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⬤ August 17, 2022 # Liked.Like?

I’m honestly so tired, so sleep-deprived, so lack of will that I wish to get hit by a bus or something and stay in bed for ideally a month or two.

⬤ August 15, 2022 # Liked.Like?

fyi, this version of muan right now is currently on quite a few anti-anxiety pills.

still sleeping <5h/d but I wake up feeling like I was asleep which haven’t been the case for the last year or so. very cool.

hit up your local neurology clinic!

⬤ August 14, 2022 # Liked.Like?

shop.muan.co does not exist. I kinda wish it does. I want a legitimate reason to mail physical things to people. what can I make? what would you buy?

⬤ August 11, 2022 # Liked.Like?

me: I wish Cloudflare has an iPhone app so I can read my KVs easily
also me: guess I have the power to make this happen

⬤ August 11, 2022 # Liked.Like?

it’s never anyone’s business unless someone makes it their business

⬤ August 11, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Hidde told me I got a mention at Saying Thank You ♥︎. While I would love to receive nice messages, I still think including a reply mechanism by default is risky, given the number of unpleasant emails I receive every so often. 🫠

Been exploring alternatives though; with something like <open-heart>, which I’ve implemented on notes and posts on my site, I can now receive anonymous ♥︎ emoji. 😬

⬤ August 06, 2022 # Liked.Like?

things continue to suck. blessed to have received some thoughtful texts from like 4 friends amongst an ocean of truly awful takes literally around every corner of the internet. y’all are my number ones.

my one objective in life right now is to distract myself as much as possible for as long as possible because ✨ reality is overrated ✨.

⬤ August 06, 2022 # Liked.Like?

https://muan.co, now with not-Instagram stories! still a work in progress. might not keep it. idk. have also open-sourced some stuff related to this if anyone wants try this out too.

⬤ August 04, 2022 # Liked.Like?

happy 七夕 valentine’s! (sarcasm) love a song that sings like smiling through pain, not even in a healthy way ~ what do we do ~

⬤ August 02, 2022 # Liked.Like?

新不了情 (1993): Eh. This was better in my memory. It ended up being very underwhelming now that I’m all grown up and cynical.

⬤ August 02, 2022 # Liked.Like?

me: …and the launch is happening at a time when I feel like I don’t have my shit together.

I think you have your shit plenty together.

me: …, so I have been having doubts, is all.

You are wonderful.

Many thanks to my coworker for not being tired of my bullshit.

⬤ July 31, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Escapism.

I’d like to be able to write these notes like other people; people who write week notes with such openness and matter of fact-ness. I think emotions have been the main driving force for my life for a bit, but I try my best to push it to the background so things like work, hobbies, and socialization can keep happening in the foreground. When I look back on a week though, the foreground dissipates.

These crumbs that she thinks I shouldn’t keep picking up are the only fuel source left.

⬤ July 27, 2022 # Liked.Like?

My brand.

⬤ July 27, 2022 # Liked.Like?

了然於心，不減悲傷。
A post.

⬤ July 22, 2022 # Liked.Like?

All these thought-leading takes about tech bore me to death.

⬤ July 22, 2022 # Liked.Like?

I wrote another wpt and for a whole week kept thinking about how great it’d be if this was part of my job.

⬤ July 20, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Another shit night of sleep. Maybe being sleep-deprived is the reason why I’ve been depressed. That’d be awesome news because if (big if) I fixed one I fixed the other.

⬤ July 16, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Texted Kris to ask about WebMention and saw this lovely note. ♥︎

⬤ July 15, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Eslite bookstore has been gifting rice for eligible orders, which is puzzling. Just got a 3rd bag of rice and I don’t even like rice? Guess I am having curry for lunch today.

⬤ July 15, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Another “feels like 43°C” day so here’s a hot take: tools built for user content should look boring and familiar. Don’t surprise and delight me when I’m working. Don’t upstage my content with your quirky branding.

⬤ July 14, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Well now that I have Photos section I’m annoyed that I don’t have more photos to post???

⬤ July 14, 2022 # Liked.Like?

請問您有要繼續安排下一期課程嗎？還是先暫停呢？

先暫停喔。不好意思。

好的。想請問您是因為什麼原因結束課程呢？

自己沒有好好念書。

⬤ July 13, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Life is sometimes like a boring film that just would not end. Do I have to sit here for another hour? (may contain negativity ✌︎ )

⬤ July 11, 2022 # Liked.Like?

https://muan.co/photos is a new thing! I will definitely forget how this work so here it is:

• I add a photo to an iCloud Shared Album from my phone
• A GitHub Action running on a schedule (tbd) fetches from the Shared Album data
  • Downloads all the images and converts them to an ideal format
  • Puts all the data into a JSON file
  • Triggers a workflow_dispatch event on muan/site
• Another GitHub Action pulls down the JSON and commits it into muan/site/_data
• GitHub Pages automatically rebuilds from the data file changes
• Profit!

⬤ July 09, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Everything we choose is going to be fairly grim in certain ways, because life is necessarily rather than incidentally awful.

⬤ July 08, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Impulsively brought Ricoh GR IIIx and now trying glass.photo for the 2-week trial. High resolution is anxiety-inducing.

⬤ July 06, 2022 # Liked.Like?

“There are so many things going on in people’s lives that you have no ideas of.”

⬤ July 06, 2022 # Liked.Like?

america is truly wild. I continue to be bewildered by how people manage.

⬤ July 05, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Please someone tell me how to fix this. I am really good at implmentating fixes. Just tell me what to do.

⬤ July 04, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Grounded in expectations.

⬤ June 28, 2022 # Liked.Like?

In the past year or so I have received a couple of unprompted kind messages from strangers and mutuals, like… “I’ve been a big fan of your work since a long time ago.” Obviously these messages make me happy, but I am at the same time so, so, so confused. What have I done? I am drawing a blank. I wish I remember them and can appreciate them from the eyes of these strangers so I don’t feel so insecure and socially anxious all the freaking time.

⬤ June 27, 2022 # Liked.Like?

⬤ June 25, 2022 # Liked.Like?

The Adam Project (2022): It’s one of those movies that you can leave playing in the background while you do stuff.

⬤ June 16, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Un triomphe (2020): Loved it. Had wanted to see it at Golden Horse but timing didn’t work out. Glad to find it on the plane few weeks ago. ♥︎ This reminded me to make a note.

⬤ June 15, 2022 # Liked.Like?

My summer playlist is starting off on a oddly melancholy note, and I… don’t like it.

⬤ June 15, 2022 # Liked.Like?

I thought this would help, but now I just want to see and be closer to more friends. :’(

⬤ June 13, 2022 # Liked.Like?

yes it’s me, one of the many asian women on your list

⬤ June 12, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Top Gun: Maverick (2022): I really can’t care less about the first one but this one is not bad. Rolled my eyes so far back on many of the clichés and the romantic interest who has absolutely no background nor personality other than the vocation to wait for and support the making of very important career decisions of an emotionally unavailable man :) Fighting is cool. I’d take a film with just fighting over this blend. Lastly, too many filler scenes featuring the subjective attractiveness of Tom Cruise.

⬤ June 11, 2022 # Liked.Like?

The high highs and the low lows.

灣區的朋友們好有愛
錯過了一些人有點扼腕
生命還是相當地滑稽愚蠢
隨著年紀增長 opacity 數值一直在降低
期待在這個星球上的另一個角落相見
不同的社會背景情勢加上不同的我們

⬤ June 08, 2022 # Liked.Like?

modern romance, lives and dies in the screenshot album.

⬤ June 08, 2022 # Liked.Like?

honesty and openness, not optional, turns out. repression kills.

⬤ May 30, 2022 # Liked.Like?

I have completely forgotten how to pack for San Francisco

⬤ May 27, 2022 # Liked.Like?

the moment one loses consciousness
the moment feelings cease to exist
the moment the weight of the mind lifts
the moment one can finally breathe
but no longer

⬤ May 26, 2022 # Liked.Like?

• 完全看不懂旅行的防疫規定。到底什麼時候要做去檢驗？到底哪裡可以檢驗？到底需要什麼文件？還是不要出國好了？
• 天時地利人和才可能有立場。有立場才可能溝通。沒有要溝通是在這裡浪費人生嗎。
• 失眠所造成痛覺加倍應該是最難受的副作用。（研究結論居然這麼正面）

⬤ May 25, 2022 # Liked.Like?

This is what I think about every time someone mentions living in America to me. How can anything good offset this? How has it not been enough a decade ago? Is there a magical number?

⬤ May 23, 2022 # Liked.Like?

I really don’t know why these people follow me. I have nothing to offer. While they are so smart, so creative, and so productive.

⬤ May 21, 2022 # Liked.Like?

I Care a Lot (2020): PSA don’t watch this. Playing sudoku for 2 hours would be more fun.

