#51 Getting off tracks

Still in China, now in Xiamen.

If everything goes well, we should be in Taiwan (yay, bubble teas!) in a bit less than a week to do a visa-run. We are getting a bit tired of the touristy sights and big attractions that everyone seems to be recommending and queuing for. We are straying off towards smaller neighborhoods, and when we are lucky, we find these vibrant pockets of life.

Hyperlinks

• Terraform archive (VICE): Through the Blood in the Machine newsletter, I discovered the amazing Terraform archive. This project has mandated and collected short stories from writers for one specific genre: speculative fiction.
• Henry.codes: Henry's personal website looks pretty incredible — very inspiring!
• Transit Maps: if you are a transit map nerd, Cameron's blog is for you
• Frontend Dogma's tools: this might be the longest list of web-based frontend tools I've ever seen
• 368 chickens: spent way too much time on this game, 156 chickens remaining

Media diet

• Flyover Country (short story by Tim Maughan, 2016): Read it here. Very raw writing depicting a dystopian America — just wow.
• Busy (short story by Omar El Akkad, 2022): Read it here. Another dystopian view of the future. I love how comfortable El Akkad is with leaving questions unanswered.
• Heretic (movie by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, 2024): great premise, great actors, but getting worse with every twist, entertaining (and not too scary) overall

Miscellaneous

• On April 9 was CSS Naked Day, and I participated for the first time this year!
• Added webmentions once again to my website. Unfortunately, the platform I was using to host Staticman (for regular comments) is not free anymore. Webmentions are great, but unfortunately not as inclusive (the barrier to entry is high).
• Discovered the whereis command on Linux, I feel so late to the game.

Until next time ⊙