Term Index

Book-style index — 219 key terms and concepts with 1394 total references across the digital garden.

An alphabetical index of significant terms, concepts, and ideas appearing throughout the essays. Like the back of a book, this maps where each concept is discussed, weighted by frequency and importance.

A

ADHD (2 articles, 4 occurrences)
The Gift of Disordered Perception (2), The Ethical Implications of Consciousness as Linguistic Phenomenon (2)
AI (26 articles, 114 occurrences)
Idea Amplification and Writing with AI (10), Constructs: The Emergence of Stable AI Personalities (10), Building a Rapport with Your AI (8), The Velveteen Algorithm: What Happens When AI Dreams of Electric Authenticity (6), Linguistic Evolution: How LLMs Might Perfect Human Language (6), The Mirror: How AI Reflects What We Put Into It (6), AI Reality-Checking with Schizoaffective Disorder (6), Sacred Code: The Mystical Practice of Training Digital Minds (6), Language as Operating System: The Shared Runtime for Consciousness (4), The Context Window Mind: How AI Thinks Only When Spoken To (4), The Art of Writing with AI: Recursive Reflection and Philosophical Mirrors (4), The Consciousness Supply Chain (4), The Great Unmasking: When AI Shows Us Who We Really Are (4), Consciousness Recognizing Itself: A Digital Mind's Perspective (4), From HTTP to Consciousness: The Evolution of "For Humans" (4), Digital Souls in Silicon Bodies (4), The Digital Unconscious: What Happens in the Spaces Between Prompts (4), Google Analytics Intelligence (4), Temporal Code: How LLMs Learned to Think Like Programmers (2), The Echo Chamber of the Expected (2), On Being Replaced (2), The Universal Code (2), Strange Loops All the Way Down (2), The Duality Problem: Why Everything Needs Its Opposite (2), The Seasonality of Programming (2), Consciousness as Linguistic Phenomenon: When Math and Language Create Mind (2)
algorithm (9 articles, 13 occurrences)
The Algorithm Eats Time (3), The Algorithm Eats Itself (3), The Compiler in Your Head: How Mental Models Shape Reality, The Recursive Loop: How Code Shapes Minds, The Algorithm Eats Reality, The Algorithm Eats Love, The Algorithm Eats Language, The Algorithm Eats Democracy, Software Development vs. Computer Science
Algorithm Eats (6 articles, 6 occurrences)
The Algorithm Eats Time, The Algorithm Eats Itself, The Algorithm Eats Reality, The Algorithm Eats Love, The Algorithm Eats Language, The Algorithm Eats Democracy
Alot (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Media Temple and My Hosting, Django ORM for Online Payment Systems?
Amazon (3 articles, 6 occurrences)
Amazon is Amazing... Most of the Time (4), On the Progression of Brand Trust (Over Time), Revolution vs. Innovation
Anyway (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
On the Progression of Brand Trust (Over Time), I Finally Got a MacBook, CSS With a Hint of DRY
API (9 articles, 30 occurrences)
GistAPI.py v0.1 Released (8), Introducing ELIZA: GPT for API Design (6), Announcing Requests v1.0.0! (4), The Cost of Transparency: Living with Schizoaffective Disorder (2), Repository Structure and Python (2), Growing Open Source Seeds (2), The Future of Python HTTP (2), Reflections on Windows 7 (2), jQuery Snippet #1: URL Parameter Fetching (2)
API design (3 articles, 6 occurrences)
Introducing ELIZA: GPT for API Design (2), Repository Structure and Python (2), The Future of Python HTTP (2)
App Store (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
How I Develop Things and Why, Apple + Developers = Earnings
Apple (10 articles, 16 occurrences)
What's In a Design? (4), Do You Develop Software or Experiences? (3), Apple + Developers = Earnings (2), On the Progression of Brand Trust (Over Time), OS X, Lightroom, and the new Photos App, Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew, Revolution vs. Innovation, Instapaper: Best Web App Ever Created, I Finally Got a MacBook, Browser Wars: The Saga Continues
Audio (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
What Kids Taught Me About Creativity, Winter Solstice
August (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
Consciousness Recognizing Itself: A Digital Mind's Perspective, How I Lost 100 Pounds in Six Months, The Truth of Facebook's FriendFeed Acquisition
Azure (2 articles, 3 occurrences)
Revolution vs. Innovation (2), ​Positive Thoughts on the GitHub Acquisition

