Etheral folk, quirky love songs, and eating pussy

It's done! A side-quest that turned into a project of its own: An Emoji-picking popup library with 130Kb of Emoji data into 70Kb (un-minified, un-gzipped, with comments and everything)...

The Marginalia Search index has been partially rewritten to perform much better, using new data structures designed to make better use of modern hardware. This post will cover the new design, and will also touch upon some of the unexpected and unintuitive performance characteristics of NVMe SSDs when it comes to...

I don’t talk about my health much. My mental health, sure. I’m a shrink’s best customer. You know, if I’d ever go to a shrink. But my actual physical health? I stay away from that as much as possible. It’s private. And while I am an oversharer, in this area, I’ve tried not to be. But it’s time for me to talk about...

[Update] The site is back! Sizeof(cat) just sent me a message saying that the domain was reinstated, and sure enough I checked and it's working again! I think we all know what happened - the TLD registrar read my post, realised their mistake and immediately reactivated the domain. I take full credit, and you're...

I am currently regretting the posts I didn't make. Yes, as someone who bangs on and on about posting things on your blog first and then elsewhere, I too fail many times. And, it's been like that when it comes to Jessie. Since we adopted Jessie in 2017, I've been celebrating her adoption aniversary on social media...

For years, I had pretty crappy sleep habits. Last year, I said, “I’ve gotta to do better.” After all, good, consistent sleep is super important for heart health and mental health1. A year later, I am in a much better place. I thought I’d share some of the causes of my bad sleep and how I countered them in case they...

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Ever since I met my uncle's dog, Bak Baan, for the first time in late January 2025 during Lunar New Year, seeing Bak Baan has become what I look forward to most when we visit our family's durian plantation, for which my uncle is the main caretaker, in my parents' hometown. In early April, during the Qingming...