Writing

Film finds, SunoAI, Boeing and the Suicide Mission, Debugger's Toolkit, and OJ.

April Fools Round-up, primer on .xz hack, the web dev market, Taiwan's earthquake, and the sad stories about the A's move.

My personal stream of thoughts, ideas, and inspiration.

Inspirations draw from all over the place. I share some of the work where others have inspired this blog and me 💡.

Newsletter updates for March 2024

On Robert Caro, Obits, people ruining the Internet (thanks SEO), Facebook and Netflix were in bed with your DMs, and the Baltimore Bridge fiasco.

This Chrome Extension allows me to quickly copy the current webpage's title and URL in Markdown format.

Gleam, Salon style intellectual conversations, OpenAI's response to Elon, Raw Milk as a conservative signal, and a collection of design engineers.

Gleam, Salon style intellectual conversations, OpenAI's response to Elon, Raw Milk as a conservative signal, and a collection of design engineers.

How to be not distracted, blizzards in California, local-first movement, and emembering David Bordwell and Akira Toriyama.

My personal tool for keeping track of people and interactions tailored for my own needs.

What's new with React, Not a Designer, Meeting again after 77 years, Scale yourself, and happy leap day.

Newsletter updates for February 2024

Time on the Doomsday Clock, Personal website spaces, and AT&T outage.

Instructions on changing remote and local git branches from master to main

Classifieds have been added to the website. 📰🗞️

Mini website updates and reflecting on digital creativity and curation. Better thinking tools, the role of luck, productivity loss on Apple Vision Pro, jQuery v4.0, SORA, and the 7 C's of consulting.

Creating a regular expression for decimal points

Learning Models, Getting Fired live on TikTok, last week's storm, the boring stack, and recontrer.

Using the rename utility

While I wrote my first Svelte application 4 years ago, I wanted to test my Svelte knowledge by solidifying it into a blog post.

My weekly review breakdown with annotations. Deep dive into the pillars of productivity.

Obsidian gems of 2023, another terrible thing happened in Florida, restoring children deafness, giant parasol could alleviate Global Warming, and Tailwind criticism.

We are officially migrating off the old platform and onto a new one.

Setting up the Obsidian QuickAdd plugin with a custom book plugin

Getting excited about Chess, Shiny object syndrome, Viral Tunnels, and GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer.

Curations is my attempt at blending the warm hug of nostalgia with a little nook tailor-made for my personal obsessions—steering clear of the 'oh-so-common listicle' abyss. Let's dive into the fun zone! 🚀✨

Impact of 23andMe data breach, Pocketbase, how Apple built iCloud, and AlphaGeometry.

Small website updates - Jan 2024

My annual review, taking a look at my 33rd year

Stanley Cups Out of Stock, a guide to ZIRP, displaced jobs from AI, and the reason there's no improvement on rebuilding Lahaina.

New Year for digital movies, digital nomad history, and Dunky's guide to streaming services.

An evening using Make Real, and thoughts on making

My fiancée's article, PHOLEDs, fall of the American Chestnut, EVs in China, and how the US is not normal

Holidays - weekly notes including Trump's Disqualification tracker, the mysterious cough, and are outliners ruining our thinking process?

The Advent of Code, Ologies, a history of Taquerias in Redwood City, and things hackers once knew

Henry Kissinger dies at 100, exaggerations from an AI Founder, interview w/ Emma Chamberlain, and 23andMe hacked

Post-Thanksgiving reflections, respiratory illness, Charles Munger, Q*, and reflections on Rust that wasn't

Thanksgiving week, packed with 4D Chess, EA vs. e/aa, Data Viz Guidelines, American Symphony, and an electric home composter.

Collection of Black Friday deals around the web

Resonance calendars, how long can you keep things in the fridge, James Webb Telescope images, long Covid, and OpenAI drama

Closing of downtown Berkeley cinemas, the pains of daylight savings, EFTs, and Tyson recall

Health updates, Song Embeds, and SRE Lessons

Of dishwashers, starting NaNoWriMo, the pangenome, workflows and mental models

Sharing your calm, freewriting, the myth of learning styles, and dealing with conflict from 2 UC Berkeley professors.

Return from Strangeloop, OSM Topo Map, Dying Languages, and Martin Kleppmann

No relief from nasal decongestant, depression support list

Daily headaches, panic attacks, life or death experiences on a trip from the ICU and back

The idea of an infinite scroll can be dangerous, and here are some tactics to curtail their effects on our addicted minds.

Based off the 7 GUIs benchmark, here are implementations of the 7 GUIs in Svelte.

A dive into my personal notes on SolidJS, as I was going through the tutorial.

Deep dive with Typescript and its features. Some notes and examples.

Major website updates, new collections, fixed bugs, and more!

My current daily review journal for work, as of 2023.

An exercise where I lay out my favorite questions. These questions are long-term problems without easy answers.

Annual Review for Age 32

Migrating from Jekyll to Astro

Using MDX with Astro to render a Svelte component

An exercise where I lay out my favorite questions. These questions are long-term problems without easy answers.

From an egghead course, notes about building a realtime chat app with remix and supabase

Setting up a new mac - 2022 Apple Macbook Pro 13"

A short introductary guide to Javascript, written for incoming interns at Clear Labs

A short introductary guide to Browsers, written for incoming interns at Clear Labs

This checklist is a starting point for web app audits. It's a living document, and will be updated as we learn more.

Megan Jolly

Raina Evans

Julie Valenti

Mary Aipoalani

Using the R Language

Joe Lazzara

Evan Roer

Simon Gondeck

Where I talk about my failure to slow down.

Where I talk about my failure to find my belongings.

Where I talk about my failure to be alone.

Where I talk about my failure to compromise between emotion and rationality.

Where I talk about my failure to stop reacting.

Where I talk about my failure to remember.

Where I talk about my failure to speak up.

Where I talk about my failure to act.