#lifelog — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lifelog, aggregated by home.social.
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If you are really into something, you're bound to fall into some nichè. Think of wine, tea, coffee, etc. People start with the stuff they can get in a local supermarket, then drift to specialized shops, and then find themselves on a distant island growing raw materials for the thing they love and passionate about.
Same goes for computer science. And this is why I'm so puzzled having a candidate on an interview who is "passionate" about software, but who is using the most common laptop, OS, programming language, framework, etc. Where's the passion in that?!
Show me your Nix config! Tell me how you compiled a kernel because of an exotic bug in your esoteric hardware! Did you ever burn a GPU trying to overclock it? What was special about your toy language? How big is your pile of abandoned hardware projects?
ANYTHING is better than "I have 25 years of Java experience. Oh, I once wrote a bash script! Yes, yes, am very passionate. Yes." 🤦
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Estou sendo perseguido no instagram. Já é a segunda vez em menos de 15 dias que essa empresa restringe minha capacidade de publicação. E jamais violei qualquer regra dessa plataforma, que nasceu como um projeto totalitário da darpa denominado LifeLog. Há farta documentação em inglês que comprova que o LifeLog é um projeto de hipervigilância, incluindo o monitoramento de informações biométricas.
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CW: total surveillance
Reminder that Social Media and Smartphones are basically government surveillance.
#SocialMedia #Smartphone #Apps #DARPA #LifeLog #Facebook #Instagram #Twitter #TikTok
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#today I made my first panqueca ever :3
("pancake" but the savory kind, so crepes; we call them pancakes here)
2:1 oat flour to wheat flour, an egg, a splash of milk, a buncha herbs and spices and a little bit of garlic and a tiny bit of ginger, blended it all, oiled up frying pan, let it cook slowly, flip and steam with a lid, fill with cream cheese
bingo :3
sadly I didn't take pictures, my belly was quicker than my shutter 😔 just deal with it ig lol
should I put the recipe in replies? :o
#Panqueca #CozinhaBr #Crepe #Pancake #Cooking #HomeCooking #FediChef #Lifelog #DailyLog #PortoAlegre #Oats
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Ask Me Anything! im not gonna give professional chef answers, im gonna give dumbass experimenter / mad scientists answers, so take anything i say with a grain of salt and pepper
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Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
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Added a category manager and category state section to the Exocortex Log app.
Have now organized and cleaned up the categories in my ten year database and so we can get some views of the time spent in each category.
We see that through September and October I was in a routine of work and slack with a bit of social a couple of times a week, until the end of November when I went away for social at a conference all weekend. I saw a demo there of a person using Shakespeare, and then when I got back started doing some vibe-coding, shown in in Red.
A break from that to go away at the weekend to a long social party then finish it off and publish a few days ago, since when Vibe Coding has dropped off a little.
https://exocortexlog.com/news/articles/2025-12-09-addingcats/
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I added a search function to the exocortex log app.
Update with the section at the bottom of the conf screen if you can’t see it.
Search for whatever words in your log, so you can see when you noted you last saw someone or had the MOT done or whatever.
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Today's changes to the Exocortex Log:
Added a dialog to summarize a day and allow easy swapping for a particular day between the grid, summary, and stats view.
https://exocortexlog.com/news/articles/2025-12-07-daydialog/
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You see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night.
And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away.
If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub?
As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in.
But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex?
So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding.
The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want.
Try it
Try it out: https://exocortexlog.com
Accept a month of demo test data, add a few events for what you’ve done so far today, look at the summary and stats tools.
No install needed, the app lives on a web page.
If you decide to start logging what you’re doing, clear the DB and start again. Maybe install it for offline use then. Maybe set a reoccurring alarm to get you into the habit of doing it. See if you find it a useful memory aid after a few weeks.
And next time a detective asks you what you were doing a month last Tuesday, maybe you’ll be able to answer!
