How can coffee taste peachy?
My personal cheat sheet to help you better understand, buy, and enjoy coffee. With a few roasters recommendations in Finland.
April Cools' Club
Latest posts
🙏: please or thank you?
I sure hope I didn't make a fool of myself in a professional setting by using emoji 🙏
My year of reading Chinese history
Why I read so much Chinese history last year
Chants of Sennaar: A Review
Praise for the game design of 'Chants of Sennaar'
On Trees. But Not Those Trees.
When I'm not in front of a computer I'm probably looking for trees.
Myst's Minecart Maze Is Great Actually
I tried my hand at a video essay examining the excellent thematic and mechanical puzzle design behind one of the more infamous and hated puzzles in Myst, the Minecart Maze.
Don't Call It a Comedown
I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Then I wrote a fanfic about it.
Chicago vs New York Pizza is the Wrong Argument
The king of Chicago food is the hot dog.
The Self-Cancelling Subscription
When family TV show night became systems debugging night.
The underrated benefits of always having oatmeal at lunch
For me, eating oatmeal at lunch every day is almost a spiritual experience. Let me give you my rundown.
Puzzlehunts
All about my involvement with puzzle hunts and the MIT Mystery Hunt.
My Experience As A Rice Farmer
Read about my time helping out on a rice farm in rural Japan.
Come ho programmato un videogioco per Game Boy sull’amicizia con GB Studio
How I programmed a Game Boy videogame to celebrate friendship in my group of friends by using GB Studio (Italian 🇮🇹)
Product review: Kvikk Lunsj
Kit Kat meets its nemesis
I guess I cook now
Chronicling my journey to becoming a home cook
How to decorate a child's birthday cake
Instructions on how to decorate a simple but effective child's birthday cake
Digitisation is process optimisation
Digitisation works best when it is built on top of boring, proven technology. And when you don’t skip the actual work.
I listened to the 1001 (?) albums I should listen to before I die
My experience listening to all albums from the book 1001 Albums You Should Listen to Before You Die
3D-printing a Trombone
Building a perfectly playable plastic trombone for only $30
A non-exhaustive list of stuff I recommend
Various things I recommend, including food, clothes, services, and other fun things.
The Irrational Decision—A Book Review
A review of Ben Recht's thoughts on rationalism
How to Get Better at Guitar
A simple idea that changed my playing.
Celebration of Sunshine
The magical nature of British springtime
Personal Mineclonia World Tour
A small-ish tour of my 1100+ day Mineclonia world I've had for about a year.
Spoken Latin
The merits of spoken Latin as a hobby language, and how I ended up in a Latin immersion program in Kentucky.
Language-learning anecdotes
Some anecdotes from my various experiences learning languages, including Urdu, Polish, Latin, and American Sign Language.
This music seems to be in the air...
A playlist for the times to come
You should buy a meat slicer
A video about the most important kitchen tool for hot pot and more
Does Baby Have Hat
On impact and building self-reliance with computers.
Dries van Noten in Five Looks
Interpreting the work of my favourite fashion designer in five looks
My coffee setup
A summary of how I brew coffee at home
My Adidas
A reflection on how I came to buy a pair of Superstars every year for the last 20 years.
Find joy in the boring bits of life
Embrace whimsy in your everyday.
The Paris of our dreams
Miyazaki, Shinkai, and pushing through dreams to reality
XORry Not Sorry: The Most Amusing Security Flaws I've Discovered
Building your own cryptographic protocols, and why you probably shouldn't.
Gamer Games for Non-Gamers
The best videogames to try if you haven't played games before.
Overengineering an Obsidian dashboard to get better at Marvel Snap
Using data to answer the ultimate gamer question - why am I so bad?
Leveraging Spaced Repetition to Power My Weekly Newsletter
How I use Anki in an unconventional way to generate ideas and learn more intensely
nimi sin
I'm asking you to make more words. New words. Strange words. Specific words.
Impulse Purchases
Read about some questionable financial decisions I’ve made recently.
Egg mayo sandwich optimisation
How to minimise time-to-sandwich in the kitchen
Dynamic Graphs
A beginner-friendly introduction to an advanced topic in theoretical computer science.
How to Run a Table Top Roleplaying Meetup
Advice and suggestions for running an occasional, low-committment TTRPG game night.
A rough review of Capers Jones' Applied Software Measurement
The book cover promises 'statistics from more than 12,000 software projects.' A friend remarked that they couldn't imagine anything less useful than that. Were they right? I dug in.
Come non ho riparato la lavatrice che si riempiva d’acqua da spenta
How I repaired a washing machine that it turned out it was not broken. (Italian 🇮🇹)
What's the yield on my stonks
At some point I wondered what the actual yearly interest of my portfolio is? Let’s figure it out.
Tout le monde déteste l'IA
How reliably does chatgpt generate correct answers?
A New Hope
A letter to and about the things that made me what I am.
The WiFi only works when it's raining
The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.
Choir rehearsal score locations
How to avoid wasting time telling singers where to start