Notes from the Burrow

2025

Updating styles once again

Play the song, read something

Slack emojis

Free image and graphic websites

Options trading notes

Moving from Ghost to Astro

The flood

Q

The Kaua'i ō'ō bird

This morning’s teas

15 years of usmanity.com

2024

End of year review, 2024

Samson and Rosie on Thanksgiving

Formatting messages in iMessages (in iOS 18)

Showing photos to Heisenberg

Who killed the squirrel?

The Big Summer Update

An alternative WezTerm icon

Alfred, tools, themes, and tips

Iron Flame, book review

Rethinking about my data hub

Samson with his favorite toys

Drake is going to disappear in a few generations

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A slump slump

Yaptain

A song my friends taught me

Is it a body ache or is it my medication?

Onions

Six months of UC

Ideas

February and March roundups

Subtracting projects

Cancel vs subscribe 2024

Things I read and liked in January 2024

Snow in Portland, 2024

My unsubscribe rules for marketing emails

Stop building stingy apps

A new blog for my love of keyboards

Clear app updates after many years!

2023

End of Year Health Report, 2023

Refocusing on one thing

Primitive Data Types

75 Day Challenge

Hashing and Hash Tables

Recursion

Programming Paradigms

Sorting algorithms

Fixing an issue with blocked email forwards to Fastmail from Cloudflare

What is the difference between a 32-bit and 64-bit computing?

Climbing cringe mountain

A case for better email

Orion might be a browser worth trying

Comparing the Spurcycle bell to its dupe

Colophon

Reintroducing Redirector

On two months after leaving my full time job

Dev notes from August 28th to Sept 1st, 2023

Recording set up #1

Bike stats, trying out SvelteKit

Two weeks of being "offline"

Rose - a portfolio website template

An overview of some Tailwind specifics

Macbook Battery info workflow for Alfred

Tools

Dozing off quickly, or sleeping anywhere anytime

Friends

Reviewing 2023's first half

Hello from the Burrow

Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, OpenJourney, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney

Thank you for joining!

Deprecating BoardSearch

Bathing Samson

First bread from the sourdough starter

Homepage update, June 2023

Moving from Wordpress to Ghost

New pedals for the e-bike

About

Bike fitting on the e-bike

I got a sourdough starter today

Revisiting photos and organizing between many apps

The internet is everywhere and it's not

A new projects page, for tracking all projects in one place

The hot and cold with Wordpress

Projects Costs & Revenue

Reversed ordered list

The no-theme theme

Why CUID has so many zeros in almost every generated ID

BEEF

Sleepy hollow vibes

Consolidating one more thing into Cloudflare, analytics

Recent small projects

Importing 25 million books into Bookends

Snow in Portland

Warm me up, my little heaters

PirateShip is a helpful tool for making shipping labels

Saturday morning Indian news and music

Looking at 2023

2022

BoardSearch at 1.0, switches and keycaps added, what's coming next...

My trip to Europe, testing positive for covid

End of year thoughts, 2022

I got an e-bike

Apps I Use

Building something is hard, getting someone to use what you built is even harder

Add more whitespace

Recent renders from Dall-E, Nov 2022

Twenty twenty-three theme from Wordpress is the first sane theme from WP in a few years

Introducing BoardSearch, a single place to find and track keyboards

Cornershop’s Norwegian Wood is the one of my weirdest discoveries so far

The weird place that the internet is, a clip from Bo Burnham, social networks are overpowering society

Things I found on the internet, week of August 29th, 2022

Things I found on the internet, week of Aug 22nd, 2022

Spotify now has support for ⌘+K just like Slack etc.

Updating my homepage to make things as simple as possible

Thoughts on the Keychron Q8 (Alice layout)

Playing around with DALL·E 2

North, or some reflections on sitting and staring at things in my office

Finding a good theme for a Wordpress blog is hard

Dave Van Ronk Sings

Too much of SPOF

Keychron V1 is out, pre-built knob version for $84

Keychron's Q1 vs V1

Defensive CSS and other tips

Going back on the note-taking options

Some photos from my recent trip to Pakistan

10 years of Stuck

Challa 9 9 9

A photo of Vital Signs from the 90s I found on twitter

Coloring book was good

Centralized means you might lose access to your decentralized assets

Ditching Notion for logseq + obsidian, so long to proprietary formats

Spending a week with my parents

The bygone photos of people in offices

Ameno Amapiano Remix by Nektunez and Goya Menor

A retro on the Bookends alpha

Some quotes by Albert Camus

NuPhy Air75 review

Setting up a Mac (with command line tools)

After years, I bought a personal MacBook

Downloads

I moved to Portland 🌲

2021

Packing up, and having a font for it

An introduction to music by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Wood by Rostam

"Carnival Jump" by Sandy Bull

Sher Ali & Mehr Ali Qawwalian (Qawwali)

A better shortcut for emojis on macOS

TIL: checkout the previous branch using git checkout -

Clearing and resetting dock on macOS

And then there were none, by Agatha Christie

My favorite photo subjects

Neck pain

Gardening my projects

Summer 2021 projects

GMMK Pro build, with MT3 Dasher keycaps

Languishing

Weekend project update 2: simple URL shortening

TIL: null is an object in Javascript

Is the Keychron Q1 a GMMK Pro dupe?