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My approach to choosing technology is straightforward but somehow controversial:
Look at the end result
Typically, there are multiple options available for implementing a thing:
- A: difficult, slow to develop, but the end result is better
- B: fast, easy, the end result has some compromises made
When presented with such choice, imagine both futures where you deliver your product to a user. A user doesn't care if it was difficult for you, if you had to learn new things, fight with a compiler or package manager or whatever.
How would you explain that they'll have to endure the slowness of your product because you were not educated enough to make it better?
For me, that would be extremely embarrassing, so I choose option A whenever I can. This pushes me to learn new things despite them being hard or overwhelming or poorly documented. This makes me a better developer, and my users are happier even if they don't know it 😊
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Moving into a new apartment and the previous owner installed a security system (as a service). I thought about making a contract with the same company, since all the equipment is already installed. But then I checked the company's Privacy Policy... Now I want it out of my house as soon as possible 😡 How are they still in business?!
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Nach Protesten von Datenschützern haben sie #LifeLog offiziell eingestellt und dann: Wired am 4. Februar 2004 Ein verantwortlicher Mitarbeiter sagt daß LifeLog in anderer Form weitergeht: www.wired.com/2004/02/pent... Zuckerberg gründet Facebook am 4. Februar 2004: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project -
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The +17% mood boost on days when I get to ride is absolutely real, by the way 🥺
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I've spent the day cleaning up my digital mess. Emptied the email inbox from 2021, set up syncing of my various calendars and task lists, fixed some annoyances in my IDE and improved syntax highlight theme slightly.
It might seem like a procrastination (which it is), but my stress level is suddenly so low that I almost can walk instead of running all the time :ablobcatcoffee:
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Just released strava-ical 1.0.0 and foursquare-swarm-ical 1.0.0.
These tools export Strava activities and Foursquare Swarm checkins to iCal that can be imported into any calendar app.
🏃 → 🗓
🚴 → 🗓
🍺 → 🗓
🍕 → 🗓If you, like me, happen to use those services for lifelogging, these two tools make it super easy and convenient to see what you’ve been up to in the past. Just open your calendar and it’s all there.
#lifelog #quantifiedself #strava #foursquare #swarm #calendar
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When will #MarkZuckerburg be held liable for his SCI program of nanotech used for #Meta's #CorporateEspionage #LifeLog & #1980sParticleWeapons #HackedSatellite program ? When #DoD ? #COINTELPRO 📰🗞️📡🛰️📺
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- Travelling for a few weeks, so #lifelog posts may be less frequent.
- First day of proper leave without startup or pandemic or business angst in... at least 6 or 7 years? I slept in this morning and spent the day preparing for the trip in a haze. The relaxation washing over me is almost debilitating. I had a vague notion that I was stretched, but am only realising how much now.
- The travel hiccups (18h flight delay, baggage misplaced) seem almost immaterial. -
- Last workday of the year, PR review and merge, couple of meetings, email and admin.
- A bit of time on the programming side project. I spent some more useful time on how to properly write docker files, and how they relate to GitHub actions. Routine stuff for many of my colleagues, but simply not something I got around to over the last few years – good to catch up.
- Sat back a bit and reflected about how I spend my work time. A 40h work week remains a decent baseline which allows for bursts beyond that when you need to get something across the line, as well as the occasional day off. Based on my time spent on projects over the past year I set up a time budget for Jan-Feb, and plan to block off these times for focus on specific times in the new year.
- Took the 14yo out for a short run on one of my regular trails. Boy, did he improve over the past few months. He won. I set 3 PRs on Strava trying to keep up 😆
- Will go running with the lad more often, I think.
- Cooled down by playing "For the King" with said lad in local co-op. Much fun. Decided to buy it for R32 (!!) on the Steam special for some remote time together when I travel.
- Set up a Xiaomi Smart Band for the 12yo, which turned out to be somewhat tougher than anticipated. Apparently it's not a "Mi Fit" device anymore, but a device supported by the "Zepp Life" app on iPhone. It's a pretty little thing once you get it working, but caveat emptor in an age where manufacturers come and go.
- I'm on holiday now. I anticipate those discomfortable few days to allow relaxation to creep in again. It's been too little time off for way too long 🏝️