⬤ May 21, 2022 # Liked.Like?

here’s a lesson I learned: never ever invest your time and energy in accessibility when your organization doesn’t care about it. people hold organizations to a high standard and by extension anything you attempt, so nothing you alone can do will ever be good enough to people externally, and thus internally it would not appear that your efforts were worthwhile and you would never succeed nor be recognized for your efforts. you would be thankless, you would get crumbs for rewards if any, and you would be burnout for years to come. don’t be so cruel to yourself. just don’t do it.

⬤ May 19, 2022 # Liked.Like?

never has anything made me want to be so completely invisible than this shit considered deleting all these work I put my heart and soul into and was once so proud of as it’s now just a fucking trigger

⬤ May 19, 2022 # Liked.Like?

“daarvoor zou ik mijn hand niet in het vuur steken.”

⬤ May 17, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Whatever pleasure we find, it is fleeting.

Normalize sadness, and to some degree, despair.

—Sex, Drugs, and Phone Addictions with Dr. Anna Lembke

⬤ May 14, 2022 # Liked.Like?

多說無益。不說不錯。/ 做了 Panna Cotta。輕易地被左右了。/ 出國前需要自我隔離一個禮拜以免上不了飛機，我現在就好緊張。/ You’d think on this overpopulated planet, there must be at least a few people.

⬤ May 12, 2022 # Liked.Like?

最近（又）報名了日文課程。高橋先生說「我覺得你的耳朵很好。」

本機上有好幾篇沒有被版本紀錄的部落格文章。老實說我覺得與其被發表，某天他們全部被我刪掉的機率比較高。

最近用手機內建的翻譯軟體讀著別人的筆記，覺得用翻譯出來的文字都很有意境，有時候甚至有點浪漫。用中文寫著些文字有點赤裸，但對不同的讀者又是一種躲藏。
寫的時候會去考慮翻譯軟體的邏輯，例如「如果寫了倒裝句就可以避免這句話被翻譯出來」、或者是「為了這句話被精準翻譯，我不能省略掉主詞和標點符號」但如果是用 Instagram 翻譯的話，就只能聽天由命了。

⬤ May 11, 2022 # Liked.Like?

It’s like falling in love sort of changes your brain, and it puts a loaded gun to your head. It’s almost getting ready for heartbreak.

—Fresh Air - NPR: Heartbroken? There’s a scientific reason why breaking up feels so rotten

⬤ May 09, 2022 # Liked.Like?

felt, at the same time, inspired, insecure, and intimidated by talented internet people. / there is no end game. severance is necessary and naturally painful. / massive amount of luck required in the coming month. / acquired cold brew sold in a flask.

⬤ May 07, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Insomnia holding a gun.

⬤ May 04, 2022 # Liked.Like?

so impressed by my own ability to make shit up and just run with it

⬤ May 02, 2022 # Liked.Like?

一家都確診了。獨居的女性可以繼續健康且孤單地活著。

⬤ April 30, 2022 # Liked.Like?

“But this isn’t fear of danger. It’s fear of life. And if you choose that, you choose to miss out on a lot.”

sure don’t hold back or anything

⬤ April 27, 2022 # Liked.Like?

“It’s been a long life.”

⬤ April 27, 2022 # Liked.Like?

daily mix today included a song from an album I used to love. got transported back to a simpler time ♥︎

⬤ April 26, 2022 # Liked.Like?

🙂

⬤ April 25, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Tank And The Bangas @ Tiny Desk Concert

⬤ April 10, 2022 # Liked.Like?

these notes haven’t been great sorry

⬤ April 09, 2022 # Liked.Like?

I can trade you gold, or nothing at all. What are you offering?

⬤ April 08, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Severance (2022, S1): I am upset that by the time S2 comes out I would’ve likely forgotten how I feel right now.

⬤ April 08, 2022 # Liked.Like?

⬤ April 07, 2022 # Liked.Like?

July Play - Greg Spero, MonoNeon, Ruslan Sirota, Ronald Bruner Jr. (Tiny Room Live Performance)

⬤ April 07, 2022 # Liked.Like?

dying to know what I did wrong to deserve this

⬤ April 05, 2022 # Liked.Like?

The Big Lebowski (1998):

• Jeff Bridges’ hair was amazing.
• Julianne Moore was glorious.
• The Germans.
• Sam Elliott!
• 溫馨

⬤ April 03, 2022 # Liked.Like?

I find it easier to share to large groups than to individuals, because with groups no one person bears the burden to respond to me. from posting instagram stories, writing these notes, opening github issues, to asking questions in slack.

⬤ April 02, 2022 # Liked.Like?

I’ve been so sentimental lately it is ridiculous. Just saw my old postcode, and that alone was emotional?

⬤ March 31, 2022 # Liked.Like?

I feel like being bad at things causes physical pain to me. Everything in my body is telling me to flight, and just stop trying. Stop trying to learn, stop trying to build deeper relationships,… stop failing.

⬤ March 25, 2022 # Liked.Like?

curly hair is the best hair

⬤ March 24, 2022 # Liked.Like?

being a woman sucks so much every month seriously fuck this need to get old asap

⬤ March 24, 2022 # Liked.Like?

always feel like such a fraud with my 10k+ followers on GitHub that I only gained from new users being told to follow me by the official GitHub guide for 8 years.

⬤ March 23, 2022 # Liked.Like?

In case anyone’s wondering, pretending everything is fine still works. Just ride out the lows.

There are some things I’m just god awful at. But otherwise, I’m really extremely, I mean, extremely, functional.

⬤ March 21, 2022 # Liked.Like?

manage expectations and censor emotional peaks

⬤ March 19, 2022 # Liked.Like?

 web experiences are really not fantastic :/

⬤ March 17, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Might be the happiest I’ve ever been with myself right now. So fortunate to have the space to… try.

⬤ March 16, 2022 # Liked.Like?

U+FE0E

⬤ March 14, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Unexplainable by Vox–Making sense: How sound becomes hearing is fascinating.

⬤ March 14, 2022 # Liked.Like?

went to a party the other day and someone approached me immediately to chat, which made me feel extremely sus. turned out a mutual told them to get to know me and they are from a studio whose work i’ve always liked. within 10 minutes I got a new friend???? can we have more friendships forming this easily please

⬤ March 13, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Wow do I feel stupid.

⬤ March 11, 2022 # Liked.Like?

if I ever had to manually type another 3rd party library with bad documentation 🤬

⬤ March 10, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Revolution of Our Times (2021): Well this felt like being punched in the guts.

⬤ March 09, 2022 # Liked.Like?

really need my dreams to stop being so realistic and relevant to my life. what if I forget if I dreamed this or not

⬤ March 09, 2022 # Liked.Like?

world’s end girlfriend https://youtu.be/PfG_G2O2q40

⬤ March 08, 2022 # Liked.Like?

befriended my next door neighbor, who is a 50 something woman with a kid. she learned that I’m single and independent and was like “I LOVE THAT FOR YOU. I wanted to be where you are, but times were too hard.”

⬤ March 07, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Taiwan Stands With Ukraine rally was held yesterday at Liberty Square Arch in Taipei, where a giant statue of the last dictator who ruled Taiwan still sits.

⬤ March 07, 2022 # Liked.Like?

With all these talks about “Ukraine now Taiwan next”… regardless of whether that’s a valid comparison, I just want to say that if we find Taiwan in the same situation, I sure hope more of my friends would be voicing their support for us on social media. No, tweeting can’t end a war, but I think it’d definitely give me more hope and strength to go on.

⬤ March 04, 2022 # Liked.Like?

got a body scan and found it pretty toxic that the lowest number of the normal weight range for me is me with -2% body fat.

⬤ March 01, 2022 # Liked.Like?

made a haircut appointment and my stylist was like “you got a week. treat your hair well and make them healthy this time before you come see me, ok?” 🙍🏻‍♀️

⬤ March 01, 2022 # Liked.Like?

happy to announce that i’ve finally reached the “everything has a place” stage with my new apartment, and cleaning up is no longer annoying.

⬤ February 26, 2022 # Liked.Like?

appreciate the friends who have reached out to recognize what I’ve always been talking about with regards to Taiwan’s political situation isn’t hypothetical… but I feel conflicted…

I guess it’s just disappointing. we learn to live with threats and risks because what else is there to do? and then we further learn to live with people around us who like the aggressor and praise them when the regime does something “good” because they can afford to ignore the aggressions and threats that we and many experience.

i can’t in any circumstances ever see “good” in a regime that talks about invading my home for as long as i’ve lived. they desperately want to convince everyone that it’d not be an invasion, but a unification (via military forces). bullshit is what it is.

we seek support in times of relative peace. if we don’t find them in times of peace, will we be able to get them when things get dire? that’s what’s disappointing. when it really does matter, support isn’t going magically appear just because the stakes are high.

no, i don’t think the situations are alike or comparable on many front, but concerns from friends put things in that frame, and when I think about it with that framing, what’s out there now inspires little confidence. it is just quite disheartening. 🤷🏻‍♀️

i hope these concerns will translate into motivation to support us on things that don’t seem immediately related to war in the traditional sense. even if small as the country <select> in your product.

being apolitical is a vote of support for the existing rich and powerful.

