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2026 35

  1. Week 11 or so
  2. Thoughts 10/18
  3. Week 9
  4. Week 8
  5. Week 7: Fall is here
  6. Week 6
  7. Week 5: travel and more things to come
  8. Week 4: reflections on reading, job-hunting, and the Oregon Fair
  9. Week 3: reflections and looking forward
  10. Week 2, reflections and updates
  11. Reflections week 1
  12. Embracing incrementalism
  13. Guestbook is open now
  14. Opening up my world
  15. In the winter we sleep with books
  16. Scents of olden days
  17. Three weeks in Portugal
  18. June 15th, 2026
  19. Portugal so far
  20. On my way to Portugal
  21. Subterranean
  22. Picking up plants for the season
  23. The hedge
  24. Noticing
  25. Watermelon
  26. Burrowing in the burrow
  27. 2026 · Week 7 + 8: Options & Wheel Tracking (Feb 9 → Feb 20)
  28. 2026 · Week 06: Options & Wheel Tracking (Feb 2 → Feb 6)
  29. Life without good internet is boring
  30. 2026 · Week 05: Options & Wheel Tracking (Jan 26 → Jan 30)
  31. 2026 · Week 4: Options & Wheel Tracking (Jan 19 → Jan 23)
  32. 2026 · Week 3: Options & Wheel Tracking (Jan 12 → Jan 16)
  33. Comparing Inter and Noto Sans
  34. Sewing a dog bag holder, v1
  35. Mazaaq raat

2025 21

  1. A year in review: 2025
  2. Rosie’s a shop dog, Samson’s an office dog
  3. What I’ve been up to lately
  4. Fall photos of the dogs
  5. Moving to Pika from Ghost
  6. Winter’s warmth
  7. Samson’s sick with something
  8. Getting back into photography
  9. The constant struggle to organize
  10. Trying Pika as my new blogging setup
  11. Sun Giant
  12. Cozy socks for the burrow
  13. Cameras: 2025
  14. Witchi-Tai-To
  15. Public charges an optional contribution for trades
  16. Ghost has raised prices and removed features for the Starter plan
  17. A basic helix config
  18. Q
  19. The Kaua’i ō’ō bird
  20. This morning’s teas
  21. 15 years of usmanity.com

2024 26

  1. End of year review, 2024
  2. Samson and Rosie on Thanksgiving
  3. Formatting messages in iMessages (in iOS 18)
  4. Showing photos to Heisenberg
  5. Who killed the squirrel?
  6. The Big Summer Update
  7. An alternative WezTerm icon
  8. Iron Flame, book review
  9. Rethinking about my data hub
  10. Samson with his favorite toys
  11. Drake is going to disappear in a few generations
  12. Fixing: Artifact could not be deployed. Please ensure the content does not contain any hard links, symlinks and total size is less than 10GB.
  13. A slump slump
  14. A song my friends taught me
  15. Is it a body ache or is it my medication?
  16. Onions
  17. Six months of UC
  18. February and March roundups
  19. Subtracting projects
  20. Cancel vs subscribe 2024
  21. Things I read and liked in January 2024
  22. Snow in Portland, 2024
  23. My unsubscribe rules for marketing emails
  24. Stop building stingy apps
  25. A new blog for my love of keyboards
  26. Clear app updates after many years!

2023 52

  1. End of Year Health Report, 2023
  2. Refocusing on one thing
  3. Primitive Data Types
  4. Hashing and Hash Tables
  5. Recursion
  6. Sorting algorithms
  7. Programming Paradigms
  8. Fixing an issue with blocked email forwards to Fastmail from Cloudflare
  9. What is the difference between a 32-bit and 64-bit computing?
  10. Climbing cringe mountain
  11. A case for better email
  12. Orion might be a browser worth trying
  13. Comparing the Spurcycle bell to its dupe
  14. Reintroducing Redirector
  15. On two months after leaving my full time job
  16. Dev notes from August 28th to Sept 1st, 2023
  17. Recording set up #1
  18. Bike stats, trying out SvelteKit
  19. Two weeks of being "offline"
  20. Rose - a portfolio website template
  21. An overview of some Tailwind specifics
  22. Macbook Battery info workflow for Alfred
  23. Dozing off quickly, or sleeping anywhere anytime
  24. Reviewing 2023's first half
  25. Hello from the Burrow
  26. Comparing Adobe Firefly, Dalle-2, OpenJourney, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney
  27. Deprecating BoardSearch
  28. Bathing Samson
  29. Homepage update, June 2023
  30. First bread from the sourdough starter
  31. Moving from Wordpress to Ghost
  32. New pedals for the e-bike
  33. Bike fitting on the e-bike
  34. I got a sourdough starter today
  35. Revisiting photos and organizing between many apps
  36. The internet is everywhere and it's not
  37. A new projects page, for tracking all projects in one place
  38. The hot and cold with Wordpress
  39. Projects Costs & Revenue
  40. Reversed ordered list
  41. The no-theme theme
  42. Why CUID has so many zeros in almost every generated ID
  43. Beef
  44. Sleepy hollow vibes
  45. Consolidating one more thing into Cloudflare, analytics
  46. Recent small projects
  47. Importing 25 million books into Bookends
  48. Snow in Portland
  49. Warm me up, my little heaters
  50. PirateShip is a helpful tool for making shipping labels
  51. Saturday morning Indian news and music
  52. Looking at 2023

