The past week, up until last night, I was spending time with my parents. This is the first time I’ve spent significant time with my parents since I moved out almost a decade ago. It lined up nicely with Eid al-Fitr which happened last Monday. The first half was
I am visiting the New York City office for my work this week. I am tagging along Kristen on her work trip and decided to into the office. It’s similar to the San Francisco office, has most of the elements, albeit toned down a ton and the population is
I found this song on tik tok, like most songs I discover these days 😆
From December to February, I was pushing hard on building out the Bookends app, especially during the end of year break that gave me about 10 days to work on it while being off work. It acted as a catalyst allowing me to launch a working version of the website
Recently I’ve been listening to The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and I ran into a few quotes by Albert Camus like the following one: “You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” I also went on the internet to find some more. “What
I bought the Air75 from Nuphy as a gift for Kristen. It’s a low-profile wireless mechanical keyboard that comes Gatreon switches. The switch options are Blue, Red, or Brown. I got her the red switches due to their linear mechanism. I don’t have many thoughts about this keyboard
It’s probably my 10th or 20th time setting up a computer and each time I start this process, I think to myself that I should be writing it all down so next time it’s easier for me and maybe it will get other some ideas on possible things
The last time I bought a macbook was in 2010. It was a 13″ Macbook Pro at the base specs. It was great, lasted me a couple of years and then I passed it on to a friend. Last month, I decided to order a new macbook, the ones with
Last week, I left Oakland, California and moved to Portland, Oregon. It’s a huge move for me and Kristen along with the pets but we wanted to try a new city while we can. Working remotely enables to move. I don’t have many impressions to share yet except
I’m writing this for the weary internet traveler because I spent 3 hours debugging this and finally had some coffee ☕️ and figured it out after running into a ton of errors. This is my desired outcome: every time a user signs up for my app, I want to associate
I’ve had a few interests this year, finding a good water enhancer (e.g. flavor mixes without sugar) being one of the recent ones but my interest this year has stayed pretty steady in typography. Mainly printing out labels has led me down rabbit holes of font families. I’
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This post was written in 2018 and has been sitting in my Drafts for over 3 years. I decided to write this after realizing it’s going to get deleted if I don’t get to it. When I discover new music, I love to go the extra few steps