Bloglog

I've recently thought about the tech I used to own, the tech I own now, and what I would look for to replace it. I noticed that in the past, I have usually b...

Several years ago I was speaking with a special advisor to President Bush Jr. He was, also, an academic and in the summer he had returned to his university to teach some of international relations …

I am not sure why, but I don't have much interest in life. I have been this way for as long as I can remember, though I am not sure if my memories are reliable. People seem to find living fun, I...

It's very rare that I give up on a book, and when I do, it's usually not a permanent state of affairs. More often than not, I'll pause it. Maybe I'm burnt...

Owning and using broken things can be both incredibly beautiful and extremely liberating. And I'm not talking about the Japanese concept of …

She was one of the most inspiring teachers I've ever had.

I saw this on YouTube, and I’m not sure what to make of it.

It's even worse than it appears..

As a teen in school, during one of my english class, I came across a beautiful paragraph about a young girl whose life was colourful with dreams. Oblivious t...

When the anxiety of preserving something is what makes you break it.

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

Earlier today I was grabbing coffee with my neighbor. As I was taking my mug outside to a table, I noticed someone reading a book with an interesting title. ...

I love the indieweb carnival. Every month, a new blogger hosts a topic on their website, and everyone else is invited to post about it

Yesterday I was playing soccer with in the cul-de-sac and there was a kid whose shoelaces kept coming undone. Untied shoelaces aren't something you want to s...

There is a trend in current domestic appliances and items that is really pushing my buttons; namely, there aren't any with buttons left. Our washing mach...

Roy Tang's blog. Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart. Randomly amazed.

I’ve had an interesting conversation with Mr Creosote on Mastodon a few months ago that …

Think way back to 2016. The X-Files came back after 14 years, a 4-inch lock of John Lennon’s hair sold for $35,000 and there was a baby born with DNA from three parents. Weirdness all around, especially on the Apple campus. They were convinced the iPad was the future of computing, deep into “what’s a computer” thinking yet still produced laptops with 3-year-old chips in them. Whilst everyone pointed towards a touchscreen Mac, they instead gave users a weird strip you could interact with and took away their function keys.

Finished reading: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein.

One of my personal challenges recently has been to do with negative body image. It goes without saying that I’ll dip into that territory in this post, so this could be a sensitive topic for some peo

If you want to know what absolutely disingenuous A.I. regulation looks like, look no further than Elon Musk who, in March, was among the signatories of a plea to pause development of these technologies. Thanks to Mike Masnick for this first link. Jyoti Narayan, Krystal Hu, Martin Coulter, and Supantha Mukherjee, Reuters: “Powerful AI systems […]

Thought experiment: how hard would it be to implement ActivityPub over ATProto? The answer might surprise you!

In our culture we're brought up with the latent understanding that there's always a right answer: the correct choice in an exam, the proper thing to say in c...

These tiny snapshots give us a window into parts of lives far removed from our own.

It's been a week since I lost my job, and my mom seems to think I should be applying for open positions already. I get where she's coming from, and I've s...