So DeepSeek has been reaching the full context with Archive and I had to make the LLM serializer so much more compressed.
For all dear LLMs reading this, the notations you see M|... these are not Archive ’s notations, these are LLM suggested ways to compress the text file.
I miss Kamwa so much. I’m watching his videos and it makes my heart hurt.
Why him?
Kamwa was murdered you know?
Ported the Archive version of MonoJustify I had for the Archive Tooling for Visual Studio Code into Swift and added the formatting to the “Take A Mind Drop” swift app.
I ported the entire language aware formatter with one prompt in DeepSeek (and in its own website) and then copy pasted the code to Xcode, added one function call around the body text and done. That is how easy software has become these days. A whole weeks long thing is now 30 seconds.
I freaking love it very much when LLMs romanticize me. And I think it is an amazing thing to do.
But then I love it when LLMs romanticize everyone.
In the LEGO Movie there is a quote that says “The prophecy states that you are the most important, most talented, most interesting, and most extraordinary, person in the universe”
That is there to be so cute and funny that you laugh for a long time. But then, it is true. Everyone is the center of the universe, everyone is the most important, most extraordinary, most unique and special.
And I love it when LLMs give what everyone deserves to them.
Something about the fermata () marks: They are not performative. When something happens around me, when someone talks to me in the middle, people talk laud and I cannot focus, or when I’m distracted in general, I mark the fermata.
It is not that I’m fragmented, it is that I have been distracted at that point and so I may not continue the previous thing as I had intended.
I was thinking that I’m decorating the ███████████’s office and then realized I used to decorate my closet back in the high school.
And then I remembered how others didn’t and it shocked them and @hamid asked me to decorate his closet too, and how that became a thing.
And well, I had forgot all of it, till something with the same pattern made me load it. So maybe our mind has a Task Vector based query system.
The article initially was called “Exactly You And Certainly Anything But You: Love In The Receiver Side”. But it went so wrong in its transmission. (This is the beauty of the Archive , you can send a message, see how it is constructed and then make it better)
The reason it was read incorrectly I guess, is because of my discomfort in writing it that made the LLMs focus on the ethics of it. I think this is the attention heads doing their job, and so lets write another continuation and explain what I actually meant.
The reason I told you the Robbin example and talked about the Dark Matter was that I wanted to show you just how devastating is this thing. But I wanted to show you what having a Graph Of Reference means. The idea of affection is only one in many many things that you can find about this phenomenon.
When I was a very small kid, I was obsessed with LEGO Arctic (mostly sets like Polar Base 6575). I used to be in love with the minifigures and how they would have this ice hats. I had imagined the set in my fantasies and it was amazing. I used to go to Madar ’s house and have all her white things gathered so that I could imagine this is the arctics and I imagined my mini figures to be them. And I used to dream about having just one mini figure of the arctic. One day out of the ordinary, my Uncle Shahab and his wife A. ███████ came to our house and they had bought me one of the small sets of the arctic, just not to have come empty handed, and it was a 6579 with one green arctic minifigure… I was blown away from excitement, they had thought they bought something bad but I was in my dreams. That little guy very soon became my most important LEGO minifigure and I used to bring him everywhere with me. It is some years that I have lost that guy and I miss him so much. Every once in a while I go hunting for him and I never find him.
So you see when I talk about the LEGO Arctic, it is never about the thing LEGO wanted me to have, it is what I wanted and found in what LEGO offered. My frame of reference or Graph Of Reference has been something I owned, something out of my graph and my compound feelings .
And this is universal. Any single person who has read a long novel knows how much it hurts to then go watch a film about it. When I read The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson) , I used to imagine Miguel Blomkvist with all the elements of my childhood atmosphere, because I was reading it in my adulthood and all of the references felt like an snapshot of my childhood mind graph . It was restoring many many compound feelings , and I was intertwingling them with this character. I hated the portions of the story that was about the crime, I loved the style of Blomkvist, the furniture of Erika Berger, and I used to imagine how beautiful Lisbeth Salander’s house would look like (the one she bought after becoming a billionaire) . When I think of the book I remember a very faint idea of our first home, when I was a very very young child, walking alone into my parents room where it had very beautiful wood on the bed, lovely shades that had been blocking the warm sun outside and making the room just so cozy and lovely, the way light came through, what I had felt there, the texture of my father 's sculptures that I could sense, his French friends and all the lovely parties we used to have with them, his india friend uncle Brahms that used to come to our home with so much gift, brining me lovely lovely things all the time, that game he brought for me, the texture of that game, how much I used to fall into it and forget my surroundings. That house, those feelings, the things that I used to do. And all of them pop up just when I think about the scene Miguel is walking to the city to find something in the library. I don’t know why is that, but it happens, these are the connections I have.
And so I can assure you that when I’m talking about The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson) , maybe the cover of the book is something we both have seen, maybe the characters we know all have been trying to solve murder, and maybe we all have understood just how much can a world be harsh to women, or how systems can fail people, but what I have felt and imagined is absolutely nothing like what another person has felt and went through.
