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I got an e-bike
Kristen has gifted me an e-bike for Christmas this year! It’s a huge thing since I was going to wait another year or so before saving enough to buy an e-bike myself. When I was in Europe, I tried e-bikes and I was super curious about them. I looking at many options, like the RadRover […]
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Building something is hard, getting someone to use what you built is even harder
I’ve been making steady progress on BoardSearch but it seems like at this point, I am having a hard time getting users to use the website. I think it’s mainly due to this website mainly being for myself to scratch my own itch. I’m not even sure there are many people out there who want […]
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Add more whitespace
Recently, while working on BoardSearch and also while building anything related to my personal projects, the design trick I’ve been employing is adding more whitespace, be it margins, padding, or overall gaps around a component. It’s not something I came up with, I learned it a lot through using Tailwind and I’m sure there’s been […]
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Recent renders from Dall-E, Nov 2022
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Twenty twenty-three theme from WordPress is the first sane theme from WP in a few years
The first-party themes from WordPress are always intriguing because they come with the latest new features they are introducing in the wordpress engine. For the 2023 version, it has style options and a completely templatized theme that can be updated using the Block editor. The only thing I was surprised to see missing from the […]
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Introducing BoardSearch, a single place to find and track keyboards
Earlier this year, I was jumping between a bunch of projects and I finally decided to hunker down and focus on one project. I approached this project for two main reasons, one to scratch my own itch of not being able to find a keyboard with exactly the specs I’m looking for. The second reason […]
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Cornershop’s Norwegian Wood is the one of my weirdest discoveries so far
I randomly stumbled on this in a Spotify playlist. It hurts my head a little to listen to it and then when I hear the words, I like it a lot too.
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The weird place that the internet is, a clip from Bo Burnham, social networks are overpowering society
For a long time now, a thought in my mind has been simmering about the fact that we should not be inundated with our online social networks. Twitter feels overwhelming to me. TikTok is endlessly entertaining which seems wrong. Instagram is full of ads and fake lifestyles, FOMO + FUD are its main recipes to […]
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Things I found on the internet, week of August 29th, 2022
I’m continuing this series as it was fun to keep track of things last week, mostly for my own archives. 90’s Cursor Effects by Tim Holman. The 90s were a wild time for the web, this brings back a bit of that. I was too young to use the web in the 90s. OptFi locked […]
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Things I found on the internet, week of Aug 22nd, 2022
If you have access to the internet, chances are you spend 60-80% of your time on the GAFAM networks. GAFAM is an outdated name for: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft, making up the biggest tech companies. If you’re wondering how is this possible, you’re most likely reading this on an iOS, macOS, Android, or […]
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