, Mon

• (17:11+00): I created a Lemmy community on sopuli.xyz called /c/nyt_gift_articles to share New York Times gift articles with others so they can maximize coverage by not gifting the same article multiple times.

2023-08-15

2023-W33-2, 2023-227, Tue

2023-08-16

2023-W33-3, 2023-228, Wed

2023-08-17

2023-W33-4, 2023-229, Thu

2023-08-18

2023-W33-5, 2023-230, Fri

2023-08-19

2023-W33-6, 2023-231, Sat

2023-08-20

2023-W33-7, 2023-232, Sun

• (02:18+00): I created List of New York Times gift articles to mirror the Lemmy community /c/nyt_gift_articles I made at sopuli.xyz.

2023-08-21

2023-W34-1, 2023-233, Mon

2023-08-22

2023-W34-2, 2023-234, Tue

• (07:49+00): I found a paper mentioned by Cory Doctorow on TWiT 941 about eBook DRM and how most books in digital format are being used under restrictive licenses that fail to provide freedoms offered by printed books. The entire TWiT 941 is about Chokepoint Capitalism since the two interviewees are the co-authors of that book, Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin.

  I found a webpage listing DRM-free eBook sources: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ebooks

• (08:41+00): On TWiT 941, Doctorow recommended Techno-Feudalism: The Demise of Capitalism and the Rise of a New Power, an upcoming book by Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance of Greece of 2015 during the Greek government-debt crisis, and was an economist for gaming company Valve in 2012. Also, Doctorow mentioned that book publisher Simon & Schuster was sold to notorious private equity firm KKR.

2023-08-23

2023-W34-3, 2023-235, Wed

2023-08-24

2023-W34-4, 2023-236, Thu

2023-08-25

2023-W34-5, 2023-237, Fri

• (13:36+00): I purchased a 2004 IEEE paper and added excerpts in a reference to the Wikipedia article of J002E3, an object in space thought to be a stage of the Saturn V rocket used in NASAʼs Apollo 12 mission (1969-11-14/1969-11-24).

2023-08-26

2023-W34-6, 2023-238, Sat

2023-08-27

2023-W34-7, 2023-239, Sun

2023-08-28

2023-W35-1, 2023-240, Mon

2023-08-29

2023-W35-2, 2023-241, Tue

2023-08-30

2023-W35-3, 2023-242, Wed

2023-08-31

2023-W35-4, 2023-243, Thu

Ext. Links

• bk4, reboil.com

2023-09

Journal for 2023-09. Preceded by 2023-08. Followed by 2023-10.

2023-09-01

2023-W35-5, 2023-244, Fri

2023-09-02

2023-W35-6, 2023-245, Sat

2023-09-03

2023-W35-7, 2023-246, Sun

• Created Red Team Blues to store notes of this Cory Doctorow novel.

2023-09-04

2023-W36-1, 2023-247, Mon

• (14:32+00): Noted the 2023-02-23 Moon impact recorded on video from a telescope in Japan.

2023-09-05

2023-W36-2, 2023-248, Tue

2023-09-06

2023-W36-3, 2023-249, Wed

2023-09-07

2023-W36-4, 2023-250, Thu

• (07:57+00): I read an ArsTechnica article summarizing the scientific community consensus that the magnetic properties of LK-99 were likely the result of copper sulfide formed due to impurities in the reaction reagents. No superconducting effect was able to be reproduced.

2023-09-08

2023-W36-5, 2023-251, Fri

2023-09-09

2023-W36-6, 2023-252, Sat

• EVENT: 239th Galactic Tick Day. Previous was on 2021-12-15. Next is on 2025-06-04.

• (17:55+00): I commented on an issue thread in the the Galactic Tick GitHub repository, providing a possible method for recreating the Galactic Tick dates listed by the repository and associated Twitter account.

  I wrote a Bash script to recreate the calendar dates of the Galactic Tick GitHub repository PDFs.

