Notes from the Burrow

Welcome to my occasionally updated blog.

2026
Jan 14 Comparing Inter and Noto Sans
Jan 8 Sewing a dog bag holder, v1
Jan 7 Mazaaq raat
2025
Dec 21 A year in review: 2025
Dec 18 Rosie’s a shop dog, Samson’s an office dog
Dec 16 Fall photos of the dogs
Dec 15 What I’ve been up to lately
Nov 19 Moving to Pika from Ghost
Nov 13 Winter’s warmth
Nov 8 Samson’s sick with something
Nov 5 The constant struggle to organize
Nov 5 Getting back into photography
Nov 3 Trying Pika as my new blogging setup
Sep 25 Sun Giant
Sep 23 Cozy socks for the burrow
Aug 18 Cameras: 2025
Aug 13 Witchi-Tai-To
Aug 12 Public charges an optional contribution for trades
Aug 6 Ghost has raised prices and removed features for the Starter plan
Aug 5 A basic helix config
Feb 23 Q
Jan 26 The Kaua'i ō'ō bird
Jan 5 This morning’s teas
Jan 2 15 years of usmanity.com
2024
Dec 29 End of year review, 2024
Nov 30 Samson and Rosie on Thanksgiving
Nov 7 Formatting messages in iMessages (in iOS 18)
Oct 26 Showing photos to Heisenberg
Oct 5 Who killed the squirrel?
Sep 8 The Big Summer Update
Aug 16 An alternative WezTerm icon
Jul 7 Iron Flame, book review
Jul 5 Rethinking about my data hub
Jul 4 Samson with his favorite toys
Jun 21 Drake is going to disappear in a few generations
Jun 19 Fixing: Artifact could not be deployed. Please ensure the content does not contain any hard links, symlinks and total size is less than 10GB.
Jun 17 A slump slump
Jun 13 Yaptain
Jun 5 A song my friends taught me
May 28 Is it a body ache or is it my medication?
May 25 Six months of UC
May 24 Onions
Apr 4 February and March roundups
Feb 19 Subtracting projects
Feb 11 Cancel vs subscribe 2024
Feb 9 Things I read and liked in January 2024
Jan 18 Snow in Portland, 2024
Jan 17 My unsubscribe rules for marketing emails
Jan 11 Stop building stingy apps
Jan 9 A new blog for my love of keyboards
Jan 8 Clear app updates after many years!
2023
Dec 29 End of Year Health Report, 2023
Oct 19 Refocusing on one thing
Oct 17 Primitive Data Types
Oct 16 Hashing and Hash Tables
Oct 14 Recursion
Oct 13 Programming Paradigms
Oct 12 Sorting algorithms
Oct 12 Fixing an issue with blocked email forwards to Fastmail from Cloudflare
Oct 11 What is the difference between a 32-bit and 64-bit computing?
Oct 10 Climbing cringe mountain
Sep 27 A case for better email
Sep 22 Orion might be a browser worth trying
Sep 12 Comparing the Spurcycle bell to its dupe
Sep 8 Reintroducing Redirector
Sep 7 On two months after leaving my full time job
Sep 2 Dev notes from August 28th to Sept 1st, 2023
Aug 11 Recording set up #1
Aug 1 Bike stats, trying out SvelteKit
Jul 25 Two weeks of being "offline"
Jul 15 Rose - a portfolio website template
Jul 10 An overview of some Tailwind specifics
Jul 7 Macbook Battery info workflow for Alfred
Jun 27 Dozing off quickly, or sleeping anywhere anytime
Jun 25 Reviewing 2023's first half
Jun 21 Hello from the Burrow
Jun 20 Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, OpenJourney, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney
Jun 19 Deprecating BoardSearch
Jun 18 Bathing Samson
Jun 16 First bread from the sourdough starter
Jun 16 Homepage update, June 2023
Jun 15 Moving from Wordpress to Ghost
Jun 15 New pedals for the e-bike
Jun 14 Bike fitting on the e-bike
Jun 13 I got a sourdough starter today
Jun 12 Revisiting photos and organizing between many apps
Jun 2 The internet is everywhere and it's not
May 2 A new projects page, for tracking all projects in one place
Apr 17 The hot and cold with Wordpress
Apr 14 Projects Costs & Revenue
Apr 12 Reversed ordered list
Apr 11 Why CUID has so many zeros in almost every generated ID
Apr 11 The no-theme theme
Apr 9 BEEF
Mar 29 Sleepy hollow vibes
Mar 27 Consolidating one more thing into Cloudflare, analytics
Mar 26 Recent small projects
Mar 16 Importing 25 million books into Bookends
Feb 27 Snow in Portland
Feb 22 Warm me up, my little heaters
Jan 18 PirateShip is a helpful tool for making shipping labels
Jan 5 Saturday morning Indian news and music
Jan 3 Looking at 2023
2022
Dec 17 BoardSearch at 1.0, switches and keycaps added, what's coming next...
