Ethan 李昌浩

I turned to (and fell in love with) Go after burning out...it's kinda wild to hear that apparently this is not uncommon!

I started using chezmoi to manage my dotfiles via github a couple years ago, it really reduced my stress in getting back to a working system after my laptop's SSD failed!

“my other mug is a podcast with data-center-scale full-stack computing infrastructure offerings that are reshaping industry”

love a little writing side project that spirals out of control and eventually becomes the main obsession

this reminds me of something 曇鸞 Tan-luan wrote in 無量壽經優婆提舍願生偈註:
如海性一味，眾流入者必為一味，海味不隨彼改也。
it is like the ocean’s nature having one taste; when various streams enter, they necessarily become the one taste, and the ocean’s taste does not alter accordingly.
(CWS translation by Dennis Hirota et al.)

吃完才說
頂きます...
凡夫味道！

chī wán cái shuō
itadakimasu...
bombu wèidào!

“I humbly receive”
only after eating…
my bombu taste, ah!

when i want to keep the screen off i will listen to podcasts on 2.5-3x speed in order to saturate my bandwidth for information intake/processing (this may be missing the point)

The thing is, none of us know which Google doc will be our last. That's what makes each one special.

*explaining gender euphoria to a developer* so, imagine you're migrating away from cmake

misquotation of an instagram post by Chen Chen. text is: katamari is about all the big subjects: (gay) love, (gay) loss, (gay) god, (gay) ass, that one (gay) tree, (gay) lunch, describing things as they are (i.e. gay), dismantling the world as is (in a gay way), being a (relentlessly gay) hater, the sound of (gay) joy, the abyss of (gay) grief, hanging out (also in a gay way), (gay) moonlight, and bagel

& with apologies to @chenchenwrites.bsky.social (misquoted from www.instagram.com/p/C-luVIJPQ5r in my 3am brain zoomies):

still from the film "Everything Everywhere All At Once". a close-up shot of Jobu Tupaki's face as she introduces Evelyn to The Bagel, speaking the lines which are misquoted in this post and the previous post.

‘cuz you see, when you really put everything on a katamari, it becomes this. the (gay) truth. all the (gay) pain and (gay) guilt you feel for making nothing of your (gay) life…goes away. sucked into…a katamari.

and I put everything on a katamari. everything. all my (gay) hopes and (gay) dreams, my old report cards (A-), every (gay) breed of dog, every last (gay) personal ad on Craigslist. sesame. poppy seed. salt. and it collapsed in on itself.

ok maybe that was actually too much longing for one day

dang, and it's not even july 1 yet

the raccoon did it better tbh

been falling in love with eisegesis

diagram of maslow's hierarchy of needs, a triangle with a top section of self fulfillment needs, mid section labeled psychological needs, and at the base, basic needs. the text of the pyramid has been removed and it says "cheese" across the whole thing

A randomly generated finite state machine, made of the emoji 💧, 💦, ☁️, 🌪️, 🌈

💧💦☁️🌪️🌈

it was DNS

I like to use a bubblewrap mailing envelope as a laptop sleeve in my backpack, just in case - and it comes free with various small Amazon purchases

photo (from October 17, 2023) of a computer screen with a label printed on it, which reads: "DO NOT upgrade Windows"

whoops