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Wait, this is on web?? Is that safari?

That’s amazing! That’s like 3-5 books every month? :o

I have a goal for 8 this year, and I’m barely on track 🥲 really miss the focused reading I was used to growing up

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.

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!

Graham Greene’s Saigon - HISTORIC VIETNAM The 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...

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)

My phone is dead ❌

My phone kaput ✅

Learning to live on cashflows is where it’s at

- 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)

- 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)

- 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)

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)

being able to grow plants is such a life skill ngl

Thanks Michael, I didn’t know about IndiaSky, checking it out now :)

They seized approximately 75 dogs, out of which 74 were surrendered. So approximately one is left.

A Javascript function called 'isBroken', which just returns the value 'false'

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

me:

Typescript is the best 🥹

👀

TIL that ARM makes JS go brrrr

Where do I sign up please?

Death by a thousand microservices The 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...

True, I work on a open-source database which has a 4-month release cycle & there's a QA team for that part of the product.

There's also a closed source managed service, which is updated continously. For this, we only rely integration tests + monitoring.

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

trying to find my twitter peeps

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

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

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!

A picture of Lalbagh, Bangalore with Nike running stats: Time: 55:31 minutes, Distance: 5.46km, Pace: 10.10 minutes per km

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

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

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