Brandon Lee

Hi! I’m a designer in Singapore. The YouTube algorithm currently recommends me canned sardine reviews, vinyl jazz mixes from Japanese living rooms, and retro gaming livestreams.

I get excited about new technologies, though I’ve watched blockchains and generative AI get corrupted by the same market forces that keep us from having nice things. This blog is where I write about this and other things that catch my attention.

Where you can find me

This weblog

I’ve run this site since 2002, and these days I post weekly life updates for my own records, some photos, and the occasional product review. I would love to archive all my tweets and social posts here in one place, but no one wants to make it easy to do.

This domain and presence started out on Blogger after a series of handcrafted protoblogs on Geocities, Tripod, and other long-dead hosting companies. Like many in those early days, I put the HTML together on my own by learning from the source code of other sites and playing with free tools. Yeah I had the animated GIFs of fists punching out of the wall 👊, but not the MIDI music at least.

I moved to WordPress when it became apparent Google had no interest in keeping Blogger up to date, and at some point, I had a data loss incident but can’t even remember what was lost. What does it matter? These moments will all be lost, like tears in rain.