Dec 14 My trip to Europe, testing positive for covid
Dec 9 End of year thoughts, 2022
Nov 17 I got an e-bike
Nov 16 Building something is hard, getting someone to use what you built is even harder
Nov 7 Add more whitespace
Nov 6 Recent renders from Dall-E, Nov 2022
Nov 5 Twenty twenty-three theme from Wordpress is the first sane theme from WP in a few years
Nov 5 Introducing BoardSearch, a single place to find and track keyboards
Oct 28 Cornershop’s Norwegian Wood is the one of my weirdest discoveries so far
Oct 20 The weird place that the internet is, a clip from Bo Burnham, social networks are overpowering society
Sep 3 Things I found on the internet, week of August 29th, 2022
Aug 28 Things I found on the internet, week of Aug 22nd, 2022
Aug 23 Spotify now has support for ⌘+K just like Slack etc.
Aug 19 Updating my homepage to make things as simple as possible
Aug 18 Thoughts on the Keychron Q8 (Alice layout)
Aug 10 Playing around with DALL·E 2
Aug 9 North, or some reflections on sitting and staring at things in my office
Aug 7 Finding a good theme for a Wordpress blog is hard
Jul 21 Dave Van Ronk Sings
Jul 19 Too much of SPOF
Jul 19 Keychron V1 is out, pre-built knob version for $84
Jul 9 Keychron's Q1 vs V1
Jul 6 Defensive CSS and other tips
Jul 5 Going back on the note-taking options
Jul 4 Some photos from my recent trip to Pakistan
Jun 29 10 years of Stuck
Jun 14 Challa 9 9 9
May 14 A photo of Vital Signs from the 90s I found on twitter
May 12 Coloring book was good
May 11 Centralized means you might lose access to your decentralized assets
May 10 Ditching Notion for logseq + obsidian, so long to proprietary formats
May 9 Spending a week with my parents
Apr 11 The bygone photos of people in offices
Apr 8 Ameno Amapiano Remix by Nektunez and Goya Menor
Apr 7 A retro on the Bookends alpha
Mar 29 Some quotes by Albert Camus
Feb 21 NuPhy Air75 review
Feb 19 Setting up a Mac (with command line tools)
Feb 19 After years, I bought a personal MacBook
Feb 1 I moved to Portland 🌲
Jan 8 Connecting a relationship using a hook in Keystone.js 6
2021
Dec 17 Packing up, and having a font for it
Dec 14 An introduction to music by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Dec 3 Wood by Rostam
Nov 19 "Carnival Jump" by Sandy Bull
Nov 10 A better shortcut for emojis on macOS
Nov 9 TIL: checkout the previous branch using git checkout -
Nov 8 Clearing and resetting dock on macOS
Nov 2 And then there were none, by Agatha Christie
Oct 18 My favorite photo subjects
Oct 15 Neck pain
Oct 8 Gardening my projects
Oct 7 Summer 2021 projects
Oct 6 Using styled-components with next.js
Sep 9 GMMK Pro build, with MT3 Dasher keycaps
Sep 8 Languishing
Jul 25 Weekend project update 2: simple URL shortening
Jul 24 Weekend project progress: routes for Larri
Jul 17 TIL: null is an object in Javascript
Jul 16 Is the Keychron Q1 a GMMK Pro dupe?
Jul 12 TIL: polling rates for keyboards
Jul 9 An alternative icon for iTerm2
Jul 1 Fields of Coral by Vangelis
Jun 9 Line art practice
May 24 Local .vimrc for neovim settings and differences
May 18 Running a local docker instance for Wordpress theme development
May 18 TIL: using inv for any vim setting will invert it
May 6 TIL: tempfile in ruby, use it for easy garbage collection afterwards
May 4 Star Wars progress bar in Spotify
May 3 Using Numi app for calculations
May 2 TIL: using my own blog as a knowledge DB with Google as the search engine
Apr 23 Realforce R2 vs Epomaker's Niz Plum x87
Apr 10 Doing the laundry
Mar 25 Tracy – Mogwai
Mar 23 A little harvest of peppers
Mar 22 Blogging from Ulysses
Mar 21 Jugni — Rabbi Shergill
Mar 17 Nomadland is really good
Mar 17 Happy St. Patrick’s day from Samson
Mar 17 Bought a 5 TB hard drive
Feb 16 A quick look at my music listening in 2020
Feb 9 Redirector tool
Jan 21 On goals and other motivations
Jan 15 Useful aliases in the command line
2020
Dec 22 Apps I use on Mac (2020)
Dec 12 Stoner by John Williams
Dec 3 2020, bad juju, broken sleep schedules, and the moonshadow
Oct 28 Spooky season vibes
Oct 21 Interesting time standards
Oct 15 Status updates on Twitter
Sep 17 The Sky naming scheme
Aug 28 Self-knowledge
Aug 26 My recent interests
Aug 17 Naps
Jul 6 Summer during the lockdown
Jun 26 It’s a Mogwai kinda day
Jun 3 Black Lives Matter.