⬤ February 25, 2022 # Liked.Like?

being an adult is largely earning the privilege to have fun and then be too tired to have fun?

⬤ February 20, 2022 # Liked.Like?

it’s been raining nonstop in taipei for a week and seems like we’re looking at another week and it’s just miserable. really need to migrate south

⬤ February 18, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Just told my vacuum robot “good job!”

⬤ February 17, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Uncharted (2022): Expected a let down and it was a let down. But honestly better than most move adaptations.

⬤ February 15, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Sure is nice to not be over 100ºF.

⬤ February 09, 2022 # Liked.Like?

call it fate call it karma

⬤ February 09, 2022 # Liked.Like?

anyone got a life hack for cold fingers while coding? custom keyboard heat lamps? i’m getting old and weak. it’s 17°C and i have lost finger mobility.

⬤ February 01, 2022 # Liked.Like?

it’s normal to not recognize code you wrote 10 months ago, right?

⬤ January 31, 2022 # Liked.Like?

this lny my mom asked “would you want to marry a violinist?” i said “i’d date one. marriage eh.” she said “who does this??? no man will want to waste time on just dating now.” i said “??? but oh well we can cross that bridge if we get to it” she said “you gotta want to cross the bridge before you embark!” i said “why tho there’s not much on the other side that i want” then she listed a bunch of things and i said “you’re describing hospice.” the end

⬤ January 28, 2022 # Liked.Like?

i heard that ppl are mad about for loops, styleguides, gatekeepers of ⚠️ schemes, calendly, and the dude who wrote about being mad at calendly. meanwhile i have been playing squash regularly, it’s p fun. the best sport for folks who don’t want to be exposed to the weathers and hate most other people. a++.

⬤ January 27, 2022 # Liked.Like?

“Is he available or had 2 kids already?” 🙃

⬤ January 24, 2022 # Liked.Like?

i’m at this stage in life that i’m fully over guessing people’s intentions. if someone ain’t conveying how they feel then i simply conclude that they’re not feeling. even if someone is using words they might be lying so why are we here just to suffer??????

⬤ January 24, 2022 # Liked.Like?

ok i picked bass back up! baby muan used to be able to play this song whole. you know what? i’m gonna keep practicing at least until i manage to do that again!

⬤ January 23, 2022 # Liked.Like?

over the last year or so a number of cis male friends have asked me about specific things i do that seem out of the ordinary- like the pair of men shoes i put at my door, the fact that i don’t have dms open, the fact that i carefully research the sender of a cold email before i decide whether to reply or not- some of you have never been stalked by really determined people or felt threatened in your own house. it shows.

⬤ January 23, 2022 # Liked.Like?

this future you imagine never included us from the start. idk how you can expect us to be excited about it. what is there to be excited about? (i look on in horror) but sure i’m a hater. https://blog.mollywhite.net/abuse-and-harassment-on-the-blockchain/

⬤ January 23, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Halt and Catch Fire is very good, but oh my god is Lee Pace annoying af.

⬤ January 23, 2022 # Liked.Like?

decided to start using my dishwasher even tho i never fill it, and it’s life-changing. suddenly feels like i sorta have it together.

⬤ January 22, 2022 # Liked.Like?

since i started working i have been having trouble getting immersed into things outside of work. it’s bumming me out. my lists of games to play and show to watch are suffering. so a lockdown might start in taipei and this is not good.

⬤ January 19, 2022 # Liked.Like?

would be caught dead before being caught posting closeups of a diamond ringed finger on instagram 💍

⬤ January 19, 2022 # Liked.Like?

um noname is so good I LAGGED https://youtu.be/K58JYXhb4YA

⬤ January 18, 2022 # Liked.Like?

started a vince staples radio playlist on spotify and liking every song

⬤ January 16, 2022 # Liked.Like?

aside from guessing words in my second language not being fun, timezone also makes wordle result sharing meaningless to me. by the time my US friends starts sharing their scores for the new quiz it’s been 20 hours since my play and i remember nothing.

⬤ January 15, 2022 # Liked.Like?

my one recurring nightmare is being late for a flight or having a flight canceled then getting lost at an airport. why??? and i always wake up anxious. can it not???

⬤ January 09, 2022 # Liked.Like?

thoughts that are making me feel old albeit maybe forming them a bit late at 32: some things can only be learnt through experiences. i’ve seen the same trend for the 20th times. what exactly is still interesting? if i ignore it long enough it’ll go away, but i don’t have enough time and energy to waste on ignoring it.

⬤ January 08, 2022 # Liked.Like?

might go ahead and remove rss url for these notes because i’ve learned that more than a few of you subscribe to it and it’s making me nervous 🥲

⬤ January 04, 2022 # Liked.Like?

Don’t Look Up (2021): so realistically depressing that i don’t know why a film has to be made. pretty much a documentary. only two unrealistic things stood out:
1 the us is not the only country with scientists.
2 boys like yule who can communicate openly, honestly, and effectively do not exist. 🙃

⬤ January 01, 2022 # Liked.Like?

first day this year i finished disco elysium and had steak and broccoli for lunch 💁🏻‍♀️

⬤ December 29, 2021 # Liked.Like?

just want to thank muan 2020/09 real quick for making the very difficult decision to quit and move across an ocean in the middle of a pandemic. wow. it’d have sucked so much if i had stayed. like there’s no end in sight!!

⬤ December 29, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“i don’t feel the need to research and learn about this issue and take a stance” = “i believe whether this issue gets resolved simply does not affect me in any significant way”

⬤ December 26, 2021 # Liked.Like?

話　不　投　機　半　句　多

⬤ December 26, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I’d rather be bored as rocks.

⬤ December 22, 2021 # Liked.Like?

SPA is so difficult that I constantly run into websites that don’t let me history.back(). Sure it’s the developers fault not the framework’s, but why is it so easy to break something so fundamental (a feature with a dedicated button/gesture!) to the web to begin with?

⬤ December 19, 2021 # Liked.Like?

So in Taiwan the hottest topic this weekend were the referendum and WLH’s divorce. Everyone I met yesterday wanted to discuss WLH and I just… can’t… care… less. I really don’t want to be seen as if I feel so above it, but I am at a point that I feel like I had to read it up to not be such an outlier. I guess what I’m trying to get at is… how can not caring about celebrity gossip be such a special stance? I’m not trying to be different. 😕

⬤ December 17, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“Don’t forget that your not children will also not have children and so forth, so that’s infinite carbon saved!” 🥳

⬤ December 16, 2021 # Liked.Like?

New post: on looking for a job. 📮

⬤ December 15, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Living alone is such a bless. I’d never take the freedom for granted ever again.

⬤ December 11, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“One thing about leaving your apartment is there’s so many other people out there. The great thing about my apartment is that I control if there’s other people in it.” 🥺💯

⬤ December 11, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“You go to an auction and out comes the Picasso, dead silence. Once the hammer comes down on the price, applause. We live in a world where they applaud the price, but not the Picasso.”—Fran Lebowitz in Pretend it’s a City S1E2

⬤ December 09, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“How did you make friends in your early 30s?” “Drugs, Mu-An. Drugs.”

⬤ December 07, 2021 # Liked.Like?

14 Peaks–Nothing Is Impossible (2021): the energy is contagious.

⬤ December 07, 2021 # Liked.Like?

School of Chocolate is wholesome. 👀

⬤ December 07, 2021 # Liked.Like?

3 weeks living with cats I’ve learned that I’m definitely a control freak. I used to deny this because I don’t believe try to control others, but I now see that I 100% would like to have total control over my home environment, and living with cats don’t bode with that.

⬤ December 07, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Pourris gâtés (2021): A comedy that’s not funny.

⬤ December 05, 2021 # Liked.Like?

The Matrix Reloaded (2003): the reason why I can never enjoy sci-fi films boils down to the fact that I just can’t see past the inconsistencies in logic. They make outlandish claims about infinite intelligence and super advanced technology, but still have shape shifting bug robot men losing a fight because they were held by a necktie, and the chosen one with god like abilities and speed to dodge bullets couldn’t outrun a man running to the door. why do everyone insignificant in Zion wears beige? why did agent smiths only pull out a gun they had all along after an escape route was opened by the keymaker? what did the twin expect to happen when they stood in front of Trinity’s speeding car with a pocket knife? why does everyone suck at cable management?… anyways, Seraph is played by a Taiwanese actor, fun fact.

