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hot tip - recently discovered if you are used to appending "reddit" to your google search, there's a better way. Just add "&udm=18" to the URL. This will trigger the Google "Forum" search, which finds many lesser known goldmines of real people talking about stuff.

did a self guided walking tour in Saigon using The Quiet American by Graham Greene as the basis here are some pictures of then vs now 1-2. Hotel Continental. Popular hang out spot for politicians/journalists. Right next to the Opera House. 3-4. Saigon Palace (renamed to Hotel Grand)

historicvietnam.comGraham Greene’s Saigon - HISTORIC VIETNAMThe Saigon locations used by British writer Graham Greene in his acclaimed anti-war novel The Quiet American have long been a favourite topic for travel writers. Here by request is a recap of the most...

Many of the other buildings in the book have been demolished to make way for the modern shopping district — the Dong Khoi street. Source for more info/pictures: www.historicvietnam.com/graham-green...

Another interesting bit — the Dong Khoi street used to be known as “Rue Catinat”. I keep noticing the coffee chain “Katinat” around Vietnam. Maybe it’s named after this street? (Which in turn is named after a French general) Anyway, here’s a Katinat branch on the former Rue Catinat!

1 Dec 2024

My phone is dead ❌ My phone kaput ✅

30 Nov 2024

Learning to live on cashflows is where it’s at

29 Nov 2024

in the last 6 months, I: - started strength training - traveled to Europe twice - lived on the Canary Islands for a month - made friends who completely changed how I interact with the world - learned to embrace & appreciate my body; confidence went up, & it’s a self fulfilling cycle (1/n)

- started wearing contacts (thought I never would) - as a result bought my first pair of sunglasses - figured out a skin care routine which resulted in visible improvements to - embraced my short hair, receding hairline (after years of long hair), & the stray white hair creeping up (3/n)

29 Nov 2024

- drove a car in Spain - saw a volcano - jumped off some cliffs - hiked to a cave rave - got into d&b music & finally broke out of my long rap spell (4/n)

- figured out travel with a 2-bag carry-on only setup - improved my strength from 1 pull-up to 5 (!!), 2 pushups to 10, (even after gaps) - ate well, lost a few more kilos (down from 80kg last year to 68kg now) (2/n)

29 Nov 2024

being able to grow plants is such a life skill ngl

them: if it isn't broken, don't fix it me:

Typescript is the best 🥹

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TIL that ARM makes JS go brrrr

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community.arm.comArmv8-A: 2016 additionsThe Arm v8-A architecture continues to evolve, with the additions developed through 2016 collectively known as Armv8.3-A. In this post we go through these in detail.

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chelsea bridge 🩸@secretaboutbox.bsky.social

it was added to ARM several years ago to improve the performance of bitwise operations in javascript, where all numbers are doubles

renegadeotter.comDeath by a thousand microservicesThe software industry is learning once again that complexity kills

After working with a microservices setup first-hand, I resonate with large parts of this, but all the JS-bashing is uncalled for. As a matter of fact, I have seen the same complexity manufactured using other languages. That's what it is. Manufactured complexity. renegadeotter.com/2023/09/10/d...

trying to find my twitter peeps

Using this extension, works well: chrome.google.com/webstore/det...

Considering redirecting twitter.com -> bsky.app automatically to get used to using bsky. I refuse to pay for twitter, and if it is paywalled, I'm out

6 May 2023

I started training to run (on a whim) exactly 10 days ago, and today I did my first 5k. Feels amazing!

6 May 2023

If someone would’ve asked me 10 days ago, I wouldn’t have thought this was possible. I have learned that it comes down to endurance, not speed. Speed may come later, but first I need to go steady and be consistent!

6 May 2023

The Nike running app’s guides runs also work amazingly. I wonder if there are any other running-specific podcasts?

29 Apr 2023

the number of people pivoting from web3 to LLMs is not even funny

29 Apr 2023

even worse if the “decentralised AI” folks okay so you’ll run large language models on a blockchain? Store embedding data on IPFS? C’mon

25 Apr 2023

Just diving into the hell that is UTF-8 encoding and NFC-normalisation 🥲

24 Apr 2023

Looks like most of Javascript twitter has presence here now! Let's gooo

16 Apr 2023

post the prettiest café in your camera roll!

13 Apr 2023

bluesky at the lake today!

13 Apr 2023

no more duck please :\

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James Stuber@uberstuber.ingroup.social

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~finally an intro~ Hello everyone! I'm Palash, and I've worked in tech for the last 8 years! I'm also an amateur piano player (no music theory tho 😅) I love the beach, the sun, and absorbing information

Burned out after 5 years, I took a 6-month sabbatical & lived in a house on the beach, learning to cook. Worked for another startup, took another sabbatical, and now I freelance!

I have started writing little notes/thoughts over on my own site (https://palash.co), some technical, others not so much. These may eventually turn longer, refined posts, but currently I like to let them linger.

A bit of a background: after studying computer science for 4 years, I decided to start my career in design 🙃 Got lucky, joined an early stage startup, and ended up working on all kinds of stuff. Learned to code on the job!

this is exactly what it feels like to be here 🥹

Jay 🦋@jay.bsky.team

from my bluesky proposal presented to twitter back in 2021. graphic design is my passion

I write these little “notes” on my own site Thinking out loud.. could my site just be a read-only bsky client, and then whatever I post here can just show up there as a “note”? Like a microblog with multiple frontends! 🤯

when Twitter went to crap (RIP), I was literally sad that I wouldn’t be able to build tools for it. Bluesky is full of possibilities 🤩

jobhuntin' goblin@goblinodds.bsky.social

just realized the possibility that bluesky wont be hostile to devs trying to build tools <_<