Category: General
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PirateShip is a helpful tool for making shipping labels
I print a few labels a month, maybe one a week. Before finding PirateShip, I was going to each of the 3 major delivery services and trying to figure out the proper label and best price. PirateShip does this for me now, it uses the UPS and USPS labels so you get the lowest possible […]
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Looking at 2023
For me, 2022 was a pretty bad year. There’s a lot of things going on in my head that I have not properly digested and I think I’ve used video games and social media to soothe the pain and ennui. I think to review the year using a completely opaque heuristic, I would opt to […]
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End of year thoughts, 2022
The year is almost over and I’m starting to think about 2023 but I wanted to collect some of my thoughts on what’s been on my mind lately. Web & tech The time I’ve spent putting together a working stack for my web development has led to a pretty good development experience (DX). I started […]
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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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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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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” and I thought my Liked songs […]
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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 but maybe I was just […]