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  • Ergonomic updates, digital garden beginnings, and the limits of LLMs

    Ergonomic updates, digital garden beginnings, and the limits of LLMs
    Jan 9 2026
    Robin takes us on a tour through his new physical workspace, as well as his digital garden vitual workspace. We both talk about the podcast’s schedule, and end on an exploration of what the philosophy of mind can tell us about the limits of LLM reasoning. 📖 CHAPTERS 00:00 Robin’s continuing ergonomics journey12:20 Digital garden update17:29 Podcast schedule21:20 The limits of LLMs 🔗 LINKS Ours https://robinwinslow.ukhttps://noboilerplate.orghttps://lostterminal.comhttps://modemprometheus.comhttps://phosphenecatalogue.com External Obsidian.mdObsidian Digital Garden pluginMaggie Appleton’s “A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden” 🧑 CREDITS Decapsulate is a NAMTAO Production (namtao.com) It is hosted by: Tristram Oaten (https://mastodon.social/@0atman)Robin Winslow (https://union.place/@nottrobin) This work is BrainMade (https://brainmade.org) Transcript Tris: Right. oh my God. So this is extremely exciting. Robin, tell me about your ergonomics update. Robin: Yeah, I finally got a desk. it’s, it was Tris: Wow. Robin: of quite straightforward. So I’ve shipped out my old dining table and now I’ve got myself a,a mechanical raising and lowering desk that is 110, I think centimeters wide, which is just perfect to fit behind my door. Tris: I’ll say right at the top here that we are not only are we not sponsored by any of the things we’re about to speak about, we don’t even have affiliate links. So, did you get a, a flexi spot desk? I think I mentioned that last time. Robin: mention Tris: had good experience with them. Robin: it and I think to make it affordable, it relied on finding a really cheap place to buy wood, which Tris: Hmm. failed to do. And I discovered that I think basically these desks are not that complicated. So I’ve got like a fairly well reviewed thing that was actually from Amazon, for my. Shame. do put, the way I work with Amazon is I put quite a lot of effort, particularly if I’m spending any significant amount of money, I put quite a lot of effort into trying to find, to buy it from somewhere else. And then at some point I just give up and buy it from Amazon. That’s okay. I do the same. Like I, I, I switched off my Prime subscription so that my default wouldn’t be Amazon, and now I try all the local stores. I try this, I try that, then I try eBay. Then when that fails, I agree. I fall back to, Robin: so this Tris: to the one supplier. Robin: it’s, I can’t fault it really so far, like the,it’s clearly not like solid wood because it wouldn’t have been as cheap as it was if it were, but, as in it’ll be, MDF covered in a coating, but it’s Tris: Hmm. Robin: enough. Tris: I didn’t wanna spend like 300 pounds on, on super long-term furniture. MDF is, is, is very clever and in addition to being very cheap, it’s also very light. Like a solid wood is very heavy. the big drawback with MDF that, that I’ve seen on various DIY channels is that it’s like you have to have a bit of preparation before you drill through it because you are drilling through something that is not quite as predictable as your solid wood. You know, there’s, there’s, there’s splintering, there’s more. I believe I’ve, I’ve heard people talk about waterproofing , you know, if, like, if you spill a coffee and then it goes into the hole that you’ve just made suddenly the entire, that it like compromises the, Robin: explodes and it Tris: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Robin: Yeah. But anyway, Tris: You find that, that there’s a half and half situation and I think the first party flexis put tabletops do this. Like the, the outer five centimeters are solid wood and then the, the most of the middle is MDF, so that you can like, yeah, I guess you, it means you can like drill into it, you know, screw something into it. Like I’ve got a headphone Robin: here and I’ve, you know, just little bits. And that’s, you tend to want to do that around the edge. that makes sense. this Tris: Yeah. Interesting. Robin: a headphone hook, pockets dangling off the Tris: Great. Robin: it’s Tris: The dream. hole for the cables to come through, although, I dunno why, what I’m gonna use it for,Nice. Robin: that’s like off in the back Tris: Tidy. Robin: I literally put it Tris: Yeah. Robin: the side away from me. but it’s, it’s been perfectly fine. It goes from 72 centimeters high to 120, no, a hundred and it must be more than that, right? A hundred and I can’t remember what it goes up to. Yeah. But,it’s high setting is. high as I could need, and low setting is as low as I could need. It’s, know, it’s perfect. And I’ve got my stand for my monitor. I’ve got my little stand for my laptop. it’s big enough for my usage because I, it’s not like I spread out papers all over the place. yeah. And the Tris: Marvelous. Robin: is probably from what, maybe or something like that. I can’t remember. Tris: Ah, I don’t believe that’s gonna be very useful for our ...
