Anne

tyranny of structurelessness? what's the big deal. I'd just make up some structures. problem solved

hey. is it still bisexuality day. did i miss it. is it too late for me, a bisexual, to celebrate

*slams door open with loud crashing noise* you guys. you'll never believe what day I just found out it is

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/b089d157-bb80-4171-9ae4-4caea4e0bb9f My 5-star review of Against Tech Oligarchy

I'm relieved to find out today that neither Conway's Game of Life or Conway's Law were invented by Lynn Conway. She did a third unrelated important computer science thing. I have been quietly worried for some time that I was deadnaming her by mistake.

tired: naming and cache invalidation are two of the hardest problems in computer science inspired: If I change my name to Conway it might increase the likelihood that I come up with something that's critical to computer science in 30 years

My friends have been playing https://krillion.io/ which is a game where you try to think of rare answers quickly. It's definitely created with LLM assistance and I (semi jokingly) believe it to be a data mining operation so the text extruder can be trained on rarity (similarly to how a captcha […]

Krillion 71 🦐 70 🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧 Now I can quit this game?????

anne.loves.technologyAnne’s Blog of Order: Order is MagicPart two of my liveblog of Robert’s Rules of Order

19 Sept

https://anne.loves.technology/blog/rules/2026/09/19/order-magic.html I am blogging

19 Sept

We're open at https://www.kwartzlab.ca/ today for Doors Open Waterloo Region! Lots of activities for you to try with us. Come make a button with me! Try gelli plate printing, weaving, laser cutting, and more!

19 Sept

I have been corrected that this was part of Ontario Culture Days. Anyway if you want to make a button we're closed now so you'll have to ask me another time

anne.loves.technologyAnne’s Blog of Order: introducing a new mini-series on becoming governableArguably the correct format for this is TikTok but I refuse to create short-form video content

12 Sept

New blog post! https://anne.loves.technology/blog/rules/2026/09/11/order-intro.html

10 Sept

Every time I see a quilt at like, the county fair, the library, wherever quilts are exhibited, I think to myself "maybe I should get really into quilting" I have noticed myself having this same reflex about amateur radio. I know nothing of it but, what if I got really into it?

10 Sept

you don't have to learn morse code anymore for either of these activities

9 Sept

The Canadian government is continually creating fun new ways for me to log into websites

1 Sept

annual time to repost one of my favorite memes

30 Aug

watching French-language media with English subtitles is not my preference for effective practice but they are burned into the show I just tried on Gem :/ it's annoying! cannot imagine how much more annoying it is for francophones!

30 Aug

Saw a bunch of people making clafoutis on here and I still don't really know why but I wanted one too so I bought some cherries at the store this weekend. Verdict: Both attempts were good but whole cherries with pits included tastes better compared to halved […] [Original post on precise.space]

30 Aug

My brain is telling me that the clafoutis picture looks like AI slop even though it is a real thing in my real kitchen, because we live in hell now I guess?

anne.loves.technologyIf I were in charge of the (known) world these would be my royal whimsAt the event we went to yesterday, we talked a little bit about my persistent joke/delusion that I will be “in my prime” with my skill on the rapier field in about 5-10 years, and that the Crown Tournament fought by Rapier will also make it to other SCA kingdoms in 5-10 years (“just in time!”). I’ve had this opinion for 3-5 years and it remains 5-10 years in the future despite the passage of time. Were it an option now, I would absolutely enter a crown tournament by rapier (regardless of my likelihood of winning), for the pageantry and fun of it / because I don’t think it would be as fun to reign without my wife and neither of us are armored combatants. The opinion that I think would make me the most enemies, which I would have more levers of change accessible towards enacting were I to be crown, is that SCA Crown should be an in-game designation only. The job is to look pretty and give people awards; the job should not be to adjudicate actual IRL disputes, serve as a stopgap for harassment complaints or legal issues, have actual power of most kinds, etc. Regardless of whether I am crown at any point in my life, this interest in nonprofit governance will shape the rooms I’m present in. But, that’s not a very fun royal whim. Royal whims are ideally at least a little fun I think? Aífe says that her royal whim would be: a preference for live music / no recorded music at events. She loves early music and is very willing to hand out instruments to make this happen. The number of medieval instruments per square foot of our apartment proves this out. She has been learning to write counterpoint the past few months! I have decided that my royal whim would be: I do not like it when people say “learn to parry” on the rapier field. This is often said about double kills in tournaments. It is not actionable (what exactly is the means by which parrying is learned?) and, while it may be intended to be self-deprecating, often our newest fighters are the ones being deprecated. If you do slip up in my presence and say it out of habit, I would request that before the end of that event, your penance is that you must _teach_ someone how to parry (or otherwise counter) some action that you like to take on the rapier field. What would your whims be, if you could wave a wand for it? Is the concept of a royal whim fundamentally incompatible with my wish for crown to not have as much power? If you are a royal peer, would this even work?

