diff --git a/site/_includes/base.njk b/site/_includes/base.njk index 05e2bf2..12f02ac 100644 --- a/site/_includes/base.njk +++ b/site/_includes/base.njk @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ title: Joshua's Homepage + diff --git a/site/posts/2020-07-02-authority-consents-blind-spot.md b/site/posts/2020-07-02-authority-consents-blind-spot.md index f3dfb3c..6244678 100644 --- a/site/posts/2020-07-02-authority-consents-blind-spot.md +++ b/site/posts/2020-07-02-authority-consents-blind-spot.md @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ title: Authority - Consent's Blind Spot description: Authority is the idea that certain people are justified in violating consent. This belief allows people to force others to do what they want with a clear conscience. tags: - ethos +draft: false --- - > 2025 disclaimer: I haven't thought through all these ideas in a while, but I probably would change some of this or soften/rephrase it. Consent occurs when an individual voluntarily agrees to the proposal or desires of another. It comes from the concept that who should decide what happens to your person, is you. diff --git a/site/posts/2021-04-03-trivium.md b/site/posts/2021-04-03-trivium.md index a779a6d..edb0c5c 100644 --- a/site/posts/2021-04-03-trivium.md +++ b/site/posts/2021-04-03-trivium.md @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ cover: "/2021-04-03--the-seven-liberal-arts.jpg" coverInfo: "[The seven Liberal Arts - Museo del Prado](https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-seven-liberal-arts/89d9f351-fff6-4141-9efc-d5ea2951b488)" date: 2021-04-03 updated: 2025-07-01 +draft: false --- - Information today has become siloed. It's a common belief that little, if any, expertise from one field of knowledge transfers over to other fields. But there is a forgotten tool that anyone can use to confidently approach new subjects and problems: the _Trivium_. The ancients considered the liberal arts to be composed of seven parts. First was a foundation called the _trivium_, composed of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Following that was the _quadrivium_, which was arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy (numbers, numbers in space, numbers in time, numbers in time and space). The trivium (literally, "three ways"), is a framework for learning. diff --git a/site/posts/2021-05-26-needs-based-communication.md b/site/posts/2021-05-26-needs-based-communication.md index 685de88..ea4a40a 100644 --- a/site/posts/2021-05-26-needs-based-communication.md +++ b/site/posts/2021-05-26-needs-based-communication.md @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ date: 2021-05-26 updated: 2025-06-30 cover: "/2021-05-26--needs-based-communication.jpg" coverInfo: "[David Clode](https://unsplash.com/photos/two-birds-sitting-on-top-of-a-white-rope-VYEBlG63bwc)" +draft: false --- - Needs-based communication (usually called non-violent communication or NVC™) is a way of understanding yourself and others with a unique insight: everyone has their own personal reactions to the world, but people have the same basic needs. We recognize those needs in other people, and that common connection can allow us to communicate clearly when there is conflict. ## Needs diff --git a/site/posts/2021-10-16-embracing-mysticism.md b/site/posts/2021-10-16-embracing-mysticism.md index 7261b0a..19ef5b8 100644 --- a/site/posts/2021-10-16-embracing-mysticism.md +++ b/site/posts/2021-10-16-embracing-mysticism.md @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ description: Society is moving from a materialistic era into a mystical one. I d tags: - faith - ethos +draft: false --- - Logical arguments no longer work. This has been especially visible in the pandemic response in 2020. If you dug even a little below the surface of any mainstream narrative in the past two years, you likely found points of disagreement. But showing people scientific papers, charts, statistical analysis, or other types of evidence accomplishes nothing, or worse it invites accusations of being part of the Other Team, one of those backwards, wrong, stupid people. In mid-2020 Vin Armani (now Cyprian) started calling this change "The Dim Age"^[[Free Man Beyond The Wall episode 478: We've Entered The 'Dim Age'](https://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/episode-478)]. He suggested that most people still see the world as exclusively physical, oblivious to patterns of reality that