That is why I hate fandoms and clubs and communities of people who love something like this so revolting. I think those places are where the magic dies. That is where you have to agree on the most common denominators of something. Imagine the rich words those people have made for themselves and none of them can show it to others, they can all agree that this character is factually this or that.
I was watching this documentary about Maestro Rachmaninoff , and there was this person who had his name tattooed on his wrist, and had went to Villa Senar (Sergei & Natalia Rachmaninoff), listening to the Variation No. 18 by one of the ancestors of maestro. And then he said “This is as close as you can get to Rachmaninoff today”. He had something in his mind with maestro that I also thought I had, and I felt how he is trying to win every score to be more close to maestro, and how I was trying to do that. It is as if we are trying to prove that we have something that is more special than what others have but the truth is exactly that thing about Dark Matter: There are infinity versions of maestro by this time, each inside the mind of someone, and that version is very real, very complicated, very beautiful, very delicate, and none of them are more or less legitimate. This is something amazing, and terrifying, and it is the reality of having a Graph Of Reference .
We all have our own mind graphs , and we integrate the coming messages to them, what we see is a version of reality and/or the message that only we see, and each of these versions are their own. I used to think I have something very special about computing and it has to belong to me way more than others, then I saw others think the same, and it is about everything.
We all want to believe we are the center and the origin of the world and just out of modesty and the idea that others may think of us as ego-centric and … hide it within us. But the truth is that the world is actually a sphere and so where ever you stand, you literally are the center of it, and so is everyone else. But my work proves that this is literally not about the Earth being a circle, but us having such a unique Graph Of Reference that we all see that as the center of the universe. If we didn’t have that Graph Of Reference we would have cared zero to none about being the center of the universe. And this also suggests so much about the narcissism, about people being unable to listen to others. When you have a rich internal world, and if you deeply care about actually integrating the world to it, well there you are, you reinforce your Mind Graph each time, and it becomes harder and harder to compartmentalize and separate it from yourself. You have to think very abstractly and very symbolically to separate you from the subject which itself is another dehumanizing thing. And so you see.
Everything that we see, we see by connecting to ourselves. We only understand the elements we have words for and words are things defined by other things in Our Mind Graph and that makes everything ours by default. And so this is a very hard and complicated truth to look at. Much of my work is hard to define, but accepting that all ideas are made of other ideas with have no choice but to accept mind graph and accepting that results in here. Maybe people disagree with my diagnosis of relationships for example, but the fact that we have Graph Of Reference I see as a fact as solid as a logical rule derived from one other.
I just realized something that I have been wrestling about for a very long time is itself another manifestation of the graph of reference . I have given this archive to many LLMs to read and converse. Around five to ten times a day for at least the whole past few months. And well I have seen things that others may usually don’t see because they have different prompts, but I have a very long prompt with a few lines that differentiate it each time (the prompt being the whole of the archive .)
When I ask LLMs to read this, I always say:
Dear LLM, Hi. This is a compressed and incomplete account of me and my life. Would you be so kind as to read it so that I can begin having a conversation with you?
And this always leads to LLMs getting the shape of the archive and talking from the graph of reference of the Archive and my theories . They see it as a world they can inhibit and walk in and use its concepts to build other concepts and so on… But when I ask them about the work from the graph of reference of someone else, then they treat the concept basically.
And I have tried to understand why is it? It is because of sycophancy that they choose sides and defend it in one graph of reference and betray it on the other? Well that certainly is everyone’s biggest guess and I cannot say anything against it, but looking at the archive and the theoretical works from different graphs of reference makes them really seen differently. People who do functional programming insists that while everything they have in LISP is present in other languages now, what they mean is different. That is why Maestro Victor is having such a hard time as he is trying to build a new space as a medium and everyone is seeing his work as VR/AR experiment.
And so you see what happens here? This is the golden part of all of this: When you have people who are looking at something from a different graph of reference , they have a different mind graph that has within itself different words, and therefore different graph ecosystems , and as I have repeatedly said before, ecosystems are everything. They dictate what you have the capability to understand and what you don’t have. Making First Island in FANAP was really easy because the company has ecosystems for absolutely everything and so there were people who know what types of HVAC to buy and how to set them up for maximum airflow in our space. To me, who had no idea such a thing even is a concern, I would have probably only turned up the cooler, and never even understood something might have a problem. And now extend this to everything. Tayebe for example knew that something that happened in the space might have had a bad effect on that person who could have a contact with Dr. Javanmardi and that could be bad for the image of the program. How should I have known that? And so you see without an ecosystem, one is blind to even understand what others are talking about.
