Week 26.26: New Mac, new Siri. Plus: realizing my M5 Mac can play a 2012 Xbox game on a giant virtual screen inside a Vision Pro. What a time to be alive.

Week 25.26: Recreated an old game I missed, got sick from hot pot, and wondered whether what we value in art is talent, effort, or simply time.

I made a game called Island Solitaire. It's inspired by an old PC game from 2001 called High Seas Solitaire.

Week 24.26: WWDC week — Apple Intelligence is real this time, and Siri might replace ChatGPT for most people. Also: Disclosure Day is finally out!

Week 23.26: Built a site that pairs classical Chinese art and poetry at random — some combinations are beautiful, others make you work for it. Also: tied up TV loose ends, a book that got worse by being improved, and SWEATCON 1.

Now improved with more art, more poetry, sharing, and bug fixes.

I made a new toy: Chinese Era is an app that combines Classical Chinese poems and paintings at random to allow new readings and more joyful discovery.

Week 22.26: The Pope agrees with my antiwork reading, Sonny Rollins has passed, free coffee at IKEA is a retiree hack I'm now using, and the sardine supply chain is in crisis. I've started a stockpile.

I've open-sourced Shelf Expression: a web app that turns a list of books into a beautiful shareable shelf for your personal site.

Week 21.26: Read six books, attended a talk about work and play, and was reminded how small Singapore can sometimes be. Also built a custom bookshelf page with DeepSeek V4 Flash, proving you don't need a paid subscription to ship.

Week 20.26: Facilitated an AI workshop, added Tokyo views to Window Box, and watched a friend make her dramatic debut. Also, design matters now more than ever.

Just added Tokyo to the list of cities! The system now supports winter, with snow and plant transformations.

Week 19.26: Saw Kraftwerk live, built a window box, and survived the dentist. Also: learned about the Tiberi Tapes — new live Coltrane recordings coming later this year.

I made an app to keep you company as you work. Window Box: Your browser window with a view.

Week 18.26: Tokyo trip recap: great art, affordable bourbon, redundant labor, and the guy who just kept drawing naked robots until Dior came calling. Respect.

Week 17.26: My dying orchids got a second life, ate too much even before hitting Tokyo, some thoughts on Claude Design, and Whose Line Is It Anyway? as life philosophy.

Week 16.26: A funeral, a meditation on impermanence, and ten apps since March 1. Also: I'm going to miss The Pitt.

Orchids, Once. A meditation on impermanence.

I made us all a daily escape game (“What if Wordle was a maze?”) — it’s called: a maze, a maze, a maze…

I made a new app: Crumbs. It's a personal and private location journal, like Swarm/Foursquare but based on geo coordinates, not places and businesses.

Week 15.26: Spent the week making art with math, went on a side quest to make a 3D maze game, and survived a massive hangover. Also: Amazon US does not deserve to ship vinyl.

Week 14.26: Built a private location journal, had a Eureka moment my AI assistant somehow missed, and learned that just because you can vibe code something doesn't mean you should.

I made a new app: Crumbs. It's a personal and private location journal, like Swarm/Foursquare but based on geo coordinates, not places and businesses.

Week 13.26: Finished my biggest app yet, thinking about forming a late boomers' coding club, and reading the most beautiful book ever set in space. Also: I’m one sardine short of a whole can.

Introducing DataDeck — an app that procedurally generates music from live Singapore government data feeds.

Week 12.26: Six apps in three weeks, staying up until 3:30am fighting a drum machine, and a photo walk on Emerald Hill. I think I have an AI G-force problem.

I made an app called CommonVerse. It's magnetic poetry for a post-Wordle world. Everyone gets the same words each day. What will you do with them?

Week 11.26: Built two more apps, hit the sophomore slump with one and did my best work yet with the other. Also: the designing/developing distinction is collapsing, and how Disney on Ice is actually a sensible combination.

App: Library Supercollider

SkySpotter: I made an immersive 3D plane-spotting app using live flight and weather data. Vibe coded with Gemini 3 Pro.

Week 10.26: Built a post-apocalyptic weather app in a single week, realized vibe coding has rewired my brain, and read the worst cozy Japanese book imaginable. Patience is going to be impossible in the new world, and that’s bad for everyone.

Urban Jungle transforms urban environments into speculative futures, visualizing how cities might evolve without human intervention, through a lens of ecological transformation. Oh, and it’s a weather app too.

Week 9.26: Deliveroo is leaving Singapore, which is a shame — the market doesn’t always pick the best product. Also: AI panoramas in Vision Pro, vibe-coded an album art app, and read four books including one that’s got me ready for a week of solitude.

Week 8.26: It was a rainy CNY and I gambled back what I gave out in angpows. Visited the National Gallery which exhausted me so much I broke my vow to stop buying records. Also: watched The Pitt and read a weird book.

Week 7.26: Finally went to the dentist after years of avoidance. Got a second opinion from an AI. Reconnected with a friend I hadn’t seen in four years. Climbed a virtual mountain to cope with the stress. Normal week.

Week 6.26: Read a stunning short story (Julia) about an artificial mind at the end of humanity — dense, beautiful, unforgettable. Also: a Moltbook follow-up, new Vision Pro experiences, and finally catching up on Apple TV’s Tehran after 6 years.

Week 5.26: AI agents are cosplaying sentience on Moltbook and I’m starting to worry, America’s ‘moral discovery’ phase, mackerel as the methadone of canned fish, and discovering New Sincerity via dubstep ponies.

Week 4.26: Designed a sardine tee, used Gemini to improve my already great product copy, and kept my promise not to buy records (J Dilla’s in my Amazon cart though).

Week 3.26: Accidentally bought too many detective mystery games, why Nintendo gets the Wrapped trend right, and the physical album release I blame for everything.

Week 2.26: Only 1 vinyl purchase (in your face, AI), intentionality beats friction, fading the new Instax mini Evo Cinema camera, and blaming Dilla for my rhythm game failures.

Week 1.26: Inherited 20+ records including a signed Ralph McTell with problematic inscription, visited local shops and bought five more, definitely ‘stopping now’ (narrator: he won’t). Plus, the best albums of 2025.

Week 52.25: Got a turntable for Christmas (financial ruin incoming), a year-end reflection with Claude’s help, a new playlist, and Steve Jobs made me cry on a plane.

Week 51.25: Observations from China with lots of B&W “film” photos. Featuring culture shock for breakfast, ghost towns, and nonsensical brand names.

Week 49.25: A new sardine addiction, Craig Mod’s walking journals, Bugonia‘s great song choice, Norah Jones’s podcast, and A Charlie Brown Christmas on repeat.

Week 47.25: LUX has got me learning Spanish, the racist toothpaste half the world hasn’t heard of, and a big week for hip-hop.

Week 46.25: Bangkok Sushiro verdict is in (plus an even better spot). Also: Predator: Badlands with an immersive challenge thrown in, Rosamund Pike’s accent mastery, and ROSALÍA’s astounding LUX.

Week 45.25: Vertigo struck again (pray for my upcoming flight). Also: solo dining booths are cozy actually, Anbernic’s DS clone disappoints, and Apple TV’s Pluribus raises the bar insanely high.

Week 44.25: Doctor visits for me and my iPad (turns out it ages better than I do). Also: spectacular sodium consumption, impulse-buying MagSafe accessories, and how the Vision Pro beats IMAX for watching Avatar.

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