Bloglog

A look at just over two weeks of adding submissions and features to the default apps website

Rain poured down all week, with no end in sight. I am used to being able to walk almost every day, though the weather in my country is generally gloomy and ...

I used to think that opening about things and showing your insecurities and flaws is unattractive and generally something that people don't want more of in t...

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

Photographer/YouTuber Peter McKinnon just dropped a video …

I was too tired to post anything yesterday, so I guess this wouldn't be a daily thing. But something is better than nothing, so I am back posting a few highlights. We were on the way to our hotel...

I debated for a long time whether to visit Hiroshima since I was already on my way to Osaka from Fukuoka. It would be almost a midway stop, breaking up the original 2h 40m bullet train ride nicely....

On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk acquired Twitter. Last month, CEO Linda Yaccarino acknowledged her employer’s contributions in a blog post titled “One Year in, the Future of X Is Bright”: October 27 marks the one-year anniversary of this platform under new ownership and management. While the headline is optimistic, this opening sentence has the […]

Emotional labor is often talked about in relation to employees at work or wives with their husbands. More recently, it’s also discussed in relation to race and ethnicity. Rarely do I ever see it

A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed for the project peopleandblogs.com

This is the 12th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Chris …

A kind stranger dmed to tell me that my rss feed was broken – turns out the code for displaying custom fields on rss was throwing a php fatal error (Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type...

It’s interesting the things we notice compared to the things we don’t. I came home the other day to the smell of fresh Pine-Sol which could only mea...

Four Podcasts is my upper limit—that’s the remark of a friend while discussing the …

Immediately after setting up the dial-up, I made another core, formative, internet memory. Setting up the internet was a two-step process that felt simple de...

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

A heavy influence on why I write down so many notes, and with so much detail in them, is this idea that if you have to re-read a source t...

I was eleven, or maybe twelve, when it hit me that I was just a leaf floating in the air, being carried over by the wind coming from whoe...

There are numerous tech things I am intentionally quiet about. Not because I don’t have thoughts about them, but because I would rather not add to the noise of initial emotion blog posts and hot takes. The Humane AI Pin was one of those things, and while I don’t see it catching on, I think it is a fascinating device because of what it signals. For years now, technology commentators have been theorising on what comes after the smartphone.

When was the last time you saw a piece of tech that left you utterly astonished?

To clarify a point from last week, the scavenger hunt story: It isn't just that the perceived size and significance of the competition is usually an illusion and should never discourage you from trying. That's part of it, but I was also trying to say that other people rarely care

Sunset is a different vibe in New York, especially if you are on other side of the Hudson or the East river. The city shines in the golden hour and I try to ...

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

The idea of has been floating around my internet-space for a while now. I've always been intrigued by it but for some reason I've never tried it, even thoug...

I really, truly love a board game bar (or café). If you're looking for a place to hang out where you can really get silly with it in public without worry...