2022 42

  1. BoardSearch at 1.0, switches and keycaps added, what's coming next...
  2. My trip to Europe, testing positive for covid
  3. End of year thoughts, 2022
  4. I got an e-bike
  5. Building something is hard, getting someone to use what you built is even harder
  6. Add more whitespace
  7. Recent renders from Dall-E, Nov 2022
  8. Introducing BoardSearch, a single place to find and track keyboards
  9. Twenty twenty-three theme from Wordpress is the first sane theme from WP in a few years
  10. Cornershop’s Norwegian Wood is the one of my weirdest discoveries so far
  11. The weird place that the internet is, a clip from Bo Burnham, social networks are overpowering society
  12. Things I found on the internet, week of August 29th, 2022
  13. Things I found on the internet, week of Aug 22nd, 2022
  14. Spotify now has support for ⌘+K just like Slack etc.
  15. Updating my homepage to make things as simple as possible
  16. Thoughts on the Keychron Q8 (Alice layout)
  17. Playing around with DALL·E 2
  18. North, or some reflections on sitting and staring at things in my office
  19. Finding a good theme for a Wordpress blog is hard
  20. Dave Van Ronk Sings
  21. Too much of SPOF
  22. Keychron V1 is out, pre-built knob version for $84
  23. Keychron's Q1 vs V1
  24. Going back on the note-taking options
  25. Defensive CSS and other tips
  26. Some photos from my recent trip to Pakistan
  27. 10 years of Stuck
  28. Challa 9 9 9
  29. A photo of Vital Signs from the 90s I found on twitter
  30. Coloring book was good
  31. Centralized means you might lose access to your decentralized assets
  32. Ditching Notion for logseq + obsidian, so long to proprietary formats
  33. Spending a week with my parents
  34. The bygone photos of people in offices
  35. Ameno Amapiano Remix by Nektunez and Goya Menor
  36. A retro on the Bookends alpha
  37. Some quotes by Albert Camus
  38. NuPhy Air75 review
  39. Setting up a Mac (with command line tools)
  40. After years, I bought a personal MacBook
  41. I moved to Portland 🌲
  42. Connecting a relationship using a hook in Keystone.js 6

2021 43

  1. Packing up, and having a font for it
  2. An introduction to music by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  3. Wood by Rostam
  4. "Carnival Jump" by Sandy Bull
  5. A better shortcut for emojis on macOS
  6. TIL: checkout the previous branch using git checkout -
  7. Clearing and resetting dock on macOS
  8. And then there were none, by Agatha Christie
  9. My favorite photo subjects
  10. Neck pain
  11. Gardening my projects
  12. Summer 2021 projects
  13. Using styled-components with next.js
  14. GMMK Pro build, with MT3 Dasher keycaps
  15. Languishing
  16. Weekend project update 2: simple URL shortening
  17. Weekend project progress: routes for Larri
  18. TIL: null is an object in Javascript
  19. Is the Keychron Q1 a GMMK Pro dupe?
  20. TIL: polling rates for keyboards
  21. An alternative icon for iTerm2
  22. Fields of Coral by Vangelis
  23. Line art practice
  24. Local .vimrc for neovim settings and differences
  25. TIL: using inv for any vim setting will invert it
  26. Running a local docker instance for Wordpress theme development
  27. TIL: tempfile in ruby, use it for easy garbage collection afterwards
  28. Star Wars progress bar in Spotify
  29. Using Numi app for calculations
  30. TIL: using my own blog as a knowledge DB with Google as the search engine
  31. Realforce R2 vs Epomaker's Niz Plum x87
  32. Doing the laundry
  33. Tracy – Mogwai
  34. A little harvest of peppers
  35. Blogging from Ulysses
  36. Jugni — Rabbi Shergill
  37. Bought a 5 TB hard drive
  38. Happy St. Patrick’s day from Samson
  39. Nomadland is really good
  40. A quick look at my music listening in 2020
  41. Redirector tool
  42. On goals and other motivations
  43. Useful aliases in the command line

