What does ~rogbeer put here?2018-10-12T06:19:39+00:00http://tilde.townTony Chenphtan90@gmail.com~cel and SecureScuttleButt (SSB)2018-10-12T00:00:00+00:00http://tilde.town/2018/10/12/sunny<p>My fellow townie <a href="http://tilde.town/~cel">~cel</a>,
whom <a href="https://twitter.com/nate_smith">~vilmibm</a>
has organised <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/pitch-in-for-a-townie">a fund-raiser</a>
for - that was
about eight months ago - has now seemed to jump onto the proverbial
bandwagon of Scuttlebutt. I had that impression after visiting the
web-page
<a href="https://git-ssb.celehner.com/@f/6sQ6d2CMxRUhLpspgGIulDxDCwYD7DzFzPNr7u5AU=.ed25519">https://git-ssb.celehner.com/@f/6sQ6d2CMxRUhLpspgGIulDxDCwYD7DzFzPNr7u5AU=.ed25519</a></p>
<p>I had to do a little reading to get a better idea of what he was up to, though.</p>
<p>Perhaps the following reading material may help a new-comer to Scuttlebutt:</p>
<ul>
<li>‘What Is the Difference Between Patchwork and Scuttlebutt?’. In
<em>Scuttlebutt: a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform</em>.
URL: <a href="https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/faq/basics/patchwork-vs-scuttlebutt">https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/faq/basics/patchwork-vs-scuttlebutt</a>
Accessed URL on 12th October 2018.</li>
<li>‘git ssb’.
URL: <a href="https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoyf2DtR3WQfCkDKlheQU%3D.sha256">https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoyf2DtR3WQfCkDKlheQU%3D.sha256</a>
Accessed URL on 12th Oct 2018.</li>
<li>‘Scuttlebutt Protocol Guide:
How Scuttlebutt peers find and talk to each other’.
URL: <a href="https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/">https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/</a>
Accessed URL on 12th Oct 2018.</li>
</ul>
Charlie's suggestions for music2018-10-10T00:00:00+00:00http://tilde.town/2018/10/10/overcast<p>Charlie was a visitor whom I met in Singapore (in the past couple of weeks
or so). He’s from Melbourne and he
wore boots from the brand Blundstone. He was born in the year 1996 A.D.</p>
<p>He suggested that I listen to the following musicians:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://skipskipbenben.bandcamp.com/">Skip skip ben ben</a></li>
<li><a href="https://tenzenmen.bandcamp.com/album/boyz-girl">Boyz & Girl</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.bandwagon.asia/articles/snail-mail-announces-southeast-asia-tour-singapore-jakarta-bangkok-more-confirmed">Snail
Mail</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/laluzusa">La Luz</a></li>
</ol>
Music-gigs I have watched 'live'2018-10-09T00:00:00+00:00http://tilde.town/2018/10/09/close-to-sunset<p>The following are musicians/bands that I have had the luxury of watching in
person. I note the venues where I have caught their performances, in the
hopes that a new-comer to the scene may have an idea of where to check out.</p>
<p>I record in the format of <em>Name of musician(s). Name of performance-venue.
Country where I caught their gig(s).</em></p>
<p>In no particular order,</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://survivesaidtheprophet.com/">Survive said the prophet</a>.
<a href="https://www.esplanade.com/">Esplanade</a>.
Singapore.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_xx">The xx</a>.
<a href="http://www.thestar.sg/">The Star Performing Arts Centre</a>.
Singapore.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/88balaz/">88 Balaz</a>.
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/RevolverTW/">Revolver</a>.
Taiwan, in the city of Taipei.</li>
<li><a href="https://rangkaisdead.bandcamp.com/releases">Rangka</a>.
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/litheparalogue/">Lithe House</a>.
Singapore.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.raleghlong.com/">Ralegh Long</a>.
<a href="https://www.yelp.com.sg/biz/artistry-singapore-2">Artistry</a>.
Singapore.</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<p>On a related note, for listings of music-events, or so-called ‘gig guides’,
the following may be helpful for a new-comer to a city - they certainly were
for me:</p>
<ul>
<li>Singapore: <a href="http://singaporegigs.com/">http://singaporegigs.com/</a></li>
<li>Taipei: <a href="http://www.gigguide.tw/">http://www.gigguide.tw/</a></li>
</ul>
Places where I have used my laptop2018-10-08T00:00:00+00:00http://tilde.town/2018/10/08/overcast<p>I have had the luxury and privilege of using my laptop at
the following places, where beverages are sold</p>
<p>(I am currently residing in Singapore - which is in South-east Asia, if you
are not familiar with her.)</p>
<ol>
<li>‘Brunches’. URL: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BrunchesCafe/">https://www.facebook.com/BrunchesCafe/</a></li>
<li>‘Enchanted’. URL: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EnchantedCafeSg/">https://www.facebook.com/EnchantedCafeSg/</a></li>
<li>‘Old Hen’. URL: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oldhencoffee/">https://www.facebook.com/oldhencoffee/</a></li>
<li>‘Coffeesmith’. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CoffeesmithSG/">https://www.facebook.com/CoffeesmithSG/</a></li>
<li>‘Kopi & Tarts’, in the shopping mall City Square. <a href="https://kopiandtarts.com.sg/">https://kopiandtarts.com.sg/</a></li>
<li>‘Real Food’, in the shopping mall Orchard Central. <a href="https://www.realfoodgrocer.com/">https://www.realfoodgrocer.com/</a></li>
</ol>
<p>I had the inspiration to post about this after visiting <a href="https://www.taniarascia.com/">Tania Rascia</a>’s
record of cafes that she has visited: <a href="https://taniarascia.github.io/coffee/">https://taniarascia.github.io/coffee/</a></p>
<p>And of course I can only have such inspiration if <a href="http://phtan.github.io/religion.html">my god</a>
gives it to me.