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  • De-platforming and Techno-Feudalism

    De-platforming and Techno-Feudalism
    Nov 26 2025
    Tris & Robin talk about what it means to be an online creator in an age of Techno-Feudalism, and what to do about it. 📖 CHAPTERS 00:00 Tris’s New Mentoring Tiers17:01 De-Platforming and Diversifying Income33:19 Deplatforming and Diversification34:22 The Power Dynamics of Platforms49:53 Techno-Feudalism Explained58:50 The Future of Tech and Society The Matrix We’re still working on the power/money/etc matrix we talked about in the show, and will replace this text asap. follow discussion here: https://github.com/NamtaoProductions/decapsulate.com/issues/30 🔗 LINKS Ours https://robinwinslow.ukhttps://noboilerplate.orghttps://lostterminal.comhttps://modemprometheus.comhttps://phosphenecatalogue.com External Techno-Feudalism Book 🧑 CREDITS Decapsulate is a NAMTAO Production (namtao.com) It is hosted by: Tristram Oaten (https://mastodon.social/@0atman)Robin Winslow (https://union.place/@nottrobin) This work is BrainMade (https://brainmade.org) Transcript Tris: [00:00:00] We are about a month after I’ve launched the scholarship and diversity tears on my patron. Robin: I, yeah, we introduced the scholarship and diversity topic very briefly, I think in the last episode. It’s quite interesting. I think it’s, talk about the particulars of what you chose Tris: for the last couple of years. What has allowed me to move from having a day job as a programmer to a internet creator, job, whatever it’s called, writer is what I tell my mom. But I don’t think that’s descriptive enough. Robin: An internet Tris: writer. Do you write the internet? Yes, I write the internet. Well, I did before, and I suppose I still do now. Um, but I’m using English this time rather than, uh, code. What allowed me to bridge that gap? Money was coming in from YouTube ads, which is wonderful, and lots of people joined my Patreon, which I’m incredibly grateful for. And the money was life changing, but not enough to pay all of my rent, so I had to keep the day job. What did allow me to bridge that gap and get away from the day job was. Setting up a mentoring tier where a few people had asked me if I would do lessons if I do one-on-one tuition, that sort of thing. And I eventually said yes, because as a freelancer you should always say yes when people offer you to pay your money. And it worked out really well. I got 10 or 15 people signed up and that was enough for me to cover my bills. I don’t quite make as much as when I was working a day job, nine to five, uh, programming. But it’s more than compensated for like how nice the work. It’s, yeah. I’m my own, my own boss. You know, Robin: that was a question I had in my mind actually was whether at this point you are. Making as much money as you were making or not, but yes, no, I completely agree. That like, quality of life Tris: Oh my God. Yeah. Robin: Very much improved. Yeah. It’s the Tris: backward spending supply curve of labor whereby when you offer people more hours, they take them, but after your boss increases your salary to a certain point, you actually choose fewer hours. ’cause your basic needs are being met. And actually you’d rather buy your life back through doing less work, but more well paid work. Robin: Have we talked about this before? You, you wouldn’t, you wouldn’t necessarily. Sorry. If you’ll allow me a, a tiny segue, because I found this quite interesting. Um, there’s a podcast called The Happiness Lab, which I don’t know whether I fully subscribe to, but sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I, I put it on because I think it helps sort of set my, my mood for the day. Aw. Um, and the latest episode I was listening to is about this economist who I’ve forgotten the name of, but I can put in the notes who won a Nobel Prize, uh, a while ago, maybe in the eighties or nineties or something. ’cause of all the work he’d done critiquing the, the standard model of economics. Um, and one of the big ways is this thing that he called, I think he calls it the winner’s paradox or something. And the way he characterizes it is the, is this example where you go into a bar and you say, I’ve got this jar of coins. Um, whoever bids the most for this jar of coins can have them. And if there’s, you know, any number, any significant number of people in that bar, the top bid for that jar will definitely be worth more than the actual number of coins at the jar. Um, and so they will have, they will have lost out, um, Tris: right. Robin: And I feel a little bit like this is relevant in this thing about the job because you always want to be paid more and therefore you always want to work harder. And you, and sort of human nature doesn’t really lead us to necessarily realizing that that’s not really worth it. From a personal perspective, if you see what I mean? Tris: Yes, uh, absolutely. Robin: Because we feel like a winner. Tris: Yes, of course. I feel a little, like, I must mention at this point that like my circumstances of where I...
