Craft By Zen

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  • 2024 Week 04 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Getting excited about Chess, Shiny object syndrome, Viral Tunnels, and GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • Introducing Curations
    Posted

    Curations is my attempt at blending the warm hug of nostalgia with a little nook tailor-made for my personal obsessions—steering clear of the 'oh-so-common listicle' abyss. Let's dive into the fun zone! 🚀✨

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • 2024 Week 03 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Impact of 23andMe data breach, Pocketbase, how Apple built iCloud, and AlphaGeometry.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • Craft By Zen Catch-up, Jan 2024
    Posted

    Small website updates - Jan 2024

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • Year of Intentions (33)
    Posted

    My annual review, taking a look at my 33rd year

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • 2024 Week 02 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Stanley Cups Out of Stock, a guide to ZIRP, displaced jobs from AI, and the reason there's no improvement on rebuilding Lahaina.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • 2024-01-10

    📍 Location: San Jose, CA

    I’ve talked extensively about my dad’s health issues at length, so I thought it might be worth talking about other things that I’ve been currently doing. It’s a new year, and I’m prepping more writing for 2024, including a first entry elaborating my yearly theme, the “Year of Renewal”.

    I’m getting married this May! Most of my time is spent planning until then. Otherwise, I’m chugging away working at Clear Labs, taking care of little Yuzu, and finding any free time to have dates with my fiancée.

    Little tired Yuzu sleeping on pillow

    Little tired Yuzu sleeping on pillow

    Reading

    I’m currently reading “How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World” by Deb Chachra. I absolutely loved her newsletter.

    On that note, the next book after I finish that book is “Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles” by Jay Owens.

    Website updates

    At some point, I plan on making a “curation” section, that will supercede my “Lindy Library” and maybe collapse my books and films section. Undecided how it will look. I absolutely love going to the library or bookstore and seeing blurbs of small reviews, and I thought it would be lovely to show collections of found items the same way.

    Also, you may see more tiny projects on the website, much like my JSON editor of last year. I’m loving Make Real, so I might use that as a good prototyping tool.

    Watching

    I’ve gotten some kudos from multiple people about my media logs. I’m continuing to log my media for 2024, hopefully more comprehensive than last year. There are still some movies I’ve watched that I have to parse from my fiancée’s watch history.

    I have a bunch of new releases in my queue, including The Curse, Poor Things, The Boy and the Heron, Afire, and Anatomy of a Fall.

    Miscellany

    I’ve been playing with the Anbernic RG35XX Plus, and I absolutely love it. I’ve been able to play games I haven’t gotten the chance to, including “A Link to the Past”, “Final Fantasy II”, and many others. The emulation and controls are absolutely everything I wanted, and more.

    Happy 2024!

    Filed: ⌚ Now
  • 2024 Week 01 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    New Year for digital movies, digital nomad history, and Dunky's guide to streaming services.

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • Piano
    Posted
    A playable piano
    Filed: 🚢 Playground
  • Make Real
    Posted

    An evening using Make Real, and thoughts on making

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • 2023 Week 52 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    My fiancée's article, PHOLEDs, fall of the American Chestnut, EVs in China, and how the US is not normal

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • 2023 Week 51 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Holidays - weekly notes including Trump's Disqualification tracker, the mysterious cough, and are outliners ruining our thinking process?

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • 2023 Week 50 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    The Advent of Code, Ologies, a history of Taquerias in Redwood City, and things hackers once knew

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • 2023 Week 49 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Henry Kissinger dies at 100, exaggerations from an AI Founder, interview w/ Emma Chamberlain, and 23andMe hacked

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing
  • 2023 Week 48 - Weekly Notes
    Posted

    Post-Thanksgiving reflections, respiratory illness, Charles Munger, Q*, and reflections on Rust that wasn't

    Filed: ✍🏼 Writing

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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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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