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I’m not a musician, but I’ve always liked the idea of the étude. Per Wikipedia, “an étude is an instrumental musical composition, usually short, designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill.” As a manager in my current role, I don’t write code for work anymore, and TBH, a lot of the code that…

For some reason, this photo, which was shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max, doesn’t look right when I export it as a JPG from Lightroom Classic (desktop) and view it again on an iPhone. It looks more flat and muted, and generally not as nice. In fact, if you view this image outside of…

On 4 June 2018, I started self-hosting my blog using Google Cloud Platform’s Compute Engine. On 23 June 2024, I have just shut down and deleted that Compute Engine instance. The end of an era! The blog is now hosted on wordpress.com. When I decided to self-host back in 2018, I thought I would spend…

Setting up a new incarnation of a WordPress blog. Let’s see how it goes this time around.