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  • Desk Ergonomics, Non-Fiction Podcast Recommendations and Obsidian Deep-dive

    Desk Ergonomics, Non-Fiction Podcast Recommendations and Obsidian Deep-dive
    Oct 22 2025
    Tris despairs at Robin’s desk setup, Robin recommends tech/lefty podcasts, and Tris explains how he’s augmenting his Obsidian use with the open-source ecosystem. 📖 CHAPTERS 00:00 Intros, summer over01:14 Robin’s home working environment31:53 Robin’s leftist podcast recs52:25 Tris’s non-fiction podcast recs54:47 Demo to Robin how Tris makes his videos 🔗 LINKS ROBIN’S SHAMEFUL DINING TABLE SETUP: Ours https://robinwinslow.ukhttps://noboilerplate.orghttps://lostterminal.comhttps://modemprometheus.comhttps://phosphenecatalogue.com External Scott Hanselman’s “Brain, Back, Buns, and Bites” articlePresenterm Robin’s podcast list The InterceptDrop Site NewsMacro DoseDeconstructedPolitics Theory OtherFactually with Adam ConoverOn the MediaTech Policy PressTech DirtEach Week Work Repeat Tris’s podcast list Self-Directed ResearchWB-40Cortex 🧑 CREDITS Decapsulate is a NAMTAO Production (namtao.com) It is hosted by: Tristram Oaten (https://mastodon.social/@0atman)Robin Winslow (https://union.place/@nottrobin) This work is BrainMade (https://brainmade.org) Transcript Intros, summer over Tris: Right. There we go. September, I can’t believe it. Where’s the summer gone or where’s the summer going? Robin: mean, it’s crazy to be, for me, obviously it, it’s, it means kids starting school. Tris: Of course. Right. That’s exciting. Robin: the school holiday, summer, even if people don’t have kids, I feel like everything is oriented around school holiday, you know, in terms of what events are happening and all that Organising life around academic year Tris: Right, exactly. Yes. my heroes seem to be great organizes this year around the academic year, and I think that like ending with the summer is quite a nice, like, reset quite a nice big block of time. Although you could argue that winter also works quite well, but we we’re no longer in the Roman Empire where everything stops for four months for an enormous single month cold winter. Robin: Yeah. Tris: so school holidays, my upcoming video, the video is called Obsidian for Students. I’ve timed it for back to school. Robin: Oh, wow. professional. Mental health day Tris: I mean, I’m trying, everyone says you’ve gotta like, get in all this and every single year I miss Mental Health Day. even though all of my podcasts and half of my videos are about mental health. Um, right. Robin: some strong Tris: Uh, Robin: don’t you, for the lead up to that. Robin’s home working environment Tris: yes, exactly. So we were gonna talk about some other stuff, but I have sneaked in an extra extra topic because you mentioned just now that you were interested in setting up a new workspace in your new house. Robin: Yes, Tris: opinions. Tell me. Robin: Yeah. So I, sent you the photo of what my setup right now looks like, which is just that I moved into this house, Tris: Oh. Robin: was full of. Furniture because it’s, um, you know, furnished place. It used to be an Airbnb, so it was like really kitted out and I’ve already shipped out a couple of beds into a storage place. and I just haven’t gone around to like, getting rid of this table because if I get rid of this table right now, I have nothing else to work on. But ul ultimately I think I want this room to be to be like a massive play place for the kids when I’m not working. So I kind of want a desk that is a work desk. Like I think I’ve given up on the idea of having an actual dining table in this room, which is what this table Tris: Yeah. Gotcha. Robin: so I want a desk that is a work desk that I can kind of put away behind the, the door or something quite easily, um, if I need to. but