Retiring This Blog and Starting Fresh
I'm retiring this blog, archiving the content, and migrating to a new home on the web.
Ankur Sethi is Alive and Well
The personal website of Ankur Sethi, writer and frontend developer.
Latest posts
Weeknote 58: Chatty and Easily Distracted
Designer hat, shared anxiety, drinking with the youth, shop talk, and routines.
Weeknote 57: Excited and Cheering Fans
Football, writing woes, more Chabon, anxiety, and talking about myself.
Weeknote 56: Cosplaying as an Adult
On real estate, writing quirks, enjoying UI design, catching up with friends, and missing clothes.
Weeknote 55: Loud When There's Traffic
We're SO back. Major life changes, real estate, neighborhood walks, artistic merit, and writing into the dark.
Personal Happiness and Creative Output
Tying my creative output to personal happiness takes the joy out of both work and hobbies.
Default Apps: 2023 Edition
Everybody is making lists of the default apps they use in 2023. Being an inveterate trend-hopper, why should I be left behind? Email : Fastmail installed as PWA on macOS, default Fastmail app on iPhone Notes : Obsidian + Obsidian Sync, Apple Notes for quickly capturing rough ideas To-do : Things Photo shooting : iOS Camera Photo management : Apple Photos Photo editing : Apple Photos Calendar :…
Learning to Enjoy Short Fiction
Until recently, I hated reading short fiction. Every time I had a choice between reading a novel or a collection of short stories, I almost always picked the novel. If you'd asked me a few years ago, I would've rattled off a long list of problems I had with short stories: they refused to give me the sense of closure I looked for in my fiction, they were sometimes too experimental for my tastes,…
The Real Dubstep of My Soul
If my feelings keep changing even as I understand them enough to write them down, then how am I ever supposed to publish anything?
Weeknote 54: Last Weeknote
What it says on the tin.