Alastair Tse

We're like social network nomads wondering the desert encountering an oasis to stay in and then realize it was a mirage.

Weird AI bots are replying to my posts. I spend time to reply and then find out it's a bot churning out 100s of replies in an hour. Happening on both bluesky and threads. I might just stop replying to stuff on socials.

I've designed and built the ski resort simulator of my dreams based on data from my Snowline.jp project and OSM, OpenSkiData.org and GSI Japan Terrain data. liquidx.net/posts/2026/j...

Encountered two mosaics in kudanshita on opposite platforms, took these photos 8 hours apart. When I flipped through the photos afterwards I realized it was the same mosaic but one was luckier than the other.

Currently obsessed with playing Control Resonant. liquidx.net/posts/2026/c...

We had a great Geo Tokyo Meetup last night! Highly appreciate all the people showing up and participating. I built a website for the meetup after the 8th one, I think it was worth documenting all the map links and demos we shared and discussed. geotokyo.com/meetups/2026...

Most of June was spent on this: my hyper-personal finance app that's designed for my needs and only my needs. It takes all my financial documents, uses an LLM to read and classify the contents and produces visual analysis of my financial world in a way I understand. liquidx.net/posts/2026/f...

Amazingly managed to write month notes for the second month! On vibe coding a finance app, an embedded device, the world cup and daft punk. liquidx.net/posts/2026/m...

Finally got around to posting my first monthnotes ever. (I'm working on making it weekly, but small steps) liquidx.net/posts/2026/m...

My fav watchface right now - Chronology II from @nicholas.fyi apps.repebble.com/chronology-i...

I just realized that the world cup started, and also realized I just watched the first two games, and also realized I have all the free time to watch every single game. #retiree

Finally deleted all my tweets from Twitter. The web API rate limits to 200 deletes per 15 mins, and I had 13209 tweets - roughly 16 hours if nothing went wrong (and it did a few times.) My Twitter For You feed immediately went from geeky japanese cartographers to AI bros arguing with each other.

Have any of you wondered why island is not pronounced is-land?

Let me report another supply chain attack: While I was reading about the axios supply chain attack, I was fooled into thinking that The Hacker News is the Hacker News (hn.ycombinator.com). thehackernews.com/2026/03/axio...

I'm this 👌 close to muting anything that starts with "the future of" because there's nothing more annoying than someone trying to predict the future. Let's stay in the present.

We are resurrecting the Geo Tokyo meetup that has been on a 3.5 year hiatus. @reustle.org and I are inviting those who like geeking out on maps and geo data to come join us on Apr 1 at FabCafe Tokyo for a good fun chat. luma.com/r4k3o638

Another vibe coded thing that was easier to make than to search for. A qrcode generator where I can mess with the pixels and see if it scans. aversion.one/of/qrcode

As a fun experiment, while redesigning my website again this year, I wondered what would happen if I could navigate my website using terminal commands. Today, I got it working after a few attempts: liquidx.net/posts/2026/t...

Preparing for the new snow season with major updates to my snowline.jp site. Added loads more webcams, better snow data and even resort opening dates.

For many years, I have wanted to get a Sigma fp camera. Now I even want it more after finding out how they build everything in Aizu, Fukushima. www.sigma-global.com/en/about/

Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn

I feel like I should also launch an AI browser. AI browser is the new todo list. Everyone thinks everyone wants one, but actually we all secretly hate it.

Generated this from a photo with mixup.app

Today I learned that in CSS, `color: darkgray` is lighter that `color: gray` www.joshwcomeau.com/css/color-fo...

AI as a ghost is pretty wonderful. It's not alive but it some how can do things that normal humans can't, yet has some fatal flaws. Stuck in pergatory or on a device. @genmon.fyi writes about this: interconnected.org/home/2025/09...

Maybe it's just me that finds this funny, but ASDF stands for Japan's Air Self Defense Force. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

I also knocked up a fun interactive global explorer where you can check out your favorite country and food choices to compare risks quantifyearth.github.io/food-globe/

I've never heard of a Sodium Ion rechargable battery, but apparently that's something you can buy now in Japan. More expensive than Lithium Ion but way more charge cycles (5000): www.elecom.co.jp/pickup/conte...

Another vibe coded experiment. Imagine if you had a browser that could only access pages from an LLM. Give it any URL, even completely made up ones and it'll show you. aversion.one/of/navigator

Just rewatched Interstellar (2014) -- their AI robots can reconfigure their honesty and humor levels. I think we need that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b-O...

"Creating shareholder value is a kind of creativity, isn't it?" - @tomgauld.bsky.social 💀 INCREDBLE myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/7876995...

(Nearly) daily vibe coding: I've been making changes every day but haven't been posting about it. I've got to the point where the UI is more refined after a lot of specifying how the UX should be. The more I do, the more features I want to add! aversion.one/of/metro

Daily Vibe Coding : In celebration of being back in London, I vibe coded a train map editor so I could make my own version of the London underground map - but for everything. aversion.one/of/metro

Fell off the daily vibe coding streak because of lots of errands, itching to get back after a weeks break.

Getting ready to visit London again after 5 years. 💂