otherwise, when it comes out, it’s like a proper workstation and I’ve got a proper chair a little bit of an A DHD thing. It’s Tris: Mm-hmm. Robin: of the life I had I got very used to just working ad hoc wherever, so I never Tris: Oh, Robin: a place to work, and now I’m Tris: right. That’s where everyone starts. Robin: improve that. So I, I have very little experience in this and I wanna do it. Tris: I must tell the listener. What I am seeing here, because this photo is, it looks like a nightmare. this is a, a dining table with like a flat top, that a weird crisscrossed are very arty, legs holding it up. that is not the worst part, the worst part of the dining chairs that are around it, they look very soft and comfortable. But these are hurting my back even to look at, these are making me very sad. I do appreciate the, the microphone boom arm that, that I bullied Robin into getting. So that’s why that’s working very nicely. Robin: we can put the Tris: Do IS Yeah. Yeah. As long as you’re happy with it. but yeah, we can put it in the show notes. That sounds good. am I seeing a Mac wireless keyboard in front of you there? Oh my God. We will return to that, Robin: I’m Tris: at least the laptop. Hmm. Robin: I love, like I know, I know. I think our taste in keyboards is, is very ...
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  • Rediscovering the Old Internet, Rethinking Unit Testing, and Navigating the Creator Economy

    Rediscovering the Old Internet, Rethinking Unit Testing, and Navigating the Creator Economy
    Sep 2 2025
    Robin talks about the perils of Unit Testing, Tris gives advice to new creators, and both reminisce about The Good Old Days and realise they never left. 📖 CHAPTERS 00:00 The old internet26:43 Unit Testing and Calcified Codebases42:35 The dangers of being a YouTuber 🔗 LINKS Ours https://robinwinslow.ukhttps://noboilerplate.orghttps://lostterminal.comhttps://modemprometheus.comhttps://phosphenecatalogue.com External Ruby on Rails37signalsHEY.comBrotli (Wikipedia)Cory DoctorowObsidianAral Balkan’s “What is the Small Web?” Note: He doesn’t call it “Web Zero” as Robin suggested. That refers to various other things, none of them good. Gemini ProtocolGopher (protocol)NeocitiesSAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment)Project Mercury (NASA)Makertube (makertube.net)KofiNicole van der Hoeven’s YouTubeCory Doctorow’s blogMC Frontalot - Titans of Industry 🧑 CREDITS Decapsulate is a NAMTAO Production (namtao.com) It is hosted by: Tristram Oaten (https://mastodon.social/@0atman)Robin Winslow (https://union.place/@nottrobin) This work is BrainMade (https://brainmade.org) Transcript The old internet Tris: [00:00:00] You know what I mean by the old internet, don’t you, Robin? Robin: Yeah. It was probably about 2005, wasn’t it? Tris: I dunno. I don’t wanna be, uh, you know, old man shouts to cloud about it. I watched the keynote to Rails World 2024 by David Meyer Hanson, the creator of Ruby on Rails. And it wasn’t intentionally a call to action, but it felt to me personally, like a call to action. Uh, DHH was saying how you don’t have to use any of the bullshit that modern web development. Is lumbered with, you don’t have to bundle and compile all of your JavaScript. You don’t have to bundle and compile all of your CSS. You don’t have to use a complex reactive framework to compose, uh, reactive HTML components and then render them out into HTML. You can just have some HTML with simple templating. Some JavaScript with native modules, native methods, and some native CSS, which now has enormous. Functionality in the actual old internet, we didn’t have a lot of the features like CSS variables and the ability to have more complex native functionality. We had to use pre-process for everything. The latest version of JavaScript hadn’t got to all of the browsers. So