⬤ December 02, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I’ve accepted an offer! yay

⬤ November 28, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“The important thing is to make small decisions that can be undone easily.”

⬤ November 27, 2021 # Liked.Like?

The Matrix (1999): I never got Keanu Reeves. Now I do.

⬤ November 27, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Cast Away (2000): This is one of the most exciting films I’ve seen in recently months even though the bulk of it is just a man alone on an island talking to a volleyball. There’s something to be said about my film choices.

⬤ November 26, 2021 # Liked.Like?

fun fact: I now live with two cats. their names are fritz and alvar.

⬤ November 26, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Begin Again (2013): arghhhhhh I love Sing Street, so was really bummed about how bland this one is. I am not even convinced that they like music that much.

⬤ November 25, 2021 # Liked.Like?

牯嶺街少年殺人事件 A Brighter Summer Day (1991): I really don’t get why this has to be 4 hours long. I couldn’t get through it in one sitting. The toxic masculinity throughout was really testing my patience–yes I get it. boys want to seem tough.

⬤ November 24, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I owe someone a reply, but I just can’t remember who. Sorry if it’s you.

⬤ November 22, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Manchester by the Sea (2016): 🥲🥲🥲

⬤ November 19, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Hello darkness my old friend ♥ stress-induced insomnia is back.

⬤ November 18, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Summer of Soul (2021): TBH I feel like as a documentary it could’ve been better structured; as a recorded show it could’ve been better edited. In the end we got an okay documentary and a dissatisfying concert performance. @ Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

⬤ November 18, 2021 # Liked.Like?

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021): Jessica Chastain was amazing. As someone who grew up in a similar environment this was kinda triggering/uncomfortable. I was so extremely bored of these tropes.

⬤ November 17, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“Exactly the way the web was designed, and exactly how the web should be built.” 🥺

⬤ November 17, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Red Notice (2021): wow terrible.

⬤ November 14, 2021 # Liked.Like?

King Richard (2021): “Say hi to the people that’s gone 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼.” This made me wish I had started watching tennis in the 90s.

⬤ November 14, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Last Night in Soho (2021): I am simple I see Edgar Wright I buy tickets. I didn’t even watch the trailer so it was totally my own fault. I had no idea it was a thriller and I hate thrillers. Nevertheless it has all the Edgar Wright signatures and I enjoyed it as much as I can possibly enjoy a thriller.

⬤ November 12, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Retfærdighedens ryttere/Riders of Justice (2020): Love, lost, the necessity of therapies, computer nerd jokes, Denmark, hot AF actions featuring Mads Mikkelsen. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @ Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

⬤ November 11, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Friends with Money (2006): Mumblecore ish, which I like. I’ve definitely seen this before but it is just so not memorable.

⬤ November 11, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2007): I found him very likeable. A+ would want to be friends. This is a good movie.

⬤ November 11, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Friends with Money (2006): Mumblecore ish, which I like. I’ve definitely seen this before but it is just so not memorable.

⬤ November 09, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Heart of Glass (1976): There’s no reason why I should ever come across this film but I did. Funny how life works. Some arthouse DVD publisher picked this film, and a friend who loves the publisher lent me a few from the collection, for that I’ve been bored out of my minds staying at home recovering from a surgery. I managed to sit through the whole 94 minutes while reading through the IMDb reviews. Can’t say I hate it (how bored am I!), but wow it’s so weird.

⬤ November 03, 2021 # Liked.Like?

All or Nothing (2002): Surprised to see James Corden before he became the James Corden today. The film was overall very bleak and the whole experience was extremely uncomfortable. No I would never do it again.

⬤ October 31, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Julie & Julia (2009): I would have liked this a lot more if it was just “Julia”. I don’t understand the significance of this book. 🤨

⬤ October 30, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“Idleness breeds thought, and thoughts can be dangerous, as anyone who lives alone will readily understand.”

⬤ October 28, 2021 # Liked.Like?

The Bridges of Madison County (1995): “I clearly made up this whole story. I mean, it was… it was a good story. It was all tortured, and… Bridges of Madison County. And I…”
Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. 🥺

⬤ October 21, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Green Book (2018): ❤️

⬤ October 20, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Dunkirk (2017): I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. I mostly picked it up because of Cillian Murphy, who is my all time favorite, even though his part wasn’t even named. I actually cared that they make it home.

I’ve always wanted to write notes after seeing a film; just to capture how I felt about it so I’d remember, not to critic. So the notes are unhelpful and unworthy of imdb, where I log all the films. Maybe I’ll start putting them here.

⬤ October 19, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Been trying to see more films. October so far: I Can Speak (Korean), ROMA (Mexican), Amour (French), Druk (Danish), Man in Love (Taiwanese), Burnt (American), About Time (British), The Wonders (Italian).

⬤ October 18, 2021 # Liked.Like?

not exactly effective communication but I got an answer. time to move on.

“not rude at all. not rude to not waste someone’s time :)”

⬤ October 17, 2021 # Liked.Like?

to have a dismissive attachment style and wear it as a badge of honor is such a dismissive attachment type of behavior. 🙃

⬤ October 16, 2021 # Liked.Like?

It’s funny how DTR works differently to different people, like promotions! It seems logical to only do couple things as a couple, just like how managing people should be the job of a manager. But I guess no? IRL you gotta perform at a higher level for years before you could be promoted, and similarly people can date for a year as friends and decide to not be a couple. Isn’t life fun?

⬤ October 15, 2021 # Liked.Like?

In case any friends are actually reading these- I’ve started looking for a job! If you have a great opportunity please get in my inbox. ❤️ For now I’m sorting through immediate connections only. Thanks!

⬤ October 13, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“I think I would feel superficially sadder, but less fundamentally broken as a person, if I could just be sad about one break-up, rather than sad about my lifelong inability to sustain a meaningful relationship.”

⬤ October 10, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“the indignity of suffering, the indignity of being open to it.”

⬤ October 09, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“Like dessert, yeah. A man is absolutely not a necessity. … I adore dessert, I love men. I think men are the coolest. But you don’t really need them to live. My mom said to me, ‘you know sweetheart, one day you should settle down and marry a rich man.’ And I said, ‘Mom – I am a rich man.’” — Cher

⬤ October 04, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life is: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”

⬤ October 03, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Soon I’ll be ready.

⬤ September 26, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Thinking about making a small webapp for keeping a CBT-I sleep diary. 🤔 My sleep therapist (lol) said there isn’t a good app for it, and especially not one currently that doesn’t stress you out about the lack of quality sleep at the same time.

⬤ September 22, 2021 # Liked.Like?

需要別人的話還想談什麼尊嚴呢。

⬤ September 21, 2021 # Liked.Like?

It’s been months and I still can’t seem to sleep past the 5 hour mark. Now trying this new method called naps. 😵‍💫 4 hours today accompanied by a nightmare about a hollow upper arm with coral like growth. SORRY.

⬤ September 01, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Saying no would have been so easy.

⬤ August 23, 2021 # Liked.Like?

if we are friends you should really join my link exchange program. let’s bring back the early 2000’s.

⬤ August 15, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Thanks to my therapist I’ve been feeling so good in the last 6 months and was even able to make some traditionally nerve-wreaking decisions in life without even flinching. I love that I simply present her with a messy bag of ideas, and worries and she just untangles the wires and sorts them out. Being able to see problems and trade-offs clearly made decisions so much easier.

⬤ August 13, 2021 # Liked.Like?

What a thrill it is to be seen. I mean to be seen for real; to be seen for one’s skills, one’s values, and one’s passion. It might be the nerdiest, driest, the most straight-shooting conversation, but like, I don’t know what can top that.

⬤ August 12, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I like it when I talk to friends about personal feelings and they feel comfortable suggesting that I book an appointment with my therapist to talk about specific things. They want to help but know they can’t do as good a job as my therapist; what they can do instead was something I can’t do myself, telling me the things I regard as trivial and unworthy of a therapy session, are in fact affecting me in ways I hadn’t noticed before.

⬤ August 06, 2021 # Liked.Like?

When I see tech Twitter drama I think thank god I’m still unemployed. ✌🏼 Haven’t been this relaxed during tech feuds for a long time.

⬤ July 04, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Re: “an environment that allows you to do the best work of your life”– I really like my early days at GitHub because there were so many people with different expertises to learn from, and they are available and happy to share their knowledge. I was just looking up posts about partial index strategies w/ postgresql and jnunemaker’s post was the first result. Instant nostalgia.

⬤ July 01, 2021 # Liked.Like?

am so tired that my face hurts

⬤ June 29, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I woke up this morning, brushed my teeth, then sat in front of my computer/started writing code for 7 hours straight with just a water bottle by my side. Now feeling terrible mentally, but don’t want to stop. WTF is up with this state of mind.

