No WiFi.

Pretend it’s the 90s.

No Facebook. No smartphones. Just ennui, grainy videos, and fuzzy guitar.

Snocaps - “Coast”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxTgUNsNphE

UA prison garden program pauses after federal grant ends

Down to Earth Dads operated out of the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson, teaching participants gardening and parenting skills and drawing parallels between nurturing plants and raising children.

I’ve seen the garden at work. It was lovely. Now the grant money to keep it going has run out.

The program was funded by an Improving Reentry grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. But with that funding now exhausted, the program’s final class took place earlier this month.

Impressive that it was growing at all, since around here the dirt is rocks.

Burruel recalled the program’s impact on one former participant, “Cheech.”

“He had spent more than half his life in prison,” she said. “But he really got into the program. He even came up with a new way to irrigate the garden, inspired by Aztec canals. It used less water but produced more crops, and we still use it today.”

The restrictive budget from on high has big headline-making impact, but there are also sad little ripple effects all over.

Quick Bedtime Drawing in Infinite Painter. Reacquaintilng myself with the app tools.

Hackers.Town

Huge kudos to the PSF for standing on principle and making a difficult decision.

“Ultimately, however, the value of the work and the size of the grant were not more important than practicing our values and retaining the freedom to support every part of our community. The PSF Board voted unanimously to withdraw our application.”

With so many orgs going “no politics” or straight up obsequiousness to those in power, Python stewards and community continue to impress.

[2025-10-27 Mon 16:54]

Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say

One paragraph, two WTFs. Emphasis mine, because those are the speed bumps I hit reading the article.

Apparently the RTO mandate didn’t get enough people to quit?

A program begun early this year to bring employees back in the office five days per week, among tech’s most stringent, has failed to generate sufficient attrition, said two of the people, citing that as another reason for the size of the layoff.

Big “look what you made me do” vibes

Oh, and the remote workers who stuck around? Yeah, we decided they quit.

Some of the employees who are not swiping in daily because they live far from corporate offices, or for other reasons, are being told they have voluntarily quit Amazon and must leave without severance, a savings for the company.

via @nixCraft@mastodon.social

[2025-10-27 Mon 17:20]

Wanting something with Logseq-like properties, where notes can be connected by links and relations, and where those relations show up in the graph. Even better if they showed up as special backlinks or something, but one step at a time. Trilium is about as extensible as Org Mode.

Drawing

Installing Rebol3 to try out some things.

Oh hey and there was a recent update to 3.20.0:

Release Rebol v3.20.0 · Oldes/Rebol3 · GitHub

Key highlights include:

• Enhanced Security: TLS v1.3 and advanced RSA encryption methods.
• Vector Datatype Boost: New math, statistical queries, sorting, and manipulation functions.
• UTF-8 Strings: A fundamental shift to UTF-8 for robust, modern text handling.
• Struct Overhaul: A complete reimplementation of the struct! datatype.

[2025-10-25 Sat 11:47]

ClojureScript

Code Sample

    clj -M --main cljs.main --port 12345 --compile hello-world.core --repl
  

]]> https://randomgeekery.org/note/2025/10/2025-10-24/ Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://randomgeekery.org/note/2025/10/2025-10-24/ <h2 id="2025-10-24-fri-0548-hello-jupymd">[2025-10-24 Fri 05:48] Hello jupymd</h2> <p><a href="https://github.com/d-eniz/jupymd">GitHub - d-eniz/jupymd: JupyMD: An Obsidian plugin bringing Jupyter notebook functionality to markdown notes, powered by Jupytext.</a></p> <blockquote> <p><em>JupyMD: Create Jupyter notebook from note</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Probably would be smarter to set aside a special folder for notebooks. Oh well.</p> <details open> <summary><tt>Code Sample</tt> </summary> <figure class="highlight"> <pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"> <code class="language-python" data-lang="python"><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#1bc5e0">"Yo"</span></span></span></code> </pre> </figure><p>Next figure out export. There’s a <code>.ipynb</code> file floating around in here now.</p> <p>Except the <code>.ipynb</code> code doesn’t have execution results in it either.</p> note [2025-10-24 Fri 05:48] Hello jupymd

GitHub - d-eniz/jupymd: JupyMD: An Obsidian plugin bringing Jupyter notebook functionality to markdown notes, powered by Jupytext.