May 21 Some digging into embedding comparable images
May 15 Reminiscing on a decade of cryptocurrencies
May 8 Now Playing on Last.fm
Apr 29 I tried watching Terminator Dark Fate
Apr 16 When it’s hot outside, my pets hang out together
Apr 8 Killing analytics on my personal sites
Mar 28 Go be a Ranger, little Archie
Mar 25 March 25th, 2020
Mar 21 Middle child syndrome and Bluetooth keyboard
Mar 19 March 19th, 2020
Mar 15 Music trends, from 2010 to 2019
Mar 5 Some Bulleh Shah mentions in recent music
Feb 27 Tea at Coleridge
Feb 25 Leaving behind the social networks
Feb 25 Notes and pages
Feb 10 Finding Aspen
Jan 8 Purging music for the year
2019
Dec 17 Pausing video games for 1 month
Dec 9 Oat milk cappuccinos in LA
Dec 7 Me eating a cream roll in the desert
Nov 27 My first attempt at an Angel Food Cake
Nov 15 Ugh, gone is my server again!
Nov 8 Dark mode in 1 step
Nov 7 I really wanted to like Outlander
Nov 5 Book review: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Oct 31 October update
Oct 31 Samson’s Halloween costume
Oct 30 Reverting to an old school way of posting
Sep 17 The Goldfinch, movie vs book
Sep 10 iPhone 11
Sep 10 Maus #1 by Art Spieglman
Sep 2 Apple Card  First Impressions
Sep 1 Starting over, thoughts on meditation
Aug 8 Interesting Unicode Symbols
Jul 12 Dull lull in July
Jun 18 Turning 29 and other things in June
Jun 1 Goodbye Bookends, for now
May 1 April showers bring May flowers
Apr 13 Thinking back to 1919, a 100 years ago today
Apr 13 Bookends update - April 2019
Apr 13 Serving Vue.js apps on Github Pages
Apr 10 With love from Novigrad
Apr 9 Timeline by Michael Crichton
Apr 2 Setting up Fathom for all my sites
Mar 18 Bookends update, March 2019 #2
Mar 8 Bookends update, March 2019
Feb 16 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Feb 3 In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Feb 1 Being unaware of an economic depression
Jan 12 Getting my bike fitted by Pedro
Jan 8 Trying out a new workflow for personal projects
2018
Dec 29 Thoughts on the Watership Down series on Netflix
Dec 28 Goal setting for 2019
Dec 23 Books in 2018
Dec 14 Some thoughts on 2018
Dec 9 Learning a bit of iOS
Dec 8 Conspicuous consumption and other thoughts on spending
Dec 7 In Portland
Dec 6 Reverting back to a simpler version of social media and socializing on the web
Oct 26 Late October Update
Oct 9 Nightmare #1 (Jetski of the sky)
Sep 30 Late September update
Sep 25 The Handmaid’s Tale, wow so far!
Aug 26 Sunday vibes playlist
Aug 13 The race to 1,000 miles
Aug 12 Bookends update, August 12th
Aug 11 Deleting data.usmanity.com
Aug 10 Chill song for relaxing
Jul 18 Bookends, for fun and for learning
Jul 12 Home, is where I want to be
Jun 27 The City & The City
Jun 18 Dividends as income
Jun 13 Mid-year check-in, also I'm 28 now
Jun 2 Preview of Free Press
May 31 Getting started with local Wordpress development and a log for free-press development
May 22 Chrome console output notes
May 16 Mid-May update
May 6 Apps I use to listen to audiobooks
May 3 Samson’s first swim!
May 3 The Three-body Problem
Apr 30 Say something nice
Apr 25 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Review
Apr 11 Watership Down, a fantastic novel
Apr 5 Ready Player One, book vs movie
Apr 4 Thoughts on the Spotify IPO
Mar 27 Goodbye Bilo - December 2nd, 2017
Mar 23 A new topic to explore
Mar 19 Building a Chrome extension using Vue.js
Mar 17 Starting work on a custom theme
Mar 15 My goal for Yelp in 2018
Mar 12 Introducing Treefingers
Mar 11 Hello from Treefingers