what DHH was saying with all this is that if you were satisfied with web development 10 years ago, all of that is now native in the browser today. You are the front end or the front ender of the two of us. Does that ring true to you? Robin: Right. After having actually watched this video, I think I remember you talking about it in our chat group and there were a bunch of things I hadn’t realized Were now native, right? The nesting of CSS. So to me that was one of the big powerful things that SAS gave you. And I, I have the impression that lots and lots of people are still doing it with SaaS under the assumption that. You can’t do it natively, but it works natively. As in if you want to have like a an H one inside a section and you want to give the section some sky styles and then you want to give the H one some styles, you can just nest the H one tag inside the section tag. Right. Tris: Yeah. Robin: Which you, you, you never used to be able to do and you needed, you needed SaaS for, Tris: this is exactly what I’m talking about. Like we’ve forgotten or we’ve not tried. The native functionality of the browser is even as web developers, we’ve just assumed that we’ve always used these meiers and bundlers and compilers, so we always will have to. Now, there are plenty of future functionality. That we still might want to use compilers and bundlers for, but DHH is like, we’ve reached this threshold, this watershed moment where you, for 99% of websites don’t need any of that. You can just write like the old days, some HTML, some JavaScript and some CSS, native CSS, his example. Was at 37 Signals they’ve recently built last couple of years. They’ve recently built hey.com, which I think is like email for people with A DHD and autism, which is why I love it, and it’s really, really good. He made a wild statement at In This Rails World keynote. He said, the JavaScript we write is the JavaScript that your browser receives. It’s a one-to-one. There’s no like line framework. Yeah, there’s no framework but there, but there’s not even any bundling up. So if you get an error on line five, it’s actually line five on the developer’s machine as well as in production. Yeah. Like it’s line five of this file. Yeah. Which is wonderful. Robin: I’ve always wanted that and I’ve always been frustrated by all of these different tricks that people use to try and optimize their their HTML putting like JavaScript at the end and all this kind of thing. And I was excited when HTTP two came along because. On the face of it, it looked like it was going to solve a lot of that stuff because, well, first of all, you can. ...
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  • Beginnings, Digital Gardens and AI Delusions

    Beginnings, Digital Gardens and AI Delusions
    Aug 19 2025
    We get excited about the stats on episode 1 and talk a little about podcast logistics. Tris then does a deep-dive into Digital Gardening and Robin talks about the ethics of TESCREAL. 📖 CHAPTERS 00:00 The podcast has landed00:37 Feedback on feedback04:40 TRIS’S CONSPIRACY CORNER08:04 Saving Robin’s life with Digital Gardening27:55 TESCREAL46:02 Typing with LLMs 🔗 LINKS Ours https://robinwinslow.ukhttps://noboilerplate.orghttps://lostterminal.comhttps://modemprometheus.comhttps://phosphenecatalogue.com External The show’s Discord community (Head to #decapsulate for chatting with other listeners of the show)Patreon: patreon.com/decapsulateMerch store: Head to decapsulate.com and click ‘Store in the menu’Our recommended Podcast app: Pocket CastsGitHub Discussions (for episode comments): Linked at the bottom of each episode page on the website, powered by GiscusObsidian (note-taking app)Obsidian Digital Garden pluginObsidian Dataview pluginMaggie Appleton’s “A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden”namtao.com (Tris’s digital garden)Lost Terminal (Tris’s sci-fi podcast)Zettelkasten (note-taking methodology)Obsidian Sync (for private vaults)Inkscape (open-source vector illustration tool)Faster Than Lime (Amos’ blog/YouTube)Zed (programming editor)Stochastic Parrots paper by Timnit Gebru et al.TESCREAL (Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism)Effective AltruismSam Bankman-Fried (notable figure in Effective Altruism and cryptocurrency)Peter Singer (philosopher, associated with Effective Altruism)Descript (podcast editing tool)Hacker News (tech news aggregator)Conway’s LawGell-Mann Amnesia Effect 🧑 CREDITS Decapsulate is a NAMTAO Production (namtao.com) It is hosted by: Tristram Oaten (https://mastodon.social/@0atman)Robin Winslow (https://union.place/@nottrobin) This work is BrainMade (https://brainmade.org) Transcript DC3 Updates & Housekeeping [00:00:00] Tristram: So here we are, episode three. I have been having a great time setting up all the infrastructure. I’ve crunched the stats and between YouTube and the podcast feed, there have been so far 4,000 plays of episode one, which is insane. Robin: Is amazing. Tristram: we a week into it? That’s wonderful. Robin: but do we Tristram: I. Robin: Is that does that include crawlers and things or do we know their real Tristram: Hmm. I think we’re okay with this data because it falls off organically, like huge numbers of people listened on day one, two, and then it has fallen off more organically. Whereas a crawler, I would expect periodic or something more like that. And certainly not MP three, like crawling, an MP three is a bit weird, But anyway, the point is that these 4,000 people are incredible. Presume the listener is one of those peopleThat is, astonishing and I’m very grateful as I’m sure you are. Robin: you. Yes. Tristram: Yeah. Robin: I never Tristram: So Robin: to be as popular as it’s been already. Tristram: yes. Robin: We haven’t really figured out the format of the show yet. Tristram: Yeah I think it’s quite nice to figure it out, almost with the listener, although in a very, one way relationship there, but we’ll figure it out as we go. I’ve got a bit of housekeeping here, so thanks everyone who commented and has been chatting on the Discord, this is all fantastic. The feedback’s been wonderful. And we are especially grateful to those who’ve signed up to the Patreon patreon.com/deencapsulate or it’s all on the website. The patrons get at the moment, early episodes, Robin: website, Tristram: so when it, Robin: is deencapsulate.com, Tristram: yes you’re a natural robin, you’re a natural. You’ve just gotta say it all the time, repetitive, but we, if we don’t do it, who else will? Robin: Early episode. So when, for example, when this episode drops in the public feed, patrons will have access to episode four already. Yeah Tristram: We’ve also got a merch store. You go to encapsulate and click on store. There is exactly one item. Available for purchasing. And that is the square dashed logo thing. I’m not even sure if it is the exact final design, but what did you say this was gonna be Robin? Like an early Robin: first edition. Tristram: low Yes. First edition before Tris has quite got the logo symmetrical. I’ve been learning Vector illustration using Inkscape, the fantastic open source tool that is in some ways better than an illustrator. we get almost no commission from this. This is more about a fun thing for the community to do to publicly let you set your commission. And I think the price is already, like the base price is already, correct for that sort of thing. I’ve set it as low as possible. To support us, Patreon is the best option, but you also don’t need to do a thing. You can just keep listening, keep recommending things to your friends. As I said in episode one, this is the only way podcasts can work ...
