Notes from the Burrow

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Muhammad Usman

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’

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.

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

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

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 GAFAM is an outdated name for: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft, making up the biggest tech companies.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

Spotify now has support for ⌘+K just like Slack etc.

Using Command + K (or Control+K on windows) has become so commonplace that even some web apps now use it and today, I was pleasantly surprised to discover this in Spotify. It’s not great yet but I believe it might improve with time Above is a search for “liked”

Updating my homepage to make things as simple as possible

I used to have a very simple homepage before 2022. Below is a screenshot of it: I liked this version long enough to keep it around for almost 4 years. But there was an itch earlier this year to redo my homepage. I felt like my homepage was kinda boring