Writing

Whether you’ve been laid off, struggling to make ends meet with the crazy inflation or dissatisfied with your current job, you may have wondered: Could I work in tech?

In January 2021, Signal was only known by journalists and privacy geeks. In a few days, it topped the charts and was on everyone's phones. Why?

Another weird, exhausting year

Neat visual arrangements made with code

Here are the (coding-related) things I don't know, as of 2021. In an effort to help junior developers feel more comfortable.

Big, data-hungry companies claim that the collection of metadata is harmless. That's not true.

About the problem that 𐃏Roam Research, Obsidian, Logseq, and others try to solve.

Delving into audio dramas, one of my best discoveries from 2019. Includes my favourites

My requirements for a notes app and a rundown of candidates.

Explorations and thoughts on digital gardens.

2020, you know, what the hell.

Learn about other commands in a human-friendly way

Domain records made less weird. Plus GitHub and Gitlab domain settings.

Batch-rename your files quickly

A cool way to show your files and folder structure

In this series of articles, I'll share a few command-line tools that have been helpful to me.

A daily log for the homepage graphics.

Looking at the different technical choices I made for this website.

Motivations and goals for this personal website.

Another year in review. It's been a unique year in many respects.

I write this review well into 2019 already, but who cares? This is mainly for myself, but I enjoy reading these and you probably do too.

Looking at Weak and Strong references in JavaScript. It's a concept front-end developers are not used to.