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PermalinkI’d been putting off properly tagging my Obsidian vault for years — over 800 notes accumulated with no consistent structure, just a pile of clippings, quick references, and dumped chat exports. Classic case of “I’ll organize it later.” it.
The approach: rather than trust a single AI pass blindly, I built a small classification pipeline and validated it in stages. First, a discovery run over a sample of notes with no fixed categories — just “what is this actually about?” — to see what topics and tags naturally emerged from the data itself, instead of guessing a taxonomy up front. Once a sensible set of categories settled out, I locked it in and ran the classifier against a bigger slice of the corpus, checked the results by hand to make sure the model wasn’t hallucinating or defaulting to generic buckets, and only then let it loose on the entire vault.
Once that pipeline was proven out, I pointed it at something meatier: a full year’s worth of markdown files generated by Claude Code sessions — specs, audits, plans, reports, incident write-ups — and ran the exact same enrichment process against it. Same local model, same classify-then-verify discipline, just a different (and much denser) corpus. Nice validation that the pipeline generalizes beyond “lazily tagged personal notes” into real working documentation.
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Most of the talk about RSS is about publishing. A feed is something your site emits: you write a post, and the feed is the machine-readable copy that goes out the door. Almost every blog does this. It is the easy half, and it has been solved for twen...
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I run one: rmendes.net, built on Indiekit (an open-source IndieWeb server) plus a set of plugins I maintain. It does both directions
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J’ai reçu un spam pour le renouvellement de Norton anti-virus, d’un coup je me suis senti vieux :P
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I don’t follow the games but I do follow US politics and obviously the Trump regime wouldn’t miss that one.
FIFA loves to pretend football and politics should never mix.
Adorable.
By allowing the U.S. government to treat Iran as a political target during the World Cup, FIFA did not stay neutral. It simply outsourced the dirty work to the host country.
And in doing so, it created a precedent.
Future hosts now know the rule: use visas, borders and entry restrictions as political weapons, and FIFA will look the other way — provided the stadiums are shiny enough and the sponsors are comfortable.
There is no walking that back.
The “world’s game” is now apparently open to everyone, unless the host government behaves like a drunk bouncer.
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La nuit a été rude…
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There is something almost absurd in the way British politics often behaves as though replacing the Prime Minister will somehow solve the country’s deeper problems.
The ritual has become familiar. A Prime Minister arrives with promises of renewal, reform, and leadership. For a brief moment, they are presented as the person capable of steering the nation through its challenges. Yet before long, the machinery surrounding them begins to grind into motion: factions within their own party, parliamentary rivalries, entrenched interests, and an information ecosystem dominated by outrage-driven media and tabloid narratives.
Public opinion, itself shaped by this relentless environment, turns against the Prime Minister. Every mistake is amplified, every compromise portrayed as weakness, every failure personalized. The Prime Minister becomes less a leader than a lightning rod, absorbing the frustrations of an increasingly dissatisfied public.
Eventually, the image of weakness becomes politically intolerable. Colleagues who once championed the leader begin distancing themselves. Internal rebellions emerge. Calls for resignation grow louder. The Prime Minister is discarded, replaced by a new figure who arrives promising a fresh start.
And then the cycle begins again.
What makes this process particularly striking is the assumption that changing the individual at the top can resolve problems that are fundamentally structural: stagnant productivity, regional inequalities, housing shortages, strained public services, demographic pressures, and a political culture increasingly driven by short-term media reactions rather than long-term planning.
The result is a political theatre in which the cast changes regularly, but the script remains largely the same.
As for #Brexit, it remains difficult to think of another modern democratic decision in which a nation voluntarily imposed such profound economic, diplomatic, and administrative costs upon itself while simultaneously convincing itself that doing so would restore control. Whatever one’s views on sovereignty, it stands as one of the most consequential acts of national self-harm in recent European history.
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Je pense qu’il y a quelque chose de profondément humain dans notre besoin d’expliquer les dysfonctionnements par des intentions. Lorsqu’un système échoue, lorsqu’une institution ne répond pas à sa mission, nous cherchons instinctivement un responsabl...
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Existe-t-il dans les institutions humaines des équivalents des tourbillons hydrodynamiques, c’est-à-dire des configurations organisationnelles qui génèrent spontanément des retards extrêmes sans qu’aucun acteur ne les ait explicitement voulus ?
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Upgrading openshift clusters assisted by Claude + Openshift skills is a joy, it really turns the whole operation into a smooth process.
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There is something profoundly absurd about a nation hosting international sporting events while simultaneously making itself hostile to large parts of the international community.
The United States is managing to transform a celebration of global competition, exchange, and human connection into a demonstration of exclusion, suspicion, and discrimination. It is a fitting reflection of the political degeneration, institutional decay, and cultural rot embodied by the current regime.
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Interesting: Turning Arch Linux into a Music Production Powerhouse: Running Ableton Live in a Windows VM
https://mdbin.sivaramp.com/p/zu0xzzpiPermalinkWorth a look if you want to use Ableton on Linux !
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Woke up to my geekom mini IT13 shutdown opening the box revealed that the top right corner is literally burned and dead.
Anything I can do to save this?
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Dingue le niveau d’infantilisation dans les médias français à propos de la canicule en cours, bientôt le gouvernement va vouloir interdire ou réguler le soleil et la quantité d’eau ou d’accès à X ou Y.
En fait c’est une version de Don’t Look Up mais dans un monde parallèle, chaque année c’est la grande surprise alors que ça fait plus de 20 ans que le sujet du désordre climatique dû à l’activité humaine est sur la table.
Sans aucun doute qu’il faut mettre les moyens pour aider les personnes vulnérables, mais en fait la vraie solution se passe à l’échelle locale, parfois ultra locale et c’est pas “le Gouvernement” qui va pouvoir gérer l’adaptation, alors qu’il ne fait pas grand chose en amont pour générer une adaptation systémique à l’inévitable augmentation des dérèglements climatiques.
c’est vraiment la bureaucratie à la française dans toute sa splendeur.
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