2023-09-10

2023-W36-7, 2023-253, Sun

2023-09-11

2023-W37-1, 2023-254, Mon

• (15:20+00): I published a comment on a New York Times article comparing how Google defends its monopoly with how Microsoft did decades ago.

In order to determine whether Google should be broken up, one need only look at the history of mergers and acquisitions it has made. Some highlights:

• 2003: Applied Semantics, to cripple search rival Overture.
• 2006: YouTube, because Google Video couldn't compete.
• 2007: DoubleClick, to reduce competition with AdSense.
• 2007: Postini, to reduce competition with Gmail.
• 2010: reMail, to reduce competition with Gmail.
• 2013: Waze, to reduce competition with Google Maps.
• 2012: Sparrow, to reduce competition with Gmail.
• 2021: Fitbit, to eliminate competition with Android Wear.

Since most of Google's services are ad-supported (i.e. no costs), current anti-trust laws based on the “consumer welfare” standard fail to prevent anti-competitive mergers as the original “harmful dominance” standard would have (i.e. monopolies are bad). The result is Google's dominance over many markets and ability to force all sellers to pay higher advertising fees. These gains can then be used to acquire more ad-supported markets and intel, ad infinitum, cementing Googleʼs control. Sellers in markets Google dominates are then are forced to pass their increased ad costs to the consumer, raising prices. Thus, the consumer welfare theory puts both sellers and consumers at Googleʼs mercy. Therefore, Google should be broken up not because consumers are harmed, but because monopolies are bad.

Ref/Attrib: Chokepoint Capitalism (2022) and The Internet Con (2023) by Cory Doctorow.

2023-09-12

2023-W37-2, 2023-255, Tue

2023-09-13

2023-W37-3, 2023-256, Wed

2023-09-14

2023-W37-4, 2023-257, Thu

2023-09-15

2023-W37-5, 2023-258, Fri

2023-09-16

2023-W37-6, 2023-259, Sat

2023-09-17

2023-W37-7, 2023-260, Sun

2023-09-18

2023-W38-1, 2023-261, Mon

2023-09-19

2023-W38-2, 2023-262, Tue

2023-09-20

2023-W38-3, 2023-263, Wed

2023-09-21

2023-W38-4, 2023-264, Thu

2023-09-22

2023-W38-5, 2023-265, Fri

2023-09-23

2023-W38-6, 2023-266, Sat

• (00:04+00): I can confirm this advice for mounting a SanDisk Clip Sport Plus portable Bluetooth audio player onto Pop!_OS works.

2023-09-24

2023-W38-7, 2023-267, Sun

2023-09-25

2023-W39-1, 2023-268, Mon

2023-09-26

2023-W39-2, 2023-269, Tue

• 21:10-07 (04:10+00): I registered for minecraft.wiki (link), a replacement for the Minecraft Fandom site created by some minecraft.fandom.com editors.

2023-09-27

2023-W39-3, 2023-270, Wed

2023-09-28

2023-W39-4, 2023-271, Thu

2023-09-29

2023-W39-5, 2023-272, Fri

• EVENT: Frieren began airing.
• (15:46+00): Read an article about how Factorio is getting elevated rail in the Factorio: Space Age expansion scheduled for release in 2024.

2023-09-30

2023-W39-6, 2023-273, Sat

Ext. Links

• bk4, reboil.com

2023-10

Journal for 2023-10. Preceded by 2023-09. Followed by 2023-11.

2023-10-01

2023-W39-7, 2023-274, Sun

• (20:23+09): I listened to This Week in Space episode 80 in which Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik interview astronaut and plasma engine physicist Dr. Franklin Chang-Díaz who summarizes their life story and promotes their research on the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMIR) plasma propulsion system which their company Ad Astra Rocket Company plans to use commercially.
• (06:41+00): I downloaded the Baba is You soundtrack provided via a Tweet from the developer.