TIL: polling rates for keyboards

An alternative icon for iTerm2

Fields of Coral by Vangelis

Line art practice

Local .vimrc for neovim settings and differences

Running a local docker instance for Wordpress theme development

TIL: using inv for any vim setting will invert it

TIL: tempfile in ruby, use it for easy garbage collection afterwards

Vim & Tmux settings, shortcuts, etc.

Star Wars progress bar in Spotify

Git shortcuts

Using Numi app for calculations

TIL: using my own blog as a knowledge DB with Google as the search engine

Realforce R2 vs Epomaker's Niz Plum x87

Doing the laundry

Tracy – Mogwai

A little harvest of peppers

Blogging from Ulysses

Jugni — Rabbi Shergill

Bought a 5 TB hard drive

Happy St. Patrick’s day from Samson

Nomadland is really good

Icons for Mac apps

A quick look at my music listening in 2020

Redirector tool

On goals and other motivations

Useful aliases in the command line

2020

Apps I use on Mac (2020)

Stoner by John Williams

2020, bad juju, broken sleep schedules, and the moonshadow

Spooky season vibes

Interesting time standards

React & Redux notes

Status updates on Twitter

The Sky naming scheme

Self-knowledge

My recent interests

Black Sparrow Press books

Fonts

Naps

Command-line tips & troubleshooting

Summer during the lockdown

It’s a Mogwai kinda day

Black Lives Matter.

Some digging into embedding comparable images

Reminiscing on a decade of cryptocurrencies

Now Playing on Last.fm

I tried watching Terminator Dark Fate

When it’s hot outside, my pets hang out together

Killing analytics on my personal sites

Go be a Ranger, little Archie

March 25th, 2020

Middle child syndrome and Bluetooth keyboard

March 19th, 2020

Music trends, from 2010 to 2019

Some Bulleh Shah mentions in recent music

Tea at Coleridge

Leaving behind the social networks

Notes and pages

My favorite games

Finding Aspen

Purging music for the year

2019

Notes

Pausing video games for 1 month

Oat milk cappuccinos in LA

Me eating a cream roll in the desert

Nowadays

My first attempt at an Angel Food Cake

Ugh, gone is my server again!

Dark mode in 1 step

I really wanted to like Outlander

Docker cheatsheet

Book review: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Samson’s Halloween costume

October update

Reverting to an old school way of posting

The Goldfinch, movie vs book

iPhone 11

Maus #1 by Art Spieglman

Apple Card  First Impressions

Starting over, thoughts on meditation

Interesting Unicode Symbols

Dull lull in July

Turning 29 and other things in June

Goodbye Bookends, for now

April showers bring May flowers

Bookends update - April 2019

Serving Vue.js apps on Github Pages

Thinking back to 1919, a 100 years ago today

With love from Novigrad

Timeline by Michael Crichton

Setting up Fathom for all my sites

Bookends update, March 2019 #2

Bookends update, March 2019

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

Being unaware of an economic depression

Getting my bike fitted by Pedro

Trying out a new workflow for personal projects

2018

Thoughts on the Watership Down series on Netflix

Goal setting for 2019

Books in 2018

Some thoughts on 2018

Learning a bit of iOS

In Portland

Conspicuous consumption and other thoughts on spending

Reverting back to a simpler version of social media and socializing on the web

Late October Update

Nightmare #1 (Jetski of the sky)

Late September update

The Handmaid’s Tale, wow so far!

Shortcuts and apps

Sunday vibes playlist

The race to 1,000 miles

Bookends update, August 12th

Deleting data.usmanity.com

Chill song for relaxing

Bookends, for fun and for learning

Home, is where I want to be

The City & The City

Dividends as income

Mid-year check-in, also I'm 28 now

Preview of Free Press

Getting started with local Wordpress development and a log for free-press development

Mid-May update

Apps I use to listen to audiobooks

Samson’s first swim!

The Three-body Problem

Say something nice

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Review

Watership Down, a fantastic novel

Ready Player One, book vs movie

Thoughts on the Spotify IPO

Goodbye Bilo - December 2nd, 2017

A new topic to explore

Building a Chrome extension using Vue.js

Starting work on a custom theme

My goal for Yelp in 2018

Introducing Treefingers

Hello from Treefingers