are plainly obvious to more mystically aware people. diff --git a/site/posts/2023-07-14-finally-a-coherent-worldview.md b/site/posts/2023-07-14-finally-a-coherent-worldview.md index e2989d5..ae50194 100644 --- a/site/posts/2023-07-14-finally-a-coherent-worldview.md +++ b/site/posts/2023-07-14-finally-a-coherent-worldview.md @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ description: Why did I think I could figure everything out on my own? tags: - faith - ethos +draft: false --- - Around the time of my previous post, I had just been received into the Orthodox church. Since then I have found it to be everything I was looking for, and a great deal more. There is such a wealth of wisdom, going back thousands of years. And it was all there, un-seen, un-read, as far as I was concerned not existing at all! It seems impossible to me that I was so unaware of these treasures by chance. Father Seraphim Rose, Saint Paisios, Saint Porphyrios, Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica - to name only a few! - lived in this world, recently. They speak plainly and lovingly about modern and familiar concerns. Their example and guidance are a priceless treasure! And not only they help me, but participating in the tradition of the Orthodox Church has... I don't even know how to say it all. I have experienced how the prodigal son felt when he took a few trembling steps back to his father, and instead of the rejection or anger he had earned, he received joyful, unearned forgiveness. His father _ran_ to him while he was still far away! diff --git a/site/posts/2025-04-24-thinking-machines.md b/site/posts/2025-04-24-thinking-machines.md index 5fefbbd..57f1a44 100644 --- a/site/posts/2025-04-24-thinking-machines.md +++ b/site/posts/2025-04-24-thinking-machines.md @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ cover: "/2025-04-24--tron-mcp.jpg" tags: - zeitgeist - ai +draft: false --- - There's an exchange early in the classic '80s movie [TRON](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/97-tron). Some scientists are talking shop: ![Still from TRON, left to right Linda, Alan, and Gibbs, in conversation.](/2025-04-24--computers-will-start-thinking.jpg) diff --git a/site/posts/2025-05-15-tools-of-the-trade.md b/site/posts/2025-05-15-tools-of-the-trade.md index 40ff74c..1416ee1 100644 --- a/site/posts/2025-05-15-tools-of-the-trade.md +++ b/site/posts/2025-05-15-tools-of-the-trade.md @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ description: Some dev tools I recommend. tags: - technical - software +draft: false --- - Everyone has different tools that they find especially effective. Here are some I have found with a few words about why I like them. > Update: I made a [/uses](/uses) page that lists these tools and many others I like. diff --git a/site/posts/2025-06-15-replacing-github-pages.md b/site/posts/2025-06-15-replacing-github-pages.md index 9cd51fe..e72fbd1 100644 --- a/site/posts/2025-06-15-replacing-github-pages.md +++ b/site/posts/2025-06-15-replacing-github-pages.md @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ tags: - how to - technical - selfhosting +draft: false --- - I recently started self-hosting [Forgejo](https://forgejo.org/), but I wanted something to replace GitHub pages, which has been very convenient for publishing little website projects. My server runs Debian, so I decided to use [webhook](https://github.com/adnanh/webhook) and [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/). I'm very happy how it turned out. ## The objective @@ -222,4 +222,4 @@ Here is [the marklink repo in my Forgejo instance](https://git.apps.seigler.net/ That repo is just HTML and JS with only a gh-pages branch, but for repos with npm build scripts, I use [gh-pages @ npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/gh-pages) to push the build to a gh-pages branch and up to the server. -I'm putting off rolling my own CI server, but I imagine that's the next stage here. Stay tuned. \ No newline at end of file +I'm putting off rolling my own CI server, but I imagine that's the next stage here. Stay tuned. diff --git a/site/posts/2025-06-21-war.md b/site/posts/2025-06-21-war.md index b8e7a20..c1f4e3b 100644 --- a/site/posts/2025-06-21-war.md +++ b/site/posts/2025-06-21-war.md @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ description: Lord, have mercy. tags: - zeitgeist - faith +draft: false --- - Today the USA announced its bombing of three locations in Iran, including Iran's main nuclear enrichment site, located under a mountain in Fordow. How far will things go? Here is the only way I know of to have peace: live every day as if tomorrow you will face death, where it will be too late for repentance, too late for a change of heart. As St. Isaac the Syrian says^[Quote copied from [St. Nectarios Monastery](https://www.stnektariosmonastery.org/repentance-and-confession/This%20Life%20Has%20Been%20Given%20to%20Us%20for%20Repentance%20-%20St.