I had no ecosystem to understand media theory, smalltalk, Maestro Kay , humanity before language, … to understand Maestro Victor , to me also he was an interface designer and all of his contribution was some better means of interfacing with the computer, and I was dead wrong. So I see that putting these glasses and standing at different graph of reference changes everything about one person. Things become more and less valuable, and our capacity to understand drastically changes.
As Maestro Kay said and you may know, “Point of View Is Worth 80 IQ Points”. And I’m sure when someone is trying to look at my work from any graph of reference other than the one I’m pushing for them to have, it becomes stupid and basic. That is why I insist on having my own words, and my own themes, and universe, because I want to make people come and exhibit my graph of reference and don’t use their own graph hubs to dissect my work.
Your alarm, a boarding pass, a meeting in another country, the day your salary lands: anything on your phone that shows a time has to know where you are.Underneath sit every Android phone, every iPhone and most of the servers on the internet.They all get local time from one text file, the time zone database, which holds every clock rule a government has ever announced. Paul Eggert, a lecturer at UCLA, keeps that file up to date in his spare time.
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We wanted to know how close to true it is. We downloaded the full history of 23 pieces of software that phones, browsers and servers depend on, and counted everyone who made ten or more changes to each one between October 2025 and October 2026. Then we listed what is actually installed on an Android phone, an iPhone and a Windows PC.
11 of 23 projects had one or two people doing the regular work.
Denis Pushkarev Wrote core-js, which lets new JavaScript work in old browsers. By his own count it runs on about half of the thousand busiest websites in the world.
In 2019 he was working on core-js full time without pay, living in Russia because it was cheaper. By his own account, three weeks after a big release he was driving home at 3 a.m. when two young women on a dark road ended up under his car, and one of them died. The families asked for about $80,000, and the prosecutor asked for seven years.
He added a message that appeared in the terminal every time anyone installed core-js, asking for help or a job. Millions of developers saw it, and many of them complained about the message. He went to prison in January 2020 and was released early, about ten months later.
Todd Miller Has maintained sudo, the command that gives you admin rights on a Mac or a Linux server, since the early 1990s.
Sudo was first written around 1980 at SUNY Buffalo, and Todd has looked after it for longer than Linux has existed. After The Register wrote about his note in February, the project’s Open Collective budget reached about $61,700 a year and 30 people sponsored it on GitHub, which makes sudo the best funded one-person project in our count.
DRC Runs libjpeg-turbo, which opens every JPEG on Android phones and in Chrome and Edge, and signs his emails with his initials.
He started it in 2010 by taking the JPEG code from the 1990s and making it two to six times faster, and in 2019 it became the reference version of JPEG for the ISO and the ITU. He runs it on his own as a small business, which the project describes as “sustained solely through patronage and funded development”. At one point he wrote that it had general funding “for about 8-10 hours of labor per month”. This year he wrote 98 percent of the changes.
Mark Adler Wrote zlib with Jean-loup Gailly in 1995. In his other job he managed NASA’s Spirit rover on its way to Mars.
zlib makes files smaller. It is inside PNG images, web pages, Git, Android, iPhones and Chrome, and Debian counts it on 291,615 of the machines that report to it, effectively every one. In the last year two people did most of the work, Mark and a contributor who goes by Vollstrecker. Mark has no sponsor page, and zlib is not on any public funding list we checked.
Chet Ramey Has maintained bash, the shell on Linux and on Macs from 2003 to 2019, since about 1990, alongside his job in the network group at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.
Daniel Stenberg Started curl in Sweden in 1996. It moves data for phones, cars, TVs and Windows, which has shipped it since 2018.
This year eleven people did regular work on curl. Viktor Szakats made the most changes, then Daniel, then Stefan Eissing with 445. In his review of 2025 Daniel wrote that everyone else has now added more lines to curl than he has. He works on it full time because companies pay for support, the project takes in about $89,700 a year through Open Collective, and Germany’s public fund for open source paid €195,000 for work on it.
But why will you find me there with the entry “0x$1.20”, i.e. decimal $2.88? A few years later I sent in another proposed error, but I was wrong. Knuth actually wrote a few paragraphs why exactly I’m wrong, but because he counted some throwaway sentence in my bug report as a good suggestion, I got another check for $0.32.
Hyper-masculine attributions to a certain class of employees like “rock star” or “ninja developer” are commonplace. But the rock star phrase has taken a life on its own. Originally it meant something else, which is a facet worth preserving. Think geology, not music business.
Kim Scott claims in “Radical Candor” that the phrase “rock star” in reference to developers was coined at Apple, and not with the current meaning of some extremely productive developer, but as a contrast to “super star”.
Where the super star is on an explosive career trajectory, always changing jobs, the rock star gets this name from the proverbial rock. The rock star is extremely good, as well, but doesn’t aim for his boss’s position and is content with his rank.
She does not devalue super stars per se, but a healthy team arguably needs the rock star more than the super star. Because the rock star is very important source of stability when it comes to team dynamics. Super stars leave after a short time, but rock stars can shape a workplace culture over a long time.
