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mwfogleman··on Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction
the OP's YouTube channel is filled with videos made from these techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVp8HfqWX9E&list=PLL81xI9jaV...
mwfogleman··on Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction
Here's a music video the OP and I made with these techniques: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GOciie5Pjk
mwfogleman··on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
More simply: people are increasingly blocking advertisers to hide their advertisements. This would prevent you from shielding yourself from ads.
mwfogleman··on Show HN: Desert Atlas, a self-hosted OpenStreetMap app for Sandstorm
Wait, Sandstorm is still alive??? Amazing!
mwfogleman··on Strategy 101: An introduction to power
I learned a lot of things there! The training I received was focused on two components, what they called Awakening and Responsibility—Awakening referring to contemplative practices and monastic structures designed to lead to classical enlightenment, and Responsibility was hands-on leadership training through helping their non-profit organization.

Learning about power was indeed one of the most valuable lessons I learned there, specifically on the responsibility side. Basically, I went from not caring about power, and subtly believing I shouldn't have it, to believing that it's worth using the power I have to do good things. Nowadays, I spend most of my time doing service projects, using my power to benefit others. My blog and this post is one of them!

My teacher had definitions of wisdom, love, and power that he shared in his teachings, which I personally found useful, but you're right, there aren't culturally agreed upon definitions of them. I find getting to know people over time gives you a sense of their character, their values, their strengths, and their weaknesses. When I meet someone I deem to be wise and loving, I want to help them, give them resources, connect them to people, and find other ways to support them.

Just a few thoughts!

mwfogleman··on A Guide to Twitter
This piece is written by two people, the second sentence was written by my co-author, Brian!
mwfogleman··on A Guide to Twitter
yes, especially reply game! it's a general skill that's useful everywhere socially, including in person
mwfogleman··on Ask HN: Why do you keep a personal knowledge base?
I wrote that post, the post you linked is the second part of a two-part series. The first part is here: https://praxis.fortelabs.co/building-a-second-brain-in-emacs...
mwfogleman··on Q1 2018 Funding Announcement
Great picks for the first funding round. Both these tools are invaluable.
mwfogleman··on Neopets HTML Guide
That is some next level late 90's / early aught's action
mwfogleman··on Good books for deep hacks
I found this helpful not necessarily for the particular book recommendations, but for the topics it suggested looking into.
mwfogleman··on How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006)
I'm basing a new business (Hostwriting, hostwriting.com) off of this method, but I combine it with other people asking and ordering the questions. I also like to have people verbally answer questions as a preliminary first draft.
mwfogleman··on Building a Second Brain in Emacs and Org-Mode
Be sure to read the second post in the series here, which dives deeper into particular configurations:

https://medium.com/@mwfogleman/implementing-a-second-brain-i...

mwfogleman··on Board games are back, thanks to lessons designers learned from computer games
boardgamearena.com. That is all.
mwfogleman··on My Portfolio
Ha! And me as well. You're the main reason my handle these days tends to be mwfogleman or variations thereof. :)

The funny thing to me isn't that there's another person with my name on the internet, who has a presence on the internet. The funny thing is that our interests overlap (to some extent) from what I can tell. I've done less programming but it's been a consistent interest of mine for some time. I tend to program in Clojure but I like Python and Go very much. :)

mwfogleman··on My Portfolio
A surprise to see my name on Hacker News - and realize it's my internet doppelganger! (Hi there!) Trade you!: http://mwfogleman.com/portfolio.html
mwfogleman··on How to Host Your Own Private Git Repositories
I use Gogs and a self-hosted sandstorm.io.
mwfogleman··on Org mode 9.0 released
How do you schedule that task?
mwfogleman··on The Benjamin Franklin Method: How to Be a Better Writer
If you're interested in doing these techniques practically, Arthur Whimbey's materials on writing could be very helpful. They give you a more systematic and practical approach than is presented here.
mwfogleman··on Pre-Socratics: A Painless Introduction
Wonder why Luke Muehlhauser is interested.
mwfogleman··on App Uses Kids’ Obsession with Phones to Teach Them Coding
I learned to code largely because of my interest in Linux and Emacs. Connecting to a sense of pleasure, fun, and interest is critical to successful learning in any domain- I've found this to be true in exercise and meditation, too :)
mwfogleman··on The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)
Clojure was my first programming language. I've been playing around with a language with pointers recently, and I wonder if you could explain to me what you mean about "symbols which are natural pointers."

More generally, I don't think I understand yet why someone would use pointers instead of a variable.

Thanks for your comment about Lisp.

mwfogleman··on An open letter to Richard M. Stallman
The maintainer of Emacs, Stefan, actually started all of this forking talk.
mwfogleman··on Profile of Ted Chiang: The Perfectionist
I was thrilled to find out Denis Villeneuve is doing the adaptation. He's a fantastic director, with complex, morally challenging films.
mwfogleman··on Out in the Open: Man Creates One Programming Language to Rule Them All
"Julia is also designed parallelism."
mwfogleman··on Two Simple Steps Helped Me Learn Vim
I found Anki / spaced repetition helpful when learning (still learning, always learning) Emacs. I make cloze deletion cards for the commands and their explanations.
mwfogleman··on Show HN: Git Gossip – Receive weekly updates from the top 1000 GitHub developers
Usually planets are limited to topic-specific posts, whereas these posts are anything that is on their blog.
mwfogleman··on Simple Revision Control
Then again, ESR has assumed a role in the free software community as a VCS expert, as evidenced by his reposurgeon project and uses.
mwfogleman··on Big things to expect from Emacs 25
Because this is a wishlist, not a changelog.
mwfogleman··on Sylvester the Cat's Common Lisp IDE
My understanding was that Sly sounds like Slime, but isn't.
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