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  • Agoraphobia and Thinking in Systems

    Agoraphobia and Thinking in Systems
    Aug 5 2025
    We discuss our experiences with conferences pre and post-pandemic, the psychological hurdles of public speaking, and our evolving use of Obsidian for personal knowledge management (PKM). 📖 CHAPTERS 00:00 Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking11:40 I LIKE TRAINS13:15 Exploring the Rust Programming Language20:15 Obsidian Daily Note System and Priority Tasks32:45 Using Spaced Repetition for Capture46:15 Morning Routine and Habit Formation 🔗 LINKS Ours https://robinwinslow.ukhttps://noboilerplate.orghttps://lostterminal.comhttps://modemprometheus.comhttps://phosphenecatalogue.com External A System For Writing - Bob DotoClojure: Turtles All The Way DownRust: Turtles All The Way DownFasterthanli.meObsidian.md 🧑 CREDITS Decapsulate is a NAMTAO Production (namtao.com) It is hosted by: Tristram Oaten (https://mastodon.social/@0atman)Robin Winslow (https://union.place/@nottrobin) This work is BrainMade (https://brainmade.org) Transcript DC2 [00:00:00] Tristram: A month ago I went to my first conference in five years. I think. Robin: Wow. Tell me about it. Tristram: I used to go to conferences all the time before the pandemic. Before the pandemic started and I realized that I had lost the, lost the habit I’d, up until that point, I’d pushed myself very, very hard to, into public speaking positions. Whenever there was something at work that needed a presentation or if there was a, like a, a club at work where people would bring little presentations and talk about things that they liked, I would force myself to do them because at one point I was really, really scared and terrified of doing them Robin: Yeah. Tristram: sort of exposure Robin: Uh, and Tristram: and, Robin: is it? Tristram: throughout my working life, I’ve tried to do these whenever there’s an in-person thing. and it started out small in just volunteering for like doing a presentation on the work we were doing something like that. But by the end of the 2010s, I was speaking at closure conferences, specifically closure X in London, the first time I just had a, lightning talk in my back pocket. And the next year I actually wrote a specific talk for. Closure X closure, by the way, perhaps some of our listeners might not know, um, is a lisp programming language. It’s the one with all the ens. Uh, it’s based on, based on Java. It’s the cool one if there is such a thing as a cool lisp. But, uh, Robin: people say people that use it. Yes. Tristram: yes. Right, exactly of the lisps, it’s of, it’s, it’s perhaps the coolest. the first talk I did at closure X, I actually repurposed into one of my rust videos, one of my very early rust videos. Um, the first slide is, have I got a deal for you? And it was about how great closure is. Um, because Rust and Lisp were so similar in many regards, I was able to reuse much of that into a, a rust talk. Robin: you’re at risk of exposing your, your, your patterns. I mean, you’re like, you know, closure. Wonderful. The best thing in the world, everyone should use it. Rust. Wonderful. Best thing. What should you said? Tristram: Right. I mean, I, if if tomorrow I find a new language that’s better than rust, I will start talking about that. There’s just been nothing, nothing left. Oh, I, I had to look it up ’cause I’ve, I, it’s seven years ago, um, turtles all the way down was my closure video. And then Robin: that. Tristram: years ago, right. I rewrote it into rust turtles all the way, all the way down. ’cause really I’m talking about like the, the macro system and how you can like build, build on the language without anyone’s asking permission. Without asking permission from anyone, Robin: saying is it’s really nice to have something that’s sort of written in its own language, I guess a whole system. language, basically it’s like, you know, you can, you can create the pieces, the fundamental bounding building blocks, and then you can build up on them and it’s all within the same, um, the same syntax. Tristram: right? Yes, exactly. Like the, the way the way you write a python stack is you build very fast plumbing in sea and then you call those modules from Python. And that, that gets, that’s, that’s quite a good way of doing things really. It’s a good separation of concerns, but it comes with drawbacks. Um, I won’t, I won’t rehash the, the turtles, um, analogy. So I, but I was doing all of this before 20, before 2020. And then either the pandemic or maybe just becoming somebody who does online things professionally, like I just fell out of the habit of. Going to conferences, like I’d worked so hard for 15 years to develop this. I suppose now that I’m saying this out loud, maybe my, maybe my itch had been scratched by doing the videos on YouTube, so I, it Robin: I, can I just, um, um, I Tristram: it’s, please, Robin: like I think most all, I don’t know if I’ve ever been to a conference that I organize my, like as in that I, that I did independently from ...
