A ceiling light remained broken for years which I could not figure out how to repair, until today when I took a photo and found via Google Lens about recessed lighting.
https://youtu.be/Ewp_CqZzkSc
2021-10-05
2021-10-04
Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.
I would do this if I have an infinite amount of time. But my life is finite, so I have to weigh the opportunity costs.
2021-10-03
De-gentrification
San Francisco seems to be under a de-gentrification process since people started to leave during the pandemic.
2021-10-02
Visual impression of a tattooed guy who sat the entire afternoon in front of a bell
There were guys loitering around this little plaza (Mac Dutra Park) in the intersection of Main St and Kelly Ave in Half Moon Bay.
2021-09-30
Betsuin (branch temple)
I did quick roadside sketch of this building on my moto-x4 phone while waiting for a dinner takeout, and plan to visit its interior next time.
2021-09-29
Kamimoto String Instruments
There is a certain charm to be inside a traditional string instrument shop and be surrounded by all the parts and tools.
2021-09-27
Confession time
After updating the c/cpp/m/mm files of a product code repo knowing only c++ but not object-c I finally came around to read some tutorials about the latter today! Fortunately the two differ mainly on a syntactical level so I could grasp the basics pretty quickly.
I plan to do a quick pick up of Swift at some point in the future.
2021-09-26
Water tank and pump station construction site
California will need more such water storage in response to the climiate change.
2021-09-25
Job title
Among all the aspects of a job, title has probably the largest ratio of what people care about psychologically over the practical cost/value/importance.
It cost an employer little-to-nothing to dish out prestigious-sounding job titles.