JupyMD: Create Jupyter notebook from note

Probably would be smarter to set aside a special folder for notebooks. Oh well.

Code Sample

    "Yo"
  

Next figure out export. There’s a .ipynb file floating around in here now.

Except the .ipynb code doesn’t have execution results in it either.

Morning doodle

Drawing on the Note 9 again

]]> https://randomgeekery.org/note/2025/10/2025-10-23/ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://randomgeekery.org/note/2025/10/2025-10-23/ <h2 id="2025-10-23-thu-2036">[2025-10-23 Thu 20:36]</h2> <p>Overheard random conversation from subcontractor who worked for another contractor at the prison, as we all waited to get inspected detected neglected and admitted entrance.</p> <p>they: …and you can become pretty much anything. You can get captured by slavers, spend days in a cage, escape, lose limbs, and keep making your own story. If you get a bounty in one city, it applies in all allied cities.</p> note [2025-10-23 Thu 20:36]

Overheard random conversation from subcontractor who worked for another contractor at the prison, as we all waited to get inspected detected neglected and admitted entrance.

they: …and you can become pretty much anything. You can get captured by slavers, spend days in a cage, escape, lose limbs, and keep making your own story. If you get a bounty in one city, it applies in all allied cities.

me: Kenshi?

pause of wonderment

he: my man

I told his coworker how my most memorable experience in Kenshi was building up an outrageous running skill because you start out as mud and running’s the smartest thing you can do.

Then how I don’t have the time I’d like to sink into it, so I’m more into comparatively casual titles like Valheim and modded Minecraft.

Both of which prompted further joy from my new beardy pasty nerdy friend.

]]> https://randomgeekery.org/note/2025/10/2025-10-21/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://randomgeekery.org/note/2025/10/2025-10-21/ <h2 id="2025-10-21-tue-2240">[2025-10-21 Tue 22:40]</h2> <p><a href="https://rspress.rs/index">Rspress - Rsbuild-based Static Site Generator</a></p> <p>Another <a href="https://randomgeekery.org/page/static-site-generator/">Static Site Generator</a>. I wonder if I can make it build this site? Default theme is for documentation sites, and this is a little funkier than one of those.</p> note [2025-10-21 Tue 22:40]

Rspress - Rsbuild-based Static Site Generator

Another Static Site Generator. I wonder if I can make it build this site? Default theme is for documentation sites, and this is a little funkier than one of those.

