garden/2024-12-13.md

• I'm writing this on my way to Japan (Fukuoka) from Honolulu :)
  • I just finished Story of your life and other stories by Ted Chiang, I liked it a lot. I don't know why I waited so long to read him more intensively after liking some of his short stories I read online.
  • Some related concepts/topics:
    • Fermat's Principle of Least Time
    • The Castle of the Pyrenees by Magritte
  • He likes Borges (so do I as you might know). This came across most clearly maybe in his Golem related story, but there's such an undercurrent in several stories and he uses the adjective Borgesian (IIRC) once.
• Agora development:
  • agora bot migration:
    • The current agora bot for Mastodon is still ceasing to work on 2024-12-15 as per https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/ but I have failed to do anything about it... until now :)
    • To start with, I've now requested a post archive to save the ~14k posts it has produced since it started operating ~two years ago.
    • I'll also look for an alternate instance, and try to set up a migration flow (for keeping followers).