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  • On Writing & Mental Health

    On Writing & Mental Health
    Aug 30 2024
    Tris and Robin introduce themselves and share tips for writing podcasts, blogs, videos and how to survive inside a creative brain. 📖 CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Introductions00:01:27 Why are we here & defining “decapsulate”00:05:04 Podcasts are great!00:11:15 From Podcasting to blogging00:16:20 Wait, what is this podcast all about?00:24:40 Blogging II: Electric boogaloo00:38:40 Writing distractions00:53:40 Bottom-up thinking01:08:00 Decapsulate upload schedule discussion01:13:30 Conclusion 🔗 LINKS Ours https://robinwinslow.ukhttps://noboilerplate.orghttps://lostterminal.comhttps://modemprometheus.comhttps://phosphenecatalogue.com External https://www.relay.fm/cortexhttps://www.youtube.com/@CGPGreyhttps://www.nightvalepresents.com/startwiththishttps://pluralistic.net/ 🧑 CREDITS Decapsulate is a NAMTAO Production (namtao.com) It is hosted by: Tristram Oaten (https://mastodon.social/@0atman)Robin Winslow (https://union.place/@nottrobin) This work is BrainMade (https://brainmade.org) Transcript [00:00:00] Teaser 1[00:00:00] Introductions Tris: I guess I’ll go first. Hi folks, my name is Tris. I’m a podcaster and video producer, I’m a musician. In fact, I started out doing anything creative or in public by being a musician. My first career was as a web developer, and I did production on the side for 15 years, but in 2022 I accidentally became entirely self employed thanks to the surprising success of my YouTube channel, No Boilerplate. I am here with my friend Robin. Hi Robin. Robin: Hi Tris: Tell the listeners about yourself. Robin: I’m Tris’s friend I’m nowhere near as impressive in my output as Tris. I am a father. I’ve always wanted to be a father and I’m very proud of, being a father to my children. I’m a big fan of openness and transparency and open source. I’ve been a web developer and team leader for about 18 years. I worked for Canonical for 10 years, I worked with what is now our mutual friend, and that’s how I got introduced to Tris, and then Tris got me a job at Canonical, we worked together there for a bit, and you know, we’ve known each other ever since, I have a lot of thoughts about how to solve technical problems, as well as, How to solve other problems, and I’m a little bit obsessed with politics. [00:01:10] Why are we here & defining decapsulate Tris: we are here because I love talking about tech. I especially love talking about tech with you, and there are some parts of my, video audio creation writer world that I’d love for other people to get a little insight into. And I found that speaking with. You is a great foil occasionally, although that is a backhanded compliment. But certainly you’re very good at asking difficult questions that I appreciate you asking. “ Appreciate“ in, like, scare quotes. Robin: I feel like I do sort of challenge you in a way that I, I’m surprised you’re okay with. I often feel a bit bad about it afterwards. Tris: You’re right. That’s probably the perfect interviewer, or, host attitude. Robin: I feel like your interpretation of decapsulate was different than mine. When you first said it, I thought it sounded like a great name. And, Tris: Oh no. Robin: no, no, no. I think it’s good. I think this was interesting. It was interesting that you related it more to software than I did, Tris: Yes, because encapsulation means bringing everything inside an interface of some sort and bringing along the things you need inside that to work, maybe through internal data and internal functions or something like that. How did you interpret it? Robin: Well, I think, I suppose I think that decapsulate is maybe a synonym for unpack Tris: I really like that word unpack. Robin: I do think that it was, it’d be very interesting to talk about why we identify with unpacking things. Because I think we do, I think lately I’ve started to feel more like I’ve noticed more that people around me are not as interested in getting to the details, talking about the details of stuff as I am. I have to be aware of that because particularly in work, there’s a lot of things where I’m like, if we were to think seriously about this problem, then we would define the basis of what we’re trying to achieve. And then we would work out what flows from there. I always want to delve into the fine details of designing the solution clearly in a way that other people, are often quite frustrated by. The thing that people don’t seem that interested in is more like the focus. I tend to want to look at things from many angles. I think that you aren’t, you haven’t really discovered the truth until you’ve looked at it from many angles. And I think also, discovering the truth is really important. A lot of people aren’t necessarily on the same page as me in all those ways. They aren’t necessarily interested in the truth. seeing things from a few angles and making sure they’ve found the truth at the heart of it. Do you know what I mean? Tris: Yes, it...
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