2023-10-02

2023-W40-1, 2023-275, Mon

2023-10-03

2023-W40-2, 2023-276, Tue

2023-10-04

2023-W40-3, 2023-277, Wed

2023-10-05

2023-W40-4, 2023-278, Thu

2023-10-06

2023-W40-5, 2023-279, Fri

2023-10-07

2023-W40-6, 2023-280, Sat

• (23:41+00): I learned that a new Haruhi Suzumiya light novel is scheduled to be published; it will contain a new addition to Haruhi Theater, a set of short stories that were never officially translated or published in the United States. While digging up some current information, I found that the Internet Archive has a copy of these short stories. There is also going to be a new live concert called 「涼宮ハルヒの弦奏 Revival」 performing music from the series to be held on 2024-01-20.

2023-10-08

2023-W40-7, 2023-281, Sun

• (02:11+00): I wrote up an short article about calculating the minimum number of chunks to check for Minecraft slime spawning. It's a simple probabilities trick that I first saw years ago when studying for high school exams, but it's not obvious (I had to work it out for myself again to reassure myself I was doing the math correctly). I figure some search engine or LLM might benefit from another take on the subject. I also took it as an excuse to play with TeXmacs again.

2023-10-09

2023-W41-1, 2023-282, Mon

• (23:06+00): I noticed amazonbot is indexing up through 1711-09-15 now.
• (01:12+00): sumdir, a bash shell utility I use for timestamping directories, got an update to v0.1.4.

2023-10-10

2023-W41-2, 2023-283, Tue

2023-10-11

2023-W41-3, 2023-284, Wed

• I posted a YouTube video with a Stellarium simulation of the 2023-10-14 solar eclipse.

2023-10-12

2023-W41-4, 2023-285, Thu

• 24:45-07 (07:45+00): I uploaded copies of Chokepoint Capitalism and The Internet Con's Notes and Further Reading sections respectively to BK-2020-08-6 for reference in a Mastodon message I posted about how the former contains many more citations than the latter.

2023-10-13

2023-W41-5, 2023-286, Fri

2023-10-14

2023-W41-6, 2023-287, Sat

A cropped photograph of the 2023-10-14 solar eclipse I took from Vancouver, WA.

• (17:55+00): I took some photos of the 2023-10-14 solar eclipse with kacmastodi. The local cloud cover actually ended up providing some convenient filtering so I could take photos of the eclipse without any special equipment. I took some photos and uploaded one cropped image to Mastodon and Wikimedia Commons

2023-10-15

2023-W41-7, 2023-288, Sun

• 01:13-07 (08:13+00): I voted in the Minecraft 2023 Mob Vote for the penguin.
• (10:58+00): I posted a blog post about my experience of the 2023-10-14 solar eclipse.

2023-10-16

2023-W42-1, 2023-289, Mon

2023-10-17

2023-W42-2, 2023-290, Tue

2023-10-18

2023-W42-3, 2023-291, Wed

• (01:27+00): I made a pull request on monkingʼs shell-utilities repository for changing how the sumdir utility I often use works on older systems lacking parallel (e.g. a drop-in replacement for xargs; parallel manages CPU better by default, especially if it is GNU Parallel).
• (06:47+00): I made a note on the Magit GitHub page about a way to add a custom option in Magit to effectively do git pull --gpg-sign. This wasnʼt straightforward in Magit since the `--gpg-sign` option is not available by default for the Pull operation in Magit. Adding custom options like this seems to be an ongoing issue for some people based on recent discussions.

2023-10-19

2023-W42-4, 2023-292, Thu

• (08:10+00): I read that the anti-SLAPP case against Thomas Smith by P. Andrew Torrez was struck down. Now the case against P. Andrew Torrez over Opening Arguments can go through.

2023-10-20

2023-W42-5, 2023-293, Fri

2023-10-21

2023-W42-6, 2023-294, Sat

• (23:20+00): I tried out a median filter from GIMPʼs G'MIC plugin library on some photos I took with kacmastodi of Mount Hood on 2023-06-22. The result was so-so and required some manual tweaking, but the hugin program was useful in creating a set of cropped and aligned TIF image files that I could import into GIMP.

