About
Some basics about me and this site.
About Me
My name is Anton Bilbaeno.
"antoaenono" is the first four letters of my first name, then
last four letters of my last name… with an extra "no" on the end.
It's meant to read as: "anto I no no".
It's just something silly I came up with but
plays on the idea that
the man who knows something knows that he knows nothing at all. 1
It's supposed to be a reminder to myself to be humble.
Keep listening, keep observing, don't assume you know anything.
About This Website
This is my personal site. I publish here first, then duplicate to other sites.
(This is known as "POSSE (opens in a new tab)")
org-publish infrastructure.The source files are
.org files that get exported to static HTML.- Blog posts with footnotes, citations, and code blocks
- Time notes organized by day, week, month, year
- Citations via
org-citeand BibTeX - RSS feed for blog posts
- Tufte-inspired CSS with responsive sidenotes
Colophon
- Editor: GNU Emacs (opens in a new tab)
- Markup: Org mode (opens in a new tab)
- Site generator:
org-publish(built into Org)
A Note About Generated Text
This is my obligatory "Artificial Intelligence
(AI)" disclosure.
I do not write with a language model. I consider writing with a language model of the most detrimental things you could possibly do to your brain.
Please, please, never have a model write for you. If you're a young person, I'm talkin' I'd drop to my knees and beg you in hopes that I'd leave an imprint that you could never forget.
I'd even go as far as to say you should never even have a model review your work, other than spelling or grammatical checks.
My reasoning for this would be because you'll dull your senses and won't even be able criticize your own work.
To try to read through some model's bullshit output about "you should change this and this and this" is shooting yourself in the foot.
…even if it did come up with "something good" then you gotta decide how you incorporate that. Just spare yourself and don't go down that road.
By the time you try to parse through a bunch of model output, you could have tried revising it yourself and built a stronger intution.
Maybe your revision is worse, but the next one is much better. You'll never get this following a model's advice on your writing.
In writing, an acceptable use case would be to do research and find relevant sources for inspiration and references to support your claims.
Otherwise, forget about it.
The struggle to review and endlessly revise your writing is a desirable difficulty.
Writing is revising. Revising is writing.
Privacy
Analytics
This site is delivered by Cloudflare and uses Cloudflare Web Analytics.
Since this is purely a static site I considered having no analytics at all, however, the analytics do give some useful information about the site's performance on different devices, operating systems, and browsers. The performance is important to me. This is the main reason for keeping them.
Another reason to keep the analytics is that it also tells me what website might have linked you here. It's also interesting to me how people might have stumbled upon my site.
Other than that, the analytics do not utilize cookies or save any persistent personally identifiable information about you.
It collects page paths, referring sites when provided by the browser, approximate country, device/browser/operating-system categories, and page-load performance measurements.
It does not use cookies, persistent visitor identifiers, cross-site tracking, or custom events.
CloudFlare processes ordinary connection information to deliver and protect the site. See Cloudflare's Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab).
Session Storage
This site uses session storage only to remember interface state within the current browser tab (which content is expanded/collapsed). That information remains in the browser and is not transmitted. I added this for my sanity for the state to persist through a refresh during development & debugging.
Footnotes
This is a common perspective that goes back far in time.
It can be traced to Zen Bhuddists, Socrates, Erykah Badu (as the lyric is directly quoted above), and on & on.