I thank Him for that.</p>
A room-mate leaves2018-10-08T00:00:00+00:00http://tilde.town/2018/10/08/indoors-and-windowless<p>One of my room-mates - who has just moved in, in the past two weeks or so -
said he is leaving tomorrow to reside at his new work-place, a ‘vegetable farm’.</p>
<p>Yes, he said he would be staying on the farm.</p>
<p>And he says that ‘in the beginning’, he would have no pay/salary. Perhaps he
would have food and accommodation.</p>
<p>When I asked him for the name of the place, he said it is called ‘Onesimus Garden’,
which he claims is in the area of Lim Chu Kang (probably in the north-west region
of the island of Singapore).</p>
Setting this up with Jekyll2018-10-04T00:00:00+00:00http://tilde.town/2018/10/04/jekyll<p>I thought I would post about the resources that I have had the privilege to
refer to, in trying out the static-site generator Jekyll and one of the themes
for it, Poole.</p>
<h3 id="resources">Resources</h3>
<p>In no particular order,</p>
<ol>
<li>Lande, J. (2014). ‘How I Created a Beautiful and Minimal Blog Using Jekyll, Github Pages, and poole’. URL: <a href="http://joshualande.com/jekyll-github-pages-poole">http://joshualande.com/jekyll-github-pages-poole</a>. Accessed URL on 4th Oct 2018.</li>
<li><a href="http://tilde.town/~resir014">Resi</a>. (2016). ‘Jekyll and tilde.town’. In <em>tilde.town</em> (Issue 2), pp. 5 to 9. URL: <a href="https://github.com/tildetown/zine/blob/master/issue_2/zine.pdf">https://github.com/tildetown/zine/blob/master/issue_2/zine.pdf</a>. Accessed URL on 4th OCt 2018.</li>
<li>Moore, P. (2014). ‘Clearing Up Confusion Around baseurl – Again’. URL: <a href="https://byparker.com/blog/2014/clearing-up-confusion-around-baseurl/">https://byparker.com/blog/2014/clearing-up-confusion-around-baseurl/</a>. Accessed URL on 4th Oct 2018.</li>
</ol>
A new way? nineteenth of March 2018: Night2018-03-19T00:00:00+00:00http://tilde.town/2018/03/19/night<p>When did it become an assumption that I have to have a password on the
Internet or even my desktop-computer? I was inspired to think if
something has gone wrong, in the design of Internet-and-computer
technologies, when I realised that an engineering problem - how to
display certain information on a web-site - could possibly be solved by
letting users run commands on the server (as opposed as viewing data on
a client) Passwords, levels of privilege, ‘admininistrator-rights’ -
don’t all these scream ‘I don’t trust you. I don’t trust others’ Now is
that what I want in my life, I ask. Do I want to indirectly say ‘I don’t
trust others’ every time I use a technology. Or do I want to spend time
building (trust in) relationships that arguably are made and broken by
(mutual) trust. Does using technology necessarily mean that I have to
give up on trust and/or trust-building. Is it possible we could find a
new way to use technology so that we find the satisfaction (and
intimacy) that comes from a rewarding relationship with a something. A
god. A business-partner. So on and so forth.</p>
fifteenth of March 2018: Sunny2018-03-15T00:00:00+00:00http://tilde.town/2018/03/15/sunny10th November 2016: Rainy2016-11-10T00:00:00+00:00http://tilde.town/2016/11/10/rainy<p>I’m suffering. They are suffering.</p>
<p>How to put an end to suffering? For myself.</p>
<p>Others can try out my methods if they want.</p>
<p>And of course they have to find out their own way.</p>
<p>Kodo Suzuki Roshi said that adults have to become like children, and children have to become like adults,
for children to grow. Apparently, he said that.</p>
<p>If I were a foster parent of all these lovable children in the world, my impending death is something
I have to deal with. Preparations have to be made for other people to help all these children grow,
so that my death will not stop their growth.</p>
<p>Yes, as Jobs said, death means having to tell your children what you thought you would
have the rest of your life so tell.</p>
<p>THere is a temple called Antaiji in Japan. The people there practice zazen that is good for nothing.</p>
<p>There is a person who is helping people to find a suitable livelihood. She also practises Zen. Her
book is a work-in-progress. It is predicted to be published in Fall 2017. Her name is Maia Duerr.</p>
<p>There are people who teach Zen in Singapore. Their names are Vivienne and Boey Wah Keong.</p>
<p>They will do what I amy not have the time to do. At least, they can do what I may run out of time to do.</p>
<p>Zazen is good for nothing. It is the way to liberate-save suffering people-human. Suzuki Roshi
said that.</p>