⬤ June 29, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I wish I knew how to step in/out of “the zone”. When I get into a programming problem I find it so hard to just switch off. I ended up not sleeping and not eating, and even when I managed to just microwave something I feel like I have to eat in front of the computer so I can keep thinking about the problem. While I enjoy “being in the zone” I can’t help but feel like it’s just terrible for my well-being. I believe this is partly why I have been trying to stay away from coding as much as possible ever since quitting last year. :(

⬤ June 18, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Never truly understood the importance of an environment that allows you to do the best work of your life until I’ve been there and watched it go away. Now it’s just painfully obvious to me that some environments force you to do the most mediocre work imaginable.

⬤ June 11, 2021 # Liked.Like?

It’s approaching my funemployment anniversary so I have been starting to think that it might be time to find a job and be a contributing member to the society again. And then we went into lockdown in Taipei. RIP my few months of recovering progress.

⬤ June 10, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I really can’t stand photos of people flaunting the make-believe value of the rock on their fingers. By all means celebrate finding love, but doing it through the rock is just so archaic and flat out weird, knowing what we know now. 😒

⬤ June 10, 2021 # Liked.Like?

It’s been years since I last used a mouse and oh god my cursor movement is so much more efficient with a mouse what have I been doing

⬤ June 04, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Finally did my tax and responded to emails. Been trying to evade my social responsibilities for a while. It’s such a bless to be able to do that.

⬤ June 01, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Hello I just spent an hour debugging my gmail extension that was triggering an event twice- turns out I have both the production and development version of the extension enabled. I am very smart ok?

⬤ May 06, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Took me a while but I finally understand why many of the senior people I enjoy working with are no longer active in the tech scene.

“Good to have done not to keep doing.”

⬤ May 01, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Surely you can see how saying other industries have things worse isn’t helping? Do you think people don’t know? What’s the point of making a good thing shitter just to match something shit? Who benefits from this narrative? Not salaried people that’s for sure.

⬤ April 30, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I had wanted to join Basecamp not because the books they’ve put out but because the people I’ve met who had worked there and were working there until the recent announcement. Their leaving only confirms that feeling. I would love to have worked with empathetic people with integrity. Though at the same time I would also hate to have to leave with the environment because of shitty rich men who can’t be arsed to care about other people while sitting in their mountain piles of cash.

⬤ April 15, 2021 # Liked.Like?

My goal is to get myself enough leverage so that I won’t leave myself vulnerable.

⬤ March 18, 2021 # Liked.Like?

So visceral but so unsurprising at the same time. I don’t know how folks in the US live with it all. I just can’t. I feel gaslit seeing people appearing unfazed, and wonder if I was just too weak and feeling too much. Be that the case, luckily I have options. And I opted out.

⬤ March 18, 2021 # Liked.Like?

Rails 6 is cool.

⬤ March 16, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I think about this quote from _why frequently.

⬤ March 08, 2021 # Liked.Like?

When I told you about this website I was building I wanted to know if you would use it. I was not asking about monetization tips or VC contacts. I thought that was obvious.

⬤ March 04, 2021 # Liked.Like?

There are so many different ways to make money. Why pick this one?

⬤ February 24, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“Are you doing enough drugs?”

⬤ February 23, 2021 # Liked.Like?

“starve in peace > feast in toxicity” — me at LNY

⬤ February 23, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I’m “all my friends want to talk about stocks and mortgages” years old.

⬤ January 29, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I saw people get mad at others calling out that web browsers are meant for document viewing and not applications and want to debate it… The thing is, this really isn’t an opinion though. @kocienda was stating a fact. Document viewing was what the web was designed for. Pulling up examples of what people has used the web for isn’t going to change how the web was designed and why manipulating it into something it’s not is extremely messy and awkward. To those who think it’s not messy and awkward, I’d have to guess you haven’t done much accessibility work? Just learn to write native code if you want to make apps people (hence why I tried to learn Swift.) How about discussing how to lower the much higher barrier of entry for native app development instead of forcing the web to become an app platform?

⬤ January 16, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I’ve muted so many people on Facebook that whenever I add a new friend, Facebook will show every single one of their post to me because there’s often nothing else new. And I then have to mute the new friend because wow friend how did you get the time to post stuff daily?

Perhaps I just need a weekly digest of how my friends are doing.

⬤ January 06, 2021 # Liked.Like?

I am so not a fan of the 2018 remake of A Star Is Born that I have to log in and write this note. That is all. Bye.

⬤ November 20, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Life update: I moved back to Taiwan, finished the 2-week quarantine, mastered the spelling of Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-I-N-E, found an apartment, bought a sofa and 2 plants, took a day trip to Kaohsiung, got back to Taipei, and am currently waiting for the internet company person to come give me life so I can play video games again.

⬤ November 20, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Do less.

⬤ October 16, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Please fact check news articles before you share it. If you don’t/can’t check it, don’t share. 🙇🏻‍♀️

⬤ October 11, 2020 # Liked.Like?

This cover of 長く短い祭り is so good. I continue to be impressed even though I’ve watched the video for at least 30 times over the years.

⬤ October 10, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Having to prove that you can do something instead of simply being trusted and relied upon to do something is exhausting and such a waste of energy.

⬤ October 05, 2020 # Liked.Like?

A place to not just live, but breathe. by @can.

A mental space that’s not always occupied with politics and news and what new hell will be unleashed that day. … If you have lived in a war-ridden, or a politically unstable country, you know what I am talking about.

Never was able to put this feeling into words so I am so glad to stumble across this article.

⬤ October 02, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Leaving GitHub. ❤️

⬤ September 27, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Immigration Nation

⬤ September 25, 2020 # Liked.Like?

“Something good to have done, not to keep doing.” ♥️

⬤ September 23, 2020 # Liked.Like?

This is fucking terrifying.

⬤ September 23, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Excuse me. My whole life I watch people who have nothing at stake argue how much freedom Taiwanese people should have and what government we deserve. Just no. You don’t get to decide what’s not that bad (aka you could suffer more) and what’s bearable (aka you could power through) when the things did not happen and are not happening to you. Believe the people with the experience when they say “THINGS ARE FUCKED. IT IS THAT BAD.”

⬤ September 22, 2020 # Liked.Like?

#freemuan2020

⬤ September 21, 2020 # Liked.Like?

“I’ll give him evidence. It’s a stack of documents that I make with my hands.”

⬤ September 16, 2020 # Liked.Like?

面對面看著彼此假裝正常，是最可怕最噁心的事啊。

⬤ September 14, 2020 # Liked.Like?

“You baby girl are a drop in the bucket.”

⬤ September 14, 2020 # Liked.Like?

“You can afford to be happy at work.”

⬤ September 14, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Ahhh The Forest is fun. Now I want to play more survival games– next up The Long Dark.

⬤ September 11, 2020 # Liked.Like?

#TIFF20 “… stopping the virus of parliamentary idiocy will require destroying and rebuilding a flawed institution. … this process of reform seems as slow, difficult, and contested as political struggles in the real world.“ – Review: Zombie Movie “Get the Hell Out” Satirizes the Spectacle of Taiwanese Politics

⬤ September 10, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Life is strange 2 gameplay drags a lot and has a lot of fillers, so isn’t a fun game to play by any means IMO, but the characters are so likeable, and the background stories/context are so rich and well structured. Quite impressive.

⬤ September 10, 2020 # Liked.Like?

I really wish internationalization settings are more flexible. On PlayStation if I want Chinese subtitles I often need to change my system UI to from English to Chinese, which means voice prompts won’t work, and then the game UI also can’t be set to English because games usually only have one or two language settings– subtitles and audio, and not UI. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Game content internationalization should prioritize authenticity around the story, while user interface internationalization should prioritize accessibility for the user and social interactions. The data is all there!

⬤ September 09, 2020 # Liked.Like?

JetBrains Mono is kinda nice.

⬤ September 07, 2020 # Liked.Like?

https://todomvc-sinatra.herokuapp.com 🙃

⬤ September 06, 2020 # Liked.Like?

I want to travel so much. 💀

⬤ September 05, 2020 # Liked.Like?

I tweeted out that I’m starting to learn Swift and my personal laptop screen cracked immediately. Coincidence? I think not.

⬤ September 05, 2020 # Liked.Like?

I don’t see the point of trailing closures.

⬤ September 02, 2020 # Liked.Like?

What if I don’t actually feel this way? I just convince myself that I feel this way because it seems logical to be feeling this way? 🧐

⬤ September 01, 2020 # Liked.Like?

All doors are shut. Get boiled.

⬤ August 30, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Them: just block the trolls, make your stuff private and move on. just don’t show your face and don’t draw attention to yourself.

Also them: there are no women in open source, they aren’t interested, it’s a pipeline problem, kids don’t see women role models because they don’t exist.

