How often is your mind worrying about problems, reliving unp...
How often is your mind worrying about problems, reliving unpleasant experiences that continue to haunt you, or imagining a potential future that may never happen?
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This can't be real, can it?
Fixing the chronic pain in my hands without medicine or surgery. This is my story of recovering from RSI and experiencing the mind-body connection.
Maybe the ego is like the one ring in Lord Of The Rings. S...
Maybe the ego is like the one ring in Lord Of The Rings. Some of the characters believe that they can harness its power for good. But the wise characters know it will consume whoever tries. "Do Not Tempt Me, Frodo!" - Gandalf The Grey
This is why I unconsciously compare myself with others. ...
This is why I unconsciously compare myself with others. There is a part of me that is afraid that I don't deserve to exist. So it wants to find evidence to justify it's existence. If it can find someone it perceives as inferior to me, ...
Books I've read so far in 2025. WIP Books I'd read again: ...
Books I've read so far in 2025. WIP Books I'd read again: Another Self The Top Five Regrets of the Dying 嫌われる勇気 The divided mind The way out A new earth The power of now Stillness speaks When the body says no The myth of...
Anything that can happen can only happen now. So if...
Anything that can happen can only happen now. So if you want some change, now is the place to be.
Coding on E-Ink since 2020
Tips I learned programming on e-ink.
You don't need a modern computer!
Using hardware a decade old (2012) as a software developer in 2023
アルジャーノンに花束を - Daniel Keyes アルジャーノンに花束を - Daniel Keyes こ...
アルジャーノンに花束を - Daniel Keyes アルジャーノンに花束を - Daniel Keyes この本はなぜか日本で知られてるけどイギリスではそれほど有名じゃないようだ。 僕の大好きなNUJABESの「FEATHER」という曲に出てくるから知ってる： ... The best laid plans of Mice and Men are never right I'm just a Vagabond with Flowers f...
Debt, the first 5,000 years - David Graeber **Debt, the firs...
Debt, the first 5,000 years - David Graeber Debt, the first 5,000 years - David Graeber Its long! Exactly 400 pages, but what a book. If there is just one book that I could read on economics/history/anthropology this would be it. The ti...
Easily print-debug any text object in Vim
This is something that I do most days at least once so I made a shortcut for it
（日本人） (Japanese People)
How do the Japanese see themselves? Is it an accurate reflection of reality or just a western delusion?
How to set NEXT_PUBLIC_* environment variables in Docker
In this post we explain how it is possible to set NEXT_PUBLIC_* environment variables baked into docker images
Responsive Design with Styled Components
In this tutorial we will create some useful shortcuts to make implementing responsive designs easier to implement.
Next.js with and without JavaScript
How to make sure your Next.js site rehydrates correctly, loads fast, reacts responsively, and works for users who disable JavaScript
Why your auth provider isn't working in Cypress
Auth provider not working in Cypress? Cookies not being set properly inside the Cypress test runner? In this guide we explain the cause and solution.
How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS)
Why throw away your old Camera? In this guide we'll show you how simple it is to reuse your old Camera as a webcam using the NixOS linux distribution.
Are you committing from Vim the fast way?
Tired of suspending Vim to commit from the command line? Why not generate your commit command from within Vim using this simple shortcut.
Typing a classic JS one-liner
Still writing Javascript using loops and if statements? In this post we show how imperative code can be refactored into beautiful functional perfection.
I've only been using Kagi for a couple of days now, but the ...
I've only been using Kagi for a couple of days now, but the search results on programming topics are leagues better than Duckduckgo. I may be a little late to the party, but just realised that you can have shared state between pages without...
The Trial - Franz Kafka The Trial - Franz Kafka This is ...
The Trial - Franz Kafka The Trial - Franz Kafka This is one one of those books that people tell you to read when they actually haven't finished it themselves (you know who you are). I don't think anyone would mind me saying that its a p...
人間失格 太宰治 人間失格 太宰治 日本人なら誰でも知ってる小説だと聞いて読もうと思った一冊。（読んだ後に友達に...
人間失格 太宰治 人間失格 太宰治 日本人なら誰でも知ってる小説だと聞いて読もうと思った一冊。（読んだ後に友達に確認したらそれは大げさだったらしい。笑） 内容はとても暗く、絶望感がすごく伝わってくる。 落ち込んでる時に読ない方がいいと注意されていたけど、自分は落ち込んでいる時に読んでも大丈夫だったかもしれない。 描写が抽象的で「何が起きた？具体的に言ってくれ！」みたいなところが多かったけど、文学って言うのはそんなもんだろう。 主人公の葉蔵は変わりたくて...
世界音痴 穂村弘 世界音痴 穂村弘 明らかにペルソナじゃないけど頑張って読んでみた。 短歌について何もわからない...