23 Aug

niche posting continues https://anne.loves.technology/anachronism/event/2026/08/23/whims.html

31 July

10 pages into Fall by Neal Stephenson: hmm maybe he's lost the plot on what I personally want from his writing I'm currently like 200-300 ish pages in and actually this is in several ways tailor made to my interests??

31 July

Cryptonomicon is still my favorite of his and was for a long while my favorite book, period. So I'm broadly here for the 2019 remix of the same themes is I guess what I'm saying

28 July

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/37326c48-6247-4310-87d7-6a8bc0ef10ee new review, I guess?

14 July

happy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Non-Binary_People%27s_Day still here, still nonbinary in a persistent way, still think the placement of this day on the calendar exactly between women's and men's days is a nonbinary-phobic concession to the limitations of the gender binary on […]

13 July

I'm still trying to keep up my French and so I watched https://www.onf.ca/film/les-perdants/ tonight. It was OK. Lots of fast speaking with Quebec accents, so a difficult practice. The stock footage was a bit too much I think and I didn't think it said as much about the topic as I wanted to […]

@bobjonkman.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy

12 July

read another book! https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/aa24fcac-d833-4927-b155-d1bb8d2f8adb?redirect=true

Anne reposted

Bob Jonkman

6 July

At the @kwlug meeting. Today we learn from Chris Nicholl about #Elixir, a functional progrMming language, and we visit people's home labs. More info: https://kwlug.org/node/1455 Online at https://webconference.kwlug.org/room/kwlug ; in-person at UofW Davis […] [Original post on mastodon.sdf.org]

3 July

I am looking for feminist/antiracist/etc writing on the topic of: what should a code of conduct say and do about violations that occur outside the designated space boundaries? (e.g. harassment that occurs outside a conference but both parties are attending) I have an opinion on this personally […]

2 July

I wonder if there is some way to crosspost my book reviews without having to create a new account. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fbde9dcf-399d-4f60-b7de-690786cbd109

23 June

T shirt number 4 (Helen's Closet - Jackson) Merino wool jersey (deadstock online from Our Social Fabric) About 3 hours of time, half cutting on Saturday, half ironing and sewing tonight Thoughts: I'm glad it's shirt 4 I've made with this pattern, and not shirt […] [Original post on precise.space]

29 June

T shirt number 5 completed today! not pictured but it is basically identical to T shirt number 4. I do still need to check the fit of the matching underwear I made today as I was having some trouble sewing the elastic properly, I wonder if there is a trick for that that I just don't know, like […]

27 June

I read another book and I'm not sure who to talk about it with https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/57167c92-b990-4cc7-8b87-4c6867f65fc3

25 June

me in 2016, receiving a red stapler from my employer upon reaching a 1-yr anniversary* me in 2026, stapling several pages together with it for the first time in years * yes I have seen Office Space. No that doesn't make it appropriate as a gift

6 June

please tell the fruit scientists to start working on an apple with no core next. after that they should make a very large grape

4 June

I've just ordered a certified translation of a Latin text. It's 2026 so this can be done fully online

26 May

made another T-shirt today! I think it's worse than the first one but this is the placement that worked with the fabric I had left. Which is better?

25 May

excited to report that my merino wool shrunk by only 3" across the entire fabric width (about 55-60"?) when I machine washed a strip in a delicates bag on cold. Which is good enough that I threw the next chunk in the machine similarly as pre-treatment before I cut and sew.

anne.loves.technologyReview: The 2026 Guelph Lecture On BeingI went to see Cory Doctorow speak a couple weeks ago and had more thoughts than fit in a short post, so here is a long one.

23 May

https://anne.loves.technology/blog/tech/2026/05/23/guelph-lecture.html A blog post about a talk I saw

23 May

15.5 hours later, the shirt I made is wearable! Only thing left is maybe adding a pocket. I learned a lot about construction and am happy with how it came out! pattern: https://helensclosetpatterns.com/, Cameron fabric: https://graylinelinen.com/, bought in […] [Original post on precise.space]

21 May

Learned how to sew a buttonhole on a sewing machine today! Reading the manual helped a lot. I made 5 test ones on my scrap fabric and then 8 real ones on my shirt. I am about 14 hours into shirt construction and only the button attachment, hole opening, and pocket attachment are left.

15 May

If you're wondering why I've been packing the car for the last two hours: we simply cannot go on a two day camping trip that's 35 minutes away without bringing at least seven musical instruments and four swords

13 May

time to play "are we going to face weaponized transphobia while completing a non-optional task" again today. Difficulty level of only medium, but stakes extremely high. The Canadians on my feed will assure me that it would be illegal for discrimination to happen but unfortunately my personal […]