⬤ August 29, 2020 # Liked.Like?

So much luck is involved for one to be alright at life.

⬤ August 21, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Ghost of Tsushima is good, and had me reminiscing about HZD. Though it might be more fun than HZD?!?!

⬤ August 18, 2020 # Liked.Like?

recorded a podcast episode with a friend and can confirm it was fun despite no one will listen to it

⬤ August 10, 2020 # Liked.Like?

emoji-test.txt changelog 👀

⬤ August 09, 2020 # Liked.Like?

God of War 4 was incredible! 😭 Why does it have to end?

⬤ August 05, 2020 # Liked.Like?

God of War is very fun and epic. I was wrong.

⬤ July 25, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Many stories could be told better through video games

⬤ July 24, 2020 # Liked.Like?

ready to log out of here

⬤ July 18, 2020 # Liked.Like?

https://twitter.com/ibjiyongi/status/1135304944469200896?s=21

⬤ July 17, 2020 # Liked.Like?

I think my “living in a foreign country and enjoying it” meter has run out. The constant stress from cultural, linguistic, and political difference is really taking a toll on me. 😕

⬤ July 17, 2020 # Liked.Like?

turns out every bug in the US govt is a feature #wontfix

⬤ July 14, 2020 # Liked.Like?

The nice thing about bugs in programming is that there’s always a line of code that caused the bug; you can always trace to the truth if you know how. Unlike life, and people.

⬤ July 13, 2020 # Liked.Like?

JUST STOP SAYING ALL PEOPLE WHEN YOU DON’T MEAN ALL PEOPLE.

⬤ July 13, 2020 # Liked.Like?

It infuriates me that people pretend the WHO is apolitical and helps everyone when they literally say our islands are governed by a foreign power and need no representation of our own; all while this foreign power has no legal power, no willingness, and no capability to help us + we don’t need their help???? It is 100% political.

⬤ July 12, 2020 # Liked.Like?

hey I was gonna check in with you but I realized I only kinda miss you now because you were completely silent on the issues over the past few months. so now I kinda don’t know if I miss you at all???

⬤ July 11, 2020 # Liked.Like?

isn’t it wild that people used to not know how to tell if someone fainted or died?

⬤ July 08, 2020 # Liked.Like?

On Gaming- Some of my oldest friends in life I met in MMORPGs ~20 years ago (Lineage & RO). I believe I otherwise would have never get to know these genuine people so well. ❤️🎮

⬤ July 06, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Participation is complicity.

⬤ June 30, 2020 # Liked.Like?

CCP’s National Security Law applies to everyone, not just people inside of HK, and not just Chinese citizens. It is explicitly stated in Article 38 that “Non-HKer outside HK can violate this law, and the penalty applies” This means it has the potential to affect YOU AS WELL through extradition. “Other countries wouldn’t just do what China says, right?” Wouldn’t they? Wilder things have happened.

⬤ June 30, 2020 # Liked.Like?

I was practically raised by Hong Kong’s rebellious entertainment industry; For decades, they used art and entertainment as social commentary on colonization and imperial powers. Today HKers lost their freedom of speech to CCP, and this marks an end to the HK we know. It’s heartbreaking.

⬤ June 29, 2020 # Liked.Like?

My first Rust program!

⬤ June 28, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Finished TLOU2 last week and still bawling my eyes out whenever I see clips of some of the scenes a week later. 😭 Naughty Dog is so good.

⬤ June 27, 2020 # Liked.Like?

“Ongoing survival of civilisation” is overrated.

⬤ June 22, 2020 # Liked.Like?

mentally drained from playing the last of us 2 for a whole weekend 🤯

⬤ June 15, 2020 # Liked.Like?

What if, making technology choices from the top down is ~ actually ~ terrible?

⬤ June 11, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Taiwan Model - 😭 so blessed have this administration at this time in Taiwan

⬤ June 06, 2020 # Liked.Like?

This is and has always been the oppressed’s normal. Everything is political. This manifest for me through the never-ending campaign against CPC’s invasion threats, propaganda, and election interferences, and for Taiwan independence plus decolonization. Perhaps you do need a new normal if it doesn’t already contain activism, because many don’t have a choice.

⬤ June 04, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Across from the library stands the grandiose memorial of Chiang Kai Shek, whose KMT regime oversaw the secret execution of over 30,000 Taiwanese activists. Taiwanese and Taiwanese Americans: we, too, watch the government pardon and honor glorified murderers. We, too, walk over the graveyards of our own people. We, too, have known rain and destruction all our lives.

We, then, should know better.

We, then, should do better.

Black lives matter.

Black lives matter.

Black lives matter.

– Summer in Taiwan and #blacklivesmatter

⬤ June 03, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Black Lives Matter, Taiwan’s ‘228 Incident,’ and the Transnational Struggle For Liberation by @IBJIYONGI

⬤ June 02, 2020 # Liked.Like?

To all my US non-Black friends on a tech salary reading this who has yet to voice support for #BlackLivesMatter as well as donating to the cause: if I as a non-American who’s lived in the states for less than 3 years can do both repeatedly, you can too. You have the tools and the reach to make a way bigger impact than I am able to.

⬤ June 01, 2020 # Liked.Like?

The 2011 London riots don’t feel so long ago.

⬤ June 01, 2020 # Liked.Like?

“Ég er svo hart sammála. (I agree so hard)” – Kristján Oddsson

⬤ May 28, 2020 # Liked.Like?

💯 “I just don’t know why people act offended but don’t act when offended.” – Garen Torikian

⬤ May 26, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Bored of opinions

⬤ May 14, 2020 # Liked.Like?

All the days for celebration that can lead to relationships souring because you didn’t do anything to celebrate it on that day are stupid. I hereby delete valentine’s day, mother’s day, father’s day, and all the others.

⬤ May 13, 2020 # Liked.Like?

being a functioning member of the modern society is too much work

⬤ May 10, 2020 # Liked.Like?

just spent my whole Sunday evening fighting with a Dyson vacuum attachment and lost 😨

⬤ May 01, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Me: I really want to build something for fun! [Someone tries to nerd-snipe me] Me: Not that.

⬤ April 29, 2020 # Liked.Like?

@jeshake: “you should start a podcast, with every episode ending in the conclusion that people are rubbish, it’d be good.”

⬤ April 04, 2020 # Liked.Like?

裝睡的人叫不醒– 要記得，不要再加入推特上的討論串了啊！

⬤ March 26, 2020 # Liked.Like?

animal crossing is so wholesome, enabling me to catch up with friends I haven’t talked to for years while exchanging produce

⬤ March 25, 2020 # Liked.Like?

:) :) received a really nice message from people I respect & work with today complimenting my work, and I can’t stop smiling :) :)

⬤ March 20, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Suddenly realized I’m out of the cool clubs of SV developers with enough CPU to run React sites with MBs of JS that @slightlylate talks about so much, because Zoom doesn’t even support setting custom background on my sad, old MBP with a mere dual core processor.

⬤ March 17, 2020 # Liked.Like?

High Maintenance S2E2 is 💯 just so perfect.

⬤ March 14, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Kinda upset that people took my lifestyle, branded it as social distancing, and now it’s going viral. Let the record show I started doing this before it was cool ok?

⬤ March 11, 2020 # Liked.Like?

JavaScript is for decoration.

⬤ March 11, 2020 # Liked.Like?

“Things will start to belong to you.” ☺️

⬤ March 10, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Everything is now in TypeScript!

⬤ March 06, 2020 # Liked.Like?

I have been working remotely every day from a hotel cafe this week and had daily video calls. 3 out of the 5 groups of people I had calls with asked: “Is there a man near you talking at the top of his lungs? Cause I am literally only hearing him.” And the answer was yes, almost always. (These men were also working remotely on their laptops)

⬤ March 05, 2020 # Liked.Like?

You maintain it then.

⬤ March 04, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Came to Chicago for the St. JOHN dinner series as an attempt to relive memories of hanging around Leicester Sq. late at night with friends and popping into St. JOHN hotel bar for some hot madeleines. ⏳ The hotel is closed, and we all left London.

⬤ March 03, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Who knew buying a mechanical keyboard can be so hard? I just want a 65% ish all white keyboard with no backlight or logo and ideally blank keycaps. Even if I compromise one or two of these, none of the options were in stock. 😨

⬤ February 25, 2020 # Liked.Like?

OH: “The site is down so I thought I’d call to see how you’re doing.” 🤯 how human wow very socially-apt (not being sarcastic at all)

⬤ February 20, 2020 # Liked.Like?

TIL E4X 👀

⬤ February 19, 2020 # Liked.Like?

In a meeting between GitHub’s Ruby and frontend architecture teams: “I don’t think any of us work on things that are flashy.”

