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2024-11-23 I found out that Slack shows a "So happy you're here!", "Welcome to the …

2024-11-22 Spent ~1 hour figuring out what a hotkey was triggering on macOS: Settings just said it was in use, …

2024-11-22 This is rather impressive over such a broad array of metrics, although now I'm curious about …

2024-11-19 I was mildly excited that it was a postal van that slowed down and flashed its headlights to let me …

2024-11-18 A glimpse of my walk yesterday, when I realized DC could be beautiful even while close-ish to a …

2024-11-15 If you don't want to commit to another platform or manually post on multiple sites, this is a …

2024-11-14 I'm impressed that my grocery delivery, which due to my mistake was left outside on a commercial …

2024-11-13 Makes sense, although they may be better served by also endorsing an alternative (as did NPR... …

2024-11-10 I appreciate the near lack of advertisements on platform walls of the DC Metro, with a few escalator …

2024-11-07 A great take on the promises being delivered (or not) by this Indian government's economic …

2024-10-08 Apparently Siri does not do bigrams… (I wasn’t able to reproduce this, to be fair)

2024-10-08 Some opponents of direct democracy claim voters may not understand what they're voting on, …

2024-10-07 Good start @tfl, although this may be even more useful on trains rather than at bus stops. How does …

2024-03-17 [Draft] Preventing gaming of AI evaluations: a case study of the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal

2024-02-28 Trying an accountability system with a friend for some life habits with minimal overhead by using a …

2024-02-25 A work-in-progress for me: shifting my response to someone describing a situation from suggesting or …

2024-02-23 Google Maps still displays many ghost Tube trains, at least at unusual hours, despite the TfL app …

2024-02-22 Now that I’m reviving my blog, I decided to change up the theme and settled on one that seems to …

2024-02-21 Spending a few weeks trying Swift (and SwiftUI)

2023-11-13 Less than half serious: with the number of cameras on public transport in London, I sometimes feel …

2023-11-13 TIL you can enable multiple language versions, such as English (US) and English (UK), for the macOS …

2023-11-12 There’s a public herb garden at Kilburn tube station! Unexpectedly cute things and trains are a …

2023-11-10 Before and after… the pumpkin axe murderer of Hackney Wick?

2023-11-10 Pro tip: It’s a bit surprising how much retail customers can save (50% or more over retail) on most …

2023-11-10 Trying out Unified Payments Interface

2023-10-01 Time Management for Mortals

2022-08-26 Appreciating vulnerability

2021-08-27 Why, WhatsApp?

2021-03-15 Unshackling culture

2021-03-13 The Evolution of Trust

2021-02-07 Book: Submission

2021-01-18 Lost in translation

2020-08-29 Converting Audible books

2020-04-07 (Foolish) optimism

2020-04-05 Quick reflection

2020-03-31 Nature walk

2020-03-30 Family values

2020-03-29 Freeing

2020-03-28 Book: The Righteous Mind

2020-03-27 Rejuvenation

2020-03-26 Global music

2020-03-25 Prioritizing

2020-03-24 Lockdown

2020-03-23 Pride

2020-03-22 Daily

2020-02-14 Belonging

2015-07-28 Clojure web server tutorial

2015-07-28 Git hook for static sites hosted on S3