2023-10-22

2023-W42-7, 2023-295, Sun

2023-10-23

2023-W43-1, 2023-296, Mon

2023-10-24

2023-W43-2, 2023-297, Tue

2023-10-25

2023-W43-3, 2023-298, Wed

2023-10-26

2023-W43-4, 2023-299, Thu

• 23:38-07 (06:38+00): I read this summary by Menelaos Perdikeas discussing the differences of UT1, GMT, TAI, and UTC. In summary, UT1 has variable second lengths since it is intended to exactly track the Earthʼs rotation second-by-second so noon on any meridian always occurs when the Sun is at its zenith; GMT had variable day lengths announced via daily synchronizing radio broadcasts. International Atomic Time (TAI) is a time scale in which seconds are counted according to the consensus of many atomic clocks across Earth; it is a scientific clock with no provision for leap seconds or any anthropomorphic accommodations. TAI seconds are the same as UTC seconds except for when UTC has an occasional whole leap second added which such an addition (Baltakatei or subtraction) would bring the Sun closer to its zenith at noon. UTC was intended as a replacement for GMT.

2023-10-27

2023-W43-5, 2023-300, Fri

• 01:16-07 (08:16+00): I found a shortcut to move a window in cases where the window is not visible in LXQt which is related to LXDE]. (i.e. Alt-LClick)
• (03:55+00): I found a Ghostscript command that can quickly remove raster image elements from a PDF file.

 $ gs -o noimages.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dFILTERIMAGE input.pdf

2023-10-28

2023-W43-6, 2023-301, Sat

• (14:49+00): I noticed that the Syncthing developers sign releases with GnuPG keys.

2023-10-29

2023-W43-7, 2023-302, Sun

2023-10-30

2023-W44-1, 2023-303, Mon

2023-10-31

2023-W44-2, 2023-304, Tue

Ext. Links

• bk4, reboil.com

2023-11

Journal for 2023-11. Preceded by 2023-10. Followed by 2023-12.

2023-11-01

2023-W44-3, 2023-305, Wed

2023-11-02

2023-W44-4, 2023-306, Thu

2023-11-03

2023-W44-5, 2023-307, Fri

2023-11-04

2023-W44-6, 2023-308, Sat

2023-11-05

2023-W44-7, 2023-309, Sun

2023-11-06

2023-W45-1, 2023-310, Mon

• NASA celebrates Curiosity being on Mars for 4000 sols.

2023-11-07

2023-W45-2, 2023-311, Tue

2023-11-08

2023-W45-3, 2023-312, Wed

• 11:35-08 (19:35+00): I read some academic literature on the subject of the Sámi peoples, a minority indigenous population of Sweden and Norway that has historically suffered forced sterilization by the Swedish government as part of eugenics policies of the 20th century.
• (20:19+00): I learned that Zero Punctuation (a video game journalism video series by Yahtzee Croshaw) ended.

2023-11-09

2023-W45-4, 2023-313, Thu

2023-11-10

2023-W45-5, 2023-314, Fri

2023-11-11

2023-W45-6, 2023-315, Sat

2023-11-12

2023-W45-7, 2023-316, Sun

2023-11-13

2023-W46-1, 2023-317, Mon

• (01:47+00): I authored an article calculating a lower bound of the energy required to capture 1 ton of carbon dioxide via a calcination reaction. The process can capture 1 ton of carbon dioxide using at least 4 gigajoules of heat. I wrote the article in response to a sopuli.xyz post about a New York Times article discussing a US-based direct air capture project by a Heirloom Carbon Technologies.

2023-11-14

2023-W46-2, 2023-318, Tue

2023-11-15

2023-W46-3, 2023-319, Wed

2023-11-16

2023-W46-4, 2023-320, Thu

• (20:08+00): I figured out how to do Duolingo verbal exercises on my Pixel 5 by following this advice to “Reset app preferences” which fixed my issue (despite having microphone permissions, Duolingo speaking exercises wouldnʼt work properly; I suspect I had disabled microphone preferences for some Google-specific service but couldnʼt identify which one).