⬤ February 16, 2020 # Liked.Like?

I installed Twitter app last week because I received a number of DMs that needed to be replied to at length. It was a mistake. 🗑🔥 Never reinstalling this bird again.

⬤ February 14, 2020 # Liked.Like?

💘 https://youtu.be/NiblaBqJjIg

⬤ February 08, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Saw Jojo Rabbit 😕 and Uncut Gems 💯 (h/t @jeshake). Uncut Gems was very effective in making me uneasy throughout the whole film. 時空背景讓我想起那些年在批踢踢湖人版翻外電的時光。那時敵隊的哥哥會穿著賽爾提克球衣在客廳，我在房間穿湖人球衣。我們水火不容、分別激動地看球。🔥🏀

⬤ February 03, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Ring Fit Adventure is! so! fun!

⬤ January 31, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Impulsively booked another trip to Chicago for March for St. JOHN x The Hoxton 🥰 希望遇到九星連珠 🤞🏼

⬤ January 23, 2020 # Liked.Like?

Saw Knives Out, Little Women, Parasite, and 1917 in 36 hours. Will 2020 be the year I finally take advantage of having two cinemas within .5 miles radius of my apartment?!

⬤ January 09, 2020 # Liked.Like?

live a low res life

⬤ December 30, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Think I might have to leave social media because most of my friends have shifted to posting engagement, wedding, and baby pictures. 🙃

⬤ December 28, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Nothing means anything anymore

⬤ December 23, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Everyone’s buying homes. 🤔🔢

⬤ December 06, 2019 # Liked.Like?

🥰 https://youtu.be/H_nCw1WMFs4

⬤ December 02, 2019 # Liked.Like?

The more experience you have with ARIA the more you’d appreciate semantic HTML.

⬤ November 27, 2019 # Liked.Like?

“To open source this repository that has 150 lines of code, please open issues in 4 different repositories which will ping 30 people, fill up this legal questionnaire, and answer 50 questions.” how about no?

⬤ November 24, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Feeling ashamed that I mistook a friend’s instagram post at Everest base camp as Death Stranding game play.

⬤ November 22, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Linter for relationships, bundlephobia for social lives and families. Bumping major version like nobody’s business at 20s and patching bugs daily at 30s.

⬤ November 14, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Kojima is overrated send tweet.

⬤ October 28, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Switched to Firefox, already had to modify a bunch of things in about:config that ~ might void my warranty ~. apz.allow_zooming– enable pinch to zoom, accessibility.tabFocus- enable tab focus on links (system setting is overriden by Firefox :(), and mousewheel.with_meta.action- disable meta + scroll zoom.

⬤ October 27, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Worth It’s Taiwan episode on dumplings went to my go-to places and made me so homesick 😭. January can’t come around quick enough. “Damn it! I don’t live in Taiwan!” Same, Andrew, same.

⬤ October 23, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Last night I dreamed that I had three cats. Two grey and one orange tabbies. I woke up in disappointment.

⬤ October 21, 2019 # Liked.Like?

When I enjoy my day job I work too late and miss dinner every day. There is no middle ground. 😥

⬤ October 20, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Current status: being mad at FPS game streamers who don’t reload whenever possible

⬤ October 10, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Today is the National Day of the Republic of China (aka Taiwan?????). On 10 October 1911, the ROC was established, in China, when no one on the island of Taiwan spoke Mandarin. The ROC lost to the CCP(PRC) and fled to Taiwan in 1949, declared martial law, banned Taiwanese, and killed people by tens of thousands. I am Taiwanese. Today is not my national day.

⬤ October 08, 2019 # Liked.Like?

• Blizzard Bans Gamer, Rescinds Money, on Hong Kong Protest Support
• Hong Kong Protests Put N.B.A. on Edge in China
• ‘South Park’ Creators Offer Fake Apology After Show Is Erased in China

Time to revisit Why are America’s elite universities censoring themselves on China?

⬤ October 05, 2019 # Liked.Like?

#indiewebcamp hey

⬤ September 16, 2019 # Liked.Like?

WHO CAN I TRUST?!

⬤ September 06, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Tech twitter brings me down too much so I now have a thread on Minecraft.

⬤ August 11, 2019 # Liked.Like?

The situation in HK continues to deteriorate 😭 Follow the protest on @joshuawongcf 香港加油☂️

⬤ August 05, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Seattle next week!

⬤ July 25, 2019 # Liked.Like?

❤️🏀

⬤ June 29, 2019 # Liked.Like?

I did not lock my keys in the building gym today.

⬤ June 28, 2019 # Liked.Like?

工作到現在，說寫英文犯了錯還是跟大學小組報告時一樣痛。還是覺得自己聽起來、看起來，就是個連話都說不好的人；還哪有什麼技術、聰明才智可言。一不小心嘲笑了我的話，我真是一輩子也不要再跟你講話了。過了一週、夜深人靜時，腦袋還在重播同一個畫面。💀

⬤ June 28, 2019 # Liked.Like?

The good of Twitter doesn’t remotely outweigh the bad.

⬤ June 11, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Waiting for the next QTE.

⬤ June 04, 2019 # Liked.Like?

flow does not deserve my trust

⬤ May 25, 2019 # Liked.Like?

😭❤️🎞 See you yesterday.

⬤ May 22, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Took a 5-day weekend to respond to all the personal emails that had been piling up for the last month because I only want to adult in sprints. 🤦🏻‍♀️

⬤ May 13, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Busy weekend– dropped and picked up my kids at classes and did a bunch of chores. You?

Oh wow. I played video games and read a book.

LOL enjoy it.

⬤ May 07, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Boring is good.

⬤ May 01, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Dreaming of a day when I can feel empowered to delete my Twitter account without worrying about job prospects.

⬤ May 01, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Hysterectomy.

⬤ April 23, 2019 # Liked.Like?

1. That is textbook emotional blackmail
2. My hair looks super healthy today
3. “Coming to the US was a mistake. I can’t wait to go back.”
   — me 2018/04/23
4. Not leaving would have been a mistake 🦆

⬤ April 13, 2019 # Liked.Like?

💗

⬤ April 09, 2019 # Liked.Like?

I’m just out here scrolling and you have to pop a hovercard up and ruin my day

⬤ April 09, 2019 # Liked.Like?

YouTube decided to show me content about Alex Honnold tonight. Good job YouTube engs A+ recommendation systems. 🎬 Free Solo v good ❤️

⬤ April 05, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Pronoun order doesn’t seem to matter to most native English speakers. But having been tested 10000 times in English exams on them, I can’t stop noticing when people use them incorrectly, and it pains me daily. Please send help.

⬤ April 01, 2019 # Liked.Like?

one year anniversary in nyc :) thankful for my new found ps4 family and crew of js/web standards nerds.

⬤ March 30, 2019 # Liked.Like?

「我們沒有變成一個幸福的人。」——《感覺有點奢侈的事》🙃

⬤ March 29, 2019 # Liked.Like?

🌸 actually disabled yet specifically focusable 🌸

⬤ March 26, 2019 # Liked.Like?

“just don’t be a timid Asian woman” k I’ll get right on that

⬤ March 25, 2019 # Liked.Like?

every chat app needs this

⬤ March 23, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Apex Legends is so good! Love the character design/diversity: https://youtu.be/MHncMPXVmwE

⬤ March 21, 2019 # Liked.Like?

this universe is shrinking

⬤ March 18, 2019 # Liked.Like?

still can’t believe that 休日課長 was on terrace house, y’all don’t deserve him (?)

⬤ March 13, 2019 # Liked.Like?

“Engineers” build things to code.
Standards and compliance need to be met for public health, welfare, safety, accessibility, and security.
Or hack away idk I guess that’s fine too.

⬤ March 13, 2019 # Liked.Like?

oh no I forgot I’m not Pathfinder, again

⬤ March 01, 2019 # Liked.Like?

why am I on all these email threads

⬤ February 28, 2019 # Liked.Like?

It’s 228 Peace Memorial Day. 🙍🏻‍♀️

⬤ February 25, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Get yourself a president who tweets about Japanese national cat day 🐈 and talks about gender inequality in the workplace from experience as the first democratically-elected female president in Asia 👩🏻‍💼.

⬤ February 21, 2019 # Liked.Like?

why use <a> when el.addEventListener('click', () => window.location.href = el.getAttribute('data-url')) works? 🤷🏻‍♀️ why indeed y’all

⬤ February 19, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Socializing hurts like being outside of the circle in a Battle Royale game

⬤ February 16, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Skhizein by Jérémy Clapin- still my all time favorite animate short

⬤ February 14, 2019 # Liked.Like?

um it is perhaps alarming how well I think github.com/muan represents my life and my identity

⬤ February 12, 2019 # Liked.Like?

