Year: 2022
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Thinking, waiting, fasting
Several months ago I re-read the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. I had read it in my first-year tutorial in college back in 1997 (an English translation), and decided after 25 years, I would read the original in German. I didn’t remember too many details from my previous read, but I did remember the general…
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Are emoji ruining communication?*
If you are a close friend of mine, you’ll likely know that I don’t like emoji. I know that I am in the minority opinion on this topic, so I don’t often bring it up, because I don’t foresee it being very useful or making me popular. However, I recently owned up to it at…
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MacOS tip of the day: Preview redact and combine
Yesterday I was preparing my taxes, and wanted to deduct my donation to the WikiMedia foundation. I couldn’t find an actual receipt, but I did have my bank statement, so I decided to just black out the other purchases. After I put a black box on them, Preview gave me a popup saying that the…
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In Living Color
I am in a blogging group at my company, Automattic. We are the company behind WordPress.com, and work to develop the most popular blogging software in the world, WordPress. Not every one at Automattic blogs, but many people do. The blogging group has a Slack channel where we share recent posts with one another and…
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Sunday afternoon in the forest
Just few pictures I took in the forest on a bike / hike with Clare last weekend. Tried out my new Canon 760D. I am liking it very much. Did a combination of wide angle with my new 10-18mm lens as well as my 28mm F1.8 lens for some portrait practice. Note that the sign…