Heyhey y'all. Hope you had a nice xmas. Watched War Between The Land And The Sea with the family over Xmas so I can catch up on the Who Culture episodes about it without spoilers. Plus the mattress on the new Tardis bedroom should have expanded over xmas to be useable without voiding guarantee. So when I got back after Xmas I used the bed for lounging about drinking a glass of wine, watching Who Culture podcast, and mucking about on the tablet screen. Nice. #selfie

Builders finished in my new bedroom today. It's lovely in there. Looking very like i intended. Look forward to one day having money again so I can afford to furnish it with a bed 😆

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/ #lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

I am quite keen to watch The War Between The Land And The Sea on iplayer. But we need to consider tactics. Will the folks sit and watch it with me at Xmas? If they would that'd perhaps be better than whatever drivel quiz shows and police car chase stuff they normally make me watch. If they won't I'll be be postponing it three weeks for no reason. 🤔 Might be nice to watch it in the new bedroom but that probably won't have a bed or a chair until the new year. #watching #doctorWho #onlyNotDoctorWho

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. https://exocortexlog.com/news/articles/2025-12-08-search/ #app #lifeLog

This months newsletter is on it's way to email boxes all the wonderful beautiful financially sovereign anarchists who asked for it. The rest of you fiat flops can read it here: https://dalliance.net/blog/nov25/ Featuring updates on the bedroom build, an Anon Opin show, a walk in Devon, a bitcoin conference report, and news of the new steam machines in the links section.

Read "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds, a story about some future space people investigating the demise of an extinct civilization. Some of the people are software uploads or implants in other people's brains, or infectious biological agents and things. The story is galactic in scale across time and space with good world building, a good tale weaving of elements together. I liked the scene where the woman falling to her death in a lift-shaft remembered she was on a space-ship which only had gravity coz of engine thrust, so saved herself turning the engines off with a wrist controller. Trouble is I came to it infrequently with long gaps and so struggled to keep track of what's going on quite a bit. Lots of different elements to keep track of. My fault, should try and concentrate harder and remember things. #reading #books #novel #alastairReynolds #revelationSpace

Here's some things you'll notice the website doesn't do: * No cookie popups. We don't need to warn you about tracking, we just don't track. * No Tracking. I don't even look at the apache logs. I don't care what you do. * No service agreement checkbox. I'm not providing a service. Do what you want with the code but don't blame me. * No billing * No adverts * No paywall * No VPN barrier * No geoblocking * No subscription button (though RSS is provided) Websites don't have to be shit, the surveillance capitalists just enshitify them on purpose.

Future Plans: I have like ten years of data in my log, converted from those prior prototypes. I will be adding ways to more usefully compare and analyse data going this far back. It could maybe use a milestone function, to track singular events which don't take actual time so don't spread on the grid. Snack tracking and the like. It could likely use a flashcard system, with spaced repetition to review the flashcards, for better memory and recall. Synching between devices might be nice, and lots will suggest doing that through Nostr, but Nostr is a bit public. Would need an encryption layer. Do nostr relays want to relay encrypted data from one user to themselves I suspect Veilid ( https://veilid.com/ ) would be a better option. The "no servers" ethos probably includes nostr relays. Mostly I plan just more and better ways to view the ten years and growing of data I already have. And to do some other things for a bit so my log isn't just full of "Vibecoding Exocortex" 😄

Some things that I'd like in Shakespeare in the first blog post there [ https://exocortexlog.com/news/articles/2025-11-25-vibecoding/ ]. Mostly better management of the chat context. Able to pull back old ones, and delete chunks from them where the robot goes astray or is too verbose and fill up the context window.