Blog Anniversaries
Roy Tang's blog. Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart. Randomly amazed.
Bloglog
Everything is an essay.
The false choice of newsletter formats
Against Superficial Simplicity
Designers love to make things simple — but simple isn’t always better.
On TV+ and the Cunning Strategy of the Apple One Bundle Pricing
Regarding many of us reconsidering Apple’s services amid their price increase, it struck me that TV+ is the one I’m least likely to drop. I’d drop
Will there be enough AI?
Reaching 8,888 posts, and a bit of a retrospective
Remembering back to a 2011 post about the future made me think about it again. Also, 8,888 posts!
Preparing for tropical snow chains
Bad things are inevitable, but how you respond is up to you
eating hot and cold in fukuoka
Today we managed to find a cafe with some outdoor seating for breakfast. It was 12 degrees celsius, and I was half-expecting to see no tables outside despite the google listing showing otherwise....
The real ones
I was talking with someone recently, about some frustrations they had with the way a piece of technology was being used, when they added offhandedly, “But I’m not a Luddite.”
sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt
After writing about being in a creative slump, a few kind strangers generously offered helpful suggestions: schedule a time to write each day, keep a journal...
The top WordPress plugins are… a little sad?
This is a little negative-nancy-ish, so if you aren’t feeling that right now — just close this tab 😜. It struck me recently how this list of plugins I saw in the 2023 Annual WordPress…
Wondering what to write about
“One of the world’s oldest continually publishing blogs”
The last phone-sized phone
life is fragile
today was a disheartening day. i cant really put it into words. my morning walk shot down by a dead squirrel i narrowly avoided stepping on through my walk t...
On Horror (Continued)
Oh, you thought I was done? I'm not. This mindvirus will not leave me alone, so I'm not going to leave you alone. Tough noogies. Anyways, further consider...
Nov 13, 2023
Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant
reflections from a taiwanese quarantine hotel
two nights ago, i flew from san francisco to taipei on a special visa to study chinese. because of covid, taiwan remains mostly closed to foreigners and requ...
Starting from scratch
Show me your blogroll
Blogrolls are the best artifacts of the Early World Wide …
[Reply] Show me your blogroll
AI Idea: Catch Up on RSS
All this talk about creating custom GPTs has gotten me brainstorming. Here’s an AI idea that I’d love to use: Take all the unread items in my RSS
WordPress’s 8888 ID post of fortune!
By Ruben Schade in Australia. 🌻
an unexpected therapy session on the subway
he thanked me profusely for listening, insisting he felt much better after our "session."
My blogroll now includes OPML
My blogroll now also includes the RSS feeds from each …
Help is just help
What am I hoping for?
In the face of human rights abuses
I want to write something on Israel / Palestine, and I've tried about six times to gather my thoughts, but there's so much to the
Burnout and the quiet failures of the hacker community
Nov 14, 2023
Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant
black star
things have slowed down for me. i find myself sitting outside during my lunch breaks despite the colder weather weve been having. sometimes ill have a coffee...