%20Isaac%20the%20Syrian.pdf) and [OrthodoxWiki](https://orthodoxwiki.org/Isaac_of_Syria)]: @@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ Seek the Lord, and be strengthened through hope. Seek His face through repentanc -May we not be tested beyond what we can bear, and may we have indestructible peace that is not of this world. \ No newline at end of file +May we not be tested beyond what we can bear, and may we have indestructible peace that is not of this world. diff --git a/site/posts/2025-06-26-ffmpeg-audio-cleanup.md b/site/posts/2025-06-26-ffmpeg-audio-cleanup.md index 0aa7b2d..e5c1b74 100644 --- a/site/posts/2025-06-26-ffmpeg-audio-cleanup.md +++ b/site/posts/2025-06-26-ffmpeg-audio-cleanup.md @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ slug: ffmpeg-audio-cleanup tags: - technical - ffmpeg +draft: false --- - I recently needed to process 20+ phone audio recordings. The files are mp3 recordings in stereo, made in an environment with echoes and noise from fans/heaters. Although I could do it easily with [Tenacity](https://tenacityaudio.org/) I didn't want to use a manual process, since it would take days. So I tried using FFmpeg filters and Bash scripting. @@ -47,4 +47,4 @@ while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do done ``` -If this is useful to you please leave a comment or send an email, I would love to hear about it. \ No newline at end of file +If this is useful to you please leave a comment or send an email, I would love to hear about it. diff --git a/site/posts/2025-06-28-bananagrams-variant.md b/site/posts/2025-06-28-bananagrams-variant.md index 67a72a3..31a0d49 100644 --- a/site/posts/2025-06-28-bananagrams-variant.md +++ b/site/posts/2025-06-28-bananagrams-variant.md @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ description: date: 2025-06-28 tags: - boardgames +draft: false --- - Digging through old bookmarks I found this alternate ruleset for Bananagrams I want to share: > Turn all letter tiles face down, then each player takes 10 tiles (with 3 players take 14 tiles, with 5 players take 8). Someone says "GO" and everyone turns over their tiles and tries to build their own crossword using ALL their letters, no two letter words allowed. When someone finally finishes they say "DONE" and they get -1 to their final score marked on a scorepad. Now ALL players pick FOUR more tiles and again try to use them all with any left over from the last round. Players are allowed to mix up their words at any point in the game, add to them, etc just like Bananagrams. If no one can go out and all players agree, they skip scoring that round and pull 4 more tiles and carry on. This should rarely happen. @@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ Digging through old bookmarks I found this alternate ruleset for Bananagrams I w > > There is more than one strategy here. Fast and furious can win but also just making long words and as few as possible can win too, if you want to push your luck. I have seen games won where the person had 8 tiles left over (+16) but only had 3 words (+9) and ended up with the longest word (-4) and won the game. Played this way the game is fun, tense and addicting. -Reproduced with light editing from [Houserule Jay @ BoardGameGeek](https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/563175/article/5516061#5516061) \ No newline at end of file +Reproduced with light editing from [Houserule Jay @ BoardGameGeek](https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/563175/article/5516061#5516061) diff --git a/site/posts/posts.11tydata.js b/site/posts/posts.11tydata.js index 4f5c77d..612a423 100644 --- a/site/posts/posts.11tydata.js +++ b/site/posts/posts.11tydata.js @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ export default { permalink: "/posts/{{ slug | default:title | slugify }}/", tags: ["posts"], author: "Joshua Seigler", + draft: true, eleventyComputed: { date: "{{ page.date }}", slug: "{{ page.slug }}",