February and March roundups The past two months have gone by so fast, I can't believe it. And it's all been in a very good kind of way of time passing. The kind where you're busy everyday and come Friday, you're surprised the week went by
Subtracting projects Lately, I've been exploring the idea of simplifying my life by subtracting rather than adding. This journey began with the book Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! and was further inspired by Subtract by Leidy Klotz. In this post, I'll focus on subtracting projects I've started over
Cancel vs subscribe 2024 For the past few years, I've been doing this thing where at the beginning of every year, I take a hard look at my subscriptions and decide if I should consider canceling or continuing to subscribe, and in some rare case, start subscribing to new services. I want
Things I read and liked in January 2024 I've been busy over the last week so I haven't been able to write this post but I wanted to share my favorite things I discovered over the last month, and a few things I just want to highlight. Things I read Something I think about
Snow in Portland, 2024 It's our annual snowstorm in Portland, a week where the whole city just shuts down and braces for the snow. We got snow on Saturday (Jan 13th) and today's Thursday and there's still snow on the ground. Here's the temperatures for the
My unsubscribe rules for marketing emails When I signed up for Fastmail a few years ago, I decided to keep my inbox as clean as possible. Not just zeroed out but also never getting any emails that were not important or useful to me. The majority of these emails were marketing emails and newsletters. Some marketing
Stop building stingy apps Are you a greedy little fucker? Does your app have proprietary data in it? Are you building a walled garden full of weeds? Stop. Stop building apps that are hoarding my data. We have standard formats, let me export my data. Don't build apps that delete my health
A new blog for my love of keyboards I love mechanical keyboards, I have been obsessing over them for more than a decade and every once in a while. I write about keyboards here but I felt like the content I want to write about isn't as personal and oftentimes just content I want to have
Clear app updates after many years! I first heard about Clear when over 10 years ago. I remember their launch was pretty hyped and I ended up paying the $1 to see just what was great about this app. It was so easy to use, one of the first apps to really use the swiping gestures
End of Year Health Report, 2023 This year started out very differently than how it is ending, and I wanted to jot down as many of my thoughts as possible before I get busy with the new year's energy. I want to share an overview of my current health, how it has changed over
Refocusing on one thing The past week has been a valuable exercise in discipline, pushing me to write and learn more frequently. However, I've come to the conclusion that I was devoting too much time to these activities rather than building and experimenting. This post touches on the above, but it primarily
Primitive Data Types Today, I'm at Eastside Coffee Bar & Workspace. It's a nice little coffee shop with a bunch of seating available to sit and work. I am not at my house because I wanted to get away from the noise of plumbing work that started today. I&
Hashing and Hash Tables Today's topic is pretty straight forward. I got this one from the list of concepts that ChatGPT suggested. I think on days when I'm short on time or feeling less inspired, the generated list could be useful. Sidebar: today I am feeling a bit underpowered because
Recursion It's the weekend and I didn't have much free time today so I'm covering recursion. Recursion is an important topic in programming that often gets looked over because oftentimes it's used in self-evaluating algorithms. But before I go into Opinionland, I'