Hung-Su's clues

Diablo 4 Diablo 4 is the third Diablo game I've played, having played 1 and Diablo 2.

My favourite blogs and digital gardens My personal notes are heavily inspired by the personal notes, blogs, and digital gardens of many others.

Digital garden A digital garden is a website, with content on multiple pages which link to each other.

A totally unique mystery videogame, which was given to me on the Steam Store.

A videogame featuring phenomenal typography as a way of communicating character social standing.

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The movie feels mostly like a chaotic carnival ride.

A movie by Taika Waititi in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that you can probably skip.

Board Game A box that contains everything needed to play a game, usually on a tabletop.

UI engineering A branch of software engineering, specialising in designing and writing code that runs on the end-user's phone or device.

7Hertz Timeless earphones Quite possibly the best bang for buck audiophile earphones around.

A UI designer with one of my favourite blogs: The Garden.

Claims I’ve made claim: An assertion, usually of the form that some thing causes some other effect.

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Slow Media Media that focuses on long termism, accuracy and relevance, at the expense of response time.

There is no good reason to hate trans people While there are reasons some people and organisations give for disliking or opposing trans people, none of these reasons withstand scrutiny as good reasons.

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Gaming PCs should have at least 4 CPU cores Testing Games tested a variety of games with CPU cores disabled in their video How Many Cores are Enough for Games?

Feelings are not up for debate When trying to vent feelings, it can be tempting for the listener to question if the feelings are even real.

Every productivity system stops working eventually One of the most important things to know about productivity routines and systems is that none are invincible.

Emailing your interviewer after an interview raises your chances At a previous job, during the final round of candidate selection from a pool of 300 applicants, every candidate who advanced had sent follow-up emails after their interviews.

"Done" lists are better than "to-do" lists Todo lists and their variants are massively popular, for a variety of reasons.

Backlinks should include context Backlinks are becoming increasingly popular in note taking applications, such as Obsidian and Notion.

All failure is systems failure It is common to blame mistakes on character, particularly when such mistakes are highly visible.

Ad blocking makes the free internet worse Using an ad-blocker makes your personal experience with the internet better.

If you buy software keys such as videogames from unofficial channels, you are likely hurting the original software developer.

You work 20% more than you can safely handle By reading this blog, you are almost certainly a Knowledge Worker.

My computer The first computer I ever used would have been on my family's 486DX-33 beige computer, sometime around 1991.

Videogames Videogames are the reason I'm a software engineer today.

Drop cap A piece of typographic flair added to the first letter of an important paragraph, often the first paragraph of an entire piece of writing (though not always).

10 second feedback Ask if you can give some feedback State the behaviour State the impact Encourage desired future behaviour (“Keep it up!”

My favourite magazines I define a magazine as having multiple writers, frequent publication, and funding from ads and subscriptions.

Berserk One of the Big Three of Seinen Manga, by Kentaro Miura.

Personal Knowledge Management Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is the skill of managing one's life knowledge, secrets, and experiences so that they can be reused, relived, and built upon to create other work.

Possibly my favourite videogame of 2022.

NIU KQI3 Scooter Possibly the best value electric Scooter around.

Software Design document A Software Design Document or Architecture Document is a piece of Technical writing that defines a plan for solving a problem with software.

Announcing goals can over-inflate your sense of progress Announcing goals, whether it is on social media or to your friends, is strongly correlated with failure of that goal.

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U7 Pro Wall My first WiFi 7 access point, from Unifi.

Quartz A tool for publishing Obsidian to the web as a digital garden, and what I once used to publish what you are reading now.

My favourite movies The movies I happily rewatch year after year.

Dan Luu One of my favourite writers on software engineering and other computery things.

Information overload [!

Zeigarnik effect Phenomena where interrupted or incomplete tasks are remembered better than completed ones.

described by psychotherapist Karen Horney in which we compare who we are (the real self) with who we feel we should be (the ideal self).

A 2D immersive sim.

Hugh Leverpresso A manual espresso machine, using two levers to create the requisite 9 bars of pressure.

EdgeRouter X An ethernet-only Network router from Ubiquiti.

ADHD Short for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.