Personal microblog without a character limit
Stolen from a website belonging to someone I admire
Ponderances, ideas, cool things I found, plans I’ll likely never execute, and other things that don’t quite fit elsewhere on the website nor warrant a full article. It won’t always be particularly profound or well-written. Refer to the website’s introduction for motivation.
After a year or two of a hate-hate relationship with Spotify — which I’d switched to to afford someone more convenience — I have finally gone back to self-hosting my own music library with Navidrome. I tried using Lidarr for a little while, but its search feature has been broken since a MusicBrainz API change a few months ago. To manage my music library and properly tag files, I’ve gone back to using Beets, which I had used years ago.
Upon discovering Symfonium and Supersonic, I am now pretty happy with my setup. I can continue rebuilding my old music library, hosting it myself, and listening to music through my Sonos speakers.
イツエの「海へ還る」より：
おかえり、おかえり
こんなにも自由に君は泳げる
そんな事知らなかったでしょう
From A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt:
Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ‘round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down — and you’re just the man to do it — do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!
— Sir Thomas More
Believe it or not, I found this gem while watching meeting #131 of the (2nd session) 44th Canadian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (OGGO). You can read the minutes of proceedings if you prefer text. It led me to this really nice article about the rule of law by the Sutherland Institute, too, that I think is worth a read.
While looking for the lyrics to 優しい嘘 (Yasashii Uso) by 上原れな (Uehara Rena), I ended up finding a Smule page for it. On it, there were a few recordings of people singing the song submitted years ago. These are very sweet amateur renditions of the song, and I found myself smiling like a parent listening to their children’s school recital.
I made it so I can enable MathJax on a per-page basis on this website. It’s really cool to be able to write mathematical notation. I used to use Pandoc to convert Markdown with inlined LaTeX to PDF for notes and assignments back in university, so this is a nice throwback to those days.
Look at it:
$$ \mathbbm{E}(X) = \sum_{x \in \mathcal{X}} x \cdot \mathbbm{P}(x) \longrightarrow \mathbbm{E}(f(X)) = \sum_{y \in f(\mathcal{X})} y \cdot \mathbbm{P}(y) $$Not that it’ll get much meaningful use, but it’s nice to have the option.