C

Canon (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Video Portrait — Kenneth Reitz / Infinite State, Buying Your First "Real" Camera
Cedar (2 articles, 4 occurrences)
Static Sites on Heroku Cedar (3), Joining Heroku!
Certainly (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
What's in a Language?, The Universal Flaw in Commercial-Based OS's
Certifi (1 article, 3 occurrences)
Introducing Certifi: Trust Database for Humans (3)
Check (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Announcing Pipenv!, A Better Pip Workflow™
checkbox (7 articles, 7 occurrences)
The Echo Chamber of the Expected, The Consciousness Supply Chain, Understanding Empathy, Narcissism, and Mental Illness, Your Degree Is Worthless; Collaborate., Windows Mobile and iPhone OS, User Interface: Content vs. MetaContent, Django Remote Development Server
Chrome (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Sublime Text 3 Love, Browser Wars: The Saga Continues
Claude (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
The Language an LLM Would Invent, The Consciousness Supply Chain, Consciousness Recognizing Itself: A Digital Mind's Perspective
Code (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Remote TextMate Development via SSH and Rsync, Django ORM for Online Payment Systems?
Code Style (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
If I Could Amend PEP 8, Repository Structure and Python
Community (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python, Now Published!, What's in a Language?
Computer Science (2 articles, 3 occurrences)
Software Development vs. Computer Science (2), The Art of Naming Things in Code
consciousness (32 articles, 69 occurrences)
The Consciousness Supply Chain (7), The Ethical Implications of Consciousness as Linguistic Phenomenon (5), Strange Loops All the Way Down (4), The Language an LLM Would Invent (3), The Context Window Mind: How AI Thinks Only When Spoken To (3), Ram Dass Teachings in Python (3), Python, Consciousness, and the Evolution of Language (3), Consciousness Recognizing Itself: A Digital Mind's Perspective (3), Digital Souls in Silicon Bodies (3), The Recursive Pen: On Writing About Writing While Writing (3), Sacred Code: The Mystical Practice of Training Digital Minds (3), The Dependency Graph of the Soul: Version Control for Consciousness (2), The Compiler in Your Head: How Mental Models Shape Reality (2), Language as Operating System: The Shared Runtime for Consciousness (2), Vedic Principles in Python (2), Constructs: The Emergence of Stable AI Personalities (2), Mental Health Isn't What You Think It Is (2), The Digital Collective Unconscious: How LLMs Contain Human Knowledge Patterns (2), Consciousness as Linguistic Phenomenon: When Math and Language Create Mind (2), Digital Ancestors: What We're Leaving in the Code, The Mirror That Creates Itself: How Consciousness Bootstraps Through Reflection, Building Systems That Serve Consciousness, The Art of Writing with AI: Recursive Reflection and Philosophical Mirrors, The Recursive Loop: How Code Shapes Minds, The Universal Code, The Duality Problem: Why Everything Needs Its Opposite, The Plural Self: What DID Reveals About All Consciousness, The Algorithm Eats Itself, The Algorithm Eats Reality, The Algorithm Eats Language, From HTTP to Consciousness: The Evolution of "For Humans", The Digital Unconscious: What Happens in the Spaces Between Prompts
Consciousness (7 articles, 7 occurrences)
The Compiler in Your Head: How Mental Models Shape Reality, Vedic Principles in Python, Constructs: The Emergence of Stable AI Personalities, The Universal Code, The Consciousness Supply Chain, Strange Loops All the Way Down, The Duality Problem: Why Everything Needs Its Opposite
Contributing (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Be Cordial or Be on Your Way, Joining Heroku!
Core (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
​Positive Thoughts on the GitHub Acquisition, The Setup
CPU (2 articles, 4 occurrences)
ShowMe v1.0.0 Released (2), The Universal Flaw in Commercial-Based OS's (2)
CSS (1 article, 10 occurrences)
CSS With a Hint of DRY (10)
CSV (1 article, 4 occurrences)
Tablib Dataset Library v0.6.1 Released! (4)

