On Apple Maps
I keep giving Apple Maps a chance, but it just can’t seem to recalculate routes! What happens right now, whenever I veer slightly off-course, is I see this triangle representing my car just moving al…
Dark Crystal
Here’s how it happened: I was browsing Netflix, got the usual nothing to see here. Oh well, what’s this Dark Crystal thing? Two minutes in, I get the feeling, “meh, this is too childish, did I accide…
Notion
I've always been prone to trying out new apps in the note-taking, information-herding, organizing, brain-storming, storing-and-finding space, not because I like shiny new things (I used to like sh…
Monthly Curations: August 2019
* Wondering whether Perk 6 should be named as a totally different language * A look at “typed Lisp” * Bob Martin on “why Clojure” * Rakuten And Egison * In defense of stable platforms * And now,…
Aerobie
Stumbled across one of these in a small gift shop and picked it up. I have to admit my ignorance at not coming across this before, but it flies amazingly smooth. I mean frisbees fly too, but you have…
Interesting links: August 2019
* Observing the Milky Way’s black hole * Wordpress and Tumblr * Maybe I’ve shared this before, but I like William Blake quotes * Someone interesting I came across: Elihu Vedder * Some book review…
Monthly recap (August 2019)
Major updates: * Towards the end of the month, we took a trip to Kauai * Got some work done in our kitchen (tiling the floor) Minor updates: * Started out mildly embarrassing but ended rathe…
Smart TV adventures
We have an Android TV at home. Turned it on tonight to watch some Netflix in the background, get informed that “the network needs to be set up”. Okie dokie ... wait, the router isn't scanned? We&…
On “old” songs
Obviously, my songs were new and my parents’ songs were old, but I found myself listening to some music today and suddenly realized all of it was around 25 years or more in the past, which is (just fo…
Monthly Curations - July 2019
(yep, not a lot this month …) * On MonoRepos * On the purpose of programming * Remembering the fifth generation computing project would have been shocked to know it came from ordinary commodity m…
On Kafka, Confluent, and … Clojure
As I’m absorbing more of the general flavor of event-streaming and everything around it (… in the beginning was the log …), I keep gettin a bit of deja vu and realized that there’s an uncanny resembla…
Monthly recap (July 2019)
Major updates: - Laguna Beach vacation - Accepted an offer from Confluent, Joined on the 22nd! - Surprise birthday party for me (again) by Shivi - A friend’s mother passed away, attended the funeral…