Caleb's Blog

It’s the first half of the 19th century.

Instagram buzzes your phone and re-displays a message you received several days ago that you haven’t replied to yet.

Yes, AI will take your job, except for a small subset of people: plumbers, surgeons and the like.

Seven years ago I paid something like 50$ for a permanent Pastebin pro account, mostly so I wouldn’t have to deal with Captchas anymore, but also so I could have unlimited unlisted pastes.

In 2025, Framework did some things that made people mad.

There’s a lot of small things I think are valuable to do in life, but aren’t big enough to warrant a blog post (yet).

A long time ago, I was curled up on a hotel bed, scrolling through reddit, seeing it through waves of tunnel vision and mild hallucinations as I worked my way through a maliciously-delivered salvia trip.

Table of Contents “Anathem”, Neal Stephenson “Wind and Truth”, Brandon Sanderson “The First Law” series, Joe Abercrombie “Anarchist Communism”, Peter Kropotkin “The Traffic Power Structure”, by Planka.nu “A Brief History of Anarchism in Romania”, Vlad Bră…

I was recently interviewed by ChaoCode (Jane Chao), a Taiwanese programming content creator.

I’ve kept a diary since I was 5, so I’ve been running a 30 year experiment on journaling and note-taking.

Companies want you to download apps.

Computing Hardware Operating System IDE AI Tooling Other Software Organization Journal Task Management Notes Calendar Email Reading Life Location Transportation and Travel Social Media Fitness Nutrition Philosophy This post was inspired by a discord messa…

If you use Google Authenticator for your 2FA codes, and Google shuts down your account, you are fucked.

Yes.

Google Maps “Location History” is now called “Timeline” and is no longer available on desktop.

In Taiwan, sometimes the government mandates certain Saturdays or Sundays as “make up workdays.”

Can’t remember where I read it, but some founder or famous techie once said they never bring their laptop on trips.

This year I wanted to get this list out by January :P “The Dispossessed”, Ursula K.

ZSA, the company that built my daily driver split keyboard, the Moonlander, interviewed me and featured me on their people page !

I was lucky enough to be interviewed by friend and fellow Crossroads member, Teddy Lai.

Some friends and I opened a Southern Fried Chicken Biscuit restaurant in Taipei.

“Too Like the Lightning”, Ada Palmer “Reamde” and “Fall; or, Dodge in Hell”, Neal Stephenson “Children of Time”, Adrian Tchaikovsky “Bullshit Jobs”, David Graeber “A Fire Upon the Deep” Vernor Vinge “A Half-Built Garden”, Ruthanna Emrys “3 Body Series”, C…

In early August, 2023, the Cross-Generational Bilingual Training Program in Taitung invited me to their Taitung In-Depth Tourism English Service Guided Tour, or, CGBTPiT’s TIDTESGT.

I’ve deployed a lot of web software on a lot of platforms: Heroku, AWS, Google Cloud, Netlify, Cloudflare, lol even bluehost (my website and this blog).

I’ve been having conversations around two different ways to live life: Find peace and happiness despite suffering Reject suffering and strive, even futilely and at the cost of your peace and happiness, for change I don’t think one or the other is more val…

Ages ago we hosted a party with the objective of creating a tier list of 7-11 snacks.

Taiwan has a requirement for one of its citizenship paths wherein you must renunciate your original citizenship.

In late January and early February 2023, my family visited Tammy and I in Taiwan.

Recently I’m really into archiving.

This article has been making the rounds: https://medium.com/@SamTaiwan/from-taiwan-gold-card-to-a-taiwanese-citizen-7ed65bb07f28#c9d0 In it, Sam documents what he went through trying to get married to his Filipino wife in Taiwan, then acquire citizenship…

I read this article today by Vicki Boykis where they discuss the annoyance of modern-day programming being mostly trying to stick together a bunch of APIs.

Sometimes companies in Taiwan, and elsewhere probably, will have as policy that employees can’t tell eachother their salaries.

I’m losing track of the cafe’s I’ve tried in Taipei, and the whole point is to build out a list of the best ones, so I’m going to start updating this post as I hit them.

Taiwan had an Ideathon, like a Hackathon but for ideas, in November.

I was tasked with adding Segment, an analytics pipeline API thing that plugs into tools like Google Analytics, to a client’s app.

My friend Tiffany miraculously got us a reservation at Raw, a two Michelin star restaurant from Chef André Chiang.

I was cleaning out my PC and found Adobe Creative Cloud was installed.

I’ve got a massive backlog of blog posts I want to write, and I’m not writing them.

Maybe I’m dumb, but I find React / Redux world to be full of just about the most difficult to understand documentation and tutorials I’ve seen.

This article has been a long time coming.

I’ve written plenty of times about how I think one of the coolest ways to see a country is on the back of a motorcycle.

My buddy was having a bachelor party in Puerto Rico, and I’d been in Taiwan for nine months, so I figured that since I’m crossing the Pacific anyway, I might as well visit all my friends and family in the USA while I’m at it.

The Taiwan Gold Card office sent out a survey to all Gold Card holders, asking about their experience so far in Taiwan, what brought them here, that kind of thing.

Lucas, Yoyo and I wanted to go on a nice long ride over the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, so I rented a CB250RR..R?

I finally have time to make a packlist blogpost.

Like I pointed out in my previous riding video post, now that we’re in level 3 COVID-19 lockdown here, I have a lot of time, and am finally making my way through my HUGE backlog of motorcycle videos that needed editing.

I’ve been meaning to write one big fat post on my Emacs journey, and how I use Emacs, for ages.

Now that we’ve been in level 3 lockdown for a couple months, I finally have time to get through my huge backlog of gopro footage from the motorcycle rides I’ve done here.

I’m about to talk a lot, so if you happened upon this blog post because you’re looking for a way to merge all your duplicates in Calibre, head down to the download and installation instructions.

A discussion among my Taiwan group chat: how can we combine all our Google Maps “favorite” places?