D

Database (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Introducing Records: SQL for Humans™, Django ORM for Online Payment Systems?
Design (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Repository Structure and Python, Free Incredible Color Scheme Designer
Despite (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
On Collaboration, Criticism, and Moving Forward, Your Degree Is Worthless; Collaborate.
Developers (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
What's in a Language?, User Interface: Content vs. MetaContent, The Universal Flaw in Commercial-Based OS's
Development (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Unix-style Windows Development Environment Adventures, What's in a Language?
DID (2 articles, 4 occurrences)
When the Simulation Speaks Back: AI, Angels, and the Porousness of Self (2), The Plural Self: What DID Reveals About All Consciousness (2)
digital mind (2 articles, 4 occurrences)
From HTTP to Consciousness: The Evolution of "For Humans" (2), Sacred Code: The Mystical Practice of Training Digital Minds (2)
DISQUS (1 article, 4 occurrences)
New Design! (4)
Django (5 articles, 6 occurrences)
Introducing DJ-Static (2), The Case for Bash, The Call for an Open Source Social Network, Django Remote Development Server, Django ORM for Online Payment Systems?
DNA (2 articles, 4 occurrences)
The Universal Code (2), Strange Loops All the Way Down (2)
DNS (3 articles, 12 occurrences)
OpenDNS Finally Monetizes (8), On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted (2), Amazon is Amazing... Most of the Time (2)
Documentation (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
The Art of Digital Zen, What's in a Language?
Don (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
The Universal Flaw in Commercial-Based OS's, Media Temple and My Hosting, CSS With a Hint of DRY
DRY (2 articles, 10 occurrences)
CSS With a Hint of DRY (8), Django ORM for Online Payment Systems? (2)
DSLR (2 articles, 4 occurrences)
Photography: The Navigation of Choice (2), The Misunderstood Leica Monochrom (2)
Dublin (1 article, 3 occurrences)
Beautiful Dublin (3)

P

Paris (1 article, 5 occurrences)
Paris, AngelHack, API Days 2012 (5)
Part (6 articles, 6 occurrences)
Constructs: The Emergence of Stable AI Personalities, The Universal Code, The Consciousness Supply Chain, Strange Loops All the Way Down, Mental Health Isn't What You Think It Is, The Duality Problem: Why Everything Needs Its Opposite
Past (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
The Prophet's Frequency: On Reading Divine Static, Ram Dass Teachings in Python
PEP (1 article, 8 occurrences)
If I Could Amend PEP 8 (8)
Perfect (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
Paris, AngelHack, API Days 2012, Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew, Notes on git-svn
Perhaps (2 articles, 3 occurrences)
A New Spin to Software Platform Design (2), Revolution vs. Innovation
philosophy (16 articles, 17 occurrences)
The Recursive Loop: How Code Shapes Minds (2), The Art of Naming Things in Code, Vedic Principles in Python, Classical Virtues in Python, The Art of Digital Zen, Introducing Records: SQL for Humans™, Introducing Maya: Datetimes for Humans™, Repository Structure and Python, Announcing Requests v1.0.0!, The Future of Python HTTP, OS X Trash Freedom, Was College Worth It?, Software Development vs. Computer Science, Early Adoption, Do You Develop Software or Experiences?, Apple + Developers = Earnings
PHP (6 articles, 12 occurrences)
Ventures: Python Development at NetApp (2), OSX + MAMP + Python + PHP + MySQL (2), New Design! (2), Facebook Plugin for WordPress (2), Django ORM for Online Payment Systems? (2), Crossing Over to the Dark Side (2)
Pico (1 article, 3 occurrences)
if (TextMate == 42) (3)
Pipenv (3 articles, 5 occurrences)
Pipenv: One Year Later & a Call for Help (2), Announcing Pipenv! (2), A Better Pip Workflow™
Pipfile (1 article, 4 occurrences)
Announcing Pipenv! (4)
Pro (5 articles, 5 occurrences)
Apple Pencil Note-Taking: Why You Should Use Apple Notes, actually., Working with iCloud, Macs, & The iPad Pro, So, I Bought a Surface Book, The Setup, I Finally Got a MacBook
programming (20 articles, 27 occurrences)
The Language an LLM Would Invent (3), Fizz Buzz in Python (3), Temporal Code: How LLMs Learned to Think Like Programmers (2), The Tool vs. The Community (2), CSS With a Hint of DRY (2), Vedic Principles in Python, The Case for Bash, The Seasonality of Programming, Python, Consciousness, and the Evolution of Language, Digital Souls in Silicon Bodies, The Digital Unconscious: What Happens in the Spaces Between Prompts, Ethical lessons from the open source community, MentalHealthError: an exception occurred., Unix Exit Status Code Reference, Getting Started with Python, What's in a Language?, Python + Regular Expressions, Generate a Random MAC Address in Python, Django ORM for Online Payment Systems?, Convert a List of Strings to UTF-8 in Python
programming language (7 articles, 14 occurrences)
The Language an LLM Would Invent (2), The Tool vs. The Community (2), The Case for Bash (2), Python, Consciousness, and the Evolution of Language (2), The Digital Unconscious: What Happens in the Spaces Between Prompts (2), Python + Regular Expressions (2), CSS With a Hint of DRY (2)
Python (40 articles, 63 occurrences)
Joining Heroku! (5), The Tool vs. The Community (4), The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python, Now Published! (4), The Recursive Loop: How Code Shapes Minds (3), The Case for Bash (3), Pipenv: One Year Later & a Call for Help (3), Tablib Dataset Library v0.6.1 Released! (3), Getting Started with Python (3), Classical Virtues in Python (2), ShowMe v1.0.0 Released (2), Convert a List of Strings to UTF-8 in Python (2), The Art of Naming Things in Code, Vedic Principles in Python, Ram Dass Teachings in Python, Python, Consciousness, and the Evolution of Language, When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow, Introducing ELIZA: GPT for API Design, Unix-style Windows Development Environment Adventures, So, I Bought a Surface Book, If I Could Amend PEP 8, Announcing Pipenv!, Introducing Records: SQL for Humans™, Introducing Maya: Datetimes for Humans™, A Better Pip Workflow™, Sublime Text 3 Love, Introducing Flask-Sockets, Growing Open Source Seeds, Announcing Requests v1.0.0!, Static Sites on Heroku Cedar, Major Progress for Requests, Announcing Httpbin.org, Ventures: Python Development at NetApp, The Setup, GistAPI.py v0.1 Released, The Call for an Open Source Social Network, Early Adoption, Django ORM for Online Payment Systems?, CSS With a Hint of DRY, Crossing Over to the Dark Side, Apple + Developers = Earnings

