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it's hot boi summer 💖🛼

stonewall was a ✨riot✨🏳️‍⚧️ happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈

Reading

Finally got around to reading "The Goal" by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox , recommended to me by my manager. I appreciated the introduction to the audio book, discussing the distance between what is "truth" and what science truly attempts to measure.

The Goal is about science and education. I believe that these two words have been abused to the extent that their original meanings have been lost in a fog of too much respect and mystery. Science for me, and for the vast majority of respectable scientists, is not about the secrets of nature or even about truths. Science is simply the method we use to try and postulate a minimum set of assumptions that can explain, through a straightforward logical derivation, the existence of many phenomena of nature.

The Law of Conservation of Energy of physics is not truth. It is just an assumption that is valid in explaining a tremendous amount of natural phenomena. Such an assumption can never be proven since even an infinite number of phenomena that can be explained by it does not prove its universal application. On the other hand, it can be disproved by just a single phenomenon that cannot be explained by the assumption. This disproving does not detract from the validity of the assumption. It just highlights the need or even the existence of another assumption that is more valid. This is the case with the assumption of the conservation of energy which was replaced by Einstein’s more global—more valid —postulation of the conservation of energy and mass. Einstein’s assumption is not true to the same extent that the previous one was not “true.

– Excerpt of Introduction to The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

• https://kizu.dev/fit-to-width - ended up using this on my blog for page titles and as an option w/in blog posts
• https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/plato/dialogues/benjamin-jowett - planning on checking reading up on Plato's Dialogues finally, to get a more concrete understanding of "The Socratic Method".
• https://make.leaflet.pub/ - excited to see a tool for site creation based on a format like https://www.scuttlebutt.nz !

Leaflet @leaflet.pub

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May 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM UTC

• https://www.zachleat.com/web/pagefind-search/ - easily implemented search on my site via https://pagefind.app and https://github.com/shishkin/astro-pagefind/tree/main
• https://www.iroh.computer/blog/frost-threshold-signatures - looking at an interesting approach to distributed key storage
• https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/852.pdf
• https://4042302.org/ - considering adding 404 → 307 redirects to old versions of my site
• https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/ - signal added a mitigation to prevent the windows 11 "ai recall" feature from screenshotting all your messages and making the end-to-end encryption useless

worked on implementing animated details elements, and discovered that margin doesn't animate. a good ole <div style="height: 1rem" /> fixed that.

caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz

Anyone have an idea for why my details animation is weird at the end? codepen.io/jasikpark/pe... developer.chrome.com/docs/css-ui/... #HTML #CSS #interpolate-size #CSSTricks

May 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM UTC

Watching

Showed some friends Star Wars for the first time, it's cool to see it in 4k and on a home projector!

Music

https://theworldis.bandcamp.com/album/beware-the-centrist

Photo Time 📸

I joined https://grain.social , made my first album:

potos grain.social

a motley crew of photos i find interesting