I love the idea of more trains, but let’s look at how Japan (and, increasingly, China) does it. Night trains are romantic and all, but in all fairness, who wants to travel for 12hrs+ on a train with barely working WiFi, no (fancy) restaurant or entertainment, no proper working desk, and sleeping in a metal sardine box. All that at €300? You do this once, maybe, as an experience, and then never again.
One of the things I missed moving from WordPress to Hugo: scheduled posts. WP just… does that. Set a future date, and forget about it.
And static site generators don’t… The site only rebuilds when you git push, and that’s it. 😢
Why schedule posts, you ask? Because at times I write 3-4 posts in a day, and I don’t want to spam. ¯\(ツ)/¯ I have a rule that there should only be a single published post a day, and if I know I’m out of topics (especially for FlatTurtle) I tend to add a week or 2 between posts to spread it out evenly.
Adding to this:
I’d like to focus on my actual takeaway here: Elon Musk sucks at AI.
Look, Musk said multiple times that OpenAI wouldn’t succeed. He’s tried, repeatedly, to kneecap it and steal its researchers and in one case — that of Andrej Karpathy, a founding team member Musk lured to Tesla — succeeded. But how’s xAI doing? Well, it’s a black hole for money that’s been acquired by SpaceX. It’s hemorrhaging researchers. One of its huge data centers isn’t going to be occupied by xAI — there’s a deal with Anthropic instead. It might buy Cursor, in an attempt to match the programming-focused products put forward by Anthropic and OpenAI. xAI’s enterprise users, whether that’s the US government or private companies, have been strong-armed into using it. To the degree that its bespoke CSAM machine Grok, aka MechaHitler, works, it apparently works because Musk distilled other people’s models.
What a time to be alive! The web is truly, utterly broken.
To be entirely clear, I’m not doing anything. It just refreshes a million times, DoSing itself in the process, until, after a while, it actually loads “perfectly” fine. All I run is uBlock and NextDNS to get rid of (a portion of) the trackers and ads.
Can’t believe it’s been so many years… But the time has come to say farewell to WordPress.
It’s been on my mind for years, but never really put in the effort to export so many years worth of posts, media, etc to a better solution… It felt like a Herculean job and everytime I thought about it for more than 3 minutes, I dreaded the idea.
But since the future’s (finally) here, thanks to AI, I was able to export it all without fiddling with broken or paid addons and get everything in Hugo within a few hours worth of work. The site lives (for now) on Cloudflare, with the media in R2. The deploy via Gitlab-ci is (or should, let’s find out after this post 🥲) be fully automated and media should sync up in R2.
It’s my firm conviction, now more than ever, that the degree to which we are able and willing to struggle for ownership of our attention is the degree to which we are free.
– James Williams
From Dense Discovery:
Here’s a familiar story we tell ourselves about our new inability to focus: screens bad, books good, civilisation circling the drain. It’s a seductive diagnosis – and also, probably, a lazy one.
I vibe coded a quick tool that lets you sign up, and get emails when a new post is posted (based on the RSS feed) on this blog, as well as my uncle's.
