Treefingers

Category: General

  • 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 its main recipes to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 two spacebars, slightly angled layout)…

  • 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. And at times like this, I think to myself,…

  • 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/creators market their themes as being very design heavy and…

  • 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’s downtime but then that was…

  • Some photos from my recent trip to Pakistan

    In May of this year, I traveled to Pakistan to be with my family for my dad’s funeral. My dad passed away unexpectedly after suffering from a heart attack which was brought on after he fell off of a ladder. This happened on his first day in Pakistan so the shock and timing made it…

  • Challa 9 9 9

    Oh Challa pa-ya ਹੋ ਛੱਲਾ ਨੌ ਨੌ ਤੇਵੇ, ਹੋ ਛੱਲਾ ਨੌ ਨੌ ਤੇਵੇ There’s a lot of covers of this song, especially the well known version by Gurdas Maan. The original really sits strongly as a soulful piece of art it is. Here’s the Gardas Maan version: The earliest version I could find on Spotify…