Craft By Zen

👋🏽 Hi! This is Jeremy's Craft by Zen


  • Introducing Inspirations
    Posted

    Inspirations draw from all over the place. I share some of the work where others have inspired this blog and me 💡.

  • 2024-04-04

    📍 Location: San Jose, CA

    I’ve slowed down on the website updates and have focused more on projects and writing. I think there’s always a balance to strike with what more I could do versus what really matters.

    We have a little over a month until the wedding. The final details are being looked at. When people tell me wedding planning is no joke, I can echo that sentiment.

    Brooklyn Nine-Nine Promo
    Brooklyn Nine-Nine Promo

    We bought the Brooklyn Nine-Nine boxset and have been watching through the series. Netflix has the first four seasons, but there wasn’t enough closure for the remaining seasons, and iTunes or Apple TV had a sale, so we’ve been putting that in the background while we work on the wedding. It’s nice to have something grounding.

    As for books, I’ve been wondering if I should read “The Power Broker” by Robert Caro. It’s a monster of a book about Robert Moses. I was listening to 99% Invisible’s mini-series about the book, and it sounds intense.

    I’ve been slowly making my way through Cal Newport’s new book, “Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout” as well as Emily Nagoski’s new book, “Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections”.

    My partner is starting to use Capacities, and I set up an account to also try it out in tandem. There’s a lot of good ideas in that app, but I’m not sure I’m going to covert from Obsidian. I’m used to my tool, and I’m probably going to stick with it for now.

    Filed: ⌚ Now
  • 🗒️ March 2024 Updates
    Posted

    Newsletter updates for March 2024

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • 2024 Week 13 - Weekly Notes
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    On Robert Caro, Obits, people ruining the Internet (thanks SEO), Facebook and Netflix were in bed with your DMs, and the Baltimore Bridge fiasco.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • Chrome Extension: Webpage as Markdown Link
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    This Chrome Extension allows me to quickly copy the current webpage's title and URL in Markdown format.

  • 2024 Week 12 - Weekly Notes
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    Gleam, Salon style intellectual conversations, OpenAI's response to Elon, Raw Milk as a conservative signal, and a collection of design engineers.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • 2024 Week 11 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Gleam, Salon style intellectual conversations, OpenAI's response to Elon, Raw Milk as a conservative signal, and a collection of design engineers.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • Created by: Brad Frost
    When designing from the ground up, create small, atomic components that can be combined into bigger components. Using biology as a guide, the complexity is organized into molecules, organisms, then pages. Templates are also used as layouts for those pages.
  • 2024 Week 10 - Weekly Notes
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    How to be not distracted, blizzards in California, local-first movement, and emembering David Bordwell and Akira Toriyama.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • My "Personal CRM" Rolodex
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    My personal tool for keeping track of people and interactions tailored for my own needs.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • 2024 Week 09 - Weekly Notes
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    What's new with React, Not a Designer, Meeting again after 77 years, Scale yourself, and happy leap day.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • Created by: Gwern Branwen
    Gwern Branwen is a freelance American writer & researcher.
  • Guitar Fingering
    Posted
    Guitar Fingering Tool
    Filed: 🚢 Playground
  • 🗒️ February 2024 Updates
    Posted

    Newsletter updates for February 2024

  • 2024 Week 08 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Time on the Doomsday Clock, Personal website spaces, and AT&T outage.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • Posted
    Author: Jeremy Wong
    Rachel Roddy condenses everything she has learned about Italy's favourite food in a practical, easy-to-use and mouth-watering collection of 100 essential pasta and pasta sauce recipes.
    Filed: 📖 Books

I'm currently leading application development at Clear Labs.

I write essays on eclectic topics, from programming, cooking, and strange habit of collecting obituaries.


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Newsletter Series

I have put back together my newsletter after years of absense! These are primarily updates on my blog, "Craft By Zen", and maybe some highlights to the new articles I've written. There might be some life updates as well. I'm doing away with the old format of weekly longform essays, and trying some new things with my newsletter.

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