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The internet is everywhere and it’s not
A new projects page, for tracking all projects in one place
The hot and cold with WordPress
Projects Costs & Revenue
Reversed ordered list
Why CUID has so many zeros in almost every generated ID
The no-theme theme
BEEF
Sleepy hollow vibes
Consolidating one more thing into Cloudflare, analytics
Recent small projects
Importing 25 million books into Bookends
Snow in Portland
Warm me up, my little heaters
PirateShip is a helpful tool for making shipping labels
Saturday morning Indian news and music
Looking at 2023
BoardSearch at 1.0, switches and keycaps added, what’s coming next…
My trip to Europe, testing positive for covid
End of year thoughts, 2022
I got an e-bike
Building something is hard, getting someone to use what you built is even harder
Add more whitespace
Recent renders from Dall-E, Nov 2022
Twenty twenty-three theme from WordPress is the first sane theme from WP in a few years
Introducing BoardSearch, a single place to find and track keyboards
Cornershop’s Norwegian Wood is the one of my weirdest discoveries so far
The weird place that the internet is, a clip from Bo Burnham, social networks are overpowering society
Things I found on the internet, week of August 29th, 2022
Things I found on the internet, week of Aug 22nd, 2022
Spotify now has support for ⌘+K just like Slack etc.
Updating my homepage to make things as simple as possible
Thoughts on the Keychron Q8 (Alice layout)
Playing around with DALL·E 2
North, or some reflections on sitting and staring at things in my office
Finding a good theme for a WordPress blog is hard
Dave Van Ronk Sings
Too much of SPOF
Keychron V1 is out, pre-built knob version for $84
Keychron’s Q1 vs V1
Defensive CSS and other tips
Going back on the note-taking options
Some photos from my recent trip to Pakistan
10 years of Stuck
Challa 9 9 9
A photo of Vital Signs from the 90s I found on twitter
Coloring book was good
Centralized means you might lose access to your decentralized assets
Ditching Notion for logseq + obsidian, so long to proprietary formats
Spending a week with my parents
The bygone photos of people in offices
Ameno Amapiano Remix by Nektunez and Goya Menor
A retro on the Bookends alpha
Some quotes by Albert Camus
NuPhy Air75 review
Setting up a Mac (with command line tools)
After years, I bought a personal MacBook
I moved to Portland 🌲
Connecting a relationship using a hook in Keystone.js 6
Packing up, and having a font for it
An introduction to music by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Wood by Rostam
“Carnival Jump” by Sandy Bull
A better shortcut for emojis on macOS
TIL: checkout the previous branch using git checkout –
Clearing and resetting dock on macOS
And then there were none, by Agatha Christie
My favorite photo subjects
Neck pain
Gardening my projects
Summer 2021 projects
Using styled-components with next.js
GMMK Pro build, with MT3 Dasher keycaps
Languishing
Weekend project update 2: simple URL shortening
Weekend project progress: routes for Larri
TIL: null is an object in Javascript
Is the Keychron Q1 a GMMK Pro dupe?
TIL: polling rates for keyboards
An alternative icon for iTerm2
Fields of Coral by Vangelis
Line art practice
Local .vimrc for neovim settings and differences
Running a local docker instance for WordPress theme development
TIL: using inv for any vim setting will invert it
TIL: tempfile in ruby, use it for easy garbage collection afterwards
Star Wars progress bar in Spotify
Using Numi app for calculations
TIL: using my own blog as a knowledge DB with Google as the search engine
Realforce R2 vs Epomaker’s Niz Plum x87
Doing the laundry
Tracy – Mogwai
A little harvest of peppers
Blogging from Ulysses
Jugni — Rabbi Shergill
Nomadland is really good
Happy St. Patrick’s day from Samson
Bought a 5 TB hard drive
A quick look at my music listening in 2020
Redirector tool
On goals and other motivations
Useful aliases in the command line
Apps I use on Mac (2020)
Stoner by John Williams
2020, bad juju, broken sleep schedules, and the moonshadow
Spooky season vibes
Interesting time standards
Status updates on Twitter
The Sky naming scheme
Self-knowledge
My recent interests
Naps
Summer during the lockdown
It’s a Mogwai kinda day
Black Lives Matter.
Some digging into embedding comparable images
Reminiscing on a decade of cryptocurrencies
Now Playing on Last.fm
I tried watching Terminator Dark Fate
When it’s hot outside, my pets hang out together
Killing analytics on my personal sites
Go be a Ranger, little Archie
March 25th, 2020
Middle child syndrome and Bluetooth keyboard
March 19th, 2020
Music trends, from 2010 to 2019
Some Bulleh Shah mentions in recent music
Tea at Coleridge
Leaving behind the social networks
Notes and pages
Finding Aspen
Purging music for the year
Pausing video games for 1 month
Oat milk cappuccinos in LA
Me eating a cream roll in the desert
My first attempt at an Angel Food Cake
Ugh, gone is my server again!
Dark mode in 1 step
I really wanted to like Outlander
Book review: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
October update
Samson’s Halloween costume
Reverting to an old school way of posting
The Goldfinch, movie vs book
iPhone 11
Maus #1 by Art Spieglman
Apple Card  First Impressions
Starting over, thoughts on meditation
Interesting Unicode Symbols
Dull lull in July
Turning 29 and other things in June
Goodbye Bookends, for now
April showers bring May flowers
Thinking back to 1919, a 100 years ago today
Bookends update – April 2019
Serving Vue.js apps on Github Pages
With love from Novigrad
Timeline by Michael Crichton
Setting up Fathom for all my sites
Bookends update, March 2019 #2
Bookends update, March 2019
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Being unaware of an economic depression
Getting my bike fitted by Pedro
Trying out a new workflow for personal projects
Thoughts on the Watership Down series on Netflix
Goal setting for 2019
Books in 2018
Some thoughts on 2018
Learning a bit of iOS
Conspicuous consumption and other thoughts on spending
In Portland
Reverting back to a simpler version of social media and socializing on the web
Late October Update
Nightmare #1 (Jetski of the sky)
Late September update
The Handmaid’s Tale, wow so far!
Sunday vibes playlist
The race to 1,000 miles
Bookends update, August 12th
Deleting data.usmanity.com
Chill song for relaxing
Bookends, for fun and for learning
Home, is where I want to be
The City & The City
Dividends as income
Mid-year check-in, also I’m 28 now
Preview of Free Press
Getting started with local WordPress development and a log for free-press development
Chrome console output notes
Mid-May update
Apps I use to listen to audiobooks
Samson’s first swim!
The Three-body Problem
Say something nice
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Review
Watership Down, a fantastic novel
Ready Player One, book vs movie
Thoughts on the Spotify IPO
Goodbye Bilo – December 2nd, 2017
A new topic to explore
Building a Chrome extension using Vue.js
Starting work on a custom theme
My goal for Yelp in 2018
Introducing Treefingers
Hello from Treefingers