antilibrary; intentions; my ideal self; aspirations. stuff on my mind; stuff i want to think about but just not quite yet. i am the ashamed owner of a dozen browser windows, many containing a dozen+ tabs—what is in there?? the wikipedia page for Contrapposto: ‘a human figure standing with most of its weight on one...

itsgonnabemay.jpg Current media Reading The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen; next up will be (hopefully, lol) Mỹ Documents by Kevin Nguyen. Playing Blue Prince obsessively (currently: 26 hours in, recently reached Room 46, having a lot of fun); Control more sporadically; pausing Destiny 2...

Almost April—wtf. Collecting, curating, archiving Fragmented thoughts: been thinking about how to go about ‘knowledge management,’ but it’s not really knowledge management—I feel like there’s an element of synthesizing that I’d need for it to be knowledge—but more sort of ‘collecting’ things to be findable later. I...

I had grand plans for this post, involving intricate artwork, interesting layouts, and bold colours, but—I lack the willpower to execute on them, this time around. Instead, here we shall have: several straight-forward lists, covering the events of the last month or so, which is a period of time universally...

The big picture goal this year is to take my creative work more seriously. In execution — do it with more polish. In ambition — aim higher; go bigger. I feel like most of my work is very casual—I publish blog posts without editing, leave my artwork in the ‘sketch’ stage, and go fuck it, good enough more often than...

Thank you Ethan and Gosha for kindly tagging me in this! ^_^v Why did you start blogging in the first place? I’ve always been posting on the internet. I started this specific blog (“anhvn.com”) because I wanted to write stuff that would be tied to my online professional self, for the Rewards (affirmation from...

not every thought needs to be immortalized on my website been stamping down on my impulse to blather on my website about something stupid in a stupid way, as i already do on social media where it’s FINE because it’s ephemeral there but here it’s like. written into stone after publishing my media recap i thought i...

Note for RSS readers: I designed a custom blog post layout for this, which won’t display properly in an RSS reader (in fact, it will probably be extremely screwed up), so I encourage reading it on my blog itself. After belabouring my favourite media throughout the year on this website, I must now of course collect...

last weeknotes of the year! i will probably change up this format moving forward less frequent, or not on a schedule or something haven’t thought it through much idk tbh i don’t really have anything to include in this week’s edition haven’t been reading/watching anything i’m slowly chipping away at my media recap,...

can i be real with you? URL you may notice a pattern here, called ‘a lot of newsletters.’ A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox by Henrik Karlsson in Escaping Flatland You ask yourself: What would have made me jump off my...

Links Balatro dev swings at PEGI for rating it 18+ because of its ‘evil playing cards’, jokes that he should ‘add microtransactions’ like EA Sports FC 25 to ‘lower that rating to a 3+’ by Harvey Randall in PC Gamer — everything I read about LocalThunk fucking rules. How Video Streamers Conquered the Media by Justin...

Twenty-four is a pleasing number, so I feel inclined to make these weeknotes a bit Better, but not by much. Links dontfuckwithscroll.com by Adam Siekierski — what it says on the tin. I feel very old man yells at cloud whenever I encounter an annoying website that is avoidably so. You didn’t need to make a miserable...