2020 30

  1. Apps I use on Mac (2020)
  2. Stoner by John Williams
  3. 2020, bad juju, broken sleep schedules, and the moonshadow
  4. Spooky season vibes
  5. Interesting time standards
  6. Status updates on Twitter
  7. The Sky naming scheme
  8. Self-knowledge
  9. My recent interests
  10. Naps
  11. Summer during the lockdown
  12. It’s a Mogwai kinda day
  13. Black Lives Matter.
  14. Some digging into embedding comparable images
  15. Reminiscing on a decade of cryptocurrencies
  16. Now Playing on Last.fm
  17. I tried watching Terminator Dark Fate
  18. When it’s hot outside, my pets hang out together
  19. Killing analytics on my personal sites
  20. Go be a Ranger, little Archie
  21. March 25th, 2020
  22. Middle child syndrome and Bluetooth keyboard
  23. March 19th, 2020
  24. Music trends, from 2010 to 2019
  25. Some Bulleh Shah mentions in recent music
  26. Tea at Coleridge
  27. Leaving behind the social networks
  28. Notes and pages
  29. Finding Aspen
  30. Purging music for the year

2019 34

  1. Pausing video games for 1 month
  2. Oat milk cappuccinos in LA
  3. Me eating a cream roll in the desert
  4. My first attempt at an Angel Food Cake
  5. Ugh, gone is my server again!
  6. Dark mode in 1 step
  7. I really wanted to like Outlander
  8. Book review: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  9. Samson’s Halloween costume
  10. October update
  11. Reverting to an old school way of posting
  12. The Goldfinch, movie vs book
  13. Maus #1 by Art Spieglman
  14. iPhone 11
  15. Apple Card  First Impressions
  16. Starting over, thoughts on meditation
  17. Interesting Unicode Symbols
  18. Dull lull in July
  19. Turning 29 and other things in June
  20. Goodbye Bookends, for now
  21. April showers bring May flowers
  22. Serving Vue.js apps on Github Pages
  23. Bookends update - April 2019
  24. Thinking back to 1919, a 100 years ago today
  25. With love from Novigrad
  26. Timeline by Michael Crichton
  27. Setting up Fathom for all my sites
  28. Bookends update, March 2019 #2
  29. Bookends update, March 2019
  30. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  31. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
  32. Being unaware of an economic depression
  33. Getting my bike fitted by Pedro
  34. Trying out a new workflow for personal projects

2018 41

  1. Thoughts on the Watership Down series on Netflix
  2. Goal setting for 2019
  3. Books in 2018
  4. Some thoughts on 2018
  5. Learning a bit of iOS
  6. In Portland
  7. Conspicuous consumption and other thoughts on spending
  8. Reverting back to a simpler version of social media and socializing on the web
  9. Late October Update
  10. Nightmare #1 (Jetski of the sky)
  11. Late September update
  12. The Handmaid’s Tale, wow so far!
  13. Sunday vibes playlist
  14. The race to 1,000 miles
  15. Bookends update, August 12th
  16. Deleting data.usmanity.com
  17. Chill song for relaxing
  18. Bookends, for fun and for learning
  19. Home, is where I want to be
  20. The City & The City
  21. Dividends as income
  22. Mid-year check-in, also I'm 28 now
  23. Preview of Free Press
  24. Getting started with local Wordpress development and a log for free-press development
  25. Chrome console output notes
  26. Mid-May update
  27. Apps I use to listen to audiobooks
  28. The Three-body Problem
  29. Samson’s first swim!
  30. Say something nice
  31. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Review
  32. Watership Down, a fantastic novel
  33. Ready Player One, book vs movie
  34. Thoughts on the Spotify IPO
  35. Goodbye Bilo - December 2nd, 2017
  36. A new topic to explore
  37. Building a Chrome extension using Vue.js
  38. Starting work on a custom theme
  39. My goal for Yelp in 2018
  40. Introducing Treefingers
  41. Hello from Treefingers