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Writing with these inks feels so smooth!!


So far liking living out of home. Hehe


I’m now living alone (with roommates)


Spotify audiobooks are not free. Another feature of Spotify I won’t use. Bloat


I love this paragraph so much. The description damn!


Website changelog:

  • Added font display (still need to fix more)
  • added fallback font on body
  • added defer to the js required for icons. Main content should now load faster, then those icons will show up.

Website changelog:

Status Website:

  • No more big fat images, all images are small and in webp format.
  • huge performance improvement
  • Clicking on images will show original quality image.
  • added show original button below images.

Website ToDo:

  • Make texts visible while fonts are loading.
  • explicit width and height to the images

This is a test, please ignore.


“everyone loses 10 years to something, somewhere along the line”

Source: This HN comment

Explaination:

Read through the thread. Look how many stories there are of people losing years and years to something that they now regret. The realization is that this is the norm, not the exception. We’re all just fragile and fallible and trying to make our way through life as best we can, and we all end up messing up big somewhere along the way.

It’s easy to look back on 10 wasted years and think you failed, you blew your one chance at life. But if you come to realize that looking back on 10 wasted years is actually a common human struggle, it can help you reframe your regret as just another one of the trials of being a limited, mortal human and not take it so personally as your own failing.


“Whatever your goal is, try to stop having 0% days.

You don’t need to have 100% days, Just avoid having 0% days.”

Source: Reply to this HN comment


When giving a sales pitch (or in general) use the word affordable instead of cheap.


Note to self: Don’t drink coffee at night


Guys, I can’t wait to make a Chinese version of my site


I seriously need to find a way to optimize images. 3-4 megabytes of images are totally unacceptable on web. 3g network or even 4g would have a hard time loading it. If you think you can help me with that I’ll appreciate it. Contact here.


This looks like a painting


The sky looks so beautiful!


Daft punk musics are good for listening when I’m studying.


I’m loving fountain pen 😍


This sums up my obsession with pens!


Of all the pens I have used these are the best!! (So far)


.ooo is cheapest because one Indian company owns it. That Indian company also owns CC avenue


Finding and visiting random people’s personal website is so fun. It’s one my favorite way to spend time :)


Trying out Fish shell, already I’m impressed. It’s better than Bash and Zsh.


Just learnt LaTex, holy shit it’s easier and faster. Also love the default design.


Website changelog:

  • Blog and Status website now has total post counter.

New post on my blog: https://blog.blackpiratex.com/streaming-on-spotify-vs-using-mp3s/


Daft punk is so good. Im getting into electronic music.


Appimages are better than flatpaks. Vscodium from flathub requires 500megs of dependencies, whereas vscodium appimage is only 100MB.


People nowadays are less likely to go to war than before


I did some UI/UX tweaks on this status website.

  • website now loads faster. It will now load 20 posts only, instead of 50 like previously.
  • fixed position of “Newer posts” and “older posts” button at the end of the page.
  • added new “go to top” button.
  • new “sort by tags” option at the end of the page.

That’s all.


I’m thinking about making a page where I’ll list down all the software I use. It would be like a live blog post. I’ll update as necessary.


Found a cool website that lets you add comments, it’s better than Github comment thingy. Because it doesn’t require login. I’m not sure if I should do it. I’m afraid of spams.

Here is their homepage.


Gnome is actually pretty good desktop environment. I love it.


SSDs are cheaper than SD cards, wow


Linux is going to take over windows in future. Maybe in next 2-3 decades. It’s already happening slowly.


Switched back to degoogled phone. For some reason messages app keep using data on previous phone, Like why?? Maps is working as far as I can see. Imma use it to navigate and let’s see how much of a problem I’ll face.


Got audiobook feature on Spotify, and it’s free??


I’m distro hopping, to fedora. Archcraft is giving me some pains.


This website is now hosted on Vercel. I can’t host it on netlify because my repo is private. :-;


It would offend a lot of people


Finished Kafka On The Shore. I did it in 7 days. I love the story so much.


Why does messages app using data?


I wanna use a compass to navigate instead of maps


Instead of learning conventional way learning with books in a Library is better.

You don’t have a deadline, you also never finish studying. Nobody’s going to judge you if you learn slow, learn fast or don’t learn at all.


“Youth is wasted on the young”


Even normies are using “normie” word. We need to invent new word.


I love the amount of details in Murakami’s books, so amazing


Using Bluetooth to transfer files, feeling like caveman.


Translating my website into Bengali is way too much hassle, and feels a bit cringe. I am not sure if I should translate or not.


If BBT was made this time, all characters would have been weeb

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