I’ve been working a lot recently on partkeepr-ng which is a rewrite of PartKeepr. I got it implemented on my Debian box and did some work on the API after getting my original data migrated. It’s going to be really nice; and a modern programming environment opens up possibilities that the old PHP version could no longer deliver. More on all of that later.
A bright image for a dreary day. It’s Thanksgiving Day in Canada and quite dreary.
I’ve been thinking about chronobiology recently and why I have gradually migrated to going to sleep at 2030-2100 and awakening at 0330 or so. Sometimes I can delay awakening until maybe 0400-0430 but most often I am awake in the early hours of the morning. There is a lot of informaiton on setting the biological clock so that one can get to sleep normally at night. That’s not my problem. I can fall asleep without problem. It’s the early awakening that gets me. I wonder if light exposure at night (instead of avoiding light in the evening hours) would help. Maybe something to experiment with. Possibly increasing the amount of ligh after 1930 or so would help delay the onset of sleepiness.
I ran across this article Everyone’s packing up on Hacker News; and it struck a chord. The author touches on a pervasive antipathy toward the big social platforms. I feel it to. I think the curve has tipped over from scarcity to abundance to a sickening over-abundance. I don’t really want to look at Instagram, not because there’s nothing there, nor because I hate it. I don’t want to look at Instagram because it’s too much. It’s endless. I feel like I just want boundaries around online content. YouTube is not dissimilar. Watch a video and it’s there waiting to pounce with another suggestion and one after that ad infinitum. It’s partly why I like personal blogs in lieu of social media. You can get your hands around it; and while a blog will grow slowly over time, it doesn’t grow infinitely in real-time.
