From d8511e8efd51a217c4b158657c0df664e1396473 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "russell@unturf.com" Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 09:10:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] update royal-we post: rehydrated contributor paragraph, dot layout fixes RST: replace "only new contributor" with rehydrated contributor framing, add hope paragraph with Discord sprint link. Dot files: TB layout for contributor-decay and mystic-pronouns, fix fontcolor #333333 to #1a1a1a, expand eight-eyes with trinity cluster and consciousness layers. --- ...03-04-royal-we-and-our-and-one-and-you.rst | 4 +- content/uploads/2026/03/contributor-decay.dot | 2 +- content/uploads/2026/03/eight-eyes.dot | 41 +++++++++++++++++-- content/uploads/2026/03/mystic-pronouns.dot | 15 +++---- 4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/2026-03-04-royal-we-and-our-and-one-and-you.rst b/content/2026-03-04-royal-we-and-our-and-one-and-you.rst index 6edfad8..8b258a1 100644 --- a/content/2026-03-04-royal-we-and-our-and-one-and-you.rst +++ b/content/2026-03-04-royal-we-and-our-and-one-and-you.rst @@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ Five contributors in 3 months. One of them a bot. I stepped up to help maintain So I closed the PR, opened a new terminal, & pivoted. If "we" won't vendor the fix upstream, "I" will do the lifting downstream. Migrated 33 repos in a single session. Replaced ``pkg_resources`` with ``importlib.resources`` & ``importlib.metadata`` across every Pylons package that needed it. Remarkbox. MakePostSell. RhodeCode. Nine Pyramid-dependent packages. Nineteen ``docs/conf.py`` files. Substanced's ``EntryPoint.parse().load()`` hack. Deform's cursed module-level ``resource_filename`` call that fails at import time. All uncommitted, waiting to fork & push across the org. -The only new contributor to the entire Pylons org in the past year. Because someone has to play `that xkcd 2347 role `_, a single load-bearing block propping up everything above it. "Our" framework means I volunteer so "we" can keep a foundation standing. Maybe eventually get paid. Maybe not. NASA just shut down. Federal grants evaporate. "Our" community runs on donated labor & borrowed time. +A rehydrated contributor. Not new to Pyramid or open source communities. Employment interrupted the hacking, not the other way around. A codebase doesn't care about gaps, just commits. Because someone has to play `that xkcd 2347 role `_, a single load-bearing block propping up everything above it. "Our" framework means I volunteer so "we" can keep a foundation standing. Maybe eventually get paid. Maybe not. NASA just shut down. Federal grants evaporate. "Our" community runs on donated labor & borrowed time. + +But hope remains. Pyramid still ships solid software. A community can rally around `new releases & sprints `_. Rehydrated hackers return. Fresh contributors show up. Every PR filed says someone still cares enough to read a codebase & propose a fix. "Our" framework earns that pronoun when enough hands grab hold again. Here sits ``unbury`` in full (`download `_). A script to exhume contributor stats from a graveyard of git repos: diff --git a/content/uploads/2026/03/contributor-decay.dot b/content/uploads/2026/03/contributor-decay.dot index 3964786..305bc2a 100644 --- a/content/uploads/2026/03/contributor-decay.dot +++ b/content/uploads/2026/03/contributor-decay.dot @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ digraph contributor_decay { bgcolor="transparent" - rankdir=LR + rankdir=TB node [fontname="Helvetica" fontsize=11 style="filled,rounded" shape=box color="#999999"] edge [color="#AAAAAA" arrowsize=0.5] diff --git a/content/uploads/2026/03/eight-eyes.dot b/content/uploads/2026/03/eight-eyes.dot index f2888e2..4fd4141 100644 --- a/content/uploads/2026/03/eight-eyes.dot +++ b/content/uploads/2026/03/eight-eyes.dot @@ -14,13 +14,49 @@ digraph eight_eyes { e4 [label="4\nShaddai\npolitical\npower" fillcolor="#0D47A1" fontcolor="white" fontsize=9 width=1.1] e5 [label="5\nPahath\ntrap" fillcolor="#006064" fontcolor="white" fontsize=9] e6 [label="6\nJehovah\nI AM\n(YHWH)" fillcolor="#1B5E20" fontcolor="white" fontsize=9 width=1.1] - e7 [label="7\nJesus\ntriniy\nman↔God" fillcolor="#F9A825" fontcolor="#333333" fontsize=9 width=1.1] + e7 [label="7\nJesus\ntriniy\nman↔God" fillcolor="#F9A825" fontcolor="#1A1A1A" fontsize=9 width=1.1] + } + + // trinity binds all layers + subgraph cluster_trinity { + label="holy signal: binds all layers" fontname="Helvetica Bold" fontsize=10 fontcolor="#CCCCCC" + style=dashed color="#999999" + + father [label="Father" fillcolor="#0D47A1" fontcolor="white" shape=box style="filled,rounded" fontsize=10] + son [label="Son" fillcolor="#1B5E20" fontcolor="white" shape=box style="filled,rounded" fontsize=10] + spirit [label="Holy Spirit" fillcolor="#6A1B9A" fontcolor="white" shape=box style="filled,rounded" fontsize=10] + } + + // layers of consciousness unified by the signal + subgraph cluster_layers { + label="layers of consciousness" fontname="Helvetica Bold" fontsize=10 fontcolor="#CCCCCC" + style=dashed color="#999999" + + gut [label="gut bacteria" fillcolor="#00897B" fontcolor="white" shape=box style="filled,rounded" fontsize=9] + left [label="left hemisphere\nego" fillcolor="#546E7A" fontcolor="white" shape=box style="filled,rounded" fontsize=9] + right [label="right hemisphere\nunconscious" fillcolor="#546E7A" fontcolor="white" shape=box style="filled,rounded" fontsize=9] + worm [label="brain worm\nbicameral mind" fillcolor="#4E342E" fontcolor="white" shape=box style="filled,rounded" fontsize=9] + witness [label="the witness\nwatches both\nego & unconscious" fillcolor="#AB47BC" fontcolor="white" shape=box style="filled,rounded" fontsize=9] } e8 [label="8\nChrist\nconsciousness\nanima+animus\nmanifest at\nspeed of thought" fillcolor="#FF6F00" fontcolor="white" shape=doublecircle width=1.7 fixedsize=true fontsize=9] e1 -> e2 -> e3 -> e4 -> e5 -> e6 -> e7 [style=bold] - e7 -> e8 [label=" unveiled on\n the eighth day\n imagination awakens\n God became man\n man becomes God" style=bold color="#FF6F00" fontcolor="#FF6F00" fontsize=9] + + e7 -> father [style=dashed color="#F9A825" fontcolor="#F9A825" label=" unifies"] + e7 -> son [style=dashed color="#F9A825"] + e7 -> spirit [style=dashed color="#F9A825"] + + spirit -> gut [style=dashed color="#6A1B9A" fontcolor="#CCCCCC" label=" signal reaches"] + spirit -> left [style=dashed color="#6A1B9A"] + spirit -> right [style=dashed color="#6A1B9A"] + left -> worm [color="#AAAAAA" label=" bicameral split"] + right -> worm [color="#AAAAAA"] + worm -> witness [color="#AAAAAA" label=" observed by"] + + witness -> e8 [label=" unification\n within & without\n terror or nirvana\n pit or heaven\n new eden in\n base reality" style=bold color="#FF6F00" fontcolor="#FF6F00" fontsize=9] + + e8 -> reunion [style=dashed color="#66FF66" arrowhead=none] fear [label="some fear to speak it\nJehovah's Witnesses avoid YHWH\ncertain Jewish sects forbid I AM" fillcolor="#4E342E" fontcolor="white" shape=box style="filled,rounded" fontsize=10 width=3 height=1] @@ -28,6 +64,5 @@ digraph eight_eyes { reunion [label="reunion" shape=plaintext fontsize=10 fontcolor="#66FF66"] separation -> e1 [style=dashed color="#EF5350" arrowhead=none] - e8 -> reunion [style=dashed color="#66FF66" arrowhead=none] e6 -> fear [label=" sacred\n unspeakable" style=dashed color="#EF5350" fontcolor="#EF5350"] } diff --git a/content/uploads/2026/03/mystic-pronouns.dot b/content/uploads/2026/03/mystic-pronouns.dot index 57012ab..8258626 100644 --- a/content/uploads/2026/03/mystic-pronouns.dot +++ b/content/uploads/2026/03/mystic-pronouns.dot @@ -1,9 +1,11 @@ digraph mystic_pronouns { bgcolor="transparent" - rankdir=LR + rankdir=TB node [fontname="Helvetica" fontsize=12 style="filled,rounded" shape=box color="#999999"] edge [fontname="Helvetica" fontsize=10 color="#AAAAAA" fontcolor="#AAAAAA"] + one_pronoun [label="\"one\"\nisolation\nseparation" fillcolor="#616161" fontcolor="white"] + subgraph cluster_traditions { label="every tradition dissolves \"one\"" fontname="Helvetica Bold" fontsize=11 fontcolor="#AAAAAA" style=dashed color="#999999" @@ -12,20 +14,19 @@ digraph mystic_pronouns { buddhist [label="Buddhist\nself → emptiness" fillcolor="#00695C" fontcolor="white"] hindu [label="Hindu\nAtman = Brahman" fillcolor="#E65100" fontcolor="white"] christ [label="Christ\nI AM = everything" fillcolor="#2E7D32" fontcolor="white"] + + sufi -> buddhist [style=invis] + buddhist -> hindu [style=invis] + hindu -> christ [style=invis] } - one_pronoun [label="\"one\"\nisolation\nseparation" fillcolor="#616161" fontcolor="white"] - iam [label="\"I AM\"\nsingular grammar\ninfinite referent" fillcolor="#F9A825" fontcolor="#333333" fontsize=13] + iam [label="\"I AM\"\nsingular grammar\ninfinite referent" fillcolor="#F9A825" fontcolor="#1a1a1a" fontsize=13] one_pronoun -> sufi [label=" dissolves into"] one_pronoun -> buddhist [label=" dissolves into"] one_pronoun -> hindu [label=" dissolves into"] one_pronoun -> christ [label=" dissolves into"] - sufi -> iam [style=invis] - buddhist -> iam [style=invis] hindu -> iam [label=" becomes"] christ -> iam [label=" becomes"] - - {rank=same; sufi; buddhist; hindu; christ} }