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.
Muhammad Usman
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 GAFAM is an outdated name for: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft, making up the biggest tech companies.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
Thoughts on the Keychron Q8 (Alice layout)
The recently released Keychron Q8 was on my radar for awhile. As most mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, I also suffer from never acquiring the endgame. This one is definitely nowhere close to endgame but it was a nice little stint to try out. I wanted to try the Alice layout (the
Playing around with DALL·E 2
Earlier today, I got access to play around with OpenAI’s DALL·E 2, it’s a system to generate images in almost anything imaginable by taking in text input and generating a few variations of it. The more descriptive your prompt for the art, the more likely it will
North, or some reflections on sitting and staring at things in my office
Whenever I listen to “North” by Phoenix, I’m reminded of sitting at my doctor’s office, the quietness only filled with an instrumental that builds and builds until a howl. Right now, I’m sitting listening to it and it’s on my “Upside Down” playlist created by Spotify.
Finding a good theme for a Wordpress blog is hard
I’ve been looking around for a decent theme for the whole time I’ve had this WordPress blog. I’m experiencing a strong case of analysis paralysis, there are so many themes available for WordPress but also there’s a huge hole in the themes available. Most theme authors/
Dave Van Ronk Sings
A few days ago, I got the Van Ronk Sings the Blues record in the mail. It’s a collection of some of Dave Van Ronk songs that he covered. These are just raw American folk songs sang in his unique style. If you haven’t seen Inside Llewynn Davis,
Too much of SPOF
SPOF: Single point of failure. I know the title of this post is grammatically incorrect but bear with me. I had an annoying issue pop up today. My blog stopped responding to all requests without any changes from me. At first I thought it might be related to digital ocean’