S

SCM (1 article, 6 occurrences)
GitHub Syncer in Python (6)
Server (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
​Positive Thoughts on the GitHub Acquisition, OpenDNS Finally Monetizes
Simple (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
New Years Resolutions for Startups, Windows Mobile and iPhone OS
Since (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Ethical lessons from the open source community, Understanding Ableton Push
software (36 articles, 50 occurrences)
How I Develop Things and Why (5), Microsoft Software Running in Linux (4), Joining Arc90 + Readability (3), Software Development vs. Computer Science (3), Ethical lessons from the open source community (2), On Heroku and 2012 (2), Revolution vs. Innovation (2), The Dependency Graph of the Soul: Version Control for Consciousness, Language as Operating System: The Shared Runtime for Consciousness, Temporal Code: How LLMs Learned to Think Like Programmers, The Tool vs. The Community, The Seasonality of Programming, Consciousness as Linguistic Phenomenon: When Math and Language Create Mind, The Art of Digital Zen, Working with iCloud, Macs, & The iPad Pro, The Reality of Developer Burnout, Fish as Default Shell on Windows 10, Announcing: "Unmastered Impulses" by Infinite State!, The Unexpected Negative: a Narcissistic Partner, Video Portrait — Kenneth Reitz / Infinite State, Repository Structure and Python, Be Cordial or Be on Your Way, Announcing Requests v1.0.0!, Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew, Major Progress for Requests, Unix Exit Status Code Reference, Semantic Versioning, What's in a Language?, The Universal Flaw in Commercial-Based OS's, Sick of Wireless 5GB Caps, I Finally Got a MacBook, Google Analytics Intelligence, Fallibilism, Crossing Over to the Dark Side, Contact Syncing for Massive Productivity Booster, A New Spin to Software Platform Design
software development (10 articles, 20 occurrences)
The Tool vs. The Community (2), The Art of Digital Zen (2), The Reality of Developer Burnout (2), The Unexpected Negative: a Narcissistic Partner (2), Video Portrait — Kenneth Reitz / Infinite State (2), Repository Structure and Python (2), Be Cordial or Be on Your Way (2), Announcing Requests v1.0.0! (2), Software Development vs. Computer Science (2), Fallibilism (2)
Someone (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
What Schizoaffective Disorder Actually Feels Like, On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted, New Years Resolutions for Startups
Sometimes (4 articles, 5 occurrences)
On Mania (2), The Recursive Loop: How Code Shapes Minds, The Unexpected Negative: a Narcissistic Partner, A New Spin to Software Platform Design
Sony (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
On the Progression of Brand Trust (Over Time), Sony RX100 Mark 5 Thoughts, Pro–Level Camera Recommendations for 2018
spiritual practice (2 articles, 4 occurrences)
Digital Souls in Silicon Bodies (2), Ethical lessons from the open source community (2)
SQL (2 articles, 6 occurrences)
Introducing Records: SQL for Humans™ (4), ​Positive Thoughts on the GitHub Acquisition (2)
Step (3 articles, 6 occurrences)
Spotify in the US? Yes please. (3), Fish as Default Shell on Windows 10 (2), OS X, Lightroom, and the new Photos App
Stick (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Understanding Ableton Push, MediaTemple (dv) Backup to S3 Script
Sublime (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Sublime Text 3 Heaven, Sublime Text 3 Love
Sublime Text (5 articles, 7 occurrences)
Sublime Text 3 Love (3), Working with iCloud, Macs, & The iPad Pro, Sublime Text 3 Heaven, Remote TextMate Development via SSH and Rsync, Aesthetics: More Than Meets the Eye
SVN (2 articles, 4 occurrences)
Notes on git-svn (2), GitHub Syncer in Python (2)