世界音痴 穂村弘 世界音痴 穂村弘 明らかにペルソナじゃないけど頑張って読んでみた。 短歌について何もわからないし、調べても読めるものは一つも見つからなかった。それでもこの本はすごく面白かった。短歌と難しい日本語は通じなかったけど昔から「世界音痴」を体験してる人だから、なんとなく作者の気分がわかる。 ある部分は僕とあんまりにも似すぎて、それなりの恐怖感を感じた。このままじゃ自分も３９歳になっても実家に住んでるだろうって。 読んで共感したポイントが山ほどあったけれど、特...
I just happened to stumble across The Dandy Warhols' new son...
I just happened to stumble across The Dandy Warhols' new song - “I’d Like To Help You With Your Problem (feat. Slash)” and its pretty good. The music video is mostly AI generated, with all the weird/creepy artifacts and distortions you may...
So this year I thought I'd start recording the books I read....
So this year I thought I'd start recording the books I read. Mainly so I don't get to the end of the year and think "What did I read?". The first book that I have read this year is called: 陽気なギャングが地球を回す 面白かった。伏線回収がすごい本だった。 普通は強盗系の話とかはあん...
First impressions of Remix vs. Nextjs (pages router) O...
First impressions of Remix vs. Nextjs (pages router) Obviously Remix is the newer kid on the block, so expect library support etc. to be less comprehensive. It seems that Remix has changed its routing system recently. Unfortunatel...
Nx hanging Ok I'm using Nx as a monorepo manager for a p...
Nx hanging Ok I'm using Nx as a monorepo manager for a project and got into to some very strange behavior. There are several node apps in the repo and to run them, you use npx nx serve . Sometimes tho, after updating an n...
Have you heard of semantic Javascript ? You probably answe...
Have you heard of semantic Javascript ? You probably answered "No" because I just thought of it 😇 Everyone knows they should be writing semantic HTML but why not apply the same standards to a "real" programming language. Semantic program...
So this is one of the first times I have actually come acros...
So this is one of the first times I have actually come across a hurdle when it comes to developing software on old computers. A couple days ago I started experimenting with bun, which is amazing by the way. One of the big selling points is...
Here's how to burn audio to a CD from the command line. ```s...
Here's how to burn audio to a CD from the command line. # Remove spaces from filenames for f in *; do mv "$f" `echo $f | tr ' ' '_'`; done # Convert all tracks to wav for i in $( ls ); do ffmpeg -i $i $i.wav; done # No...
I witnessed this absolute corker of a bug in the office toda...
I witnessed this absolute corker of a bug in the office today. After a force reboot (its a long story), we noticed that the cursor was flickering on my colleague's Ubuntu laptop. After some googling, we realised that this flickering only ha...
It's taken me far too long to discover this foot-gun in expr...
It's taken me far too long to discover this foot-gun in express. I started a new express project the other day and realised that my request bodies were all empty! Spent a good hour thinking it was a problem in the client or the proxy etc....
So this is what shouting into the void feels like... Hello, ...
So this is what shouting into the void feels like... Hello, this is my first "note". Probably not going to write too many until I'm sure I have web mentions all working.
Optimistic VS Pessimistic Locking Imagine you are on a p...
Optimistic VS Pessimistic Locking Imagine you are on a plane and you need to pee. You're a stubborn guy. When you leave your seat, you are determined to pee one way or another. You must assume your fellow passengers are as least as stub...
Some lesser known nice things about Japan 🗾 Ambulances ar...
Some lesser known nice things about Japan 🗾 Ambulances are loud, but not too loud. When Police cars do unexpected things like making a U-turn suddenly, they politely inform everyone nearby with a megaphone. When large vehicles make...
Its been a while since I did any data modelling in typescrip...
Its been a while since I did any data modelling in typescript. // An example of a user management system // Define user status type, just an enum type UserAccountStatus = "ACTIVE" | "DORMANT" | "DELETED" // Define a base typ...
Bought some books with the intention of learning Chinese but...
Bought some books with the intention of learning Chinese but yeah its pretty hard. As long as I don't give up completely I might be ok at it in the region of say... a decade? Which is really not too long when you think about it. So I ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9gLrRwLFCs Tonight is city ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9gLrRwLFCs Tonight is city pop vibes 🗾
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nice
Who would have thought YAML was so bad
Who would have thought YAML was so bad
Am also thinking about upgrading...
Am also thinking about upgrading...
This was super helpful for implementing webmentions on my si...
This was super helpful for implementing webmentions on my site! Thanks!
Oh, looks like I have to paste the link explicitly for it to...
Oh, looks like I have to paste the link explicitly for it to work. Anyways, here it is: https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2022/03/17/plant-monitor/
Not as cool as this post right here am I rite m8s??? 🌳💻🎉
Not as cool as this post right here am I rite m8s??? 🌳💻🎉
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Nested reply perhaps?
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