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This Christmas, a family member sent me a URL to a family Zoom call. However, they didn’t send me a direct link to Zoom. Instead, they sent me a “ tinyurl.com” link. When I clicked on the link, my URL bar flashed an intermediate domain that was neither Zoom nor TinyURL. Later, I used cURL to see where this URL was really going. $ curl -v https://tinyurl.com/examplezoom ... > GET /examplezoom…
2020 was a pretty bleak year. I don’t think there’s any way to sugarcoat that. My memories are often connected to the media I was enjoying at the time. And in a year where time has passed so weirdly , even making this year end list has helped me piece together what exactly has happened this year. Here’s a collection of my favorite songs, links, and books from this year. Favorite songs Avalon…
I subscribe to a ton of newsletters, most of which happen to be on Substack , but from plenty of other sources as well. Friends have asked me how I keep up with my newsletters. The best way to read e-mail newsletters is to not read them in your email . E-mail is the wrong workflow for appreciating writing. I recommend the combination of a news reader and a backend news reading service. The user…
A.G. Cook is one of my favorite musicians. I fell in love with his work almost immediately after discovering Hannah Diamond and the rest of PC Music in 2014. Few musicians have pushed pop music forward as much as Cook, whose work went from being misunderstood as a joke to a propelling force in the sound and aesthetics of genre-pushing artists like Charli XCX , Caroline Polachek, and 100 gecs to…
Music to stay inside to Staying inside for long periods of time has given me more opportunities to listen to music. I feel lucky as well because a lot of my favorite artists seem to be releasing music right now. If you can afford it, I recommend purchasing music you like to support artists, especially since touring is off the table right now. Shinichi Atobe — Yes Apple Music • Spotify I’ve been…
Recently, I was debugging an issue with one of my domains and email. During this process, I was sending emails to myself and clicking “ View original” in Gmail’s web UI to view the raw version and headers of an email. When looking at an email that I sent with Apple Mail on macOS, this part of an email’s headers jumped out to me: Received: from [10.x.x.x] (c-x-x-x-x.hsd1.ca.comcast.net. [x.x.x.x])…
At a previous job of mine, I volunteered to be a part of the group that helped coordinate response to company-wide downtime, or “ incidents”. This role was called being an “ incident PM ” . My job wasn’t to fix the crisis at hand, but to help coordinate response and communications across many groups of people. If the website went down at 3am, my phone would ring. I’d be responsible for waking up…
Incorporating electrolyte supplements into my diet has improved my quality of life. A couple of months ago, I moved to a place that’s noticeably dryer than where I used to live. My first reaction was to buy a humidifier, which definitely helped me feel less dry. This worked, but I still felt thirsty all the time; especially in the morning. I was now feeling dehydrated a lot more often than before,…
I’ve been reading the news this week about Hey, Apple, and in app purchases . Many people have offered their takes on the situation, and I can’t help but feel déjà vu. Wow. I'm literally stunned. Apple just doubled down on their rejection of HEY's ability to provide bug fixes and new features, unless we submit to their outrageous demand of 15-30% of our revenue. Even worse: We're told that unless…
For the past few months, I’ve been tweeting every time I spend money. You can check it out at @ch_ylukem 1 . It started with an Uber ride: UBER — $23.03 — ch (@ch_ylukem) October 17, 2019 I took December 2019 off to travel Asia and visit family in Europe. The account became a fun place to catalog my travels. A hotel I stayed at in Tokyo: HOTEL ON BOOKING COM — 24,024.00 JPY — ch (@ch_ylukem)…
I started publishing my bookmarks . Doing this has been a fun way of micro-blogging; I now can look back at what I spend most of my time doing (obsessively browsing the internet). How it works I currently use Pinboard 1 to store my bookmarks. I use the tagging feature on Pinboard to mark what I’d like to publish; anything with the tag “ publish” gets included on my public page. This blog is hosted…
Last year, I got myself a Christmas gift: the Noma Guide to Fermentation by Noma’s René Redzepi and David Zilber. Despite my excitement about the subject matter, I hadn’t touched the book until late May, when quarantine boredom (and despair about the world) reached some sort of head. On a particularly miserable day, I opened the book and started grinning ear to ear about the possibilities 1 , and…
I’m taking some time off to learn and work on creative projects (mostly software). I’d like to document what’s going in a newsletter. You can sign up below.
Lately, I’ve been browsing Instagram for the advertisements. I like to think that targeted advertisements are the algorithm’s way of looking around at the piles of data that exist and telling us what we really want. In some way, one can use targeted advertisements as a form of introspection: “ what does who I am or what I do… say about what I want?”, or at least “ what do I look like I want?”.…
Today I made yuzu marmalade. A gift for friends. I made a mocktail.
Started sharing screenshots at luke.cat
I wanted to make a list of the software that I quickly install after setting up a new computer. In the age of cloud applications, I think people undervalue the utility of high quality desktop applications. I’m always interested in hearing about software that people use and love. Mac software Screenotate Screenotate augments the built-in Mac screenshot tool. All of your screenshots now get OCRed…
This week, I went on a photo walk with my friend Alex . We started the walk at sunrise and walked for about 3 hours. Here are my favorite photos that I took on the walk. All photos shot on my Contax G2 with a 28mm or 45mm lens.
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