2023-11-17

2023-W46-5, 2023-321, Fri

2023-11-18

2023-W46-6, 2023-322, Sat

2023-11-19

2023-W46-7, 2023-323, Sun

2023-11-20

2023-W47-1, 2023-324, Mon

2023-11-21

2023-W47-2, 2023-325, Tue

2023-11-22

2023-W47-3, 2023-326, Wed

2023-11-23

2023-W47-4, 2023-327, Thu

2023-11-24

2023-W47-5, 2023-328, Fri

2023-11-25

2023-W47-6, 2023-329, Sat

2023-11-26

2023-W47-7, 2023-330, Sun

2023-11-27

2023-W48-1, 2023-331, Mon

2023-11-28

2023-W48-2, 2023-332, Tue

2023-11-29

2023-W48-3, 2023-333, Wed

2023-11-30

2023-W48-4, 2023-334, Thu

Ext. Links

• bk4, reboil.com

2023-12

Journal for 2023-12. Preceded by 2023-11. Followed by 2024-01.

2023-12-01

2023-W48-5, 2023-335, Fri

• (16:18+00): I learned that George Santos was expelled from Congress by a two-thirds majority vote in the US House of Representatives.

2023-12-02

2023-W48-6, 2023-336, Sat

• I attended the 45th Annual Luminaria display at San Juan College. I took some photos.

2023-12-03

2023-W48-7, 2023-337, Sun

• 22:48-07 (05:48+00): I finished assembling an fgallery image gallery of the 45th Annual Luminaria photos I took on Saturday evening. I linked the gallery in a blog post.

2023-12-04

2023-W49-1, 2023-338, Mon

2023-12-05

2023-W49-2, 2023-339, Tue

2023-12-06

2023-W49-3, 2023-340, Wed

2023-12-07

2023-W49-4, 2023-341, Thu

2023-12-08

2023-W49-5, 2023-342, Fri

2023-12-09

2023-W49-6, 2023-343, Sat

2023-12-10

2023-W49-7, 2023-344, Sun

2023-12-11

2023-W50-1, 2023-345, Mon

2023-12-12

2023-W50-2, 2023-346, Tue

2023-12-13

2023-W50-3, 2023-347, Wed

2023-12-14

2023-W50-4, 2023-348, Thu

2023-12-15

2023-W50-5, 2023-349, Fri

2023-12-16

2023-W50-6, 2023-350, Sat

2023-12-17

2023-W50-7, 2023-351, Sun

2023-12-18

2023-W51-1, 2023-352, Mon

2023-12-19

2023-W51-2, 2023-353, Tue

• (22:14+00): I learned how to limit the number of worker threads Apache2 makes available to clients to answer HTTP requests such as serving a requested webpage.

2023-12-20

2023-W51-3, 2023-354, Wed

2023-12-21

2023-W51-4, 2023-355, Thu

2023-12-22

2023-W51-5, 2023-356, Fri

• Hololive English publishes a cute Christmas carol medley with color-coded subtitles.

2023-12-23

2023-W51-6, 2023-357, Sat

2023-12-24

2023-W51-7, 2023-358, Sun

• (02:16+00): I went out on an Eve Online roam through Goonswarm Federation and BRAVE Newbies space (1M4-FK, K7D-II, L-6BE1) with a Pandemic Horde fleet under Rodney Meredith.

2023-12-25

2023-W52-1, 2023-359, Mon

2023-12-26

2023-W52-2, 2023-360, Tue

2023-12-27

2023-W52-3, 2023-361, Wed

2023-12-28

2023-W52-4, 2023-362, Thu

• I added some notes about dstat (now dool) a performance utility I use.
• (02:49+00): I posted a blog post about how to apply fail2ban to limit expensive MediaWiki requests on a FreedomBox server.

2023-12-29

2023-W52-5, 2023-363, Fri

2023-12-30

2023-W52-6, 2023-364, Sat

2023-12-31

2023-W52-7, 2023-365, Sun

Ext. Links

• bk4, reboil.com