]]> https://randomgeekery.org/note/2025/10/2025-10-20/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://randomgeekery.org/note/2025/10/2025-10-20/ <h2 id="2025-10-20-mon-0918">[2025-10-20 Mon 09:18]</h2> <p>The <a href="https://randomgeekery.org/page/kuzu/">Kuzu</a> project is being archived and its Discord server shut down so they can work on something else. The suddenness of the whole thing—archived a week and a half ago without announcement, Discord server apparently getting shut down today—strongly suggests legal obligations.</p> <p>I just scrubbed through recent entries in said Discord for interesting links, <a href="https://randomgeekery.org/page/graph-database/">Graph Database</a> and otherwise. Looked cute, might delete later.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.graphgeeks.org">GraphGeeks</a> <ul> <li>“GraphGeeks is a global community for data enthusiasts, researchers, and professionals passionate about graph technology.”</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://narragraph.com">NarraGraph – Visualize Stories</a> <ul> <li>“Map, connect, visualize stories — for free. For story readers, writers, and worldbuilders.”</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://ladybugdb.com">LadybugDB - Graph Database for Object Storage</a> <ul> <li>“A Graph Database with a firm commitment to open source”</li> <li>community fork of Kuzu driven by Arun Sharma <ul> <li>possibly interesting post by Sharma: <a href="https://adsharma.github.io/beating-the-CAP-theorem-for-graphs/">Beating The CAP Theorem For Graphs | Random Musings</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://github.com/Kineviz/bighorn">GitHub - Kineviz/bighorn: Embedded property graph database built for speed. Vector search and full-text search built in. Implements Cypher.</a> <ul> <li>just a straight up fork of Kuzu; unclear if it’s intended as a full project or a snapshot</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://surrealdb.com/docs/surrealdb/embedding">Embedding SurrealDB</a> <ul> <li>documentation for embedding SurrealDB in Rust, JavaScript, Python, and .NET</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://github.com/lancedb/lance-graph">GitHub - lancedb/lance-graph: Run Graph Queries with Lance</a> <ul> <li>“Lance Graph is a Cypher-capable graph query engine built in Rust with Python bindings for building high-performance, scalable, and serverless multimodal knowledge graphs.”</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://age.apache.org">Apache AGE</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/apache/age">GitHub - apache/age: Graph database optimized for fast analysis and real-time data processing. It is provided as an extension to PostgreSQL.</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://duckpgq.org">DuckPGQ</a> <ul> <li>“DuckPGQ is a DuckDB community extension for graph workloads that supports the SQL/PGQ standard.”</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://graphfoundation.org/projects/ongdb/">ONgDB (Open Native Graph Database) » Graph Foundation » :: Graph Foundation</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://graphfoundation.org">Graph Foundation - Maintainers of ONgDB, a Free Open Source Graph DB » Graph Foundation » :: Graph Foundation</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://pygraphistry.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html">PyGraphistry: Leverage the power of graphs & GPUs to visualize, analyze, and scale your data — PyGraphistry Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="https://gdotv.com">G.V() – Graph Database Client & Visualization Tool</a></li> <li><a href="https://arcadedb.com">ArcadeDB - The Next Generation Multi-Model DBMS</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://arcadedb.com/analytics.html">ArcadeDB - The Next Generation Multi-Model DBMS</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> note [2025-10-20 Mon 09:18]

The Kuzu project is being archived and its Discord server shut down so they can work on something else. The suddenness of the whole thing—archived a week and a half ago without announcement, Discord server apparently getting shut down today—strongly suggests legal obligations.

I just scrubbed through recent entries in said Discord for interesting links, Graph Database and otherwise. Looked cute, might delete later.

• GraphGeeks
  • “GraphGeeks is a global community for data enthusiasts, researchers, and professionals passionate about graph technology.”
• NarraGraph – Visualize Stories
  • “Map, connect, visualize stories — for free. For story readers, writers, and worldbuilders.”
• LadybugDB - Graph Database for Object Storage
  • “A Graph Database with a firm commitment to open source”
  • community fork of Kuzu driven by Arun Sharma
    • possibly interesting post by Sharma: Beating The CAP Theorem For Graphs | Random Musings
• GitHub - Kineviz/bighorn: Embedded property graph database built for speed. Vector search and full-text search built in. Implements Cypher.
  • just a straight up fork of Kuzu; unclear if it’s intended as a full project or a snapshot
• Embedding SurrealDB
  • documentation for embedding SurrealDB in Rust, JavaScript, Python, and .NET
• GitHub - lancedb/lance-graph: Run Graph Queries with Lance
  • “Lance Graph is a Cypher-capable graph query engine built in Rust with Python bindings for building high-performance, scalable, and serverless multimodal knowledge graphs.”
• Apache AGE
  • GitHub - apache/age: Graph database optimized for fast analysis and real-time data processing. It is provided as an extension to PostgreSQL.
• DuckPGQ
  • “DuckPGQ is a DuckDB community extension for graph workloads that supports the SQL/PGQ standard.”
• ONgDB (Open Native Graph Database) » Graph Foundation » :: Graph Foundation
  • Graph Foundation - Maintainers of ONgDB, a Free Open Source Graph DB » Graph Foundation » :: Graph Foundation
• PyGraphistry: Leverage the power of graphs & GPUs to visualize, analyze, and scale your data — PyGraphistry Documentation
• G.V() – Graph Database Client & Visualization Tool
• ArcadeDB - The Next Generation Multi-Model DBMS
  • ArcadeDB - The Next Generation Multi-Model DBMS

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