An Anchor for a World That Won’t Hold Still
In a time of shifting identities and future shock, the search for a stable self runs into a paradox: neither total self-reliance nor external approval can hold. The answer may lie in a lifelong action.
DEMO Spring 2010: The Award Winners, From Document Signing to Voice Analytics
A roundup of DEMO Spring 2010 award winners, including Zosh, Everloop, Gwabbit Cloud Sync, Phone Halo, BlueSkies Hospitality, TAGtheLOOK, and MagInify Call Center.
Locked Out of GitHub by My Own 2FA: A Recovery Story
A first-person account of losing GitHub 2FA access when a self-hosted Vaultwarden instance failed, how SSH key recovery worked, and what backup and authentication safeguards followed.
Not All Self-Employed EPs Are the Same: Employment Pass vs. EntrePass
A look at Singapore's two self-employed pass routes, Employment Pass and EntrePass, and how renewal, dependants, Singpass and daily usability differ.
The City That Sinks, the Spring That Returns
A lyrical reflection on Venice, fleeting time, Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels, romantic self-deception, and the quiet return of spring after a winter of buried stories.
Reading The Plague in Three Layers: Disaster, Complicity, and Revolt
A three-layer reading of Albert Camus’s The Plague: disaster as separation, the plague as social evil, and resistance without illusions.
The Winter Arrives Anyway
A laid-off Midea veteran's internal post and Chairman Fang Hongbo's reply reveal the human cost of corporate retrenchment and one generation's fragile finances.
Post Once, Land Everywhere: Syncing Misskey Across the Fediverse with n8n
An n8n workflow that pushes Misskey posts out to Mastodon, GoToSocial, and Memos—covering the deployment config, filtering rules, and the quirks each platform's API throws at you.
jQuery in Practice: Events, Utilities, and Plugin Workflows
A practical walkthrough of jQuery event binding, delegation, unbinding, triggering, object copying, no-conflict mode, plugins, and a localStorage-backed to-do list.
The Principal, the Rain, and the Football Match
A personal look at school culture, football logistics, and the weather that keeps getting in the way—plus a principal who would rather teachers not spend free time exercising.