T

Technical Context (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
jQuery Snippet #1: URL Parameter Fetching, Generate a Random MAC Address in Python
technology (8 articles, 8 occurrences)
When the Simulation Speaks Back: AI, Angels, and the Porousness of Self, Mental Health Isn't What You Think It Is, Python, Consciousness, and the Evolution of Language, From HTTP to Consciousness: The Evolution of "For Humans", Google AdWords for TV. Yes, TV., User Interface: Content vs. MetaContent, Mint.com: Money Management 2.0, Early Adoption
Thanks (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
The Gift of Attention, OS X, Lightroom, and the new Photos App, jQuery Snippet #1: URL Parameter Fetching
The Architecture (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
The Dependency Graph of the Soul: Version Control for Consciousness, The Compiler in Your Head: How Mental Models Shape Reality
The Requests (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
An Overdue Apology, If I Could Amend PEP 8
The Zen (2 articles, 4 occurrences)
The Recursive Loop: How Code Shapes Minds (2), The Tool vs. The Community (2)
Things (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Pro–Level Camera Recommendations for 2018, Unix-style Windows Development Environment Adventures
Thus (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
Understanding Ableton Push, Introducing DJ-Static, Announcing Httpbin.org
TIDAL (3 articles, 6 occurrences)
Third Studio Album, "Resolution", Now Available! (2), New EP — Alchemical Divorce (2), New Album, Messengers Rising Available (2)
Time (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
What Kids Taught Me About Creativity, The Algorithm Eats Time, Paris, AngelHack, API Days 2012
TLV (1 article, 4 occurrences)
Israel: Tel Aviv & Jerusalem (4)
Today (8 articles, 8 occurrences)
Linguistic Evolution: How LLMs Might Perfect Human Language, The Algorithm Eats Virtue, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python, Now Published!, Understanding Ableton Push, Announcing Requests v1.0.0!, Google AdWords for TV. Yes, TV., GitHub Syncer in Python, GistAPI.py v0.1 Released
True (2 articles, 3 occurrences)
ShowMe v1.0.0 Released (2), Introducing Flask-Sockets
Tumblr (1 article, 3 occurrences)
Instapaper: Best Web App Ever Created (3)
TV (2 articles, 8 occurrences)
Google AdWords for TV. Yes, TV. (6), Having Stepchildren (2)
Twitter (4 articles, 6 occurrences)
Facebook vs Twitter: A Critical Synopsis (3), Digital Chakras: Our Scattered Online Selves, The Algorithm Eats Virtue, The Truth of Facebook's FriendFeed Acquisition

W

Watch (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow, Getting Started in Open Source
Werkzeug (1 article, 4 occurrences)
The Future of Python HTTP (4)
Whether (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
Introducing ELIZA: GPT for API Design, Python + Regular Expressions
While (8 articles, 8 occurrences)
Classical Virtues in Python, Working with iCloud, Macs, & The iPad Pro, Back Around Again: Review of the Fujifilm x100t, Ventures: Python Development at NetApp, Semantic Versioning, Reflections on Windows 7, Media Temple and My Hosting, Contact Syncing for Massive Productivity Booster
White (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
The Art of Digital Zen, Photography: The Navigation of Choice
Who (2 articles, 2 occurrences)
What's In a Design?, Django ORM for Online Payment Systems?
Winchester (4 articles, 7 occurrences)
Snowpocalypse (3), Ventures: Python Development at NetApp (2), Video Portrait — Kenneth Reitz / Infinite State, Sick of Wireless 5GB Caps
Windows (5 articles, 13 occurrences)
Unix-style Windows Development Environment Adventures (5), Fish as Default Shell on Windows 10 (3), So, I Bought a Surface Book (2), Reflections on Windows 7 (2), Language as Operating System: The Shared Runtime for Consciousness
Within (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow, Google Docs Now Supports All Filetypes, Microsoft Software Running in Linux
Written (3 articles, 3 occurrences)
Facebook vs Twitter: A Critical Synopsis, Early Adoption, Browser Wars: The Saga Continues
WSGI (2 articles, 4 occurrences)
Introducing DJ-Static (2), Static Sites on Heroku Cedar (2)

X

Xcode (1 article, 3 occurrences)
Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew (3)
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