The Best Lamb Skewers I've Ever Had
A charcoal grill and one more stop on the way home at Jalan Alor.
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Newest public releases first.
A charcoal grill and one more stop on the way home at Jalan Alor.
I keep the old article on the left while the new one finds its shape on the right.
Why the best rewrites begin beside the original.
A Malaysian sports drink comes with a word that sounds a little like shock.
Singapore maintains Mandarin through public institutions; Chinese American families carry it through inheritance.
Why alignment, grouping, and recognizable visuals make dense interfaces faster to scan without removing information.
Let errors travel through the application until the event handler turns them into something the user can see.
In humid parts of Asia, banyan trees can send roots down from their branches and grow new trunks from them.
In a society that values individual choice, the thing we romanticize about love is not choosing at all.
Epicenter lets you build small, private AI apps on your own data, device, and models.
Coding agents increased my output while turning work into a state of constant availability.
Yale introduced me to a world where ambition has no final rung.
My heartfelt thanks to all who have been here for me all these years.
The things I miss, the things I learned, and what I wish someone had told me while I was there.
Before loading the dishwasher, scrape off the large pieces of food and leave the rest.
Mastery means choosing a craft you love enough to keep pursuing even after the easy gains run out.
The best abstractions preserve human intention while hiding the machinery underneath.
It is easier to turn one strong feeling into another than it is to stop caring at all.
Code rewards me while I am making it. Writing rewards me once it exists.
A little about how I got here, why I care about open source, and what I’m building with Epicenter.
The name should teach you how to think before you hear the definition.
Your eyes read what you meant. Your ears hear what you wrote.
Technical ability is a spectrum, but Silicon Valley turns it into a status marker—and mistakes the label for mastery.