“我擁有的都是僥倖，我失去的都是人生/All I’ve gotten was by luck. All I’ve lost was part of life.” Luck and fluke are both such insufficient words for 僥倖. Just like 青春 has no real English counterparts.

⬤ February 10, 2019 # Liked.Like?

[deleted salty note on people reporting bugs on twitter and via direct messages]

⬤ February 08, 2019 # Liked.Like?

I was shocked to see more and more Taiwanese people, who know little about US politics, liking the GOP and people like Ted Cruz. Then I recently found out it is because they are the ones in the US Congress lifting Taiwan’s status up for the democratic nation it is, inviting President Tsai to visit and speak against PRC’s wishes, pushing for bills to establish official relationships between the US and Taiwan. Intentions matter, but what can Taiwanese people take from the silence of the Dems?

⬤ February 05, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Sin-nî-khuài-lo̍k 🧧 time for some 🐟

⬤ January 25, 2019 # Liked.Like?

how to know enough to exist in this space 🥀

⬤ January 23, 2019 # Liked.Like?

“Email Mu-An about the creatures”

⬤ January 21, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Hello nice people who is reading this, if you are in NYC and up for grabbing a coffee some time, please email me! I’d like to meet more humans IRL this year and be on the interwebs less. 💁🏻‍♀️

⬤ January 14, 2019 # Liked.Like?

So looking forward to this coming Brooklyn JS ft @ry and @samthor! Still tickets available! wattt?

⬤ January 10, 2019 # Liked.Like?

Audience 🤔

⬤ December 25, 2018 # Liked.Like?

PSA Spider-Man DLCs were largely bad until this last one Silver Lining in which they tied up all the loose ends in the plot. I am not mad anymore.

⬤ December 22, 2018 # Liked.Like?

When you traveled with company, the country would shrink away; your companion would become the subject of your voyage as much as the country itself. As for group travel, the country would end up being the silent host whose presence one forgets like one does an overly timid guest, the principal subject becoming the backdrop.

⬤ December 12, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Some humans are very nice, very considerate, and very easy to talk to.

⬤ November 20, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Very stressed out about Siri suggesting that I message people. Who does that

⬤ November 17, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Yeah I am sure all these Asian American actresses are great but have you seen Shu Qi and Karen Mok?

⬤ November 09, 2018 # Liked.Like?

look, my linter setup broke so I can’t write any code ok

⬤ November 07, 2018 # Liked.Like?

🔥 Corporate feminism.

⬤ November 06, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Got 3 friends to buy a PlayStation in the last two weeks 🎮 but I still don’t know what to play next 😧

⬤ November 02, 2018 # Liked.Like?

I need more Web-Component-loving friends.

⬤ October 29, 2018 # Liked.Like?

[3 hours earlier] I bet I can learn Go by building an emoji command line app! [Now] Cause of death: arbitrary JSON.

⬤ October 28, 2018 # Liked.Like?

It’s fine this is just the 5th time I downloaded & deleted a dating app within 24 hours. 🤷🏻

⬤ October 24, 2018 # Liked.Like?

hi ✨ joy of productivity ✨

⬤ October 23, 2018 # Liked.Like?

🎬 Score: A Film Music Documentary – very good but unproportionally filled by John Williams and Hans Zimmer. Need more more more!

⬤ October 21, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Binged Extras by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant as suggested by @keithamus (great for jet lag). Funny but so very depressing at the same time I don’t know how they did it. 😦

⬤ October 20, 2018 # Liked.Like?

🙄 at marketing copy meant for an international audience being full of American analogies and phrases.

⬤ October 11, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Just finished “Notes on Suicide” by Simon Critchley, which feels like literal “notes” with ideas kinda all over the place. Now I have more questions than ever and need to find more structured deep dives on this topic. Please give me recs ❤️

⬤ October 09, 2018 # Liked.Like?

I was getting ready to hand in my notice and book the next flight out of the US… until I woke up from this nightmare. My heart can’t take more of this. 😓

⬤ October 08, 2018 # Liked.Like?

3 pages into Lean Out by Dawn Foster I’m already full of feelings 😟

⬤ October 02, 2018 # Liked.Like?

So tired from this vacation. I think I did it wrong. 😥

⬤ September 23, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Death by a thousand push notifications.

⬤ September 20, 2018 # Liked.Like?

JS disabled by default life update: It’s going terribly. Friend sent me a link to a restaurant site and nothing rendered. There’s no way to enable JS just once in Chrome.

⬤ September 20, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Starting to notice lots of crappy JS “features” from sites I don’t frequent much 🤔 I’m gonna try having JS disabled by default for a bit.

⬤ September 14, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Recommended time to read my pull requests: 30 hours after creation — when I have re-read it about 12 times, re-phrased half of the content, and fixed about 17 typos.

⬤ September 13, 2018 # Liked.Like?

hi. this is me very exhausted from having to prove to yet another person that I am good at my job.

⬤ September 07, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Re:(long) — I have noticed annoyingly that tech conference speakers too tend to praise the things that could be achieved in CN, while quite intentionally gloss over the underlying problematic system supporting them that often is a gross violation of privacy. 😒

⬤ September 06, 2018 # Liked.Like?

So excited about SF trip -> maybe I’ll even stay longer -> longer trip approved! let’s look for lodging -> wow everything’s terrible & expensive -> how will I live for 3 weeks -> perhaps I won’t -> how do I stay the least possible days in SF 😔

⬤ September 04, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Replied to some tweets today and then got this sickening feeling that strangers would not like them and everything is horrible. How to even twitter I will never know. Slowly backing away to my corner… 😰

⬤ September 03, 2018 # Liked.Like?

I updated github-dashboard with much better filters — no more events of strangers forking my repos 🙆🏻

⬤ September 01, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Can’t wait to go somewhere cold.

⬤ August 30, 2018 # Liked.Like?

🐈 great micropub test content.

⬤ August 29, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Have you really used Flow if you haven’t found something missing from the DOM definitions?

⬤ August 29, 2018 # Liked.Like?

If I can just have more hours each day I’d be able to work on all these things.
Oh wait.

⬤ August 24, 2018 # Liked.Like?

This MMORPG called github.com

⬤ August 20, 2018 # Liked.Like?

OKRaaaarrrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhh

⬤ August 20, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Hi I asked a series of stupid questions (IMO) today. I learned something and did not feel dumb!
Go forth and ask stupid questions!

⬤ August 20, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Throwback 📷 Phoenix 2013 @ O2 Shepherd’s Bush ❤️ 🎥 Phoenix 2017 @ AccorHotels Arena Paris

⬤ August 17, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Three fun impromptu zoom meetings today! <3 people’s faces.

⬤ August 17, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Every once in a while I’d feel this overwhelming shame for not being able to speak Taiwanese properly. And each time I’d calculate the cost–benefit, and decide to keep living with the shame. Then I feel even worse the next time :(. (ref)

⬤ August 11, 2018 # Liked.Like?

🙆🏻 Mu-An, muan 🙅🏻 Muan, Mu-an, mu-an

⬤ August 10, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Some combinations of these commits made the feed work on micro blog. 🤷🏻 :itsamystery:

⬤ August 10, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Made a micro.blog/muan but does it work? 🙍🏻

⬤ August 09, 2018 # Liked.Like?

You won’t believe what happens when you click on buttons in Safari. (˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧

⬤ July 27, 2018 # Liked.Like?

So ready for Winter already. ❄️

⬤ July 22, 2018 # Liked.Like?

🎂 5 year hubberversary today! 🎉 In love with my team.

⬤ July 20, 2018 # Liked.Like?

I did a talk at Brooklyn JS on <details>. Check out the notes and slides.

⬤ July 13, 2018 # Liked.Like?

❤️

⬤ July 06, 2018 # Liked.Like?

Nathan in Ex Machina apparently doesn’t write any tests for his programs. 🤷🏻 I want better test coverages in films about AI.

⬤ July 01, 2018 # Liked.Like?

I want to be the kind of people that care about garbage collection.

⬤ June 30, 2018 # Liked.Like?

you ever had a good couple days of work, when you were feeling confident and opening prs/issues everywhere, only to then have imposter syndrome kicking in hard and want to quit before you realize you’d made a fool of yourself? me neither

⬤ June 28, 2018 # Liked.Like?

So blessed to have @notwaldorf as a friend. We chatted about cat persons/peppers in zelda/jean jackets/html spec last night and found this gem of an old <dialog> html 5 draft spec in HTML 5 Working Draft in 2008. 💡

⬤ June 14, 2018 # Liked.Like?

hey I’m going to be in SF next week. Last time was over a year ago! Anything fun going on?! 👋🏻

⬤ June 04, 2018 # Liked.Like?

pretty sure my dad is the biggest winner here. now his friends would have heard of the name of the company I work for when he brags about me, instead of asking him “what is a github”