Today I ...

… tried to push the idea of creating a strong chain of custody of codes on a git repository. It basically comes down to the git signing process pushed to the point where the whole git repository would be trust worthy. To help with that, I tried to incorporate Keybase Teams so that the validation of the git signatures would be done based on a team. I found 4 potential methods that can be used together or separately but they all come with a downside.

… spent some more time thinking about the decentralized model for the web. It comes from the event around the Bender videos being blocked on YouTube and their attempt at using PeerTube, a decentralized equivalent to YouTube. It made me think a bit about how that model can be used and how it is already used on the web today. Many apps similar to PeerTube in concepts already exists, such as Diaspora*, Mastodon or Friendica.

… need to write down some thoughts I have about licensing. It follows a post I read on Hacker News yesterday where they talked about paying for software. The discussion went around open source, and whether an open source software means less support for issues as opposed to paid software where the developer may or may not have more incentive to fix the issues, etc. Some of the points went toward open source licenses and how you could do open source while still making some money from either donations of from selling the support of the product.

… thought a bit about assumptions we have in our modern society. Actually, I say modern society, but I do not know of those assumptions were already existing before. The Teal way says assumes that all people are good by default. That’s what we’d expect to always be assumed. Even more so, isn’t it assumed that people are innocent until proven guilty? That’s the same kind of assumption, that people are good by default.

… spent another night listening to Tool. Yesterday I spent a good deal of time listening to the latest album of A Perfect Circle. Both are with the signer Maynard James Keenan. He’s a very versatile signer that writes impressive and deep lyrics. To show an example of that, there’s the song Lateralus where the lyrics are following the Fibonacci sequences with the syllable counts. It’s the kind of constructs you wouldn’t expect from any song, but it’s something that makes Tool so incredible.

… discussed a bit more about staying positive and the difficulty it involves. I have been behaving and thinking very negatively over the past few weeks, and it’s definitely getting at me. I do not know how to inverse that in the current position. I know that being positive about things is much better, but I don’t see how I can be positive with what I got in my surroundings. When I discussed about my “Burning Rage”, the methods I got to help with that is wait and do more sports basically.

… played a bit more of one my favorite games, Final Fantasy VII. I started it again last week because I had been listening to the sound track while working. It’s one of the best sound track there is in video games. The story is also very interesting, because it somehow has 2 distinct villains, one of which has a very complex background that explains a big part of why he’s behaving that way.

… have to plan my running schedule for the next few months. The reason for such planning is not that running needs planning intrinsically, it’s just that I want to run a marathon this year, probably in October, so I have to get ready for such event by running and running and running. From my past experience I have, I can’t really just start running a be good to go. My heart usually improves faster than my legs due to my foot condition, flat feet.

… only had meetings and haven’t learned anything from any of them. The only interesting things I thought about at some point was relatively to how a group conversation evolves and how it can be worked in a direction or another. One of the meeting was an open discussion on a subject and there seemed to have been a definite goal from the person calling the meeting. However, the meeting couldn’t start by pointing at that goal because the goal seemed to somehow be that something organic appear.

… need to write about an emotion I have been having a lot more recently. Maybe by writing about it, I will figure out ways to handle it better, or why it seems to be more present right now than it was before, etc. The short version is I felt more aggressive. It seems to have slowly build up and now I’m at a point where I’m wondering how I can slow it down.