Asides are brief thoughts, links to interesting content, and quick updates that don't warrant a full blog post. Think of them as my digital margin notes or the blogging equivalent of tweets.
Been using Todoist since 2018 and I just experienced a major bug for the first time ever.
I really do love Todoist. Itās remarkably reliable (aside from this one time of course).
Iām always amazed how rock-solid its syncing is too. Iām constantly making changes on multiple offline devices on the train. Whenever they come back online it all syncs up perfectly.
Yesterday I wrote about how we buy things for social status, not because we truly want them. ā©Prime example: the Fortnum & Mason hamper. ā©People spend Ā£350 for an assortment of picnic foods just so they can have a wicker box with āF&Mā burnt into it that they can proudly display in their home.
Every single person Iāve met who ādoesnāt even own a TV, let alone watch itā sure spends a lot of time at their partners house watching TV.
I’ve finally done it. I’ve found a Japanese ambient album that I don’t like. Sorry Hiroshi Yoshimura, but “Flora” isn’t for me.
It gets good reviews too. Maybe it’s just me.
Also, the album cover makes me feel sick.
I feel like “opium eater” sounds a lot cooler than “scaghead”.
“Is It Time for Old School?”. Michael Wade suggesting bringing back classical music knowledge, memorising poetry, joining community service organisations, reading more books, and more.
Thereās a whiff of āold man shouts at cloudā, but thereās still food for thought in this list. ļæ¼https://michaelwade800695.substack.com/p/is-it-time-for-old-school
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” ā Frank Zappa
What the hellās a MCP server?
You know itās a good day when you get to watch āThe Last of Usā S01E03.
Rather shocked to see that a large fancy drink from Starbucks is now Ā£6.20ā½
I must have spent about 10 hours over the past week on blot.blog. How much have I spent writing? Iāve added a sidebar and implemented a few features.
Some are important and useful. Iāve added search. And thereās now an āasidesā section for short thoughts (Iāve imported all my old tweets too). But most of my time has been spent fiddling with CSS.
I really need to dedicate more time to writing my blog, not building it.
Netflix has introduced HDR10+.
Also:
“AV1-SDR is already the second most streamed codec at Netflix, behind H.264/AVC.”
In my mind AV1 is still not widely supported or used. I guess not.
I know Netflix has done its best to avoid H.265/HEVC due to its prohibitive licensing costs. And it has financially and technically backed AV1. But Iām surprised thereās that many AV1-friendly devices out there.
One of my hobbies is video transcoding. I use HEVC. But perhaps I should take a look at AV1. I wonāt adopt it yet. Encode times Iām sure are still too slow and I have very few devices that support it. But Iām curious how it competes with HEVC on quality.
āLives in my head rent freeā = āI rememberā
This is a test. Seeing as this blog is essentially my own little Twitter, it seems fitting that Iāve imported all of my tweets into it.
3122 tweets imported ā dating back to 2008. Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum.
Iām trying to implement a new rule: Iām not allowed to save any articles to read-later on a Saturday/Sunday morning.
If Iām not willing to read it on a weekend morning ā when Iāve got a hot coffee and bucketloads of time ā then Iām never going to read it.
I saw āturkey teethā in person for the first time today. It was quite a shock. They look awful.
Those things will not age well. You shouldnāt get teeth based on a fashion.
āI know Iām talking to myself, but I would like some response from you.ā - my girlfriend
“Silvio Berlusconi invented the modern oligarchy. Musk is expanding it.”
I havenāt thought about Silvio Berlusconi for a while. Francis Fukuyama:
When historians 50 or 100 years from now investigate how and why Western civilization collapsed, they would point to Silvio Berlusconi as the chief villain. The former Italian Prime Minister was the inventor of the modern form of oligarchy, in which a rich individual uses his money to buy his way into political office through the purchase of media properties, and then uses his political office to protect his business interests.
Well, guess what, we now have our own home-grown American oligarch in the Berlusconi mold: Elon Musk.