The simple pleasure of listening to music the old-school way by storing it on your phone. Pros and cons of managing your music library offline. Rediscovering patience from the early digital era.

"But here’s the thing... The friendships that survive adulthood’s chaos are almost always worth the effort. You are not friends because you sit in the same classroom or live on the same block. You are friends because you made the decision to invest in each other despite all the other demands on your time."

For a while, I have been thinking about writing a post on reasons why you should write. Today, I reframed this idea into documenting the reasons why I write on this personal website. This newfound framing alleviated the mental block I had around this topic, giving way to my making a list in my notes document of the reasons why I write.

My thoughts, my feelings, my perceptions

One of my favourite things to do in my free time is to tinker with this website. Indeed, this website is the culmination of years of tinkering. I have added features like coffee shop maps that I can share with friends, a way for me to share my bio in two languages, a sitemap.xml file to help search engines find pages on my website, and more.

I used to never share how I felt, not even with my closest friends. Blogging about it would have been completely unthinkable. On the outside, everything ...

It is useful, after all.

“I don’t have anything of value.” I hear that a lot when I give tips about fire and burglary protection. When a customer said it recently, his girlfriend didn’t miss a beat: “You have me.” Touché. It was a joke, but also a truth. We take so much for granted: Family Friends Home Health Freedom We often only notice the value when it’s gone. But we don’t have to wait for that.

Hyper-web-pop Pesca Oídos por el mundo Estrés irónico Cocina Hidratante Cara o cruz Descubrimientos No es vegana Tocar césped Cyberpunk Hambre Retrojapo Muchas pistas Lo que está arriba es, simplemente, una colección de enlaces de sitios que merecen ser visitados. Solo porque me parecen bonitos, o divertidos, o curiosos. Si tenéis vacaciones en agosto, os…

Vivimos en unos tiempos en los que el texto se encuentra en franco retroceso. Solo hay que asomar la cabeza por el internet actual para ver que el espacio que antes ocupaba el texto ahora le ha sido parcialmente arrebatado por los videos y el audio. Donde antes te encontrabas un buen artículo fundamentado lo…

Getting multiple library cards mean expanding my access to even more e-book collections, that I can borrow.

Hace un tiempo escribí aquí sobre mi hiperfijación con los "Commonplace books". Estaba leyendo mucho sobre el tema y viendo muchos videos...

My wife and I recently discovered a bum gun in one of our bathrooms at home. It gave me quite the shock!

How I extracted all the words used in over 300 blog posts to make a word cloud

Recently, my attention has been focused on building web apps to suit my very specific needs.

Mai chim fan. Toothpick in Thai. It was one of the first words I made sure to learn when I came to Thailand. Partly because I knew I would have use for it...

Sometimes I get asked by newcomers how one can become a developer like me - specifically, with a job and career like mine.

Salir de Wordpress a una solución de web sencilla es fácil técnicamente, pero reubicar los metadatos y fotos no tanto...