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A song my friends taught me

There are 100s of instrumental songs I have in my library and every single one has a different reason I've liked it but one song that I keep coming back to because of how simply beautiful and nostalgic it is, is called "Song My Friends Taught Me&

health

Is it a body ache or is it my medication?

I've been having this strange thought recently that maybe it's my medicine, mesalamine causing me to have side effects that are like a headache, a random ache in my bones, or some times just an uncomfortable feeling. I think it's maybe aging too? I

Six months of UC

This week marks 6 months since I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (UC), and I wanted to share some thoughts on what has changed in my life because of this. The Diagnosis Last year, around September, I started to get stomach pain and sudden urges to run to the restroom.

internet

Onions

I wanted to call this post something else, but today in the shower, I had an idea: there are so many layers of myself that I have discovered over the last few years, and yet so many more that I haven’t even begun to peel back. The reason I&

monthly-roundups

February and March roundups

The past two months have gone by so fast, I can't believe it. And it's all been in a very good kind of way of time passing. The kind where you're busy everyday and come Friday, you're surprised the week went by

projects

Subtracting projects

Lately, I've been exploring the idea of simplifying my life by subtracting rather than adding. This journey began with the book Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! and was further inspired by Subtract by Leidy Klotz. In this post, I'll focus on subtracting projects I've started over

finances

Cancel vs subscribe 2024

For the past few years, I've been doing this thing where at the beginning of every year, I take a hard look at my subscriptions and decide if I should consider canceling or continuing to subscribe, and in some rare case, start subscribing to new services. I want

apps

Things I read and liked in January 2024

I've been busy over the last week so I haven't been able to write this post but I wanted to share my favorite things I discovered over the last month, and a few things I just want to highlight. Things I read Something I think about

portland

Snow in Portland, 2024

It's our annual snowstorm in Portland, a week where the whole city just shuts down and braces for the snow. We got snow on Saturday (Jan 13th) and today's Thursday and there's still snow on the ground. Here's the temperatures for the

My unsubscribe rules for marketing emails

When I signed up for Fastmail a few years ago, I decided to keep my inbox as clean as possible. Not just zeroed out but also never getting any emails that were not important or useful to me. The majority of these emails were marketing emails and newsletters. Some marketing

Stop building stingy apps

Are you a greedy little fucker? Does your app have proprietary data in it? Are you building a walled garden full of weeds? Stop. Stop building apps that are hoarding my data. We have standard formats, let me export my data. Don't build apps that delete my health