The fire hydrants can have various sizes and shapes even in a nearby neighborhood:
https://twitter.com/liyiwei/status/1344832830921031685
flat head
large head
sharp head
2020-12-31
2020-12-29
Stolen package
I noticed a missed delivery slip near my front door. As before, I filled it out for redelivery without requiring signature, but the package never came and the staff could not find it in their office. Due to its content, I guess the package has been stolen. I did not keep a copy of the delivery slip since the process has worked before a few times.
Lesson learned: keep the due diligence and never let my guard down.
2020-12-27
The 99% invisible city
This is a fascinating collection of short articles about how people build and interact with our environments. Initially I wondered why the book used illustrations instead of photographs, but as I read on I realized that this choice better fits with the design of the book, set in beautiful yellow-black color scheme and typography.
2020-12-25
Need to finish what I started
This is a social media post to force myself to wrap-up all these books that I am half-way through. Complete by the year end: the 99% invisible city; seven nights; elemental magic; trees, maps, and theorems. https://t.co/0tK1mnrJz6
— Li-Yi Wei (@liyiwei) December 26, 2020
2020-12-23
Unnatural selection
One day, we will be able to program genomes for purposes good or bad.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11063952/
2020-12-22
Common law versus civil law
Quote from here:
The main difference between the two systems is that in common law countries, case law – in the form of published judicial opinions – is of primary importance, whereas in civil law systems, codified statutes predominate.
But these divisions are not as clear-cut as they might seem. In fact, many countries use a mix of features from common and civil law systems. Understanding the differences between these systems first requires an understanding of their historical underpinnings.
So, common law is data-driven while civil law is procedural.
🙂
2020-12-21
Winter solstice
Portrait sketch from a reference photo, third attempt, which finally started to look satisfying.
2020-12-20
Instagram oEmbed for WordPress
Apparently Instagram embed for WordPress stopped working around October 24, 2020 due to an API change from FB, so from that point now readers will see the raw Instagram links (example) on my posts instead of the image posts (example).
There are workarounds such as use the embed code, but that looks too long and I prefer to keep the post sources simple and clean.
Update on March 4 2021:
The issues are now resolved via oEmbed plugins.